Known for Acting
Tom Keene (1896–1963) was an American actor known mostly for his roles in B Westerns.
Born
December 29, 1896
Died
August 4, 1963 (age 66)
Birthplace
Rochester, New York, USA
Filmography
92 films, 4 shows


Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch
1976 · 1h 26m · US
A Western-genre narrative, loosely woven from old clips from B-Western features.


Once Upon a Horse...
1958 · 1h 25m · US
Two zany cowboys steal a herd of cattle only to discover it costs more to feed them than they are worth.


Plan 9 from Outer Space
1957 · 1h 18m · US
In California, an old man grieves the loss of his wife, and dies the day after she is buried. However, the space soldier Eros and his mate Tanna use an electric device to resurrect them both, alongside the strong Inspector Clay, who was murdered by the alien-controlled dead couple. When the populations of Hollywood and Washington D.C. see flying saucers on the sky, a colonel, a police lieutenant, a commercial pilot, his wife, and a policeman try to stop the aliens.


Dig That Uranium
1955 · 1h 1m · US
The boys buy a uranium mine out west, but when they get there they find that it's pretty much worthless. However, the local badmen are distrustful of these new strangers, and when they mistakenly get the impression that the mine is loaded with uranium, they hatch a scheme to get rid of the boys and take over the mine.


Fury
1955 · 6h 40m
Jim Newton and his adopted son Joey navigate life on the Broken Wheel Ranch, with their close bond to the wild black stallion Fury.


The Outlaw's Daughter
1954 · 1h 16m · US
Led astray by outlaw leader Jess, the "outlaw's daughter" Kate joins Jess' gang and follows in her dad's footsteps. Town marshal Dan tries his best to reform the girl, but this proves difficult inasmuch as Kate holds Dan responsible for her father's death. Only after most of the bad guys have been decimated by Dan does Kate discover the true identity of her dad's murderer. Having fallen in love with Kate, marshal Dan offers to let her escape prosecution, but she's made of sterner stuff than that.


The Moonlighter
1953 · 1h 18m · US
Wes Anderson is caught cattle rustling and promptly jailed. The public is outraged, but, since Wes always worked at night, they don't know what he looks like. Still, they break into the prison and lynch a hobo they think is Wes, while the actual culprit sneaks off to see his old flame, Rela, who has recently taken up with his straitlaced brother, Tom (William Ching). But Tom is envious of his outlaw brother, and he decides to join Wes in a life of crime.


Crossroad Avenger: The Adventures of the Tucson Kid
1952 · 25m · US
Edward D. Wood, Jr.'s Western that tells of the adventures of the Tucson Kid, who investigates suspicious insurance claims.


Red Planet Mars
1952 · 1h 27m · US
Husband-and-wife scientists pick up a pie-in-the-sky TV message supposedly from Mars.


Home Town Story
1951 · 1h 1m · US
Blake Washburn blames manufacturer MacFarland for his defeat in the race for re-election to the state legislature. He takes over his uncle's newspaper to take on big business as an enemy of the people. Miss Martin works in the "Herald" newspaper office. When tragedy strikes, Blake must re-examine his views.


Texans Never Cry
1951 · 1h 8m · US
A Texas Ranger tries to bring down counterfeiters selling fake lottery tickets.


The Sun Was Setting
1951 · 15m · US
A woman is dying in her apartment. Two friends visit her and she tells them she wants to go to Chinatown. They convince her not to go, and then leave themselves. Unable to stand her confinement, the woman dies.


Trail of Robin Hood
1950 · 1h 7m · US
Retired actor Jack Holt is raising Christmas trees for sale at a cost which permits every family to have one. A commercial tree company tries to drive Holt out of business. Roy saves the day, of course.


Desperadoes of the West
1950 · 2h 47m · US
A group of ranchers, led by Colonel Arnold and Ward Gordon, are drilling an oil well but getting fierce opposition from an unknown gang of outlaws. Eastern promoter J.B."Dude" Dawson, is behind the gang as he is out to prevent the co-op members from striking oil before their lease expires, so he can secure the property for his company. When Ward, with the help of Arnold and his daughter Sally, arranges for a new driller to be brought in, the replacement man is killed and one of Dawson's men takes his place.


Storm Over Wyoming
1950 · 1h 1m · US
Dave Saunders and his sidekick Chito, cowhands looking for work, arrive in Sundown Valley, Wyoming just in time to stop sheep ranch foreman Jess Rawlins from lynching cattleman Tug Caldwell. Rawlins seems set on starting a range war; but why? Before Dave and Chito can find out, they must convince Chris Marvin, Rawlins's attractive boss, that he's no good...and get out from under a framed murder charge. - Rod Crawford


Brothers in the Saddle
1949 · 1h · US
When he thinks his brother has let him down, a cowboy goes bad.


Indian Agent
1948 · 1h 5m · US
Honest government agent Dave Taylor sets out to find the men responsible for stealing food supplies from an Indian reservation.


Blood on the Moon
1948 · 1h 28m · US
Down-and-out cowhand Jim Garry is asked by his old friend Tate Riling to help mediate a cattle dispute. When Garry arrives, however, it soon becomes clear that Riling has not been entirely forthright. Garry uncovers Riling's plot to dupe local rancher John Lufton out of a fortune. When Lufton's firecracker of a daughter, Amy, gets involved, Garry must choose between his old loyalties and what he knows to be right.


Race Street
1948 · 1h 19m · US
A night club owner takes on the crooks who killed his best friend.


Return of the Bad Men
1948 · 1h 30m · US
US Marshall Vance is assigned to rid the Oklahoma Territory of outlaws.


Berlin Express
1948 · 1h 27m · US
In post-war Europe, a diverse group of passengers aboard a U.S. Army train to bombed-out Frankfurt becomes involved in a Nazi assassination plot.


Western Heritage
1948 · 1h 1m · US
A forger has made a copy of a Spanish land grant and Arnold is after it. Arnold and his men attack, shoot the forger, and take the deed while Russ tries unsuccessfully to stop them. Arnold presents it at the recorders office. It appears authentic and he starts evicting ranchers from their land. But Russ knows something is wrong as one of Arnold's men was a man he fought with during the attack.


The Judge Steps Out
1947 · 1h 31m · US
A judge flees the pressures of professional and family life for a job as a short-order cook.


Wild Horse Mesa
1947 · 1h 1m · US
Dave and Chito are working for Melburn who is looking for wild horses. Olmstead has his men looking for then also. When Dave finds them first, Olmstead buys them from Melburn and then kills him. A clue leads Dave to Olmstead's where he breaks in and finds the murder weapon. When he takes his evidence to the Marshal he learns Olmstead has been murdered and he is the one under arrest.


Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome
1947 · 1h 5m · US
A gang of criminals, which includes a piano player and an imposing former convict known as 'Gruesome', has found out about a scientist's secret formula for a gas that temporarily paralyzes anyone who breathes it. When Gruesome accidentally inhales some of the gas and passes out, the police think he is dead and take him to the morgue, where he later revives and escapes. This puzzling incident attracts the interest of Dick Tracy, and when the criminals later use the gas to rob a bank, Tracy realizes that he must devote his entire attention to stopping them.


Crossfire
1947 · 1h 26m · US
A man is murdered, apparently by one of a group of soldiers just out of the army. But which one? And why?


Under the Tonto Rim
1947 · 1h 1m · US
A stagecoach owner goes to jail to catch a holdup gang.


Seven Keys to Baldpate
1947 · 1h 4m · US
Writer Kenneth Magee has bet that he can finish a story at rural resort Baldpate Inn, now closed for the winter. The owner has given him the "only" key to the front door. But there are six other keys, and peculiar characters, some of them up to no good, keep turning up as the mystery deepens.


Thunder Mountain
1947 · 1h · US
Marvin Hayden returns to find his ranch is about to be sold at auction and the Hayden Jorth feud still going strong. Carson wants the Hayden ranch and tries to kill Hayden. When he fails he kills Chick Jorth with a rock. As Hayden does not carry a gun and the two had argued earlier, Hayden is arrested for the murder. With Hayden in jail, his friends Chito, Ginger, and his Lawyer Gardner now go to work to find the murderer.


Dick Tracy's Dilemma
1947 · 1h · US
Dick Tracy investigates the theft of a fortune of fur coats, a possible insurance swindle and several murders, all linked to a huge thug who wears a hook in place of his right hand.


San Quentin
1946 · 1h 6m · US
An ex-con sets up a program to straighten out hard-core prisoners. Things don't go as planned.


Girls of the Big House
1945 · 1h 8m · US
A women's prison provides the setting for this drama that centers around a naive small-town woman framed by a man whom she met in a nightclub in the big city. She is not welcomed by the inmates and immediately the prisoners are divided.


Dangerous Intruder
1945 · 1h 5m · US
A female hitchiker is taken in by a family after a horrible car accident. While she recovers, she begins to unravel a murder mystery involving the woman of the house.


Sergeant Mike
1944 · 1h · US
A soldier becomes quite upset when he is transferred from the highly coveted machine-gun unit to the canine corps. He begins to change his opinion when he learns that his army dog Mike was a gift from an eight-year-old whose father was killed in the war. Now the soldier becomes committed to training Mike into the best army dog there ever was.


Lights of Old Santa Fe
1944 · 1h 18m · US
Sandwiched in between the numerous musical numbers, the Gabby Whittaker and Madden rodeo's are competing for bookings. When Gabby gets a date in Albuquerque, Madden has his man destroy his equipment. Roy finds a broken rawhide rope at the scene and uses it to bring Madden to justice.


San Diego I Love You
1944 · 1h 23m · US
A harried daughter tries to keep her wacky family together while trying to sell her eccentric father's latest invention, a collapsible life raft.


The Port of 40 Thieves
1944 · 58m · US
A widow confesses she murdered her husband and kills two more people before her stepdaughter and an attorney prove her wrong.


Jungle Woman
1944 · 1h 1m · US
Paula, the ape woman, has survived the ending of CAPTIVE WILD WOMAN and is running around a creepy old sanitarium run by the kindly Dr. Fletcher, reverting to her true gorilla form every once in a while to kill somebody.


The Great Alaskan Mystery
1944 · 3h 43m · US
The obsessive scientist Dr. Miller is working on a matter-transmitter invention called the Paratron; a conspiratorial team of spies and no-goods pursue him to Alaska, trying to steal the device.


The Navy Way
1944 · 1h 14m · US
The experiences of a disparate group of young men as they make their way through Navy boot camp.


Up in Arms
1944 · 1h 45m · US
Hypochondriac Danny Weems gets drafted and accidentally smuggles his girlfriend aboard his Pacific-bound troopship.


Arizona Round-Up
1942 · 56m · US
Tom Kenyon and his sidekick Pierre La Farge are hired by rancher Mike O'Day who, with his daughters Toni and Sugar, provides wild horses for the government remount station.


Where Trails End
1942 · 55m · US
Prince the wonder horse and his gallant rider gallop off to protect hapless ranchers from the ruthless Nazi bad guys who are trying to steal their land so they can exploit the valuable tungsten deposits in this WW II western. Mayhem ensues, but soon the villains are vanquished and America's tungsten deposits are safe once more.


Western Mail
1942 · 54m · US
Working undercover, Allen and sidekick Mendoza are out to stop the mail train robberies. Rivers and his gang are the culprits and by joining up with them, they hope to get the evidence they need.


Lone Star Law Men
1941 · 1h 1m · US
Outlaws are running wild in a border town. A marshal is sent in to clean it up.


Riding the Sunset Trail
1941 · 1h · US
Before changing his name to Richard Powers, cowboy hero Tom Keene spent the waning days of his stardom at Monogram, churning out westerns like Riding the Sunset Trail. When ingenue Betty Dawson (Betty Miles) and her kid sister Sugar (Sugar Dawn) are cheated out of their cattle ranch, Tom Sterling (Keene) and his sidekick Mendoza (Frank Yaconelli) vow to get the ranch back for the girls. This requires Sterling to cross six-guns with Pecos Dean (Gene Alcase), a former friend who'd turned bad.


The Driftin' Kid
1941 · 57m · US
In this western, the good-guy battles his bad-guy double and his band of outlaws to protect a purty gal's ranch.


Dynamite Canyon
1941 · 58m · US
In this western, the bad guy kills a rancher and a Texas ranger so that the location of a copper mine will remain a secret. Another ranger goes undercover to catch the outlaw. The killer hires him. His assignment is to create trouble for the late rancher's daughter who has taken over the land. He cons her into to giving him the deed for the ranch. He takes it to the outlaw, but first he stops to warn the other rangers.


Wanderers of the West
1941 · 58m · US
In this western, a rancher's son rides out for revenge against the rustlers who killed his father. The pursuit stretches between Montana to Arizona and it becomes more difficult because though the son knows the killer's name, he has never seen his face. Fortunately, the killer doesn't know what the son looks like either.


The Painted Trail
1938 · 51m · US
Tom Keene, formerly George Duryea and latterly Richard Powers, made his final starring appearance in the Monogram western The Painted Trail. Keene is cast as a former federal agent who is drawn out of retirement to stem the activities of smugglers Boss (Leroy Mason) and Driscoll (Walter Long). Disguising himself as an outlaw, our hero gains the confidence of the two desperadoes, only to be found out at the least appropriate time. Rest assured that Keene saves the day and manages to march ingenue Ann (Eleanore Stewart) to the altar.


Romance of the Rockies
1937 · 53m · US
A doctor comes to the aid of local ranchers who are fighting to protect their water rights.


Where Trails Divide
1937 · 1h · US
Tom Allen comes to Rawhide to open a law office. But he becomes the Sheriff instead and goes after Wilson and his outlaw gang hoping his brother Billy is not one of them.


God's Country and the Man
1937 · 56m · US
Cowboy and his friends set out to track down his father's killer. On the way, they discover a vein of gold. The killer finds out about it, and returns to try to take it from them.


Raw Timber
1937 · 1h 3m · US
Forest Ranger Tom Corbin patrols the lumber grant of the McFarland and Williams Lumber Company, party owned by Dale McFarland. Tom discovers that Bart Williams is systematically cutting excess timber and falsifying his timber reports to the government. Williams is assisted by "Bull" Riley, who, suspecting that Tom has discovered their thievery, gives Tom a beating in an unfair fight.


Drums of Destiny
1937 · 1h 2m · US
In this war film, set in 1817, an American Army captain searches throughout Spanish-ruled Florida for his brother who has been abducted by an evil Don. En route he begins to romance the daughter of the Don.


The Law Commands
1937 · 58m · US
Night riders are terrorizing homesteaders, and the town doctor tries to keep the locals from forming a vigilante group. After more towns people are killed, however, the rest of the town makes the doctor the town sheriff and tells him to clean up the gang.


Under Strange Flags
1937 · 1h 4m · US
It's 1914 in Mexico and Tom Kenyon is trying to safely transport a load of silver. General Barranca who is battling Panch Villa wants the silver. Villa's Captain is secretely working for Barranca and he convinces Villa that Tom is one of Barranca'a men and should be shot. The pleading of Tom's mother helps Tom and Villa become friends and he is released. But when Tom returns Villa is not there and the Captain orders his immediate execution.


Old Louisiana
1937 · 1h · US
The Louisiana Purchase is imminent and Gilmore is smuggling guns into St. Louis so his men can make him Governor of the new Louisiana Territory. But John Colfax fights to defeat Gilmore.


Battle of Greed
1937 · 1h 5m · US
When silver is found in Virginia City, Lawyer John Storm leads a group from Indiana west. He soon has to defend them all in court against a company that is after their claims. Fighting a crooked Judge, he gets a mis-trial by telling how much each of the jurors was bribed. Then he gets the Governor to appoint a new Judge. But just as the retrial opens, the Judge learns his daughter has been kidnaped.


Rebellion
1936 · 1h · US
In this drama, a Mexican woman attempts to live a peaceful life in California. Unfortunately, land-grabbers kill her father and begin harassing her. Desperate, she sends an impassioned plea for help to Washington, who sends her is special aide to mediate.


The Glory Trail
1936 · 1h 5m · US
It's just after the Civil War and Captain Morgan and his confederate soldiers are establishing a town on the Bozeman trail. Colonel Strong and his union men are at the nearby fort. Things are peaceful until Riley has the Indians attack a union wagon train and leave a confederate sword at the scene.


Desert Gold
1936 · 58m · US
Chet Kasedon is after the Indians hidden gold mine but Chief Moya will not reveal it's location. He has also hired mining engineers Gale and Mortimer to locate the mine. When Gale sees Kasedon's cruelty to Moya, he switches sides.


Drift Fence
1936 · 56m · US
Although Larry "Buster" Crabbe earns top billing, the hero of Drift Fence is former Western star Tom Keene as Jim Travis, who, at a rodeo, meets city dweller Jim Traft, who has come west to erect a fence that will prevent Clay Jackson from continuing his cattle rustling business. A tough Western type, Travis suggests that he impersonate Traft and the building of the fence soon begins. But Travis is opposed by Slinger Dunn and his family, whose small ranch will suffer from the division of the land. A romance between Travis and Slinger's sister, Paula, paves the way for a meeting of the minds, however, and Slinger switches sides completely upon learning that Travis is a Texas Ranger in disguise.


Timothy's Quest
1936 · 1h 5m · US
Timothy (Dickie Moore), an orphan, is sent with his sister, Gay (Sally Martin), to a farm run by Vilda Cummins (Elizabeth Patterson, an old maid with a dislike for children. Timothy eventually wins her over, and also pushes along the romance for her niece, Martha (Eleanore Whitney), with David Masters (Tom Keene).


Hong Kong Nights
1935 · 58m · US
Customs agents track a ring of arms smugglers into Hong Kong.


Our Daily Bread
1934 · 1h 20m · US
John and Mary Sims are city-dwellers hit hard by the financial fist of The Depression. Driven by bravery (and sheer desperation) they flee to the country and, with the help of other workers, set up a farming community - a socialist mini-society. The newborn community suffers many hardships - drought, vicious raccoons and the long arm of the law - but ultimately pull together to reach a bread-based Utopia.


Cross Fire
1933 · 55m · US
Tom and five older respected business men run the Sierra mine. When Tom leaves for Europe to fight in WW1, everything is OK. When he returns after the war he finds his former assistant not only in control of the mine but the whole town. His former partners have fled becoming outlaws and are now robbing the mine shipments of money they believe is really theirs.


Sunset Pass
1933 · 1h 1m · US
A US marshal goes undercover to bust up a bunch of rustlers.


Son of the Border
1933 · 55m · US
An honest rancher, after killing his best friend who's turned outlaw, takes his pal's orphaned younger brother into his own home. The boy, however, isn't aware he's now living with the man responsible for his brother's death. This 1933 RKO B-western, directed by Lloyd Nosler, stars Tom Keene, Lon Chaney Jr., David Durand, Julie Haydon, Edgar Kennedy, Charles King and Al Bridge.


Scarlet River
1933 · 54m · US
Unable to find open range near Hollywood, western actor Tom Baxter and his troop head to Judy Blake's ranch to shoot their film.


The Cheyenne Kid
1933 · 54m · US
Chasing a gambler that stole money, Tom Larkin gets his horse shot out from under him. Meeting an outlaw with a horse, after a fight Tom rides away on that horse. Arriving in town he is mistaken for the outlaw and offered a job of killing a man. But the man is the father of the girl that Tom's money was to go to but was stolen by the gambler.


Renegades of the West
1932 · 55m · US
A cowboy goes undercover to catch the cattle thieves who killed his father.


Come on Danger!
1932 · 1h
Sam Dunning, one of the wealthiest ranchers in the Pecos Valley is found dead with a bullet in his back. Pinned to his body is a note which reads "An eye for an eye, signed Joan Stanton". Danger follows for Larry, a Texas Ranger. Will his sense of chivalry allow him to bring in a woman to face the charge of murder? Along the way, several cowboy tunes and fine locations contribute to the picture's Texican atmosphere.


Beyond the Rockies
1932 · 54m · US
A noted gunman takes a job on a cattle ranch to stop a band of rustlers.


Ghost Valley
1932 · 54m · US
A cowboy and a beautiful girl inherit a supposedly haunted gold mine.


The Saddle Buster
1932 · 59m · US
A rodeo rider can't face the game after he's almost killed by a wild bronco


Partners
1932 · 58m · US
A rancher is arrested for murdering his young partner's grandfather, but he escapes to try to prove his innocence.


Suicide Fleet
1931 · 1h 27m · US
Three US sailors aboard a decoy ship fight German U-boats in World War I and try to win Sally who works on the Coney Island midway.


Freighters of Destiny
1931 · 57m · US
A young man seeks vengeance on the outlaws who killed his father.


Sundown Trail
1931 · 56m · US
Dorothy, and her big city lawyer boyfriend, return to the Lazy 'B' ranch to read her late father's will. For Dorothy to inherit everything, she must stay on the ranch for 5 years. If she does not, everything goes to Buck, who is the manager. She does not like Buck, so she makes a deal with the wrong people for cattle and then the outlaws go to the ranch to get the $10,000 from her. But Buck is on the job.


Tol'able David
1930 · 1h 5m · US
Tol'able David is a 1930 sound film directed by John G. Blystone and produced and released by Columbia Pictures. It is a remake of a famous 1921 silent film Tol'able David starring Richard Barthelmess and Ernest Torrence. Young David Kinemon is a good-natured, easy-going lad in a mountain village. Circumstances force him to take his brother's place as mailman for the community, and this brings him into deadly contact with the vicious Hatburn brothers.


Pardon My Gun
1930 · 1h 7m · US
Ted is riding for Pa Martin against Cooper in the big race. When Cooper has his men capture Ted, Peggy overhears them and sets out to free Ted in time for the race.


Night Work
1930 · 1h 24m
Willie, as an assistant window-dresser, is the lowest man on the totem pole at a department store. To add insult-to-injury Willie is also the store's designated 'Fired Man."; when a disgruntled customer demands that somebody-must-be-fired, Willie is summoned and summarily fired, only to be rehired when the now-satisfied customer has departed. Willie inadvertently adopts a four-year-old orphan at a cost of ten-dollars a week, and things go from bad to worse since Willie doesn't make ten-dollars a week. But, with the help of Mary, a beautiful young nurse, Willie manages to turn some corners and improve his lot in life, albeit with some skids along the way.


The Dude Wrangler
1930 · 1h · US
In order to prove his manliness to the girl he loves, a young urban dandy takes a job at a dude ranch. Predictable misadventure ensues in this poorly-made early talkie.
Radio Kisses
Radio Kisses
1930 · 21m
Marjorie Beebe give advice to the lovelorn service over the air, but she almost fails when she tries to get a man of her own.


Beau Bandit
1930 · 1h 9m · US
Mexican-bandit Montero and his deaf-mute sidekick Coloso are being pursued through the sand-dunes of southern Arizona by lawman Bob-Cat Manners and his posse. Montero has intentions of robbing the bank owned by skinflint Lucius Perkins, but is sidetracked by the attractions of singing-teacher Helen Wardell. He learns that Perkins has marital designs on Helen and holds the mortgage on her ranch. But Helen is in love with Bill Howard. Perkins offers Montero money to kill his rival.


In Old California
1929 · 1h · US
1929 American Western film directed by Burton L. King.


Honky Tonk
1929 · 1h 11m · US
Nightclub hostess Sophie Leonard educates her daughter Beth abroad and keeps her life secret for her. But suddenly the daughter shows up.


Thunder
1929 · 1h 26m · US
A train operator's obsession with being on time leads to tragedy for his family.


Tide of Empire
1929 · 1h 13m · US
California's gold discovery in 1848 draws a "tide of empire" to the area, which becomes ripe for bandits.
Marked Money
Marked Money
1928 · 59m · US
Marked Money stars Junior Coghlan as the orphaned son of a seafaring man. His late father has left instructions that The Boy is to be delivered to the home of Captain Fairchild (Bert Woodruff) the father's old sailing master, along with $25,000 in cash to finance the boy's education. The villains aren't interested at all in The Boy, but they do dearly covet the 25 grand he carries with him in a box. (From the Rotten Tomatoes page: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/marked_money/)


The Godless Girl
1928 · 1h 59m · US
High school students led by the Girl and Boy turn from Christianity toward secret atheistic meetings. When a girl is accidentally killed by a stairway collapse, the Girl and Boy go to reform school where they are treated brutally.