Glenn Strange
Biography
At various times in his life a rancher, deputy sheriff and rodeo performer, this huge, towering (6' 5") beast of a man was born George Glenn Strange in Weed, New Mexico, on August 16, 1899, but grew up a real-life cowboy in Cross Cut, Texas. Of Irish and Cherokee Indian descent, he taught himself (by ear) the fiddle and guitar at a young age and started performing at local functions as a teen. In the late 1920s, Glenn and his cousin, Taylor McPeters, better known later as the western character a...
Also Known As
George Glenn Strange, Glen 'Peewee' Strange, Glen Strange, Peewee Strange
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Glenn Strange's Movies
Red River
17 Sept 1948
Marty
11 Apr 1955
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
30 May 1957
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein
01 Jun 1948
Last Train from Gun Hill
29 Jul 1959
Calamity Jane
04 Nov 1953
House of Frankenstein
15 Dec 1944
House of Dracula
07 Dec 1945
The Lusty Men
24 Oct 1952
Escape from Fort Bravo
04 Dec 1953
Escape from Fort Bravo
04 Dec 1953
The Mummy's Tomb
23 Oct 1942
The Red Badge of Courage
27 Sept 1951
The Fastest Gun Alive
12 Jul 1956
The Spoilers
11 Jun 1942
Action in the North Atlantic
12 Jun 1943
Dark Command
15 Apr 1940
Backlash
14 Mar 1956
Sinbad the Sailor
13 Jan 1947
Flash Gordon
06 Apr 1936
Glenn Strange's TV Shows
Gunsmoke
10 Sept 1955
Gunsmoke
10 Sept 1955
Gunsmoke
10 Sept 1955
The Rifleman
30 Sept 1958
Rawhide
09 Jan 1959
Petticoat Junction
24 Sept 1963
The Lone Ranger
15 Sept 1949
The Lone Ranger
15 Sept 1949
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
06 Sept 1955
The Abbott and Costello Show
05 Dec 1952
Thriller
13 Sept 1960
The Colgate Comedy Hour
10 Sept 1950
Sergeant Preston of the Yukon
29 Sept 1955
Hopalong Cassidy
19 Sept 1952
General Electric Theater
01 Feb 1953
The Adventures of Jim Bowie
07 Sept 1956
Sugarfoot
17 Sept 1957
26 Men
15 Oct 1957
The Adventures of Kit Carson
11 Aug 1951
Frontier Doctor
26 Sept 1958