Monte Hale

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1919-06-08 (90 years old)

Deathday

2009-03-29

Place of Birth

Ada, Oklahoma, USA

Monte Hale

Biography

Monte Hale (born Samuel Buren Ely) was an American B-Western film star and country musician. Sometimes reported to have been born in San Angelo, Texas, he was actually born in Ada, Oklahoma but grew up in Shawnee, Oklahoma, attending Washington Grade School and Shawnee High School. (Texas birthplace reportedly sounded better for the movies). After working as a laborer at various jobs in Ada and Enid OK Herod Ely settled in Shawnee and became an evangelist with the Church of God. His oldest son, Buren, was known to use his musical talent during his father's services. The boy had gathered pecans and picked cotton to earn money to buy his first...

Acting

1956

Giant

as Bale Clinch

1945

1949

1946

Out California Way

as Monte Hale

1976

Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch

as (archive footage)

1950

Trail of Robin Hood

as Monte Hale

1949

Prince of the Plains

as Bat Masterson

1949

Pioneer Marshal

as Marshal Ed Sherwood Posing as Ted Post

1944

The Big Bonanza

as The Singer

1946

Home on the Range

as Monte Hale

1946

1966

The Chase

as Dental Delegate (uncredited)

1949

San Antone Ambush

as Lieutenant Ross Kincaid

1948

The Timber Trail

as Monte Hale

1949

South of Rio

as Jeff Lanning

1948

1948

1950

The Missourians

as Marshal Bill Blades

1950

The Old Frontier

as Barney Regan

1946

California Gold Rush

as Pete - Driver That Quits

1945

Colorado Pioneers

as Cowhand That Quits

1945

1947

1947

1947

1950

1949

1949

Outcasts of the Trail

as Pat Garrett

1954

Yukon Vengeance

as Jim Barclay

1976

It's Showtime

as Self (archive footage)

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