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Visualizing Orientalness: Chinese Immigration and Race in U.S. 2016 3412505323 "Its main cast features Jay Wilsey as inspector Steve Funney. Wilsey, who also directed the film, is credited as Buffalo Bill Jr., the pseudonym under which he was known as a western actor during the
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westerns. Thereafter Wilsey found work in western features and serials as a supporting player, often uncredited, and his riding skills gave him credentials as a stunt performer. A January 29, 1940, newspaper article reported that he had performed 6,000 stunts up to that time.
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on budgets of $ 1,000 or less, hired Wilsey for a series of features under the auspices of
Adamson's ambitiously named Superior Talking Pictures. One of these has become notorious among bad-film enthusiasts: a 1934 production was announced as
118:(February 6, 1896 – October 25, 1961) was an American film actor (born Wilbert Jay Wilsey). He appeared in nearly 100 films between 1924 and 1944. He starred in a series of very low-budget westerns in the 1920s and 1930s, billed as
128:(studio biographies claimed Cheyenne, Wyoming), the six-foot one-inch, brown-haired, blue-eyed Wilsey rode in Wild West shows and rodeos before he became an actor. Producer
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995:"Film Stunt Man and Wife, Ex-Actress, Plan Dream Cruise"
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214:(1924) - Lightning Bill Lewis
908:(1941) - Cowboy (uncredited)
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876:(1939) - Mallew (uncredited)
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668:(1934) - Buck Cartwright
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413:The Valley of Hunted Men
330:(1926) - Rawhide Rawlins
889:The Lone Rider Rides On
692:(1935) - Blackie Martin
424:(1928) - Captain Wilson
352:(1926) - Zane Castleton
236:(1924) - Lightning Bill
225:Bringin' Home the Bacon
82:Los Angeles, California
900:(1941) - Henchman Bart
892:(1941) - Henchman Bart
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753:Three Kids and a Queen
662:(1934) - Bill Mayberry
384:(1927) - Bill Stannard
220:(1924) - Bill Hamilton
999:The Los Angeles Times
650:(1934) - Bill Collins
630:(1933) - Bill Merritt
520:(1931) - Bill Sommers
451:Beyond the Rio Grande
389:The Obligin' Buckaroo
360:(1927) - Bill Corbitt
344:(1926) - Bill Merritt
322:(1926) - Ted Crawford
290:(1925) - Billy Burton
282:(1925) - Bill Demming
257:Double Action Daniels
218:Hard Hittin' Hamilton
748:(1935) - Tex Malcolm
673:The Lawless Frontier
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416:(1928) - Tom Mallory
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392:(1927) - Bill Murray
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376:(1927) - Bill Gordon
368:(1927) - Bill Gibson
341:The Bonanza Buckaroo
314:(1926) - Bill Martin
308:(1926) - Bill Lawson
228:(1924) - Bill Winton
206:(1924) - Bill Dillon
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152:The Pirate of Panama
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857:The Rangers Step In
777:Heroes of the Range
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708:(1935) - Bad Man #1
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408:(1928) - Bob Warner
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684:(1934) - Jim Moore
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187:John Wayne
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