Lafe McKee
Acting
Biography
Born Lafayette Stocking McKee, Lafe McKee began working in Hollywood around 1913. He usually played the likeable father of the heroine, the distressed businessman, or the ranch owner on the verge of losing his homestead or cattle to the villains. The majority of his films were westerns and he supported such actors as Gary Cooper, John Wayne, Gene Autry, Tim McCoy, Tom Tyler, and others.
Born: January 22, 1872
Place of Birth: Morrison, Illinois, USA
Known For
The Vanishing Legion
A mysterious master criminal known as The Voice plots with his gang to sabotage the Milesburg Oil Company, but the rightful heir has a secret army of her own to protect her rights.
The Oregon Trail
Jeff Scott is sent to investigate problems with wagon trains attempting to make the journey to Oregon. Sam Morgan has sent his henchmen, under lead-henchman Bull Bragg, to stop the wagon trains in order to maintain control of the fur trade in the area.
Silly Billies
The boys are a dentist and his assistant traveling to the Old West to open a new practice. Once in town, they buy a business--only to wake up the next day and see that the entire population of this bustling town had left for the California gold fields early that morning! Then, they discover an evil plot to sell out these settlers to some hostile Indians, so they spring to the rescue.
Rustlers of Red Dog
A movie serial in 12 chapters: After gold is discovered in the town of Nugget, the titular band of thieves and cutthroats inundates the frontier settlement. A group of three compatriots -- upstanding ex-sheriff Jack Woods, his harmonica-playing friend Laramie and tricky, smooth-talking gambler Deacon -- combine their respective skills in a fateful struggle to deceive and disarm the gang.
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
After the death of a United States Senator, idealistic Jefferson Smith is appointed as his replacement in Washington. Soon, the naive and earnest new senator has to battle political corruption.
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and leaves Deeds a fortune, Longfellow moves to the big city where he becomes an instant target for everyone. Deeds outwits them all until Babe Bennett comes along. When small-town boy meets big-city girl anything can, and does, happen.
The King of the Kongo
A Secret Service agent seeks his missing brother in Africa, and finds his mission complicated by ivory thieves, a girl with a mysterious past, and a troublesome gorilla.
Officer '444'
Heroic Officer 444 battles The Frog and his criminal gang for possession of Haverlyte, a powerful formula that, if it fell into the wrong hands, would give its owner enough power to control the world. And, taking no chances, The Frog sends his chief henchwoman, a seductive vamp named The Vulture, to tempt Officer 444 to stray from his sworn duty to save the world from The Frog's nefarious plans.
Gold Is Where You Find It
Colonel Ferris, a wealthy farmer in northern California, is strongly opposed to hydraulic mining, a new method developed during the gold rush of the 1870's, which is flooding the area's prosperous farmlands. Despite Ferris' political stance, Jared Whitney, a mining engineer from the East, becomes friends with the colonel's son Lance and falls in love with his daughter Serena. Family tensions deepen when the colonel's brother Ralph gives up farming to go to San Francisco to work for his wife Rosanna's father, Harrison McCooey, a leader in the mining venture. When Lance follows Ralph, the colonel, focusing his anger on Jared, forbids him to see Serena.
Only Yesterday
On the back of the Wall Street Crash of 1929, a young businessman is about to commit suicide. With a note to his wife scribbled down and a gun in his hand, he notices an envelope addressed to him on his desk. As he begins to read, we're taken back to World War One and his meeting with a young woman named Mary Lane.
Filmography
as Pop Lyman
as Radio Listener (uncredited)
as Pedestrian
as Pop Cobb
as Minister (uncredited)
as Man in recital audience
as Doctor
as Grandpa
as Frank Brooke
as Dan Toddhunter
as John Bradford
as Uncle Dan
as Elmer Kimball
as Roberts--Ranch Owner
as Mort Saunders
as Sam - Express Agent
as Tom - Stage Doorman (uncredited)
as Watchman
as Veteran at Lincoln Memorial (uncredited)
as Settler (archive footage)
as Townsman
as Night Watchman
as Colonel Bixby
as Lafe Brown
as Tom Larkin
as Zeke
as John Lane
as Henry Rankin
as Farmer in Courtroom (uncredited)
as Frank Denton
as Jed Warren
as Tom Wilson
as John Carroll
as Sheriff Bains
as Juror Joe
as Mr. Polk
as Jed Travis
as Dad Langley
as John Granger
as 'Dad' Sheldon
as Conductor (uncredited)
as Old card player
as Marshal Ed Green
as Sheriff
as John Endicott
as Jeff Grayson
as Sheriff Bailey
as Henchman "Pop"
as Rancher Johnson (uncredited)
as Sheriff Blake
as 'Dad' Parker
as Don Costello
as Unemployed Farmer (uncredited)
as Pioneer
as Lester - Taffy Peddler (uncredited)
as Old Skipper (uncredited)
as Jim Burton
as Maitland
as Captain Benteen
as Captain Bradshaw
as Tom
as Sandy McGregor
as Charlie Hayden (Joan's Father)
as Sam Slater
as Sheriff Crane
as Jim, the bank guard (uncredited)
as Pop - Hotel Owner
as Dr. Grayson
as Rancher
as Night Watchman (uncredited)
as Jim King
as Dad Kane
as Dad McVey
as Sheriff Rutherford
as Sheriff
as Poker City Sheriff
as Kali
as Zeke
as Bartender
as Sheriff of Pampa
as Jury Foreman (uncredited)
as 2nd License Clerk
as Storekeeper
as Jim Green
as John Rickard
as William Bannister
as John Clark - Indian Agent
as John Baker
as Old Trapper
as Tap Smiley
as Bob Lee [Chs. 1-3]
as Sheriff / King
as Wade Callahan
as Hank Wilson
as Old Trapper
as Sheriff Ed Hibbs
as Justice of the Peace
as Minor Role
as Charles Ingram [Chs. 1, 3, 12]
as Sheriff
as Sheriff
as Dan Mason
as Fred Winters
as Dad Daley
as Judge Carter
as Dan Mason
as Matt O'Donnell
as Townsman (uncredited)
as Roger Whitney
as Elmer 'Dad' Brooks
as John Vale (as Lafayette McKee)
as Fred Winters
as Zack
as Nolan
as Stephen Gray
as Postmaster
as 'Seeker' Dean
as Judge Williams
as Father at Train Station (Uncredited)
as Sheriff Bill Baxter
as Wheat Farmer (uncredited)
as Cattle Buyer Cartwright
as Jameson
as Bill Simpson
as Marshal Gregory
as Don Jose Castanares
as Luke Foster
as Sheriff Jim Carver
as Townsman
as Daniel Plummer
as Sheriff Rawlins
as Prince Alexander, alias Mr. Jerome
as Brown - Rancher
as Lafe
as Shay
as Colonel Lee
as Colonel John Burke
as Justice of the Peace
as Sheriff Jim Cosgrove
as Sandy McKenzie
as Colonel Bondage
as Cal Brett
as Jeff Sellers
as Seth
as Sam Tracy
as Rancher Marty Gordon (uncredited)
as Old Man (uncredited)
as Sheriff Joe Edwards
as Tom Kirk
as Townsman
as Reverend Parker
as Hiram Olcott
as Sheriff
as Uncle Joe Brooks
as Bowie Moore - Rancher
as 'Hardshell' Beckett
as Jim
as Ranger Captain Frank Henderson
as Mr. Fields
as Clint Wheeler
as Col. Rickson
as John Hayden
as Don Roberto
as 'Old' Frisco
as Michael, theater watchman
as Narrator / Police Broadcaster
as Henchman Snowden
as Sheriff McWade
as Man in Audience (uncredited)
as Clem Neville
as T.J. Hornbeck
as Joe Kearney
as Lafe Langdon
as Charles Farell / Colonel Leading Wagon Train
as Colonel Sterner - aka Bradley
as Parson Joe
as Dad Bradfield
as Sheriff Pinkie
as Corwin (uncredited)
as Tom Bledsoe
as Dad Thorpe
as Sheriff Billings
as Trader John
as Townsman
as Phil Dunning
as William Butler
as John Steel
as Fur Trapper
as John Graham
as Duncan
as Sheriff Jim Taylor
as Boat Captain (uncredited)
as Big John Lawson
as John Courtney
as Doc
as John Harlan
as Rufus King
as Sheriff
as Abner Swaybe
as Capt. Jerry Dugan
as J. Tiffany Van Den Akar
as Stage Doorman (uncredited)
as Sandy McLeod
as District Attorney
as Peter Daley
as Judd Hampton
as Prof. Daniel Sturgess
as John Folsom
as The Sheriff
as Roland Rand
as Judge Simpson
as Jim Downing
as John Sherwood
as Gen. Robert E. Lee
as Jerry Regan
as Sheriff, Coyote Flats
as Board of Directors (uncredited)
as The Good Squire
as Pat Kelly
as James Bankington
as Colonel Hare
as Doyle
as Mr. Greerson - Harvey's Father
as Wamba - a Native
as Colonel Hare
as Colonel Hare
as Colonel Hare
as Colonel Hare
as Colonel Hare
as Colonel Hare (as Lafayette McKee)
as Colonel Hare
as Colonel Hare
as Colonel Hare
as Col. Hare
as Colonel Hare
as Mark Boland
as John Brant - Gene's Father
as The Banker's Butler
as Dabney - a Crook
as Satan
as Burke - Gates' Brother
as Watson
as Old Briggs
as Simon Willard
as The Mayor
as Parson Stanley
as Percy Hall
as Mr. Big Family
as The Overseer of the Plantation
as John Ralston
as The Federal Captain
as John Marshall - Secretary of War
as Father Time
as A Gangster
as Ben Rosenthal - the Manager
as Murphy
as Norman Black - the Telegraph Operator - Jack's Rival
as Col. Colfax
as 2nd Policeman
as Mr. Wilson
as Old Jasper Floyd - Aurora's Father
as John Johnson
as Mr. James Preston
as Edwin Randall - the Detective
as Gray - Robert's Friend
as Betty's Dad
as Ed Nobles
as Pittsburg Sam - the Burglar