 (Courtesy of Ed Tabor)  (Courtesy of Les Adams) Above are Linda Perry, Foran, and Foran's trusty steed 'Smoke' (Smokey) in LAND BEYOND THE LAW (1937). Smoke wound up being owned by Victor Daniels (Chief Thunder Cloud), and a photo of the grave marker for Smoke is on the Trusty Steeds main page.  Title lobby card for BLAZING SIXES (1937).  Above from L-to-R are Cy Kendall, Foran and Harry Woods in LAND BEYOND THE LAW (1937), one of the better entries which was directed by B. Reeves 'Breezy' Eason.  (Courtesy of Les Adams) Above from L-to-R are Jim Corey, Foran and Harry Woods in another lobby card from LAND BEYOND THE LAW (1937).  (Courtesy of Les Adams) Above from L-to-R are Patricia Wathall, Foran and Glenn Strange in EMPTY HOLSTERS (1937), the next-to-last entry in the series.  Above are Ellen Clancy/Janet Shaw and Foran in PRAIRIE THUNDER (1937), the finale in the Foran series. This film also marked the end of Warners' involvement in producing a B western series. |
 (Courtesy of Les Adams) |  (Courtesy of Les Adams) |
Above are pressbook ads for two of the Foran-Leo Carillo-Andy Devine films. ROAD AGENT was a western. THE KID FROM KANSAS is often listed as a cowboy flick, but it's not --- the story is set in the tropics. Note the KANSAS ad proclamation: "Three roaring tropic pals who tame the torrid zone!" Notice anything peculiar with the faces (other than the black masks) --- appears they used the same faces in both ads, but one set has been mirrored (reversed). Check the curly locks on Carillo and Devine.
Although some of the data is incomplete or inaccurate, the Internet Movie Database (IMDB) has information on Dick Foran: http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0285264/
Jim Tipton's Find A Grave website has a photo of the grave marker for Dick Foran and his wife Susanne (1923-1994) at the San Fernando Mission Cemetery, Mission Hills, California: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=8737048
Mike Newton wrote an article on RIDERS OF DEATH VALLEY serial for for Classic Images: http://www.classicimages.com/1999/november99/deathvalley.htm
Some biographies of Foran note that he was up for a supporting actor Oscar for THE PETRIFIED FOREST. However, the official Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Science (AMPAS) database does NOT show he was nominated for that film nor any other. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) database for the Oscars award is at http://www.oscars.org/awardsdatabase/index.html.
Foran did a CBS TV pilot episode called OFF WE GO in 1966. Robert Blees was the scriptwriter, and his papers are in the Special Collections at the University of Iowa Libraries, Iowa City, Iowa. Included in his papers are a mention of the OFF WE GO show: http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/spec-coll/MSC/ToMsc150/MsC124/MsC124.htm
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