Jimmy Ellison and Russell Hayden

Above, Russ Hayden is about to mix it up in OVERLAND TO DEADWOOD (Columbia, 1942), one of the Charles Starrett series in which Hayden played the second lead.

Above, Hayden wore a mountie uniform in 'NEATH CANADIAN SKIES (Screen Guild, 1946), and several other mid-1940s adventures for Golden Gate/Screen Guild. The pretty lady pictured in the above lobby card is Inez Cooper, who always reminded me of a young Yvonne DeCarlo. Veteran supporting player Kermit Maynard is on the far right.

Above, Ellison in his buckskins has the drop on Hayden, and on the far left is Raymond Hatton (wearing suit) and I. Stanford Jolley (in bar apron) in this lobby card from COLORADO RANGER (Lippert, 1950). Pay attention to the shirt on Hayden and the apron and shirt on Stan Jolley.

Above, Hayden and Ellison have the drop on everyone in the saloon in this lobby card from HOSTILE COUNTRY (Lippert, 1950). One-time hero Tom Tyler is seated at the table, next to the napping George J. Lewis. Note the same shirt on Hayden and the same apron and shirt on Stan Jolley (far left).

(Courtesy of Virginia Herrick & Dick Madigan)

Much of the B western and serial work had faded away by the early 1950s, and many of the heroes and supporting players wound up working in early TV shows. Above are, from L-to-R: Jackie Coogan, Marshall Reed, Virginia Herrick and Russell Hayden in a scene from one of the early TV sagebrush series, the syndicated COWBOY G-MEN. This TVer first appeared on the little screen in 1952 and starred Hayden and Coogan.

(Courtesy of Virginia Herrick & Dick Madigan)

Above, heroine Virginia Herrick is being romanced by star James Ellison in I KILLED GERONIMO (Eagle Lion, 1950).

Although some of the data is incomplete or inaccurate, the Internet Movie Database (IMDB) has information on Russell Hayden and James Ellison. Click below: