Russell Hayden

(From Old Corral image collection)

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. Art Mix (George Kesterson) is standing on the far right (and wearing that easily recognizable hat).

(From Old Corral image collection)

Above, Hayden wore a mountie uniform in 'NEATH CANADIAN SKIES (Screen Guild, 1946), one of four post World War II mountie 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. At the cave entrance on the right are Hayden and veteran supporting player Kermit Maynard.

(Courtesy of Les Adams)

Above are Russell Hayden and pretty Jennifer Holt, the sister of Tim Holt, in a scene from TRAIL OF THE MOUNTIES (Screen Guild, 1947).

(From Old Corral image collection)

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).

(From Old Corral image collection)

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.

(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 in early TV shows. Above from left to right are 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 as "Pat Gallagher" and Coogan as "Stoney Crockett". Marshall Reed was another B western veteran who did lots of early television. Reed had the ongoing role of "Inspector Fred Asher" on the 1950s police show THE LINEUP which starred Warner Anderson and Tom Tully.