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Ancel Cook was born in Ardmore, Oklahoma and lived in Southern California.  He did a variety of acting jobs, appearing in about 50 movies and over 500 commercials.  He met Eddie Dean and all of his other western heroes while doing spokesperson duties for the Black Angus restaurant chain.  Ancel also did commercials, and appeared in a few movies including BREAKDOWN with Kurt Russell.

Ancel and I struck up an e-mail conversation back in the early days of The Old Corral ... and he was justifiably proud and happy to share his photo memories with Old Corral visitors.

Sad to report that Ancel passed away on January 31, 2001.  He loved the old Hollywood cowboys and the western film.



(Photo by Roger Karnbad, courtesy of Ancel Cook)

Above are singin' cowboys Eddie Dean and 'the Bronze Buckaroo', Herb Jeffries.  Photo taken February 6, 1999, at a fund raiser at the Iverson Movie Ranch to raise money for Dean's star in Palm Springs. Dean passed away about a month later.



(Courtesy of Ancel Cook)

Above from L-to-R are Clayton Moore, Eddie Dean and Virginia Mayo at the Newhall, California annual walk of fame banquet in the late 1990s.



(Courtesy of Ancel Cook)

Above from L-to-R are Dusty Rogers, Iron Eyes Cody, Ancel, Roy Rogers and Wendy Cody.



(Courtesy of Ancel Cook)

Above from L-to-R are Iron Eyes Cody, movie baddie Pierce Lyden and his wife Hazel Lyden.  The picture was taken May, 1992 inside a limo on the way to a parade in Monrovia, California.



(Courtesy of Ancel Cook)

Above, Clayton Moore and Ancel Cook at Tommy Corrigan's restaurant in Thousand Oaks, California (Tommy is Ray 'Crash' Corrigan's son). Photo taken about 1996 during a ceremony honoring Eddie Dean.



(Courtesy of Ancel Cook)

Above are Charles Bronson and Ancel at the 1995 Golden Boot Awards.




(Courtesy of Ancel Cook)

Above from L-to-R are: Monte Hale's brother Bill Hale, Ancel, Monte Hale and Dick Jones.  Photo taken at a 1998 party for Monte Hale.  Dick Jones was a child star and the action co-star of TV's THE RANGE RIDER as well as the lead role in TV's BUFFALO BILL JR.



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