 (Courtesy of Les Adams) Above is a pressbook photo of Wells as the star of THE PHANTOM COWBOY (Horner/Aywon, 1935). |  | Ted Wells Real name: John Oscar Wells 1899 - 1948 Ted Wells was a second echelon western hero at Universal during 1920s silents. He also made several low budget oaters for producer William Pizor and Robert J. Horner, and Wells used several monikers including "Pawnee Bill, Jr." When sound arrived, Wells found himself relegated to bits and supporting roles and doubling work. He and Robert J. Horner worked together again in the mid 1930s, and the collaboration resulted in Wells having a very brief fling at stardom in a pair of bottom-of-the-barrel sagebrush yarns, THE PHANTOM COWBOY (1935) and DEFYING THE LAW (1935). Ted Wells returned to bits and supporting roles in westerns and serials ... and he wound up as the frequent double for William Boyd in the Hopalong Cassidy films (stuntman Cliff Lyons doubled Boyd in the early Hoppy films). Wells was born July 11, 1899 at Midlands, Texas, and passed away on June 7, 1948, in Arizona.  Although some of the data is incomplete or inaccurate, the Internet Movie Database (IMDB) has information on Ted Wells. Click HERE. |
