Pete Morrison(1890-1973)
- Actor
- Stunts
- Producer
American cowboy star of silent pictures. He studied science in school
but dropped out to pursue a rodeo career. With some success, he was
asked to appear in a number of film shorts, all before his eighteenth
birthday. He worked for The American Film Manufacturing Company, but
was soon signed by Universal Pictures and appeared in Western serials
and short features there. He took some time away from movies to travel
the country in a Wild West Show, then returned and did numerous
Westerns for Triangle and Universal. He agreed to make a series of
pictures in Central and South America, but eventually returned to
Universal. With the arrival of sound pictures, he shifted into
supporting roles before retiring from the screen in 1935, at the age of
45. He died in Los Angeles thirty-eight years later.
