KEN MAYNARD "THE FIDDLING BUCKAROO" PHOTO BIOGRAPHY

Description: Mario DeMarco presents "KEN MAYNARD: THE FIDDLING BUCKAROO" (Paperback) (1979) --- Ken Maynard was an American motion picture stuntman and actor --- Born Kenneth Olin Maynard in Vevay, Indiana, he was an accomplished horseman --- As a young man, he performed in rodeos and was a trick rider with Buffalo Bill 's Wild West Show and a circus rider with Ringling Brothers --- During World War I, he served in the United States Army. He first appeared in silent motion pictures in 1923 and in addition to acting also did stunt work. Maynard became one of the first singing cowboys with Columbia Records and was also one of the first to make a star out of his white stallion named "Tarzan" --- His horse was Tarzan, a half-Arabian, half-American Saddle horse. Maynard bought him in the mid-1920's --- With his white cowboy hat, fancy shirt, and pair of six-shooters, from the 1920s to the mid-1940s, Maynard appeared in more than 90 films --- However, his alcoholism severely impacted his life and his career ended in 1944 --- He owned a small circus operation featuring rodeo riders but eventually lost it to creditors. Prince Norodom Sihanouk, former ruler of Cambodia, idolized Maynard. He said, "He was my idol as a cowboy 'dispenser of justice.' He had an incomparably beautiful white horse who was as intelligent as a man and behaved like an angel." --- Sihanouk never missed a Maynard movie in Phnom Penh, and when his father bought him two horses, "I could practice horse riding 'a la cowboy.'" The significant amount of money he had earned vanished and he lived a desolate life in a rundown mobile home --- During these years, Maynard was supported by an unknown admirer - long thought to be Gene Autry More than 25 years after his last starring role, Maynard returned to two small parts in films in 1970 and 1972 --- Ken Maynard died penniless in 1973 at the Motion Picture Home in Woodland Hills, California --- He was interred at Forest Lawn Cypress Cemetery in Cypress, California. Maynard's funeral is described in detail in James Horwitz's book They Went Thataway. For his contribution to the motion picture industry, Ken Maynard has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6751 Hollywood Blvd --- His brother, Kermit Maynard, was also an actor and stuntman.--- (From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia) BIOS: 1. Ken Maynard (aka: Kenneth Olin Maynard) Date of Birth: 21 July 1895 - Vevay, Indiana Date of Death: 23 March 1973 - Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California 100 pages - 1979. Spiral bound. Please see my other listings for more jazz, soundtracks, classic westerns, cliffhanger serials, and more!

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