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Russell "Lucky" Hayden (June 12 1912, Chico, California
Chico, California

Chico is the most populous city in Butte County, California, California, United States. The population was 59,954 at the 2000 United States Census and has since grown to 86,949 according to the California Department of Finance 2008 Population Estimate....
-June 9 1981, Palm Springs
Palm Springs, California

Palm Springs is a desert city in Riverside County, California, California, approximately 111 miles east of Los Angeles, California and 136 miles northeast of San Diego, California....
, California) was an American
United States

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 film
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 and television
Television

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 actor
Actor

An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
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He was born as Pate Lucid, son of Francis J. and Minnie Harvey Lucid, but later took the name Russell Hayden in honor of his friend, cameraman Russell Harlan
Russell Harlan

Russell B. Harlan, A.S.C. was an United States cinematographer.Born in Los Angeles, California, Russell Harlan witnessed the city's development from the construction of its first film studio to being the center for motion picture production in the United States....
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Early life
Hayden worked behind the scenes in films in jobs such as sound recorder, film cutter, and assistant cameraman before he became an actor in the mid-1930s.






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Russell "Lucky" Hayden (June 12 1912, Chico, California
Chico, California

Chico is the most populous city in Butte County, California, California, United States. The population was 59,954 at the 2000 United States Census and has since grown to 86,949 according to the California Department of Finance 2008 Population Estimate....
-June 9 1981, Palm Springs
Palm Springs, California

Palm Springs is a desert city in Riverside County, California, California, approximately 111 miles east of Los Angeles, California and 136 miles northeast of San Diego, California....
, California) was an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 film
Film

Film encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the film industry. Films are produced by recording images from the world with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or special effects....
 and television
Television

Television is a widely used telecommunication mass-media for transmitting and receiving moving , either monochrome or color, usually accompanied by sound....
 actor
Actor

An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
.

He was born as Pate Lucid, son of Francis J. and Minnie Harvey Lucid, but later took the name Russell Hayden in honor of his friend, cameraman Russell Harlan
Russell Harlan

Russell B. Harlan, A.S.C. was an United States cinematographer.Born in Los Angeles, California, Russell Harlan witnessed the city's development from the construction of its first film studio to being the center for motion picture production in the United States....
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Early life


Hayden worked behind the scenes in films in jobs such as sound recorder, film cutter, and assistant cameraman before he became an actor in the mid-1930s. In the beginning of his acting career, he mainly starred in westerns
Western (genre)

The Western is a fiction genre seen in film, television, radio, literature, painting and other visual arts. Westerns are devoted to telling stories set primarily in the later half of the 19th century in what became the Western United States , but also in Western Canada, Mexico , Alaska and even Australia ....
 and was voted one of the Top Ten cowboy
Cowboy

A cowboy is an animal herder who tends cattle on ranches in North America, traditionally on horseback, and often performs a multitude of other ranch-related tasks....
 stars.

He played Lucky Jenkins, one of a trio of heroes in the Hopalong Cassidy
Hopalong Cassidy

Hopalong Cassidy is a cowboy-hero, created in 1904 by Clarence E. Mulford and appearing in a series of popular stories and novels. In print, the character appears as a rude, rough-talking 'galoot'....
 westerns starring William Boyd
William Boyd

William Boyd may refer to:*William Boyd, 3rd Earl of Kilmarnock , Scottish nobleman*William Boyd, 4th Earl of Kilmarnock , Scottish nobleman...
, then co-starred with Charles Starrett
Charles Starrett

Charles Starrett was an United States actor best known for his starring role in the Durango Kid Columbia Pictures Western . He was born in Athol, Massachusetts....
 in other westerns. In 1950, Hayden appeared as "Marshal #1" in several episodes of the live-broadcast and short-lived ABC series The Marshal of Gunsight Pass
The Marshal of Gunsight Pass

The Marshal of Gunsight Pass is a 1950 live broadcast Western television series starring Russell Hayden , former Country music singer Eddie Dean , and Riley Hill as Marshal #1, Marshal #2, and Marshal #3, respectively....
. In the 1952-1953 season, Hayden teamed with Jackie Coogan
Jackie Coogan

John Leslie Coogan was an United States actor who began his movie career as a child actor in silent film....
 (1914-1984), a former child actor
Child actor

The term child actor is generally applied to a child acting in film or television, but also to an adult who began his or her acting career as a child; to avoid confusion the latter is also called a former child actor....
 in the 39-episode syndicated
Television syndication

In broadcasting, syndication is the sale of the right to broadcast radio shows and television shows to multiple individual stations, without going through a broadcast network....
 series Cowboy G-Men
Cowboy G-Men

Cowboy G-Men is a Television syndication Western television series that premiered in 1952, and ran for thirty-nine episodes. Russell Hayden and former child actor Jackie Coogan starred as Pat Gallagher and Stoney Crockett, respectively, a pair of government agents operating in the American West....
. In the late 1950s, he produced and directed two syndicated western series, 26 Men
26 Men

26 Men is a 78-episode Syndication Western television series about the Arizona Rangers, an elite group commissioned in 1901 by the legislature of the Arizona Territory and limited, for financial reasons, to twenty-six active members....
, starring Tristram Coffin, and Judge Roy Bean
Judge Roy Bean (TV series)

Judge Roy Bean is a 1956 Television syndication half-hour Western television series starring Edgar Buchanan as the legendary Kentucky-born Judge Roy Bean , a justice of the peace known as "The law west of the Pecos River"....
, with Edgar Buchanan
Edgar Buchanan

Edgar Buchanan was an United States actor with a long career in both film and television, most familiar today as Uncle Joe Carson from the Petticoat Junction, Green Acres and Beverly Hillbillies situation comedys of the 1960s....
 and Jack Buetel
Jack Buetel

Jack Buetel was an United States film and television actor.Born Warren Higgins in Dallas, Texas, Texas, Buetel moved to Los Angeles, California, California in the late 1930s with the intention of establishing a film career....
. Hayden also appeared as Steve, a Texas Ranger, in Judge Roy Bean.

Hayden and fellow western actor Dick Curtis
Dick Curtis

Dick Curtis was a prolific American actor who made over 230 film and television appearances during his career.Curtis was born Richard Dye in Newport, Kentucky....
 helped to develop Pioneertown, a western movie set near Palm Springs, which has been used in many western films and television episodes.

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