Was bed-ridden with lung cancer when his good friend
I'm six foot four to start with, and with the makeup and padding, I'd wear a size 70 coat, the boots had six-inch soles, and by the time I was ready to film, I was just about seven feet tall. Sam / Sam Noonan / Bartender / Man / Sam, The Bartender Of Irish and Cherokee Indian descent, he taught himself (by ear) the fiddle and guitar at a young age and started performing at local functions as a teen.
Child by his third wife, Minnie Thompson: Janine Laraine Strange.
He is interred at Forest Lawn Hollywood Hills Cemetery, Hollywood, CA. A singing/songwriting cowboy by trade, he collaborated on various tunes with western actor
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He was an eighth generation great grandson of John Rolfe and Pocahontas through his maternal grandfather, but of Cherokee descent through his father.
His father William Russell Strange was of Irish ancestry, but his mother Sarah Eliza Strange (née Byrd) was of British ancestry.
He taught himself (by ear) the fiddle and guitar at a young age and started performing at local functions ... Working on a film at Universal, he noticed that the makeup man, department head In the late 1920s, Glenn and his cousin, Taylor M…
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He was one of the first actors to be asked to play The Creature in He taught himself (by ear) the fiddle and guitar at a young age and started performing at local functions as a teen. At various times in his life a rancher, deputy sheriff and rodeo performer, this huge, towering (6' 5\") beast of a man was born George Glenn Strange in Weed, New Mexico, on August 16, 1899, but grew up a real-life cowboy in Cross Cut, Texas.
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1899-1973 A New Mexican of Native American extraction, actor Glenn Strange held down several rough-and-tumble jobs, from deputy sheriff to rodeo rider, before settling on a singing career.
At various times in his life a rancher, deputy sheriff and rodeo performer, this huge, towering (6' 5") beast of a man was born George Glenn Strange in Weed, New Mexico, on August 16, 1899, but grew up a real-life cowboy in Cross Cut, Texas.
In the late 1920s, Glenn and his cousin, Taylor McPeters, better known later as the western character actor
and cooking. On the set of Profiled in "Character Actors in Horror and Science Fiction Films, 1930-1960" by Laurence Raw (2012). Hobbies: hunting, fishing .
At various times in his life a rancher, deputy sheriff and rodeo performer, this huge, towering (6' 5") beast of a man was born George Glenn Strange in Weed, New Mexico, on August 16, 1899, but grew up a real-life cowboy in Cross Cut, Texas. Glenn Strange Biography: A New Mexican of Native American extraction, actor Glenn … Before becoming an actor, he had various jobs, including singer, professional boxer (he once fought heavyweight He was known to love children. At various times in his life a rancher, deputy sheriff and rodeo performer, this huge, towering (6' 5") beast of a man was born George Glenn Strange in Weed, New Mexico, on August 16, 1899, but grew up a real-life cowboy in Cross Cut, Texas.