Hoot Gibson — Blue Book of the Screen (1923) 🇺🇸

Edward (Hoot) Gibson first came into the limelight of fame when a howling mob of westerners declared him the world’s champion cowboy at the Pendleton, Oregon, roundup and presented him with a diamond studded belt.

Gibson [Hoot Gibson] is a true out-and-out westerner, having been born in Tekamah, Nebraska, in 1892. He grew up on the ranges and his early years were spent as a cowboy. Then, after winning the world’s championship, he took up the career of a showman. He toured Australia with Bud Atkin’s circus.

Coming to Universal City, Gibson entered pictures and made a number of short-reel dramas of the West. Within a year he starred in some of the most successful western stories ever released, among which were “Action,” “Headin’ West,” “The Bearcat,” “Trimmed,” and a long series of others.

Gibson is the typical hearty, lighthearted young westerner, and his characterizations in devil-may-care roles have made him one of the most popular actors on the screen. Gibson is married and his wife’s professional name was Helen Johnson. Before her marriage to Gibson she was on the Orpheum circuit.

The star is five feet ten inches in height, weighs 160 pounds and has light hair and blue eyes.

Among Gibson’s best known pictures are the following: Kalem, Hazards of Helen; Universal, “A Knight of the Range,” “The Crow,” “The Voice on the Wire,” “Shameless Salvason,” “The Trail of the Holdup Men,” “The Lone Hand,” “The Double Holdup,” “The Sheriff’s Oath,” “The Jay Bird,” “Harmony Ranch,” “Roaring Dan,” “The Smilin’ Kid,” “Pair of Twins,” “Saddle King,” “Fighting Fury,” “Out of Luck,” “The Cactus Kid,” “Ridin’ Wild,” “Heads Up,” and “The Gentleman From America.”

All of these films were written about the West.

Gibson has only one hobby, horses. When he is not working in a production he is riding over the foothills and into the beautiful canyons around Hollywood and Universal City.

Collection: The Blue Book of the Screen (1923)