Raiders of Ghost City - "Death Rides Double" - 02:45 am Sunday, July 12 on WPIX Grit TV

Dennis Moore (Actor) .. Capt. Steve Clarke

Born: January 26, 1908
Died: March 01, 1964

Trivia: American actor Dennis Moore made his first stage appearance with a Texas stock company in 1932. If his official bio is to be believed, Moore was 18 at the time, casting some doubt over his claim of having been a commercial pilot before inaugurating his acting career. Whatever the case, it is a matter of record that Moore entered films in 1936 when he was discovered by a Columbia Pictures talent scout. Two years later, he made the first of his many Westerns at Republic Pictures. In his earliest sagebrush appearances, he was a bit player, stunt man, or villain; in 1940, he attained his first cowboy leading role in The Man From Tascosa, though he would continue to take bad-guy parts (notably as a serial killer in the East Side Kids' 1941 feature Spooks Run Wild) even after his good-guy debut. In 1943, Moore joined Ray "Crash" Corrigan and Max Terhune as a member of the Range Busters in the Monogram Western series of the same name. Until his retirement from films in 1957, Moore alternated between Westerns and such serials as The Purple Monster Strikes (1945). Dennis Moore owns the distinction of starring in the last serial ever made by Republic, King of the Carnival (1956), and the last serial ever made in Hollywood, Columbia's Blazing the Overland Trail (1956).

Wanda McKay (Actor) .. Cathy Haines

Born: January 14, 1916
Died: April 11, 1996

Trivia: With a real name of Dorothy Quackenbush, Wanda McKay was one movie starlet who definitely needed a new moniker. Named Miss American Aviation of 1938, the Portland, OR, native earned a contract with Paramount in 1939 but her roles remained minor and McKay was one of the many starlets to find better employment on Poverty Row. Through the 1940s, the name Wanda McKay became synonymous with low-budget companies like PRC and Monogram, where she toiled in such minor fare as Voodoo Man (1944) with Bela Lugosi, John Carradine, and George Zucco, and the Jiggs and Maggie comedies, with Mickey Rooney's father Joe Yule. It was not enough to sustain a lengthy career, however, and by the early 1950s, McKay was playing unbilled bit parts. In May 1977, the long-retired starlet married Hoagy Carmichael after what reporters termed "a lengthy courtship," a union that lasted until the legendary composer's death in 1981.

Joe Sawyer (Actor) .. Idaho Jones

Born: January 01, 1905
Died: April 21, 1982

Trivia: Beefy, puffy-faced Canadian actor Joseph Sawyer spent his first years in films (the early- to mid-'30s) acting under his family name of Sauer. Before he developed his comic skills, Sawyer was often seen in roles calling for casual menace, such as the grinning gunman who introduces "Duke Mantee, the well-known killer" in The Petrified Forest (1936). While under contract to Hal Roach studios in the 1940s, Sawyer starred in several of Roach's "streamliners," films that ran approximately 45 minutes each. He co-starred with William Tracy in a series of films about a GI with a photographic memory and his bewildered topkick: Titles included Tanks a Million (1941), Fall In (1942), and Yanks Ahoy (1943) (he later reprised this role in a brace of B-pictures produced by Hal Roach Jr. for Lippert Films in 1951). A second "streamliner" series, concerning the misadventures of a pair of nouveau riche cabdrivers, teamed Sawyer with another Roach contractee, William Bendix. Baby boomers will remember Joe Sawyer for his 164-episode stint as tough but soft-hearted cavalry sergeant Biff O'Hara on the '50s TV series Rin Tin Tin.

Raiders of Ghost City: Death Rides Double

02:45 am - 03:00 am, Sunday, July 12 on WPIX Grit TV (11.3)

Death Rides Double