US UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
Description
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Worth Crouch with his palomino horse, Thunder, during a promotion for "Red Rider," a new western comic in the Los Angeles Times. Worth Nelson Crouch was a stuntman. He is known for his work on We've Never Been Licked (1943), Mystery Sea Raider (1940) and Tenting Tonight on the Old Camp Ground (1943). He died on location during filming of We've Never Been Licked (1943) in Calabasas. Text from negative sleeve: 15724- [stamp] FEB 21 1939. Worth Crouch-Stuntman + rodeo star. Times Red Rider- (+Palomino Stallion, Thunder)(Promotion for New Times Comic). 1938. Reported, with a different photo, in "GREAT WESTERN COMIC STARTS' IN 'TIMES' SUNDAY," Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 1938: 3.
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_14853 ark:/21198/zz002j8hqd
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Stunt performers--California--Los Angeles Crouch, Worth, 1915-1943
Source
OpenUCLA Collections Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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