Throughout his tragically short career, Alan Ladd starred in some of the most popular western movies of the Hollywood Golden age. A mainstay of action, adventure, and noir films throughout the '40s ...

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Stagecoach, The Searchers, and Tombstone are all among the absolute greatest and most timeless Western movies ever made.

‘I’ve always had a lot of respect for the picture business. It’s been good to me,” was a typically modest quote from one of the most recognizable movie stars of the late 1940s and into the 1950s.

Alan Walbridge Ladd (September 3, 1913 – January 29, 1964) was an American actor and film and television producer. Ladd found success in film the 1940s and early 1950s, particularly in Westerns and ...