Russell Hayden
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Russell "Lucky" Hayden was an American film and television actor. He is best known for his portrayal as Lucky Jenkins in Paramount's popular Hopalong Cassidy film series.
Hayden in Seven Were Saved (1947)
Hopalong Cassidy
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Hopalong Cassidy is a fictional cowboy hero created in 1904 by the author Clarence E. Mulford, who wrote a series of short stories and novels based on the character. Mulford portrayed the character as
Russell Hayden
…He later took the name Russell Hayden to honor a friend, the cameraman Russell Harlan. Hayden's screen debut was in Hills of Old Wyoming (1937), a Hopalong Cassidy film. In 27 films, he played Lucky Jenkins, one of a trio of heroes in the Cassidy Westerns starring William Boyd. In 1941 Columbia Pictures hired…
Hopalong Takes Command, illustration by Frank Schoonover for the 1905 story "The Fight at Buckskin"
Reissue poster for the 1935 Hopalong Cassidy film The Eagle's Brood
Actor William Boyd and his wife Grace, in Australia promoting Hopalong Cassidy, 1954