Reel Cowboys of the Santa Susanas -- Lash LaRue

'Reel Cowboys of the Santa Susanas' is a continuing series about "six-gun heroes that performed on movie location ranches in Chatsworth, California.  For more information about Chatsworth filming locations see http://www.cowboyup.com/ to find information about my books: Rendezvous at Boulder Pass: Hollywood's Fantasyland - 2010 and Reel Cowboys of the Santa Susanas - 2008.

Lash LaRue (1921-1996) was a popular B-Western cowboy star during the 1940s and 1950s.

He was skilled with the use of a bullwhip which he used to take down bad guys (rumor has it that he taught Harrison Ford how to use a bullwhip for the Indiana Jones movies).  He was an usual cowboy hero who dressed in all black and talked like a "big city tough-guy" (somewhat like that of Humphrey Bogart who he physically resembled).

His movie horse was a beautiful black quarter horse named Black Diamond (photo above).

Lash LaRue's Santa Susana locations filmography:

The Black Lash (1952) - Lash LaRue and Al St. John - Western Adventures

Border Feud (1947) - Lash LaRue and Al St. John - PRC

Cheyenne Takes Over (1947) - Lash LaRue and Al St. John (Iverson Ranch) PRC

The Daltons' Women (1950) - Lash LaRue and Al St. John (Iverson Ranch) Realart

Dead Man's Gold (1948) - Lash LaRue and Al St. John (Iverson Ranch) Lippert

The Fighting Vigilantes (1947) - Lash LaRue and Al St. John - PRC

The Frontier Phantom (1952) - Lash LaRue and Al St. John - Western Adventures

Frontier Revenge (1948) - Lash LaRue and Al St. John (Iverson Ranch)

Ghost Town Renegades (1947) - Lash LaRue and Al St. John - PRC

King of the Bullwhip (1950) - Lash LaRue and Al St. John (Iverson Ranch) Western Adventures

Law of the Lash (1947) - Lash LaRue and Al St. John (Iverson Ranch) PRC

Outlaw Country (1949) - Lash LaRue and Al St. John - Screen Guild

Pioneer Justice (1947) - Lash LaRue (Iverson Ranch) PRC

Prairie Outlaws (1948) - Eddie Dean, Lash LaRue and Roscoe Ates (Corriganville) PRC

Return of the Lash (1947) - Lash LaRue and Al St. John (Iverson Ranch) PRC

Son of a Badman (1949) - Lash LaRue (Iverson Ranch) Screen Guild

Son of Billy the Kid (1949) - Lash LaRue and Al St. John (Iverson Ranch) Screen Guild

Song of Old Wyoming (1945) - Eddie Dean and Lash LaRue (Corriganville) PRC

Stage to Mesa City (1947) - Lash LaRue and Al St. John (Iverson Ranch) PRC

The Thundering Trail (1951) - Lash LaRue and Al St. John - Realart

The Vanishing Outpost (1951) - Lash LaRue and Al St. John - Western Adventures