Actor. Born Carl Ellsworth Germain in Carthage, Missouri, he was a supporting actor in over a 160 films, typecast most as a villain or as a cowboy. He arrived in Hollywood circa 1935 and was signed to Republic Pictures, for whom he made the majority of his movies for from 1936 to 1947. Among his credits are “Lighting Bill Carson” (1936), “Six Gun Trail” (1938), “Sky Patrol” (1940), “Come on Danger” (1942) and “Outlaws of the Plains” (1946). He died of bronchopneumonia at age 55 in Los Angeles, California.