Profile
Hoot Gibson
Producer + Military Person + Director
Male
Born
Aug 6, 1892
Died
Aug 23, 1962
News + Updates
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Mortonite Attends Aviation Challenge, Space Camp Morton Times NewsGoogle News - Aug 26, 2011
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Camp Arms Pisd Teachers With Space Related Info For Classrooms Houston ChronicleGoogle News - Aug 23, 2011
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Timeline
Learn about the memorable moments in the evolution of Hoot Gibson.
CHILDHOOD
1892
Birth
Born on August 6, 1892.
TEENAGE
1910
17 Years Old
In 1910, film director Francis Boggs was looking for experienced cowboys to appear in his silent film short, Pride of the Range.
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Gibson made a second film for Boggs in 1911.

After the director was killed by a deranged employee, Gibson was hired by director Jack Conway to appear in his 1912 Western, His Only Son.
TWENTIES
Census records for 1920 indicate that they were living separately, Hoot Gibson listing himself as married, Helen listing herself as widowed.
1921
28 Years Old
By 1921 the demand for cowboy pictures was so great that Gibson began receiving offers for leading roles.
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THIRTIES
1927
34 Years Old
In 1927, actor Gibson, and five other California businessman sponsored The Spirit of Los Angeles, A modification of the International CF-10 for an attempt at winning the Dole Air Derby.
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FORTIES

In 1933, Gibson injured himself when he crashed his plane while racing cowboy star Ken Maynard in the National Air Races.
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1942
49 Years Old
Gibson married a final time, to Dorothy Dunstan, on July 3, 1942.
LATE ADULTHOOD

1962
70 Years Old
Hoot Gibson died of cancer in 1962 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California and was interred in the Inglewood Park Cemetery in Inglewood, California.
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