Lone Star in the Movies

Lone Star Dietz dabbled in motion pictures before arriving at Washington State, during the 1916 Rose Bowl, investing heavily in the Washington Motion Picture Company in 1918 and going broke.  He continued to dabble in movies in the off season after that.

1916 Rose Bowl clips courtesy of Washington State University libraries

Lone Star in the movies as noted in imdb.com

Lone Star in some of his early movie roles found in the WSU digital collection

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Michael Greyeyes is a very good actor who looks the most like Lone Star.

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Granddaughter of Jim Thorpe

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Eric Schweig would be good...but Wes Studi would be tremendous                                          Michael B. Lee

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