Lafe McKee

• Born: Jan 23, 1872 in Morrison, Illinois
• Died: Aug 10, 1959 in Temple City, California
• Occupation: Actor
• Active: '30s
• Major Genres: Western, Action
• Career Highlights: Stagecoach Days, Six Shootin' Sheriff, The Idaho Kid
• First Major Screen Credit: Fighting Jim Grant (1923)

Biography

White-haired Lafe McKee (real name, Lafayette McKee) was seemingly born old, dignified, and kind. Already playing old codgers by the mid-1910s, McKee delivered one of the funniest and most improbable moments in B-Western history, when, disguised as a bedraggled señorita, he sprang Ken Maynard from prison in Range Law (1931). "The Grand Old Man of Westerns," as film historian William K. Everson called him, retired in the early '40s after more than three decades of yeoman work opposite every cowboy hero on the Hollywood range, from Franklyn Farnum to Gary Cooper. ~ Hans J. Wollstein, All Movie Guide

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