Overview
In TV's pioneer days when kids idolized the Lone Ranger, the Texas Kid was a knight errant of the frontier leading the fight for law and order alongside his Mexican companion Pepe. In this rarely-seen TV pilot, the Kid and Pepe intercede on behalf of the murdered rancher's daughter, openly defying the landgrabbers in a cow town so lawless that rustlers operate in broad daylight! Shot at the Corrigan Ranch in 1950, TEXAS KID co-starred Mercury Records recording artist John Laurenz as Pepe and stuntman Hugh Hooker as the Kid. Hooker, a specialist in stunts involving horses and stagecoaches, often doubled Gene Autry and even produced a few movies, including the low-budget gem . That movie's star was Hugh's teenage son Buddy Joe Hooker, whose own subsequent, stellar stunt career inspired HOOPER (1978), Burt Reynolds' hit comedy tribute to movie stuntmen.
| Actor | Age then | Age now | |
|---|---|---|---|
 | - | - | |
 | - | November 7, 1958 (null) | |
 | 38 | October 6, 2009 (94) | |
 | 47 | March 1, 1993 (86) | |
 | 66 | February 18, 1963 (76) | |
 | 77 | August 24, 1963 (87) | |
| 68 | May 11, 1958 (73) | |
 | 50 | November 29, 1989 (86) | |
 | 30 | May 12, 2015 (91) | |
 | 49 | March 30, 1964 (60) |