A character actor and veteran of hundreds of Hollywood westerns, Tom London seemed to be born in the saddle. As a trick rider he performed riding specialties in a number of films. His career started in the teens and through the 1920s he alternated between good guy and bad. He made appearances in non-westerns such as _All Quiet on the Western Front , but westerns were his mainstay. When the "B" western disappeared in the mid-'50s, so did his career. He appeared in only a handful of film for the rest of the decade.
Listed in the Guiness Book of World Records for having appeared in more films than any other actor (into the thousands).
Although his name is sometimes listed in reference works for Edisons The Great Train Robbery (1903) , he was a boy living in Louisville, Kentucky, at the time that film was made in New Jersey, and does not appear in it.
The 1940 U.S. Census records his acting income for 36 weeks in 1939 as $3,182.
Met his future wife, Edith Stayart , on the set of Nan of the North in 1922.
Prior to making his acting debut at Universal in 1920 he claimed to have been a train engineer, a builder and a draftsman.
