Jim Bannon: Jim Bannon. Actor: Ride, Ryder, Ride!. Jim Bannon was a star athlete at Rockhurst College. After graduation, he became a sportscaster in Kansas City, and after 1938, in California. He began working as a radio actor and got small parts in movies. He was a movie stuntman in the early 1940s before starring in a detective movie series for Columbia, based on a radio show "I Love a Mystery." In...
Known For: Ride, Ryder, Ride! (Red Ryder), Roll, Thunder, Roll! (Red Ryder), The Fighting Redhead (Red Ryder), Cowboy and the Prizefighter (Red Ryder)