Ray "Crash"
Corrigan, film actor, stuntman, and owner of Corriganville Ranch, Simi Valley, CA. Many Western films and TV series were filmed
there beginning in 1938 into the 1960s. I
believe the first movie filmed there was The Drums of Fu Munchu serials; then Fort
Apache (1948); The Long Ranger 1949-1957; Cisco Kid 1950-1956; Adventures of
Kit Carson; Rin Tin Tin 1954-59; Have Gun Will Travel 1957-1963; Casey Jones
1957. According to his own letter I read at his son
Tom's restaurant website, Crash stated that more than 3,500 films and TV shows
used his ranch at one time or another.
From 1936-1938,
Corrigan appeared in the first 24 Mesquiteers films (Republic made a total of
51 Mesquiteers films from 1936-1943)
Corrigan often got into his gorilla suit for film rolls. He died in 1976 at the age of 74.
Photo by my family on our visit there in 1953.
