Name	Hoot Gibson
Occupation	Actor
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Trivia

The CW3 Hoot Gibson helicopter is named after Hoot, who was as interested in flying as he was in riding.

He was racing against fellow cowboy star Ken Maynard when he crashed the J-5 Swallow he was flying.

In 1933 Gibson, an avid pilot, entered the National Air Races. His plane crashed and he was seriously injured, which kept him hospitalized and off the movie screen for several months.

Inducted into the Hall of Great Western Performers of the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in 1979.

Earned the nickname "Hoot" as a messenger for the Owl Drug Co.

Won the title "World`s All Around Champion Cowboy" at age 20.

In the 1950s the out-of-work cowboy star was reduced to working as a Las Vegas casino greeter and performing in carnivals in order to handle the enormous debts that mounted after a series of cancer operations.

See also Trivia Index (H) :: Quotes Index (H) :: Connections Index (H)

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