The Concentratin' Kid...1930...Hoot Gibson
Many of the Hopalong Cassidy films
(these western sets were torn down in 1947)
Dodge City....1939....Errol Flynn
Heaven With A Barbed Wire Fence...1939...Glenn Ford, Jean Rogers
Dark Command....1940....John Wayne & Roy Rogers
King of the Texas Rangers....1941....Sammy Baugh....
(Republic Serial)
Jungle Girl....1941....Francis Gifford .... (Republic Serial)
Romance of the Range....1942....Roy Rogers
Haunted Harbor....1944.....Kane Richmond....(Republic Serial)
Daredevils of the Clouds...1948...Robert Livingston
The Doolin's of Oklahoma...1949...Randolph Scott
Cattle Town...1952...Dennis Morgan and Philip Carey
The Command...1954...Guy Madison
(also filmed @ Agoura and The Russell Ranch in Westlake Village)
Man Without A Star....1955...Kirk Douglas
Davey Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier....1955....Fess Parker
The First Texan...1956...Joel McCrae, Jeff Morrow
(also filmed @ North Ranch)
Westward Ho, The Wagons!....1957....Fess Parker
Gunsight Ridge....1957....Joel McCrae
Joe Dakota...1957...Jock Mahoney, Lee Van Cleef
Forty Guns..1957...Barry Sullivan, Dean Jagger
The Left-Handed Gun...1958...Paul Newman
Man of the West...1958...Gary Cooper, Lee J. Cobb, Julie London
Man in the Shadow...1958...Jeff Chandler, Orson Welles
Cast A Long Shadow...1959...Audie Murphy & Terry Moore
Spartacus....1960....Kirk Douglas and Tony Curtis
Flaming Star....1960....Elvis Presley
Cimarron...1960...Glen Ford
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance....1962....
John Wayne and James Stewart
Cheyenne Autumn...1964...Richard Widmark & James Stewart
Texas Across The River....1964....Dean Martin
Advance To The Rear...1964...Glen Ford & Stella Stevens
He Rides Tall...1964....Tony Young, Dan Duryea
Shenandoah....1965....James Stewart
Waterhole #3....1967....James Coburn
Welcome To Hard Times....1967....Henry Fonda
Forty Guns to Apache Pass...1967...Audie Murphy
Journey To Shiloh...1968...James Caan, Brenda Scott (also filmed in Agoura)
Firecreek...1968...James Stewart & Henry Fonda (also filmed @ North Ranch)
The Ballad of Josie...1968...Doris Day & Peter Graves
The Bull of the West...1975...Charles Bronson & Brian Keith
CALIFORNIA LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY AREA (The Conejo Ranch)
Wuthering Heights....1937....Merle Oberon & Laurence Olivier
(NE corner of Moorpark Road and Olsen Road intersection)
Lassie Come Home....1943....Elizabeth Taylor
The Gay Ranchero...1947...Roy Rogers, Tito Guizar
(also filmed @ The Conejo Airport)
Sands of Iwo Jima....1949....John Wayne
(volcanic mountains and cliffs north of Olsen Road)
CONEJO LODGE @ 467 Thousand Oaks Blvd.
It Happened One Night....1936....Clark Gable and Claudette
Colbert (Exterior scenes were filmed on our main east/west
street = Thousand Oaks Blvd., which then was a
dusty, dirty road called Ventura Highway)
CONEJO AIRPORT
(The original small dirt runway strip @ the present location of
the Los Robles Golf Course. The airport stretched from Thousand Oaks
Boulevard to where the restaurant is today at the Los Robles Golf
Course)
The Gay Ranchero...1947...Roy Rogers
Riders of the Whistling Pines...1949...Gene Autry
(Later there was a 2nd airport with paved runway strips and
a few hangers; it was located @ the Rancho Conejo
Industrial Park...Amgen Area. The Northrop manufacturing and
engineering facility was at the end of the runway.)
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad World
JUNGLE LAND...now the site of the Civic Center & Civic
Auditorium & The Lakes Shopping Center
Bring 'Em Back Alive....
Darkest Africa...1936...(Republic Serial)
Jungle Girl...1941...Frances Gifford...(Republic Serial)
Monster and The Ape...1945...Robert Lowery...(Columbia Serial)
The Vigilante...1947...Ralph Byrd...(Columbia Serial)
Congo Bill...1948...Don McGuire...(Columbia Serial)
King of The Congo...1952...Buster Crabbe...(Columbia Serial)
WESTLAKE
The Lash...1930...Richard Barthelmess, Mary Astor, Fred Kohler
Tarzan of the Apes..... in the area that is now the Sherwood
Forest Mobile Home Park@
Lindero Canyon and Triunfo Canyon
Flame of the West...1945...Johnny Mack Brown, Joan Woodbury
The Man from the Alamo...1953...Glenn Ford, Victor Jory, Hugh O'Brian
Pork Chop Hill....1957... Gregory Peck
King Rat....1968....George Segal
(filmed just east of the present-day Westlake Dam)
Roustabout....Elvis Presley & Barbara Stanwyck
(filmed on vacant land where the Westlake
Plaza Shopping Center is located @ Westlake Blvd
and Townsgate Road)
LAKE SHERWOOD
Robin Hood...1922...Wallace Beary
Robin Hood....1928....Douglas Fairbanks, Sr.
The Long, Long Trail...1929...Hoot Gibson, Sally Eilers, Walter Brennan
(also filmed @ The French Ranch in Hidden Valley)
The Apache Kid's Escape...1930..Jack Perrin & Josephine Hill
All Quiet on the Western Front...1930...Lew Ayres
The Fighting Legion...1930...Ken Maynard
The Great Meadow...1931...Johnny Mack Brown, Eleanor Boardman
The Nevada Buckaroo...1931...Bob Steele, Dorothy Dix, George Hayes
The Boiling Point..1932...Hoot Gibson
The Last of the Mohicans...1932....Harry Carey
(Mascot Serial)
Destry Rides Again...1932...Tom Mix, Claudia Dell
The Gay Buckaroo...1932...Hoot Gibson, Merna Kennedy
Tarzan The Fearless...1933....Buster Crabbe
Galloping Romeo...1933....Bob Steele, George Hayes
Deadwood Pass...1933...Tom Tyler, Wally Wales, Buffalo Bill, Jr.
Jungle Book
The Little Minister...1934...Katherine Hepburn, John Beal
Tarzan and His Mate...1934...Johnny Weissmuller, Maureen O'Sullivan
The Last of the Mohicans..1936...Randolph Scott,Bruce Cabot
Lost Horizon...1937....in the hills just east of Lake Sherwood
Way Out West....1937....Laurel & Hardy
Night Must Fall...1937...Robert Montgomery, Rosalind Russell
The Devil's Saddle Legion...1937...Dick Foran, Willard Parker
The Painted Stallion...1937...Ray Corrigan, Hoot Gibson, Julia
Thayer (Republic Serial)....
(also filmed @ Agoura and in St. George, Utah)
Billy The Kid Returns...1938...Roy Rogers
The Adventures of Robin Hood...1938...Errol Flynn
Hawk of the Wilderness...1938....Herman Brix (Bruce Bennett) ....
(Republic Serial)
The Fighting Devil Dogs...1938....Lee Powell....(Republic Serial)
Dick Tracy Returns....1938....Ralph Byrd....(Republic Serial)
Dick Tracy's G-Men...1938...Ralph Byrd... (Republic Serial)
Stagecoach....1939....John Wayne
Allegheny Uprising....1939....John Wayne
Gunga Din....1939....Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine
Desperate Trails...1939...Johnny Mack Brown
Oregon Trail...1939...Johnny Mack Brown...(Universal Serial)
Jesse James...1939....Tyrone Power, Henry Fonda, Randolph Scott
Adventures of Red Ryder....1940....Don Barry....(Republic Serial)
Hidden Gold...1940...William Boyd, Russell Hayden
Tobacco Road....1941....Gene Tierney
Jungle Girl....1941....Frances Gifford, Tom Neal...(Republic Serial)
The Adventures of Captain Marvel....1941....Tom Tyler....
(Republic Serial)
King of the Texas Rangers...1941...Sammy Baugh, Duncan Renaldo
Romance on the Range....1942...Roy Rogers, George "Gabby Hayes
The Outlaw....1943....Jane Russell & Jack Beutel
Wagon Tracks West....1943....William Elliott
Silver Spurs....1943....Roy Rogers
So Proudly We Hail...1943...Claudette Colbert, Paulette Goddard
Tarzan Triumphs...1943...Johnny Weissmuller, Frances Gifford
The Tiger Woman....1944....Allan Lane....(Republic Serial)
Haunted Harbor...1944...Kane Richmond, Kay Aldridge (Republic Serial)
San Fernando Valley....1944....Roy Rogers
The Cisco Kid Returns...1945...Duncan Renaldo
Home on the Range....1946....Monte Hale, Adrian Booth
My Pal Trigger....1946....Roy Rogers
Out California Way....1946....Monte Hale
Ding Dong Williams...1946...Glenn Vernon, James Warren, Anne Jeffries
On the Old Spanish Trail....1947....Roy Rogers
The Man From Texas...1947...James Craig
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court....1949....Bing Crosby
Susanna Pass....1949....Roy Rogers
Down Dakota Way...1949...Roy Rogers, Dale Evans
Redwood Forest Trail....1950....Rex Allen
High Noon...1952...Gary Cooper, Grace Kelly
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid...1969...
Paul Newman & Robert Redford
HIDDEN VALLEY
Destry Rides Again....1932....Tom Mix
Come On, Tarzan....1932....Ken Maynard
The Last Trail...1933...George O'Brien, Claire Trevor (filmed @ The French Ranch)
Dawn Patrol....1938....Errol Flynn, David Niven
Cattle Raiders...1938...Charles Starrett & Iris Meredith
Hawaiian Buckeroo...1938...Smith Ballew, Evelyn Knapp (filmed @ The French Ranch)
Dude Cowboy...1941....Tim Holt (filmed @ The French Ranch)
Lady Takes A Chance...1943..John Wayne, Claire Trevor
Song of Nevada...1944....Roy Rogers
Lights of Old Santa Fe....1944....Roy Rogers
Frisco Sal...1945...Turhan Bey, Susanna Foster (filmed @ The French Ranch)
Under Nevada Skies....1946....Roy Rogers
My Pal Trigger...1946...Roy Rogers, Dale Evans, George Hayes
The Vigilante....1947....Ralph Byrd
Sons of New Mexico....1950....Gene Autry
The Nevadan...1950....Randolph Scott, Dorothy Malone, Forest Tucker
The Man In the Saddle....1951....Randolph Scott, Joan Leslie, Cameron Mitchell
(filmed @ The French Ranch)
Blackhawk....1952....Kirk Alyn....(Columbia Serial)
A Lawless Street....1955...Randolph Scott, Angela Lansbury (filmed @ The French Ranch)
The Lone Ranger....1956....Clayton Moore, Jay Silverheels
(feature film filmed @ The French Ranch)
OLD CIVIC CENTER
Demon Seed
NORTH RANCH
Several of the Charles Starrett DURANGO KID westerns of
the 40's and the 50's
Duel in the Sun....1948....Gregory Peck
How The West Was Won....1963....John Wayne & James
Stewart
Bonnie and Clyde...1967...Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway
Ballad of Josie....1968....Doris Day & Peter Graves
Little Big Man...1970...Dustin Hoffman
TRIUNFO RANCH
Hatari...1961....John Wayne
THOUSAND OAKS
The Grapes of Wrath...1937...Henry Fonda
(site of the present-day Thousand Oaks High School
area and the housing tract just south of the football
field west of Moorpark Road)
Walk on the Wild Side
(filmed @ Thousand Oaks Blvd just west of Erbes)
VENTU PARK
"B" Westerns of the 1930'sfilms starring Buck Jones, Tim
McCoy and Ken Maynard among others
Roaring Ranch....1930....Hoot Gibson and Sally Eilers
(filmed at the Stagecoach Inn, which was then located
@ the south Ventu #101 Freeway on-ramp coming
from the west). The original Stagecoach Inn burned
down. This re-production -- now a museum --
faithfully matches the original.
Borchard Ranch
Blondie
AGOURA
The Lash...1930....Richard Barthelmess & Mary Astor
The Fighting Sheriff...1931...Buck Jones, Loretta Sayers
God's Country and the Man...1931... Tom Tyler, Betty Mack, George Hayes
Frankenstein....1931....Borris Karloff, Mae Clark, Colin Clive
Forbidden Trail...1932...Buck Jones
Heroes of the West...1932...Noah Beery Jr.
Gun Law...1933...Jack Hoxie, Betty Boyd
The Lone Bandit...1934...Lane Chandler, Wally Wales
Mystery Ranch...1934...Tom Tyler, Jack Perrin
The Phantom Empire....1935....Gene Autry....(Republic Serial)
The Miracle Rider...1935...Tom Mix, Joan Gale (Mascot Serial)
Sunset Range...1935...Hoot Gibson
Gun Play...1935...Big Boy Williams, Marion Shilling, Wally Wales
Arizona Badmen...1935...Reb Russell & Lois January
Band of the Outlaws...1936...Bob Steele
The Cowboy and the Kid...1936...Buck Jones & Billy Burrud
(Also filmed @ Lake Malibu & Lake Sherwood)
Law For Tombstone...1937...Buck Jones, Muriel Evans
Blazing Sixes...1937...Dick Foran
West of Cheyenne...1938...Charles Starrett
Cattle Raiders...1938...Charles Starrett & Iris Meredith
The Cowboy and the Lady...1938...Gary Cooper & Merle Oberon
The Last Stand...1938...Bob Baker, Constance Moore
Colorado Sunset....1939....Gene Autry & Buster Crabbe
Cowboys From Texas...1939...Robert Livingston & Duncan Renaldo
In Old Caliente.....1939....Roy Rogers, George Hayes
Dark Command...1940...Walter Pigeon, John Wayne, Claire Trevor and
Roy Rogers (Also filmed @ Lake Sherwood)
Pioneers of the West....1940....Robert Livingston
Heroes of the Saddle....1940....Robert Livingston &
Crash Corrigan
Bad Man from Red Butte...1940...Johnny Mack Brown, Anne Gwynne
& Bob Baker
Blazing Six-Shooters...1940...Charles Starrett & Iris Meredith
The Durango Kid....1940....Charles Starrett, Luana Walters
Cowboy From Sundown...1940...Tex Ritter
Brigham Young...1940...Tyrone Power
Belle Starr...1941...Randolph Scott & Dana Andrews
Jesse James, Jr.....1942....Don Barry, Lynn Merrick, Al St. John
Bullets for Bandits....1942....William Elliott
Home In Wyomin'.....1942....Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette
Fighting Bill Fargo...1942...Johnny Mack Brown, Fuzzy Knight, Nell O'Day
Code of the Outlaws...1942....Tom Tyler & Bob Steele
Cowboy Serenade...1942....Gene Autry
Heart of the Rio Grande...1942...Gene Autry
The Lone Prairie...1942...Russell Hayden, Dub Taylor
The Lone Star Vigilantes...1942...Bill Elliott, Tex Ritter
Cheyenne Roundup...1943...Johnny Mack Brown & Tex Ritter
Deadman's Gulch...1943...Don Barry, Emmett Lynn, Rex Lease
Gentle Annie...1944...James Craig, Donna Reed
Along the Navajo Trail...1945...Roy Rogers
The Dalton's Ride Again...1945...Alan Curtis, Noah Berry, Jr.
The Return of The Durango Kid.....1946.....Charles Starrett
Abilene Town...1946...Randolph Scott & Rhonda Fleming
The Desert Horseman...1946...Charles Starrett, Smiley Burnette
Badman's Territory...1946...Randolph Scott
Last Frontier Uprising...1947...Monte Hale, Adrian Booth
I Remember Mama...1948...Irene Dunne, Barbara Bel Geddes
The Red Pony...1949...Myra Loy, Robert Mitchum
The Mysterious Deperado...1949...Tim Holt, Robert Livingston
The Fighting Kentuckian...1949...John Wayne, Vera Ralston, Philip Dorn
The Cowboy and the Prizefighter...1949...Jim Bannon
(Red Ryder Series)
Border Outlaws...1950...Spade Cooley
Sons of New Mexico....1950....Gene Autry
Law of the Badlands...1950...Tim Holt, Richard Martin
Twilight in the Sierras.....1950.....Roy Rogers
Storm Over Wyoming....1950....Tim Holt
The Red Badge of Courage....1951....Audie Murphy
(Union & Confederate battle charge filmed on the hill
and descending slope behind the present -day
gas station on the north side of #101 @ Cheseboro Road)
Hills of Utah....1951....Gene Autry
Law of the Badlands....1951....Tim Holt
Al Jennings of Oklahoma...1951
Target....1952.....Tim Holt
Desert Passage.....1952....Tim Holt
Fort Ti...1953...George Montgomery, Joan Vohs
The Moonlighter...1953...Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray, Ward Bond
Apache...1954...Burt Lancaster
The Lone Gun...1954...George Montgomery, Neville Brand
The Command...1954...Guy Madison (also filmed @ The Conejo
Ranch in Wildwood and @ The Russell Ranch in
Westlake Village
Decision at Sundown...1957...Randolph Scott
The Hard Man....1957...Guy Madison, Lorne Greene
Drango...1957....Jeff Chandler, Joanne Dru
The Hard Man....1957...Guy Madison, Lorne Greene
NEAR-BY AREAS
PARAMOUNT RANCH
The Virginian...1929...Gary Cooper, Walter Huston, Richard Arlen
The Light of Western Stars...1930...Richard Arlen, Mary Brian
The Deadline...1931...Buck Jones, Loretta Sayers
Santa Fe Trail...1931...Richard Arlen
Dude Ranch...1931...Jack Oakie, Stuart Erwin
The Avenger...1931...Buck Jones, Dorothy Revier
Gunsmoke.....1931....Richard Arlen, Mary Brian
Fighting Caravans...1931...Gary Cooper
Ghost Valley...1932...Tom Keene, Merna Kennedy
Heritage of the Desert...1932...Randolph Scott, Sally Blaine
Phantom Thunderbolt...1933...Ken Maynard, Frances Dade, Bob Kortman
The Man Trailer...1933...Buck Jones, Cecilia Parker
Man of the Forrest...1933...Randolph Scott, Harry Carey, Buster Crabbe
The Mysterious Rider...1933...Kent Taylor, Lona Andre
The Last Round-up...1934...Randolph Scott, Fuzzy Knight, Barton MacLane
Law Beyond The Range...1935...Tim McCoy, Robert Allen
Girl of the Ozarks...1936...Leif Erickson, Virginia Weidler
Cassidy of Bar 20...1938...William Boyd, Frank Darien, Russell Hayden
Bar 20 Justice...1938...William Boyd, George Hayes, Russell Hayden
In Old Mexico...1938....William Boyd, Russell Hayden, George Hayes
Gone with the Wind...1939...
Geronimo...1939...Preston Foster, Ellen Drew, Andy Devine
Hopalong Cassidy westerns
Desert Gold....1936...Buster Crabbe, Robert Cummings
Wells Fargo. .....1937....Joel McCrae, Fraces Dee (also filmed @ Lake Malibu)
The Forest Rangers...1942...Fred MacMurray, Rod Cameron
The Great Man's Lady...1942...Joel McCrae, Barbara Stanwyck
(also filmed in Moorpark)
The Red Badge of Courage.....1951.... Audie Murphy
BUFFALO FLATS (now the property of Saddleback Ranch
Malibu Winery area....)
Girl of the Golden West...1938....Jeannette MacDonald
California...1947....Ray Milland
20th CENTURY FOX RANCH
Home on the Range...1935...Randolph Scott, Ann Sheridan
(also filmed @ Lake Malibu)
The Song of Bernadette
How Green was My Valley
Mash
Dr. Doolittle
Planet of the Apes
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
CALABASAS
Lasky Mesa
Duel in the Sun...1947...Gregory Peck, Jennifer Jones
Warner Ranch (current site of the Calabasas
Park Country Club)
Dynamite Ranch...1932...Ken Maynard, Ruth Hall, Jack Perrin
Haunted Gold....1932...John Wayne, Sheila Terry
Hi, Gaucho!....1935...John Carroll, Rod La Rocque
MOORPARK
State Fair
King's Row.....Ronald Reagan & Ann Sheridan
(The Seaside Oil Station @ the corner of Spring
Street and Los Angeles Avenue was the focal point
of the auto races)
TELEVISION SERIES FILMED IN THE CONEJO
WILDWOOD
Cade's County
Rawhide
Gunsmoke
Bonanza
Rifleman
Davey Crocket
Have Gun, Will Travel
Wanted, Dead or Alive
THOUSAND OAKS HIGH SCHOOL (when it was vacant land)
Bonanza. and The Rifleman
Rifleman....also filmed at what is now the Dover & Hendrix Park
HIDDEN VALLEY
Dallas
LAKE SHERWOOD
McMillan and Wife
FBI
Barnaby Jones
WESTLAKE PLAZA HOTEL
Dynasty
WESTLAKE VILLAGE
The Mod Squad
Bionic Woman
OLD CIVIC CENTER
Million Dollar Man
NORTH RANCH
Guns of Will Sonnett
Wild Wild West
Bonanza
Gunsmoke
The Virginian
OAKDALE MARKET
The Young Runaways
LANG RANCH
Combat..... Wagon Train... Rawhide.... Gunsmoke
MOORPARK
Gunsmoke.... (The Strathern Ranch)
Perry Mason ....(Tanner Building)
Lassie .....(Gunther Pharmacy/First Western Bank/Main
Street)
(Revised and updated: 21 November 2011)
