Danny Sands

Danny Sands is one of the most unique cowboys who made a living as a stuntman and extra in the golden age of movies and television shows. He started out as a horse exerciser for an old racetrack. It was then that he was spotted by Howard Hawks and developed a friendship that lasted a life time and that also put Sands and various situations that he preferred never to be in. While Sands started in the late 1930s, it wasn't until the late 1940s when Sands started to really receive work both as a stuntman and as an extra in films. He worked for several months on location of Howard Hawks' Red River where he could be seen as one of John Wayne's riders that set out to catch the wagon train. He was so well liked by Hawks that a lot of Sands' work was a mixture of Hawks utilizing Sands' cowboy skills set and just the fact that Hawks liked having Sands around. When Sands wasn't on the film set of a Howard Hawks film somewhere, he would frequently be cast as a posse rider or a townsman in old M