| # | Fact |
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| 1 | Much of his bullwhip work was done by stunt man Carl Petty, who lived on Fairbanks Way across the street from Rand Brooks in Culver City. Carl used to practice in his front yard all of the time. He was on the TV show You Asked for It (1950) to show how he shot arrows for the movies. Fairbanks Way is a few blocks from MGM Lot 3. |
| 2 | Reared in various Louisiana towns as his father was a traveling hotel representative and real estate salesman, the family moved to Los Angeles when Lash was in his teens and was enrolled at St. John's Military Academy. He then enrolled at College of the Pacific with the intention of studying law. He took drama to overcome a speech impediment, and worked at various jobs (including real estate salesman and hairdresser) before deciding to try acting. |
| 3 | He unwittingly played a fully clothed villain in what turned out to be an adult film entitled Hard on the Trail (1972). The sex scenes were later shot and inserted around the scenes he previously filmed. Shocked by this, he later became a born-again Christian and turned into a high-voltage evangelist in some sort of act of repentance. He also performed whip and gun stunts for the Florida-based Hollywood Western Revue for the Lord. |
| 4 | LaRue's film sidekick, toothless, grizzled Al St. John, was formerly a member of the Keystone Kops, Their first pairing was Law of the Lash (1947). |
| 5 | Professional wrestler Johnny LeRoux borrowed his ring name from LaRue, dubbing himself "Lash LeRoux" in 1999. |
| 6 | One of the first recipients of the Golden Boot Awards in 1983. |
| 7 | Bluffed his way into the "bullwhip" movies telling director Robert Emmett Tansey he knew how to use one when he didn't. The studio liked his acting work anyway and later hired a true expert, Rex 'Snowy' Baker, to teach him how to use it. La Rue in turn taught Harrison Ford for his "Indiana Jones" movies. |
| 8 | Beset with alcohol problems, he was arrested in 1966 for vagrancy in Miami, Florida. |
| 9 | After his film career took a dive, he resorted to performing in second-rate circuses and carnivals. |
| 10 | Played guitar very well and became a regular at the jam sessions at the Dew Drop Inn in New Orleans. |
| 11 | Subject of the song "Lash LaRue" by Starbuck. |
| 12 | Lash LaRue comic books sold over one million copies each around the world and many of them featured Lash and wife Barbra Fuller's godson, J.P. Sloane; in fact, Sloane was the only child ever to appear on the "Six-Gun Heroes" comic books when he appeared with Lash on the cover of issue 19. |
| 13 | His wife Barbra Fuller was an accomplished actress of both radio (Claudia on "One Man's Family") and motion pictures and television, having played opposite Charles Boyer. They never had any children but had a godson who was child star J.P. Sloane, the son of early television personality Jimmie Jackson and actress Anita Coleman. |
| 14 | Although the horse he used was at times called "Rush" and "Black Diamond" in his films, it was actually the same horse--Black Diamond. |
| 15 | Married and divorced ten times. |
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
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| Pair of Aces | 1990 | TV Movie | Henry |
| Escape | 1989 | | Gas station owner |
| Stagecoach | 1986 | TV Movie | Lash (as Lash LaRue) |
| Alien Outlaw | 1985 | | Alex Thompson |
| The Dark Power | 1985 | | Ranger Girard (as Lash LaRue) |
| Chain Gang | 1984 | | |
| Hard on the Trail | 1972 | | Slade |
| Lanton Mills | 1969 | Short | Phantom |
| Please Don't Touch Me | 1963 | | Bill (as Al La Rue) |
| The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp | 1959-1960 | TV Series | Johnny Behan Sheriff Johnny Behan |
| Tightrope | 1960 | TV Series | Mike Garret |
| 26 Men | 1958 | TV Series | John Denning |
| Judge Roy Bean | 1956 | TV Series | Duke Castle / Storts / Harbon, Bank Cashier / ... |
| Lash of the West | 1953 | TV Series | Lash LaRue |
| The Frontier Phantom | 1952 | | Marshal Lash La Rue / The Frontier Phantom |
| The Black Lash | 1952 | | U.S. Marshal Lash LaRue |
| The Vanishing Outpost | 1951 | | U. S. Marshal Lash LaRue |
| The Thundering Trail | 1951 | | Marshal Lash LaRue |
| King of the Bullwhip | 1950 | | Marshal Lash LaRue |
| The Daltons' Women | 1950 | | Marshal Lash LaRue |
| Son of a Badman | 1949 | | Marshal Lash La Rue |
| Son of Billy the Kid | 1949 | | Jack Garrett |
| Outlaw Country | 1949 | | Marshal Lash La Rue The Frontier Phantom |
| Frontier Revenge | 1948 | | Lash La Rue |
| Mark of the Lash | 1948 | | U.S. Marshal Lash LaRue |
| Dead Man's Gold | 1948 | | Lash LaRue |
| The Enchanted Valley | 1948 | | Pretty Boy |
| Cheyenne Takes Over | 1947 | | Cheyenne Davis (as 'Lash' La Rue) |
| The Fighting Vigilantes | 1947 | | Marshal Cheyenne Davis |
| Return of the Lash | 1947 | | Cheyenne Davis aka The Cheyenne Kid |
| Stage to Mesa City | 1947 | | Marshal Cheyenne Davis (as 'Lash' La Rue) |
| Ghost Town Renegades | 1947 | | Marshal Cheyenne Davis (as 'Lash' LaRue) |
| Heartaches | 1947 | | DeLong aka Trigger Malone (as Al LaRue) |
| Pioneer Justice | 1947 | | Marshal Cheyenne Davis |
| Border Feud | 1947 | | Cheyenne Davis (as Al 'Lash' La Rue) |
| Law of the Lash | 1947 | | Cheyenne Davis (as Al 'Lash' La Rue) |
| Wild West | 1946 | | Stormy Day (as Al LaRue) |
| The Caravan Trail | 1946 | | Cherokee (as Al La Rue) |
| Song of Old Wyoming | 1945 | | The Cheyenne Kid (as Al La Rue) |
| Lady on a Train | 1945 | | Circus Club Waiter / Henchman (uncredited) |
| The Master Key | 1945 | | Migsy (Street Urchin) (as Alfred La Rue) |
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