Emmett Dalton

Emmett Dalton was born on May 03, 1871 in USA. Emmett Dalton's big-screen debut came with Beyond the Law directed by Theodore Marston in 1918, strarring Self. Emmett Dalton is known for Beyond the Law directed by Theodore Marston, Emmett Dalton stars as Self and Harris Gordon as Young Emmett Dalton. The upcoming new movie Emmett Dalton plays is When the Daltons Rode which will be released on Aug 23, 1940.

Emmett Dalton was the youngest of the three Dalton brothers, part of a bandit gang notorious for robbing trains and banks in the Midwest during the late 1890s (interestingly, the brothers started their life of crime with a failed attempt at breaking into the safe on a Southern Pacific Railroad train in 1891 near San Luis Obispo, California). Emmett was shot several times and nearly died in the gang's infamous--and, as it turned out, futile--attempt to rob two banks simultaneously on October 5, 1892, in his hometown of Coffeyville, Kansas. Sentenced to life in prison, he served almost 15 years before being pardoned in 1907, in part because while in prison he found religion and rehabilitated himself to the satisfaction of prison authorities. Upon his release he married his childhood sweetheart and set out to rehabilitate the world--at least what he perceived as the world's proclivity to elevate outlaws to the status of heroes. Eventually his message came to Hollywood, where he acted in and consulted on several films about the "Wild West", at least two of them about his own folly as an outlaw. He also wrote the book "When the Daltons Rode," which was the basis of the western film