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A scruffy-looking, often bearded bit player in numerous low-budget Westerns of the 1930s, Archie Ricks had played supporting roles and functioned as an assistant director to the likes of Benjamin F. Wilson and Jack Nelson in the 1920s, where he even solo-directed an obscure Dick Hatton oater, In Bronco Land (1926). After the advent of sound, Ricks turned to acting full-time, and although rarely billed, appeared among the henchmen and stage drivers in approximately 50 Westerns until his retirement in the early '40s.