Spook Ranch

{{short description|1925 film}}

{{Use American English|date=September 2021}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=September 2020}}

{{Infobox film

| name = Spook Ranch

| image = Spook ranch lobby card.jpg

| caption = Lobby card

| director = Edward Laemmle

| producer = Carl Laemmle

| writer = Raymond L. Schrock (story, scenario)
Edward Sedgwick (story)

| starring = Hoot Gibson

| cinematography = Harry Neumann

| distributor = Universal Pictures

| released = {{film date|1925|09|20}}

| runtime = 6 reels

| country = United States

| language = Silent
English intertitles

}}

Spook Ranch is a 1925 American silent Western film directed by Edward Laemmle (Carl Laemmle's nephew) and starring Hoot Gibson. It was produced and distributed by Universal Pictures.[http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=12362 The AFI Catalog of Feature Films: Spook Ranch] The film featured white actor Ed Cowles in blackface playing Hoot Gibson's black sidekick, George Washington Black.Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era. Midnight Marquee Press. p. 293. {{ISBN|978-1936168-68-2}}.

Universal Pictures founder Carl Laemmle persuaded his nephew Edward to enter the family business in 1915, after which he specialized mostly in directing westerns. Actress Helen Ferguson retired from acting in 1930 and became a Hollywood publicist. Hoot Gibson enjoyed a sensational career as a major Western star in the 1920s and early 1930s, but wound up dying penniless in 1962, from cancer.Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. p.293. {{ISBN|978-1936168-68-2}}.