Birth name-- Kirby Grant Hoon

Kirby Grant was a child prodigy on the violin. He formed his own dance orchestra when he was in his twenties. He appeared in many "B" movies under the name of Kirby Grant or in some of the earlier movies as Robert Stanton.

1. I Dream Too Much (1935) ....Violinist-Quartet Singer
2. Lawless Valley (1938)
3. Red River Range (1938) ....Tex Reilly
4. Three Sons (1939) ....Bert Pardway
5. Bullet Code (1940) (as Robert Stanton)....Bud Mathews
6. The Marines Fly High ....Lieutenant Hobbs(1940)
7. Blonde Goes Latin (1941) ....Hal Trent
8. Hello Frisco Hello (1942)
9. My Favorite Blonde (1942) ....Pilot
10. The Stranger from Pecos (1942)
11. Dr Kildare's Victory (1942) ....Boy
    ...aka The Doctor and the Debutante
12. Bombardier (1943) ....Pilot
13. Hi Good Lookin' Babes (1944) ....King Castle
14. On Swing Street (1944)
15. Ghost Catchers (1944) ....Clay
16. Destination Tokyo (1944) ....Captain
17. In Society (1944) ....Peter Evans
18. Trail To Vegeance (1945) ....Jeff
19. I'll Remember April (1945) ....Dave Ball
20. Penthouse Rhythm (1945) ....Dick
21. Bad Men of the Border (1945)
22. Code of the Lawless (1945)
23. Easy to Look At (1945) ....Tyler
24. Blondie's Lucky Day (1945) ....Johnny
25. Spider Woman Strikes Back (1946) ....Hal Wentley
26. She Wrote the Book (1946) ....Eddie Caldwell
27. Gun Town (1946)
28. Gunman's Code (1946)
29. The Lawless Breed (1946)
30. Rustler's Roundup (1946) ....Bob Ryan
31. Song of Idaho (1948)
32. Black Midnight (1949) ....Sheriff Gilbert
33. Feudin' Rhythm (1949)
34. Trail of the Yukon (1949)
35. Wolf Hunters (1949)
36. Snow Dog (1950) ....Rod
37. Indian Territory (1950) ....Lt. Randolph Mason
38. Call of the Klondike (1950) ....Rod
39. Comin' Round the Mountain (1951) ....Clark Winfield
40. The Celebrated Jumping Frog (TV) (1951)
41. Rhythm Inn (1951)
42. Yukon Manhunt (1951)
43. Northwest Territory (1951)
44. Yukon Gold (1952)
45. Cavalcade of America (TV) (1953)
46. Yukon Vengeance (1954)
47. The Court Martial of Billy Mitchell (1955)

72 episodes of the Sky King series were filmed (18 under sponsorship of Derby Foods-a subsidiary of Swift prior to 1955) and the rest filmed with Nabisco as sponsor between 1955 and 1962.