Trivia

His horse was named Raven.

Although most of his films are lost, 20 have been discovered in private collections and archives.

Following his death, he was interred at Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.

Born to Mormon parents in Glenwood, Utah.

As a young man, he worked as a cowboy and ranch hand, and later won the Steer Bulldogging world championship in 1912 and repeated as champion in 1916, defeating challenger and friend Hoot Gibson.

Enlisted in the United States Army in World War I and served overseas. He was awarded the Croix de Guerre by the French for bravery. He returned to films after the war ended.

He was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1709 Vine Street in Hollywood, California on February 8, 1960.

Started in the motion picture business in 1909 as a stuntman in Westerns.

Profiled in "Eighty Silent Film Stars: Biographies and Filmographies of the Obscure to the Well Known (2 Volume Set)" by George A. Katchmer (2012).

Although Mexican police officially listed his death as a suicide, many of his friends over the years insisted that he had been murdered by a Mexican politician who had caught Acord having an affair with his wife.

Worked with the Dick Stanley Wild West Show in 1919 and with Buffalo Bill Cody in 1911.