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Oct 13, 2014 · In part I, we will discuss the actors who were real cowboys or who were excellent horsemen when they started acting. In part 2, we’ll address stars who became quite good riders after they started their cowboy careers.
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Apr 7, 2018 · First movie cowgirl, nicknamed "The Queen of the West", starred in dozens of short silent movies from 1918 to 1921. Born: 1884, January 12 → Died: 1933, November 5 → Age: 49 y 9 m 24 d .
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Before the Academy Awards and his career as a director, Clint Eastwood was an up-and-coming actor who got his start in Spaghetti Westerns. Eastwood made his bones as The Man With No Name in Sergio Leone’s Dollars trilogy. Consisting of the films A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, and The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, Eastwood’s character ...
Tough guy actor Charles Bronson steals the spotlight in Sergio Leon’s epic Once Upon a Time in the West. The plot is simple: a mysterious stranger who plays the harmonica(Bronson) teams up with a bandit (Jason Robards) to protect a beautiful widow (Claudia Cardinale) from a ruthless assassin (Henry Fonda, playing against type). The film is incredib...
There are many portrayals of Wyatt Earp in cinematic history, but it’s hard to go past Kurt Russell’s take on the almost mythic figure. The American lawman and gambler was one of the most famous men in the West and his exploits only helped inflate people’s perception of him. The Western Tombstonefocuses on a short period of Earp’s life when he clas...
Three actors have played Rooster Cogburn over the years, with the best being Jeff Bridges in the 2010 remake of True Grit. A tough and uncompromising cowboy and Deputy U.S. Marshall, Cogburn is hired by 14-year-old farm girl Mattie Ross to track down Tom Chaney, the man who killed her father. The one-eyed Cogburn and Ross are joined by a Texas Rang...
When it comes to classic Westerns they don’t get much better than Shane. The titular character is a mysterious drifter who finds work helping a rancher and his family on the plains of the Wyoming Territory in 1889. When cattle baron Rufus Ryker hires men to force the settlers from their land, Shane (Allan Ladd), who turns out to be a skilled marksm...
John Wayne played plenty of cowboys during his time in the movie business, but none were as complex as Ethan Edwards. In the movie The Searchers, Edwards returns home from fighting in the Civil War and the Mexican revolutionary war to live with his brother. When Comanches attack, killing his brother’s family and abducting his niece Debbie, Edwards ...
The real-life leader of the famed Wild Bunch, Butch Cassidy was played by Paul Newman in the award-winning film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Cassidy and his best buddy the Sundance Kid (Robert Redford) are on the run after a botched train robbery, fleeing to Bolivia to escape the law. Although not entirely historically accurate, Butch Cassid...
One of the great actors of the 50s, William Holden starred in several successful movies about the Wild West, but none as impacting as Sam Peckinpah’s The Wild Bunch. The movie concerns a group of outlaws struggling to deal with the changing times looking for one last score so they can retire in peace. Holden is in fine form as the aging Pike Bishop...
When it comes to famous Western characters, The Magnificent Sevenoffers up, you guessed it, seven fantastic individuals worth mentioning. While both Steve McQueen’s Vin Tanner and James Coburn’s Britt are eye-catching, it’s hard to go past Yul Brynner as gunslinger Chris Adams. In the film, Adams and his rag-tag group of misfits are hired to defend...
Quentin Tarantino’s take on the Western genre is a violent, dialogue-heavy, revisionist tribute to the Spaghetti Western era of moviemaking. Jamie Foxx is Django Freeman, a former slave who is rescued and trained by bounty hunter Dr. King Schultz (Christopher Waltz). Their mission is to track down the Brittle brothers, and in the process, find Djan...
Mar 18, 2021 · Today, according to Film Site, historians may be interested to know the film was inspired by a robbery by outlaw Butch Cassidy and his gang at Wilcox, Wyoming in 1899. The film also generated America's "first cowboy star," Gilbert "Broncho Billy" Anderson, who portrayed three different characters.
The producers of this movie wanted him to change his name. He then got a list with 20 names on it and 24 hours time to choose one of these names. He decided to take Terence Hill cause he liked it the most and it has the same initials as his mother's name (Hildegard Thieme).
Mar 4, 2021 · Before superheroes, Hollywood celebrated the mythic figure of the gunslinging cowboy. From The Man with No Name to Django, here are cinema's best.
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May 19, 2018 · John Wayne. Known as ‘The Duke’, John Wayne is often the first name that comes to mind when people are thinking about cowboys from the movies. He is often used as a marker by which other...
