 miniMo  | 13 Jan 2023 3:36 p.m. PST |
Who is your favorite actor or actress for playing gunfighters in movies?
I'll open the nominations with the Lees, hard call between these two for my fave: * Lee Van Cleef
* Lee Marvin Nominate just your persona favoritest please, let's not list everyone from IMdB/Wikipedia. Let those who don't join in the nominating wail about "Why wasn't so and so included?" |
| Fitzovich | 13 Jan 2023 3:53 p.m. PST |
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| GamesPoet | 13 Jan 2023 4:02 p.m. PST |
James Garner. Clint Eastwood. Paul Newman Robert Redford. |
| Deucey | 13 Jan 2023 4:18 p.m. PST |
John Wayne Sorry. I posted my entire list😇 |
| FusilierDan | 13 Jan 2023 4:32 p.m. PST |
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 Saber6  | 13 Jan 2023 4:38 p.m. PST |
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| William Warner | 13 Jan 2023 4:59 p.m. PST |
Jack Palance. He was one evil dude in Shane! |
| 14Bore | 13 Jan 2023 5:18 p.m. PST |
I love Westerns, hard to pick one.
If had to pick 1
John Wayne |
| Big Red | 13 Jan 2023 5:38 p.m. PST |
Robert Duval Robert Mitchum Steve McQueen
Glen Ford Jimmy Stewart |
| Cigar lover | 13 Jan 2023 5:46 p.m. PST |
Gary Cooper John Wayne Roy Rogers |
| Bunkermeister | 13 Jan 2023 6:13 p.m. PST |
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| SgtPhilco | 13 Jan 2023 6:22 p.m. PST |
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| microgeorge | 13 Jan 2023 6:29 p.m. PST |
Honorable mention for Val Kilmer in Tombstone. Only western he starred in but he nailed Doc Holliday. |
 piper909 | 13 Jan 2023 9:04 p.m. PST |
Some new ones, but these aren't from movies exactly, so maybe don't count? Pete Duel
Fess Parker
Stuart Whitman |
| piper909 | 13 Jan 2023 9:05 p.m. PST |
Cliff Robertson
Kurt Russell |
| Glengarry5 | 14 Jan 2023 1:32 a.m. PST |
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| BillyNM | 14 Jan 2023 4:42 a.m. PST |
Michael J Pollard in Dirty Little Billy. |
| Hey You | 14 Jan 2023 5:28 a.m. PST |
I would vote for most everyone above, but would add a few that I remember fondly. Dick Foran, Blazing Sixes
Warner Baxter, The Cisco Kid
Tom Mix, Destry Rides Again
William Boyd, Hop-Along Cassidy |
| mildbill | 14 Jan 2023 5:34 a.m. PST |
Clint, has saved the genre from irrelevance twice. |
| miniMo | 14 Jan 2023 5:54 a.m. PST |
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| robert piepenbrink | 14 Jan 2023 6:15 a.m. PST |
You know, it depends. If I had a little range war in the El Dorado country, John Wayne every time. He'd put together a team, and his team would win. But if I were dealing with a particular individual, and I needed one man to deal with him, I might wire Paladin, San Francisco, and send for Richard Boone. |
 Flashman14 | 14 Jan 2023 6:32 a.m. PST |
Eastwood is #1 but then there's: Terence Hill link Clayton Moore Antonio Banderas (Desperadoes) Gene Autry Charles Bronson James Arness Don Knotts Tim Conway Gene Hackman Robert Donner link If I don't put these in, I'll be mad that no one else did. |
| Shagnasty | 14 Jan 2023 7:28 a.m. PST |
Good Guy- Kurt Russell in "Tombstone." Bad Guy- Jack Palance in "Shane." |
| Red Jacket | 14 Jan 2023 7:36 a.m. PST |
John Wayne
Ward Bond
Clint Eastwood
Sam Elliott
Tom Selleck |
| Frederick | 14 Jan 2023 7:54 a.m. PST |
John Wayne and Clint Eastwood |
| ZULUPAUL | 14 Jan 2023 8:14 a.m. PST |
John Wayne
Clint Eastwood
Tom Selleck
Sam Elliot
James Arnes
Chuck Conners
I know the last two did mainly TV nut I had to include them. |
| Grattan54 | 14 Jan 2023 9:08 a.m. PST |
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| JMcCarroll | 14 Jan 2023 10:36 a.m. PST |
In order…
John Wayne and Clint Eastwood.
Without them it isn't really a cowboy movie to me.
Imagine a movie with both of them in it!!! |
| Raynman | 14 Jan 2023 4:24 p.m. PST |
All of the above! I enjoy all westerns! |
| Northern Rebel | 14 Jan 2023 4:52 p.m. PST |
Robert Mitchum
Ben Johnson |
 Parzival | 14 Jan 2023 5:56 p.m. PST |
All of ‘em. What's not to love? |
| Perris0707 | 14 Jan 2023 8:34 p.m. PST |
Clint Eastwood and Val Kilmer. Best Doc Holliday ever. |
| HansPeterB | 14 Jan 2023 10:26 p.m. PST |
Hank Fonda Clint Eastwood John Wayne Gene Hackman |
| OSCS74 | 15 Jan 2023 6:13 a.m. PST |
Leo Gordon– This guy was in many westerns and was usually the bad guy. Chances were good that he'd meet a violent end at the hands of the show's hero before the show was over. "Thank God for typecasting," he said in 1997 as he received the Golden Boot award for his western screen work. |
| wingnut | 15 Jan 2023 10:59 a.m. PST |
Gene Wilder & Cleavon Little (Blazing Saddles)
Bruce Campbell as honorable mention (TV's Brisco County JR) Wingnut |
| Tortorella | 15 Jan 2023 2:31 p.m. PST |
Clint Eastwood
Sam Elliot
Henry Fonda |
| thedrake | 16 Jan 2023 7:27 a.m. PST |
Besides Clint Eastwood: Audie Murphy
Randolph Scott
Tom Selleck |
| skedaddle | 17 Jan 2023 7:04 a.m. PST |
Robert Duval
Kevin Costner |
| citizen sade | 17 Jan 2023 7:41 a.m. PST |
The black hats are under-represented. Let's add Eli Wallach and Gian Maria Volonté to the mix. |
| Choctaw | 17 Jan 2023 11:05 a.m. PST |
Tom Selleck and Sam Elliot. |
| Martin Rapier | 17 Jan 2023 11:47 p.m. PST |
Clint Eastwood and Gary Cooper Eli Wallace had some good lines of course. |
| Joes Shop | 18 Jan 2023 5:53 a.m. PST |
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 etotheipi  | 18 Jan 2023 10:51 a.m. PST |
#1 Eli Wallach (Who is, BTW, the hero of tGtB&tU)
#2 Barbara Stanwyck
#3 Hideaki Ito |
| MiniatureWargaming dot com | 18 Jan 2023 12:21 p.m. PST |
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| Uesugi Kenshin | 19 Jan 2023 4:09 p.m. PST |
Val Kilmer by a Big-nosed Kate. |
| Pyrate Captain | 22 Nov 2023 5:43 p.m. PST |
Richard Boone…….couldn't resist. Happy Thanksgiving! |
| arthur1815 | 24 Nov 2023 3:41 a.m. PST |
James Stewart and Gary Cooper for heroes.
And you really can't discuss Westerns without mentioning that splendid town drunk/henchman/villain Jack Elam! |
| IronMarshal | 24 Nov 2023 7:31 a.m. PST |
Clint Eastwood and John Wayne, although the single best acting job may be Val Kilmer's Doc Holliday. The entire Tombstone cast was great and Tom Selleck and Sam Elliott make great western shooters too.
But it all starts with Eastwood and the Duke. The others stand on the shoulders of their greatness (paraphrasing Sir Isaac Newton). |
| 95th Division | 02 Dec 2023 8:41 a.m. PST |
Tough call, but I'd go with Clint Eastwood, James Arness, John Wayne and Henry Fonda. |
