Also ranks #7 on The Best CBS Dramas of All Time The Best Gunsmoke ActorsSee all 1James Arness 147 Votes 2Ken Curtis 146 Votes 3Amanda Blake 128 Votes 2 The Rifleman Chuck Connors, Johnny Crawford, Paul Fix 2,893 votes Is The Rifleman Watchworthy? He's a widower, a rancher, and ...
tells the story of three out-of-work silent film actors who inadvertently become embroiled in a real-life Mexican village's battle against a dangerous bandit. With its laugh-out-loud humor, memorable catchphrases, and eccentric characters, ¡Three Amigos! is a lighthearted addition to the 8...
"Lucky" marks one of the final roles of Harry Dean Stanton, a prolific character actor who had roles in everything from "Cool Hand Luke" to "The Avengers." In this slow-moving drama, he plays an aging cowboy who's coming to terms with his own morality and wrestling with spiritual iss...
Director Harry Keller was trained up in his craft at Republic, the cradle of the B Western. So was producer Kay for that matter, so the locations are scenic, the action fast, and Duryea’s character is a bit more complex than usual—he sees this job as a welcome respite from his usua...
somewhat Camp in character. Yet there are still several (many?) Lone Ranger websites on the internet – well over 60 years after the masked man rode across our radios and our black and white TV screens. That tesifys that something is special. But what? Why? What was it about this guy...
Along with its many charms, it features a supporting cast of character actors such as Strother Martin, L.Q. Jones, Gene Evans, Slim Pickens, Kathleen Freeman, and others most in the final stages of their careers, all celebrating an individualistic and idiosyncratic way of life and movies tha...
The Modern West Directors Links here on Page Two, Part 1: Books About Cowboy Stars & Actors Cowboy Stars & Actors, A-F on Page Two, Part 2: top of page Cowboy Stars & Actors, G-Z on Page Three: Selected Western Movies, to 1960 on Page Four: Selected Western Movies, from...
Paul Newman Rejected Dirty Harry Before Suggesting Clint Eastwood For The Role Dirty Harrywent through many production challenges before it was actually made, and one of those included casting the iconic detective. In the film's early stages, the role was offered to actors such as John Wayne, ...
and a bevy of recognizable character actors (Jeff Bridges, Sam Waterston, Geoffrey Lewis) and future stars (Mickey Rourke). The movie focuses on a love triangle between a marshal (Kris Kristofferson), a gunman (Christopher Walken) and a whore (Isabelle Huppert), while a highly charged conflict...
Iconic cowboys such as these made Westerns the dominant genre on television in the 1950s and 1960s. The beloved actors behind the roles — Chuck Connors, James Arness, Richard Boone and Ken Curtis, respectively, in this case — are forever associated with these characters. After all, they ...