Author Topic: So who's your favorite western actor? (Read 13464 times)

Oldshooter · « **Reply #60 on:** October 07, 2009, 01:14:20 PM »

Quote from: mcwoodduck on October 07, 2009, 12:37:55 PM

Does Blazing Saddles count as a Western?

SURE AND SLIM PICKENS AND HIS GANG EATING BEANS SHUDDA GOT AN ACADEMY AWARD!

teamnelson · « **Reply #61 on:** October 07, 2009, 01:29:43 PM »

Quote from: Swampman on October 07, 2009, 12:30:52 PM

Robert Duvall

+1 on that; Open Range, Lonesome Dove ... good work there. Also like Tom Selleck only in Westerns

Hodr · « **Reply #62 on:** October 07, 2009, 02:48:32 PM »

If you are talking western actors with outstanding military records add in Glen Ford. WWII pre-invasion landing Europe to leading Marines in Viet Nam. He almost drank himself into the French Foreign Legion while shooting a film. His trick in the cowboy movies of flipping a shot glass off the back of his hand was no stunt. He learned to do it with a standard issue 1911A1. Practice and muscle memory. Look up his biography. One ---- of an American.

blindhari

Sorry for the language, I get carried away when I talk about the real ones

billy_56081 · « **Reply #63 on:** October 07, 2009, 03:14:23 PM »

Watching Lonesome Dove right now, and I have to say Robert Duvall is the best western actor that is still living.

My favorite line is when that sheriff from Arkansas is in East Texas talking to that old hill billy. He asks "havin possum for supper are ya? and the old hill bily responds, "yeah but you aint unless you get one of your own". It cracks me up every time.

T/Chmr · « **Reply #64 on:** October 08, 2009, 05:03:08 AM »

In Lonesome Dove my fav line is...when Gus is laying on his death bed and asks about the piano player...."Is she a whore?" answer "yes" "Well give her $20.00 and tell'er to keep on playin'."

Drives my wife crazy, I have to turn up the TV everytime that comes around.

gstewart44 · « **Reply #65 on:** October 12, 2009, 08:45:47 AM »

My all time favorite would definitely have to be Robert Duvall, especially in Lonesome Dove.....Favorite quote is Gus to Lorie - " Well I wouldn't say I did and I wouldn't say I didn't but I will say this.... A man who wouldn't cheat for a poke don't want one bad enough"

His other great movie roles were in Joe Kidd, Broken Trail, Open Range, and a great dramatic and singing role in Tender Mercies (he really did the singing) - and as Uncle Hub in Secondhand Lions....Ok I know these two weren't classic westerns but they were both filmed in West Texas.

My other memorable actors are:
Sam Elliot
Richard Boone
James Arness in "How the West was Won"
William Sanderson in "Lonesome Dove" and "Deadwood"
Will Geer as Bear Claw in Jeremiah Johnson..... "you sure are cocky for a starvin' pilgrim"
Chief Dan George as Lone Wattie in Outlaw Josie Wales....."they stole my horse and made him surrender - they have him pulling a wagon down in Kansas I'll bet...."

Lastly Kudos to Val "I'm Your Huckleberry" Kilmer in Tombstone.......

Cabin4 · « **Reply #66 on:** October 12, 2009, 09:35:27 AM »

I don’t necessarily have a favorite western actor or actors. I do have favorite western movies and those movies happen to have some very good or excellent acting.

Wyatt Earp: Kevin Kostner
Unforgiven: Clint Eastwood
Appaloosa: Vigor Mortensen
The HBO Series Deadwood
Open Range: Kostner & I don’t know the other actor
The Quigley Series: Tom something or another
Shane:
The Outlaw Josey Wales
Jeremiah Johnson
3:10 to Yuma
Little Big Man

gstewart44 · « **Reply #67 on:** October 18, 2009, 04:46:53 PM »

I love the line Clint delivers in Outlaw Josie Wales when the Bounty Hunter comes looking for Josie.......

BH - Your a wanted man Wales

JW - I reckon I'm right popular. You a bounty hunter?

BH - A man's gotta do something for a living

JW - Dyin' ain't much of a livin' boy.

RB Rooson · « **Reply #68 on:** April 25, 2010, 03:58:26 AM »

Still Tom Selleck.....but Val Kilmer in Tombstone was an Academy Award performance! Will always be my definitive 'Doc Holliday'.

quickdtoo · « **Reply #69 on:** April 25, 2010, 05:27:48 AM »

John Wayne, of course!

Turn up the sound and enjoy.

Tim

http://www.greatdanepro.com/Western%20Stars/index.htm

http://oldfortyfives.com/thoseoldwesterns.htm

saddlebum · « **Reply #70 on:** April 25, 2010, 10:07:31 AM »

Since this subject got resurected I'll weigh in... John Wayne, like his movies from the 1930s best. Ben Johnson, was a real cowboy who started out in movies as a wrangler and stunt man. I have to mention Lee Marvin, "Montie Walsh" is a classic that can't be improved on as Tom Selleck has proven, although I do like all the Selleck movies except that one. It would be pretty tough to better that bronc ride in the original. Jimmy Stewart westerns are all classics with "Winchester 73" at the top of the list, or should it be "Rare Breed" with Maureen O'Hara,(what a woman, yikes), or the "Far Country". I'm not sure. I like all of Sam Elliot's westerns especially "Conagher" and "The Desperate Trail". Robert Duvall has become a favorite. Costner does a good western. Tommy Lee Jones, besides being good in the Dove, did one of my all time favorites, a movie called "Good Old Boys". It was a made for TV Ted Turner produced movie as I remember. Jones at his best,IMO. Another worthy mention here is Steve McQueen for "Tom Horn". History pretty much overlooked Tom Horn. As I look over this post, I seem to favor westerns that portray "cowboys" and other western types as having higher morals and values than the stereotypical movie types that spend all their time drunk in a whore house or facing off with some "dude" in a mythical quickdraw shootout. Something closer to real life. Making yet ANOTHER movie about Jessie James or Wyatt Earp or Bill Hickock is a waste as far as I'm concerned. There are some other great choices for favorite in the other posts that I like too. It's too bad there are not more actors that have the character of Wayne, Johnson, Stewart.

S_J_KENNELS · « **Reply #71 on:** May 12, 2010, 02:25:26 AM »

I am most likely the youngest of everybody that posted here, but I like my old westerns. In fact I got P.Oed when Direct TV took it off my package. Now I have DISH LOL. But back on topic. I have been a big John Wayne fan since I was a kid. So he would be my #1. After him my list would go not in any order as such:

Ben Johnson
Audie Murphy
Glen Ford
Jimmy Stewert
Randolph Scott
Sam Elliot
Robert Duvall
Lee Marvin
Gabby Hayes
Richard Boone
Charles Bronson
Clint Walker
Robert Mitchem
Gregery Peck
Dean Martin
Walter Brennan
Joel McCrea
ANd I am sure there are others I am forgetting. I never did care for Roy or Gene or many of the singing cowboys. Nor did I care for Clint's movies. Untill UNFORGIVEN. James Arness was good in GUNSMOKE but I did not like him in many of his other movies. I did not like him in his version on THE ALAMO. Now for women in westerns I have to say Maureen O'Hara.

Frank V · « **Reply #72 on:** June 20, 2010, 01:00:40 PM »

I may have missed the name, but I'd nominate Richard Farnsworth too. He's done a couple really good westerns. Robert Duvall rates right up there. Of course John, Tom S., Sam E. rate at the top. Of course Ben Johnson was a real cowboy & Slim Pickens.
Favorite term/saying "Rudy" "Well Rudy, you can't have no idea how little I care".
Guess where that came from?
Frank

Dee · « **Reply #73 on:** June 20, 2010, 03:47:00 PM »

The Keachs, and Carrideans done a good job in the Long Riders playing the James and Youngers. The guns, saddles, songs, clothes were all reasonably historically accurate, as well as the speech. Great movie. Duval although I enjoy him in westerns, seems unable to get away from being Gus in is movies after Lonesome Dove. Open range looked like reincarnation, as did the one where he and his nephew rescued the Chinese girls.

Sweetwater · « **Reply #74 on:** June 20, 2010, 07:43:45 PM »

Quote from: Frank V on June 20, 2010, 01:00:40 PM

I may have missed the name, but I'd nominate Richard Farnsworth too. He's done a couple really good westerns. Robert Duvall rates right up there. Of course John, Tom S., Sam E. rate at the top. Of course Ben Johnson was a real cowboy & Slim Pickens.
Favorite term/saying "Rudy" "Well Rudy, you can't have no idea how little I care".
Guess where that came from?
Frank

Believe that was from Tom Selleck to the Accountant stuck in the mud, just before he jumped his horse over the automobile - "Monte Walsh" - correct me if I'm wrong.

Sweetwater · « **Reply #75 on:** June 20, 2010, 07:48:49 PM »

Quote from: Dee on June 20, 2010, 03:47:00 PM

The Keachs, and Carrideans done a good job in the Long Riders playing the James and Youngers. The guns, saddles, songs, clothes were all reasonably historically accurate, as well as the speech. Great movie. Duval although I enjoy him in westerns, seems unable to get away from being Gus in is movies after Lonesome Dove. Open range looked like reincarnation, as did the one where he and his nephew rescued the Chinese girls.

Afraid you're right about Duval! Aye God!! Woodrow!! He was even Gus in Second Hand Lions!!

I had to face it; it is a great character! So, I gave Duval a little grace and enjoyed him... You are also right about the Keach's and Carrideans - what formidable actors, and as teams, who-hoo! They have teamed in various movies and I've loved all I've seen. Last Stand at Saber River is another Selleck great with the Carridean Team.

Frank V · « **Reply #76 on:** June 21, 2010, 12:57:33 PM »

Quote from: Sweetwater on June 20, 2010, 07:43:45 PM

Quote from: Frank V on June 20, 2010, 01:00:40 PM
I may have missed the name, but I'd nominate Richard Farnsworth too. He's done a couple really good westerns. Robert Duvall rates right up there. Of course John, Tom S., Sam E. rate at the top. Of course Ben Johnson was a real cowboy & Slim Pickens.
Favorite term/saying "Rudy" "Well Rudy, you can't have no idea how little I care".
Guess where that came from?
Frank

Believe that was from Tom Selleck to the Accountant stuck in the mud, just before he jumped his horse over the automobile - "Monte Walsh" - correct me if I'm wrong.

You are correct, he used it twice the 1st time after the fight with the train workers. Rudy was the enginers name. I've stolen that line on several occasions.

Frank

Frank V · « **Reply #77 on:** June 21, 2010, 01:00:22 PM »

Quote from: Sweetwater on June 20, 2010, 07:48:49 PM

Quote from: Dee on June 20, 2010, 03:47:00 PM
The Keachs, and Carrideans done a good job in the Long Riders playing the James and Youngers. The guns, saddles, songs, clothes were all reasonably historically accurate, as well as the speech. Great movie. Duval although I enjoy him in westerns, seems unable to get away from being Gus in is movies after Lonesome Dove. Open range looked like reincarnation, as did the one where he and his nephew rescued the Chinese girls.

Afraid you're right about Duval! Aye God!! Woodrow!! He was even Gus in Second Hand Lions!!

I had to face it; it is a great character! So, I gave Duval a little grace and enjoyed him... You are also right about the Keach's and Carrideans - what formidable actors, and as teams, who-hoo! They have teamed in various movies and I've loved all I've seen. Last Stand at Saber River is another Selleck great with the Carridean Team.

Second Hand Lions, that was a really great movie. I especially liked the biplane zooming the sleeping trooper in the opening!

Frank

ironfoot · « **Reply #78 on:** August 04, 2011, 05:09:25 PM »

Quote from: lightnin Rick on December 12, 2003, 02:56:51 PM

besides the Duke, Clint and Tom. I really like Sam Elliot and Bruce Dern. Even tho Bruce almost always played a bad guy He is one of the best actors around.

I never liked Bruce Dern much, because he usually played a wierd bad guy, and played it so well.
Then I saw him in Space.
He played an American engineer who raced through Germany at the end of WW II trying to round up German scientists.
When we beat the Russians to the Moon, his character gloated "Our Germans are better than their Germans."
I thought that was a great line.
It is fun when a "bad guy" actor gets to play a good guy part, and does it well.

Fingers McGee · « **Reply #79 on:** August 18, 2011, 02:53:57 PM »

Just to be different, Bud Spencer

Hodr · « **Reply #80 on:** August 18, 2011, 05:52:48 PM »

If you want a real westerner look up Yakima Canutt. Stunts in over 230 movies, acted in over 180, directed, wrote, and produced. His movies stunts ran the gamut from Stagecoach to Ben-hur. Joined with John Wanye and developed the camera angles to have a fist fight look realistic with no one hurt.

Hodr

kevinsmith5 · « **Reply #81 on:** December 01, 2011, 09:14:46 AM »

Of all time - John Wayne (if Big Jake is on my wife knows we're watching it, even though I have it on DVD).

Of the living still--- Eastwood....no Selleck....make that Duvall....or Elliott....

tony212 · « **Reply #82 on:** September 28, 2012, 05:37:00 AM »

Just a couple we forgot,
Warren Oats, William Holden and Ernest Bognine in The Wild Bunch
Nick Nolte in Extreme Prejudice... Kind of a western
Henry Fonda in My Darlin Clementine
Robert Redford in Jeramiah Johnson Also, kind of a western
Yul Brenner, Steve McQueen, Robert Vaugn, Charles Bronson, James Coburn and Eli Wallach in Magnificent Seven
Stewert Granger in The Wild North and King Solomon's Mines....Again not westerns but I had to mention them.

Cheyenne Ranger · « **Reply #83 on:** September 28, 2012, 07:06:57 AM »

Too many to choose from but John Wayne is right there at the top

cr

ironglow · « **Reply #84 on:** September 28, 2012, 07:38:10 AM »

Not generally a big fan of movies, but when forced to choose;
a) As a child..Wild Bill Elliott

b) As a young adult .. John Wayne

c) Today, Tom Selleck and Sam Elliott are great..but my nod (for realism)..goes to Robt Duvall..

dmd1911 · « **Reply #85 on:** October 02, 2012, 03:01:07 AM »

Clint Walker....James Coburn....John Wayne.....Robert Mitchum....I will cut TV off if I see Sammy Davis jr..Dean Martin with a cowboy hat

ironglow · « **Reply #86 on:** October 02, 2012, 04:13:27 AM »

Also..although i don't necessarily like his politics..Russell Means usually gives a fine performance in the parts he plays..
....e.g "Last of the Mohicans"..

Whoever that fellow was, who played the "bad Indian" called "Magwah" in that film, does a great job also..goes for other films too..

AtlLaw · « **Reply #87 on:** October 02, 2012, 05:21:17 AM »

Quote from: ironglow on October 02, 2012, 04:13:27 AM

Whoever that fellow who played the "bad Indian" called "Magwah" in that film, does a great job also..goes for other films also..

Wes Studi. Always liked him also...