Favorite Cowboy Actors?

[Lost Cause]

I'm watching "Conagher" on TNT now, and just watched the new movie, "Monte Walsh". Both are excellent movies about better times when a man was as good as his word, and a simple job was an honorable one.

I was wondering what's your favorite Western actor, and/or your favorite old west movie?

 

[Spinaroonie]

Cowboy Curtis.

 

[Johnny Mayberry]

Is it my imagination, is it the beer, or did you include Tom Selleck...AND COMPLETELY LEAVE OUT CLINT EASTWOOD?!?!?!?!

Are you from Canada or something?

 

[His_kitty]

John Wayne hands down



But I so wanna sex up Sam Elliot!

 

[HeavyStick]

Cleavon Little in Blazing Saddles

 

[Raina]

Is it my imagination, is it the beer, or did you include Tom Selleck...AND COMPLETELY LEAVE OUT CLINT EASTWOOD?!?!?!?!

Are you from Canada or something?

Exactly!

Do I think Clint Eastwood rocks? Yup, I reckon so.

 

[Lost Cause]

That's why I have, "other"...

I'm just trying to get a take on people's preferences. I could have had a huge list with Kurt Russell and Val Kilmer in "Tombstone." I could also include, Randolph Scott, Tom Mix, Gene Autry, Roy Rogers, and Yul Brenner. Clint rules in his "Italian Westerns."

My movies:
The Unforgiven
You Know My Name
Quigley Down Under
Tombstone
etc...

 

[Johnny Mayberry]

Ok, no harm done...and I dug Val Kilmer in Tombstone! Not really a 'coyboy' role, so much as just a general twisted smartass, which reminds me of me. Clint is my personal favorite, because he is the least 'shiny' of the big-name coyboys. He is weathered-looking, usually bitter, ad has a stare that looks like it has seen 2-week solo journeys across a desert.

 

[Raina]

Okay, favorites:

The Outlaw Josie Wales
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
Tombstone


Shanghai Noon. (Because I adore Jackie Chan, and Owen Wilson is a riot.)

 

[Johnny Mayberry]

How do you adore Jackie Chan? He's like a crackbaby raised by monkeys, then fed large doses of sugar and meth...oh, wait, I think I understand completely!!!

Faves:
Pale Rider
Unforgiven
Tombstone
Silverado(which has got to be the most star-studded western of all time...even the extras are famous now!)

 

[Lost Cause]

"To your feet mam, (Clint takes a drink) They're almost as big as your mouth."

From "High Plains Drifter."

 

[Spinaroonie]

Cowboy Curtis needs more love.

 

[Ishmael]

Where the hell is Lash LaRue, or Hoppalong Cassidy, or the Cisco Kid?

What about Tom Mix?

James Stewart and even Henry Fonda.

And what about Steve McQueen?

Ever see Marlon Brando in "One Eyed Jacks" or "Missouri Breaks?"

So many. But only Tom Mix was a real cowboy. The rest were actors.

Ishmael

 

[Lost Cause]

Blazing Saddles...

One of my faves...

(holding a gun to his own neck)
SHERIFF BART: (in a deep voice) Hold it. That next man makes a move, the nigger gets it.
OLSON JOHNSON: Hold it men. He's NOT bluffing.
DR. SAMUEL JOHNSON: Listen to him men. He's just crazy enough to do it.
SHERIFF BART: (in a deep voice) Drop it or I swear 'll blow this nigger's head all over this town.
SHERIFF BART: (in a high voice) Oh lordy lord! He's desperate. Do what he say! Do what he say!

 

[HeavyStick]

So many. But only Tom Mix was a real cowboy. The rest were actors.

Ishmael

How about Roy Rogers? was he a sell out

 

[Ishmael]

How about Roy Rogers? was he a sell out

LOL, he was a musician. Turn on your yahoo and I'll send you some of his early recordings with the "Sons of the Pioneers". But he did train Trigger. That's a fact.

Ishmael

 

[Lost Cause]

Both my grandpas......

On my dad's side, my grandpa was in the cavalry in the late 1800's/early 1900's. On my mom's side, my grandpa grew up in the late 1800's/early 1900's on the plains. My great grandpa used to entertain the James gang on his property when they were cooling off. I grew up on these stories, and there's a book out about the, "XXXXX Gang." So my genes have good company.

 

[Ishmael]

How about Roy Rogers? was he a sell out

PS Born Leonard Slye in Ohio. Moved to Los Angeles in the 1930. He was 20 years old.

Ishmael

 

[alwaysawake]

Clint and John are great...but I always liked the distinctive drawl of Slim Pickens as a backup actor in Blazing Saddles and Pat Garrett and Billy The Kid.

 

[Johnny Mayberry]

Am I allowed to not like John Wayne? I always thought he was too damned ...loud? I never liked him as a cowboy, although I knew enough sergeants like him to buy him as a Marine.

 

[Spinaroonie]

COWBOY FUCKING CURTIS

 

[christophe]

clint eastwood

 

[christophe]

.

 

[Lost Cause]

Okay Spin, I'll bite...

Whodefuck is Cowboy Curtis?

 

[Johnny Mayberry]

COWBOY FUCKING CURTIS

Swear to God, dude...I'm gonna hunt down that Cowboy Curtis, rip off his arm, beat you to death with it, and leave you on your mother's lawn with his arm crammed up your ass...

...or, I might just ask you to stop, one or the other.