Cowboy stars of the fourties and fifties. Your old if you know these?

Nevada Ed said:
The man in purple, back when I was a youngster and when we would go to the Red Bluff Rodeo in California, rode the horse named "War Paint" and he was know as Casey Tibbs.

Got to get to go back and see all the live stock and hands........even sit behind the shoots when we got older. !!
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Casey Tibbs aboard War Paint in the chute.

 
Wyatt Burp said:
My all time favorite is Luis Antonio Demaso de Alonzo (good luck, Ringo. I'm getting back at you for "Alan Walbridge"). And my second is Gordon Nance. BTW. de Alonzo sometimes used his entire real name as an alias in his series of films.

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Id forgotten about Gilbert Roland. He too is a favorite. BTW--just bought a two movie Wild Bill Eliott dvd set. Havent seen them yet but will start watching probaby on wednesday.


Since you like Gilbert Roland type westerns--you ought to try some of the Monogram Western sets.These usually have at least five westerns per set. Several Tim Holt and other sets are out--I only have two so far.

I only have one Wild Bill still--which is from: The Savage Horde....Shows him about to get into a gunfight.
 
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loeman said:
Hey, I'm old but I did not recognize a bunch of those names. I guess I wasn't a big enough fan. Thanks for putting together that list.

BTW, I still have my Hopalong Cassidy cap gun and holster, but it's pretty sorry looking now.
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Heh heh,quite welcome. Also, many are missing off the list but-_I havent had time to figure out who? Probably another fourty to fifty "B" western types--to say the minimum.

If Icould post images using my tablet?id have a field day with this thread.
 
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sceva said:
At least two of them came from the Great State of Ohio.

Leonard Franklin Slye. - AKA Roy Rogers
William Lawrence Boyd - AKA Hopalong Cassidy
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I think Gary Cooper is also from Iowa?Or somewhere in that neck of the woods.
 
Ah yes, the good old Saturday movies.

First was the Pathe News of the world.

Then there was the coming attractions.

Then a cartoon or two...Heckle and Jeckle were my favorites.


Then came the serials..

I liked the serials...made you come back each week to see the next episode. I can't remember the name of it, but John Wayne was in it,,,(His earlier days), There was a train, going over the end of a trestle, of course you had to come back next week to see who survived the wreck.

If it wasn't a serial, then it might be a Three Stooge's short.

Then you'd get to the movie.


Not bad for .10 worth of entertainment on a Saturday morning.

WuzzFuzz
 
Shorty 45 MK2 said:
I recognized more than I thought I would! :D

Thanks for putting the list together. I was talking to a co worker and they didn't know who Roy Rogers was! :eek: I brought them a DVD with some of his movies. (of the many I own) as it was inconceivable that they could live the rest of their life not knowing who Roy Rogers was.
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Heh heh, welcome.Ive left off many more just had no time too organize.

Your co-worker should be tied at the ankles and dragged over a cactus patch for that artrocity.....:D If I had teaching credentials? id see about doing a class on Classic Movies. Id make sure those of today--would never forget the names of those like: Errol Flynn, John Wayne,James Cagney etc.
 
AH So Grasshopper....But some of the really good old time westerns, and other movies for that matter, was the silent movies...Now that was acting...:confused:.:confused:.:confused:

What's funny, is watching some of the old time silent movies, is seeing some of the stars that went on to movie stardom in the talkies.

I was just watching a Gary Cooper one the other day...He was a WW I flyer, that never came back of course....

See a old Walter Brennen (sp) and he had teeth.:eek: Or Andy Devine...when he was thin.:p


WuzzFuzz
 
model70hunter said:
I'll see those 2 years and raise ya 18 more years Kid. Ya gotta be careful when playing age poker with guys that came up the trail with Chisolm.

I remember most of them. Not all so I guess I'm just visiting old.
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Heh heh,im a Westerns fanatic. About fourteen years ago--I started working on a list of names of those who made at least appearances in Westerns--be they silent--Talkies--TV shows etc. I stopped when I found out someone else already did and published such a list.I was going to also list the names of every movie--show etc--they appeared in--westerns only--but my ardor was stomped when the lesser detailed list was published. There were several hundreds who fit into my catagories--many more than the published list has.
 
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WuzzFuzz said:
Ah yes, the good old Saturday movies.

First was the Pathe News of the world.

Then there was the coming attractions.

Then a cartoon or two...Heckle and Jeckle were my favorites.


Then came the serials..

I liked the serials...made you come back each week to see the next episode. I can't remember the name of it, but John Wayne was in it,,,(His earlier days), There was a train, going over the end of a trestle, of course you had to come back next week to see who survived the wreck.

If it wasn't a serial, then it might be a Three Stooge's short.

Then you'd get to the movie.


Not bad for .10 worth of entertainment on a Saturday morning.

WuzzFuzz
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The serial was: The Hurricane Express. Duke also made two other serials:The Three Musketeers and one other-whose name I cant think of off-hand?

The Three Musketeers dealt with he making friends with three Foreign Legionnaires--and he was a pilot.They were after a bad guy by the name of El ****ain--whih is supposedly Arabic for:The Devil.
Ive got a few Serial lobby cards in the collection somewhere--which are infinitely more difficult to find.Some have Clayton Moore in them--and I think two have Ken Curtis in them?
 
WuzzFuzz said:
AH So Grasshopper....But some of the really good old time westerns, and other movies for that matter, was the silent movies...Now that was acting...:confused:.:confused:.:confused:

What's funny, is watching some of the old time silent movies, is seeing some of the stars that went on to movie stardom in the talkies.

I was just watching a Gary Cooper one the other day...He was a WW I flyer, that never came back of course....

See a old Walter Brennen (sp) and he had teeth.:eek: Or Andy Devine...when he was thin.:p


WuzzFuzz
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Gary Cooper got his start in silent Westerns--bit parts. One other I forgot--was: Slim Pickens--whose real name I cant think of off-hand. For silents--Douglas Fairbanks Sr--easily comes to mind.
 
Ben Johnson was another--who got his start as one of the worlds greatest Rodeo stars--then started in the fourties through the sixties and such.
 
Ok Ringo..Fill in the blanks. We know Andy Devine came from Kingman Arizona...But how did he get his high pitched voice?

Story I heard, way back when....He had stuck a coat hanger down his throat, and did the damage...??????


WuzzFuzz
 
WuzzFuzz said:
Ok Ringo..Fill in the blanks. We know Andy Devine came from Kingman Arizona...But how did he get his high pitched voice?

Story I heard, way back when....He had stuck a coat hanger down his throat, and did the damage...??????


WuzzFuzz
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I hadnt heard that one. One I heard for Slim Pickens was he was being interviewed for a job--and asked a question about his former line of work--and took the name from the reply. Something to do with the job having slim pickens for employment.
 
I've remember seeing some of them on TV & in movies but not all. Yeah, I'm old, 61 this Sunday.

My question is where are the actors like theses guys now? I'm sorry my kids didn't get to grow up in times like I did. :(
 
mstem said:
I've remember seeing some of them on TV & in movies but not all. Yeah, I'm old, 61 this Sunday.

My question is where are the actors like theses guys now? I'm sorry my kids didn't get to grow up in times like I did. :(
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All I can say is: Happy Birthday and--all those heroes live on DvD now.:(
 
saw most of the folks ,listed in the OP, on the big or little screens................along with a couple of films with tom mix and William s. hart.....
 
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