All your favorite cowboys

[Coldshooter]

This link is to a clip on all our favorite movie and television cowboys. At the end are a bunch of supporting actors also.
Those Old Westerns

 

[Thuer]

Thanks for sharing. Brings back memories.

 

[mball]

Good post. I have passed that on. Thanks

 

[sheepdawg]

No doubt as to who the greatest one was.

 

[Smith357]

No doubt as to who the greatest one was.

I fixed it for you. Not only could Jimmy Stewart play the tough guy, he was a pretty good at playing the sensitive type. Plus he was a bona fide war hero.

 

[BaldEagle1313]

I was surprised to not see Tex Ritter in there.

I wandered around the home website for a bit - there are a BUNCH of short films there that I think members of this board would enjoy. I won't hijack the thread to post a link - you can get there following the link given by the OP.

 

[brucev]

Randolph Scott.

 

[glowe]

Thanks for posting.

OK now I have to watch the classic Gary Cooper movie - High Noon. A truly great western.

 

[Mickey D]

Excellent! So many forgotten heros of yesteryear.
Thanks for posting!

 

[Out West]

My favorite cowboy is my Uncle Pope. But, he was a real cowboy, lawman and rancher (Fort Union ranch, NM).

He never made a movie. But if he had, they would need bigger screens to show them on.

Out
West

 

[sheepdawg]

I fixed it for you. Not only could Jimmy Stewart play the tough guy, he was a pretty good at playing the sensitive type. Plus he was a bona fide war hero.

I fixed it back. As good an actor as Jimmy Stewart was he will always be remembered for talking to a 6 foot tall imaginary rabbit and being talked out of suicide by his guardian angel.

Watch the last five minutes of The Searchers, if that doesn't convince you who the greatest movie cowboy was you're not a red blooded, flag waving, American.

Sorry I just noticed that you were a Marine, you are a red blooded, flag waving American, just wrong about cowboys.

 

[4-Screw]

Ben Johnson, Alan Ladd, Clint Eastwood....my list

 

[Old 44 Guy]

Gosh, This brought back the memories. I love cowboy movies. Good character actors also. Leo Carrillo was one of the best. Gabby Hayes also. Slim Pickens too.

 

[BaldEagle1313]

I was surprised to see Dean Jagger on so many of the movie posters. I didn't realize he'd been in so many westerns. I remember him as General Waverly in White Christmas.

 

[Stu Honea]

Always an Audie Murphy fan as a kid. He always seemed to have Dan Duryea(sp?) as his evil nemesis.
Ben Johnson was one of the best in anything he was in.
The Duke will always be the king of westerns, though.
Claude Akins was my second cousin.His mother,Maude, was a Howell before she married.There were Honea-Howell reunions for years.Claude's wife was a knockout,drop dead gorgeous brunette. His dad was a Chicago cop for 20 years,before he returned to Georgia.
Thanks for posting.Great memories.

 

[oldman45]

Guys, we are the last of our kind.

Try asking some young person today about Roy Rogers, Lash LaRue or any of the old time stars.

A friend of mine collects autographed photos of all the old western stars of what he calls a better time in life. He is an attorney but there are no diplomas or awards on his office walls, only photos of the western stars of days gone by. People come in his office and ask if those in the photos are related to him or else who the people are.

Consider that a person 32 yrs old now was not even born when John Wayne died. The only exposure to John Wayne has been through old time reruns.

The actors of our age are passing away fast. We have memories of them but our children and grandchildren do not. The same thing is going on with the singers of our time.

 

[Qball]

I was surprised to not see Tex Ritter in there.

You find lots of info here on thouse B-western heroes.

The Old Corral at b-westerns.com

 

[brucev]

"Watch the last five minutes of The Searchers..." You'll get no argument from me on this point. I well remember the first time I ever saw The Searchers. It was shown on WGN out of Chicago on a Sunday afternoon. I found the scene deeply affecting. Now years later, it is still just as effective. I have found it to be a very effective illustration to use in sermons and Bible studies.

 

[David LaPell]

My favorite cowboy, hell that's easy, its Elmer Keith. He grew up in the times, and after his injury as a kid where his left hand was burned to the point it was backwards and they had to rebreak it and fix it, and all the doctors wrote him off. He became a cowboy, a guide, a hunter, and of course all the rest when it came to guns. Elmer was the real deal.

For the movies though, there will never be another John Wayne.

 

[sheepdawg]

"Watch the last five minutes of The Searchers..." You'll get no argument from me on this point. I well remember the first time I ever saw The Searchers. It was shown on WGN out of Chicago on a Sunday afternoon. I found the scene deeply affecting. Now years later, it is still just as effective. I have found it to be a very effective illustration to use in sermons and Bible studies.

Just something about The Duke in that doorway, loved ones back at home, mission accomplished, the Sons of the Pioneers singing, and he turns around, all alone and walks away. It always chokes me up, and the walk, the famous John Wayne walk, how he didn't win an Oscar for that role is beyond me.

The Searchers - Ending Scene - YouTube