Widder, SASS #59054 7,863 Posted July 8, 2013 Share Posted July 8, 2013 I've met a few of them over the years... all but one of them was a true Gentleman... one was a AH. Roy and Dale use to come to my town when visiting their daughter. They were a big hit in little town. Jame Arness live in the apartment next to some of my dad's friends. He was neat to meet........... really a Big Man! Buck Taylor is as friendly and as Gentlemanly as can be... Buck even gave me nice autographed poster from Gun Smoke! However, if I could sit and talk with any cowboy star, it would be with the Original one.... William S Hart. Even though he was from NYC, he spent his formative years in Missouri when the stuff that Western Movies are made about was actually happening. I think that his silent movies reflected a good deal of that, and are, in fact, the best window to the past that we have today. Snakebite Snakebite: This is more of a question but its gona sound like a statement. Anyhow, if my memory serves me right, at the end of the movie 'Tombstone', didn't the narrator say something about William S. Hart being a pall barrer for Wyatt Earp? After reading your post, I would also think a feller like that could sure share some great stories. ..........Widder Link to post Share on other sites
Rio Brazos Kid 38 Posted July 8, 2013 Share Posted July 8, 2013 Deceased: John Wayne and Ben Johnson Living: Tom Selleck and Sam Elliott +1 All great Cowboys RBK Link to post Share on other sites
Crash 0 Posted July 22, 2013 Share Posted July 22, 2013 Some one that performed with most of the great actors listed ..so he knew all of their stories.....Walter Brenhan Crash Link to post Share on other sites
Larsen E. Pettifogger, SASS #32933 1,435 Posted July 22, 2013 Share Posted July 22, 2013 Walter Brenhan Crash? Never heard of him. Must have been an uncredited bit part actor. Link to post Share on other sites
Capt. R. Hugh Kidnme 1,228 Posted July 22, 2013 Share Posted July 22, 2013 Sam Elliot, then Tom Selleck , Link to post Share on other sites
Crash 0 Posted July 22, 2013 Share Posted July 22, 2013 I spelled his name wrong... Walter Brennan...played Stumpy the deputy on Rio Bravo, walked with a limp . Crash Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Winchester Jack, SASS #70195 Posted July 22, 2013 Share Posted July 22, 2013 John Wayne (He cussed me out once) Link to post Share on other sites
Larsen E. Pettifogger, SASS #32933 1,435 Posted July 23, 2013 Share Posted July 23, 2013 I spelled his name wrong... Walter Brennan...played Stumpy the deputy on Rio Bravo, walked with a limp . Crash One of only three actors to win three Oscars. Link to post Share on other sites
SouthGA Gent 0 Posted July 23, 2013 Share Posted July 23, 2013 Farnsworth was an excellent call. Link to post Share on other sites
Oklahoma Dee 209 Posted July 23, 2013 Share Posted July 23, 2013 Ben Johnson. Not only was he a good cowboy actor, but he had been a cowboy stuntman and had his own horse ranch. A REAL COWBOY. I agree, out of Oklahoma he is!!! Link to post Share on other sites
Swiss Kid, SASS #54030 49 Posted July 23, 2013 Share Posted July 23, 2013 Charles Bronson Link to post Share on other sites
SGT. QUINCANNON, SASS #32999 45 Posted July 23, 2013 Share Posted July 23, 2013 Ben Johnson. Not only was he a good cowboy actor, but he had been a cowboy stuntman and had his own horse ranch. A REAL COWBOY. There it is!!! Link to post Share on other sites
royal barnes sass #5792 1 Posted July 23, 2013 Share Posted July 23, 2013 Dub Taylor. I'd like to hear all his stories and listen to him laugh. Link to post Share on other sites
Manatee 11 Posted July 23, 2013 Share Posted July 23, 2013 Steve Mcqueen. Next up would be Tom Selleck. Damn. My sentiments exactly. Link to post Share on other sites
Buggy Creek Bob 0 Posted July 23, 2013 Share Posted July 23, 2013 Robert Duval, Sam Elliot, dice I can't have a brew with John Wayne or James Arness Link to post Share on other sites
Cpt Dan Blodgett, SASS #75655 15 Posted July 23, 2013 Share Posted July 23, 2013 Dead would be: Duke, Steve McQueen Burt Lancaster and Wallace Berry Living Sam Elliot, Clint and Tom Selleck and of course Elvis, who is alive and in witness protection. Link to post Share on other sites
Cpt Dan Blodgett, SASS #75655 15 Posted July 23, 2013 Share Posted July 23, 2013 Farnsworth was an excellent call. Actually met him and said hello in the ticket line of Flying J Wranglers dinner show in Ruidoso. When I was shooting high power in Capitan would go down the road a few miles park and look at his long horns Link to post Share on other sites
Frenchy Cannuck 0 Posted July 24, 2013 Share Posted July 24, 2013 What the Hey! Let's have a partty and invite em all! Especially Tom Selleck, Sam Elliot, Clint Eastwood, Robert Duval and John Wayne. Frenchy Link to post Share on other sites
Possum Skinner, SASS#60697 237 Posted July 24, 2013 Share Posted July 24, 2013 I'd 1000 times rather get to see my Grandpa again than meet any actor that ever lived. Link to post Share on other sites
Hoss 1,247 Posted July 24, 2013 Share Posted July 24, 2013 how about Claudia Cardinale...... Link to post Share on other sites
Cpt Dan Blodgett, SASS #75655 15 Posted July 24, 2013 Share Posted July 24, 2013 No kidding still hate the black blur Link to post Share on other sites
Attica Jack #23953 233 Posted July 24, 2013 Share Posted July 24, 2013 I met Tom Selleck at the Old Tiger stadium years ago, he was making a movie there. He is a nice guy, and could hit a baseball. He hit several out of the field. Link to post Share on other sites
Larsen E. Pettifogger, SASS #32933 1,435 Posted July 24, 2013 Share Posted July 24, 2013 If I could meet one "cowboy actor?" In other words someone who is not a cowboy, but an actor pretending to be a cowboy. Many Hollywood actors are drunk, druggy, liberals and I have no desire to meet these. There are many actors I would enjoy meeting, but not necessarily because they have "played" a cowboy. If I could meet someone from the old west it would be Wild Bill Hickok or John Wesley Hardin not some Hollywood type. Link to post Share on other sites
Dirt Merchant # 61422 8 Posted July 24, 2013 Share Posted July 24, 2013 Lots of really good names here. I spent my youth in So. Cal and my dad's good friend was Rory Calhoun, got to see him and some of his friends a lot. But LEE MARVIN would be my choice for this thread. Link to post Share on other sites
Flat Water Bob 2 Posted July 24, 2013 Share Posted July 24, 2013 I'd like to meet almost anyone who played in DEADWOOD. Hell, I'd event like to meet Woo.... Loved all three seasons! Got to meet Andy Devine when I was about 10 years old. Living in Nebraska...someone banging on the back door...went to see and there stood Jingles! He wanted to hunt pheasants on our property. Well, hell yes. I was probably wearing a cap gun at the time. What a thrill! Link to post Share on other sites
Frenchy Cannuck 0 Posted July 24, 2013 Share Posted July 24, 2013 how about Claudia Cardinale...... Raquel Welsh! Frenchy Link to post Share on other sites
Red Cent 453 Posted July 24, 2013 Share Posted July 24, 2013 The reason I chose Ben Johnson was for his ridng abilities and I like his personna. Actually, I don't thimk he had a personna. I would bet he was like that all the time. I do not ride but I am a critic and an admirer of accomplished riders. Slim Pickens can set a horse. Watching movies I have to laugh at horse races for they do not always let the horse stretch it out. However, Ben sets his saddle like a rocking chair and neever seems to tense up at full throttle. On the other hand there is a connaisseur of horse flesh that can ride very well but he seems so rigid. His arms are always horizontal out in his front and his hands are almost touching. LOOKS VERY UNCOMFORTABLE. Link to post Share on other sites
Hoss 1,247 Posted July 24, 2013 Share Posted July 24, 2013 Back in my younger years I spent a lot of time horseback, we raised appaloosa horses, I showed them, gamed on them, roped on them, and even did a little cutting on them. I am usually pretty critical of horesmanship in the movies. Slim Pickens is a horseman, as is Ben Johnson. . Clint Eastwood is good, Robert Duvall is good. John Wayne was a little stiff in the saddle. Most of the older actors took riding lessons, but of course there were a lot more westerns back in those days. What really cracks me up is seeing some of the indians "ride". The plains indians lived on horesback, they were much more in tune with their horses than the palefaces! Link to post Share on other sites
Jefro, SASS#69420 430 Posted July 24, 2013 Share Posted July 24, 2013 Randolph Scott is still my all time fav. Jefro Relax-Enjoy Link to post Share on other sites
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