Sawhorse Kid Posted August 14, 2016 Share Posted August 14, 2016 Who was the fastest gun in Hollywood? It has been said that Sammy Davis was 2nd to Jerry Lewis. I always thought that Glenn Ford was the fastest. So who is faster?.....Jerry or Glenn? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967 Posted August 14, 2016 Share Posted August 14, 2016 Dunno 'bout fast, but Sammy was handy... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Bullweed Posted August 14, 2016 Share Posted August 14, 2016 I have also heard Glenn Ford as the fastest. In the 1946 'Gilda' Mr. Ford is very in smacking a baddie before he can react. He also wore a sidegun like he could use it. I do not know who did the sidegun handling for Duke Wayne in the Singin' Sammie movies, but was very fast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rooster Ron Wayne Posted August 14, 2016 Share Posted August 14, 2016 Marshal Matt Dillon ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abilene Slim SASS 81783 Posted August 14, 2016 Share Posted August 14, 2016 Hopefully J-Bar will chime in and share a video of James Garner twirling his revolver on Maverick! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172 Posted August 14, 2016 Share Posted August 14, 2016 He (Jim Arness) got out drawn on each episode of GUNSMOKE. I believe it was Wyatt Earp that said, "Fast is good, but accurate is better". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Widder, SASS #59054 Posted August 14, 2016 Share Posted August 14, 2016 I've also heard Hugh O'Brian was among the fastest. Clint Eastwood was also rumored as a fast one. ..........Widder Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yul Lose Posted August 14, 2016 Share Posted August 14, 2016 Terence Hill was pretty fast on spaghetti westerns. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J-BAR #18287 Posted August 14, 2016 Share Posted August 14, 2016 Hopefully J-Bar will chime in and share a video of James Garner twirling his revolver on Maverick! I deleted that one a long time ago! I'll see if I can resurrect it somehow. If the thread is still going In a couple of days, there's a chance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rooster Ron Wayne Posted August 14, 2016 Share Posted August 14, 2016 Little Joe Cartwright was pritty darn fast :-) If not the fastest ? Defeinitely the fastest left handed quick draw :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tex Jones, SASS 2263 Posted August 14, 2016 Share Posted August 14, 2016 Clint Eastwood used to compete in fast draw contests years ago. Jerry Lewis was supposedly the fastest celebrity. Sammy Davis, who used to use a single action revolver in his night club act, was very fast as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rye Miles #13621 Posted August 14, 2016 Share Posted August 14, 2016 Arvo Ojala taught all of them!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utah Bob #35998 Posted August 14, 2016 Share Posted August 14, 2016 Little Joe Cartwright was pritty darn fast :-) If not the fastest ? Defeinitely the fastest left handed quick draw :-) Yeah. I've seen Michael Landon's work. He was very good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nasty Newt # 7365 Posted August 14, 2016 Share Posted August 14, 2016 Kelo Henderson, who was in the series 26 Men, was very fast and a slick gun handler. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J-BAR #18287 Posted August 14, 2016 Share Posted August 14, 2016 OK, this one is for Abilene Slim. I'll leave it up until the thread dies. James Garner as Bret Maverick schools some of the West's worst in gun handling. Trivia: The little guy on the right, playing Billy the Kid in this episode, is Joel Grey, actor and dancer and father of Jennifer Grey, who was in Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Dirty Dancing. and winner of the 2010 Dancing with the Stars. Val Kilmer could spin also, obviously. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i788oxI27sY Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Widder, SASS #59054 Posted August 14, 2016 Share Posted August 14, 2016 Sammy Davis Jr. was in a couple westerns, if I remember correctly. And, he played the part of a 'fast gun'. He was in atleast 1 episode of The Rifleman. And I think he was in 1 episode of another western, maybe Bonanza. AND, He might have been in an episode of The Wild Wild West. ..........Widder Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cat Brules Posted August 15, 2016 Share Posted August 15, 2016 Sammy Davis Jr and Ernest Borgnine were in a western called, "The Trackers" in the early 70's. Davis played deputy US Marshal. As I recall, it was a pretty good movie, too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackwater 53393 Posted August 15, 2016 Share Posted August 15, 2016 Bob Munden said that Jerry Lewis was, in fact, the fastest celebrity with a sixgun. Strange what talents some celebrities possess that you don't usually hear about. My dad said that he saw Jerry demonstrate his skill with a handgun back in the late '50s and that it was stunning how fast he was. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yellowhouse Sam # 25171 Posted August 15, 2016 Share Posted August 15, 2016 Not much of an actor but Thell Reed had to be somewhere at the top....if not at the top. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Widder, SASS #59054 Posted August 15, 2016 Share Posted August 15, 2016 I'm curious... How fast is considered 'fast'? And are some of these 'fast draw' folks using special pistols/holsters, etc.... There are some mighty fast Cowboys that we shoot with sometimes that are using SASS legal style holsters with standard hammers and they can run some mighty fast times using non-special equipment. ..........Widder Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forty Rod SASS 3935 Posted August 15, 2016 Share Posted August 15, 2016 I'd rate Ben Cooper as fastest, but Thell Reed Jr. was mighty quick, too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackwater 53393 Posted August 15, 2016 Share Posted August 15, 2016 I think the criteria is, (or was) hand off of gun, gun holstered, hammer down, draw cock and fire one round. Not sure a target was actually involved, but likely it was. Back in those days, most pistols weren't all that jazzed up, but they also fanned the hammer. Glen Ford had a draw and fire technique that involved thumbing back the hammer as he drew and firing one round as the gun came level, pulling the gun in a tight radius over the back of the holster. Then as he held the trigger pulled, he would shove the gun forward dragging the hammer back along his hip, usually on his belt, the gun would fire a second time. Still moving the pistol forward, he'd fan off a third shot. I've seen this trick performed sucessfully, but I'd never try it and I wouldn't recommend that anyone else do it either!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abilene Slim SASS 81783 Posted August 15, 2016 Share Posted August 15, 2016 I had never heard of Thell Reed until this thread. The link below is of his appearance on Ed Sullivan in 1966 http://www.gunfightergulch.com/videos/thell-reed-ed-sullivan-show-1966 The next video is a fun montage of actors he's taught and some of their scenes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The O'Meara Himself Posted August 15, 2016 Share Posted August 15, 2016 As I recall from the old days, the story goes that Hugh O'Brian (Wyatt Earp on TV) loved quick-draw competition and drew against most of the TV and movie cowboy actors at the time, and beat almost all of them. He desperately wanted to draw against Audie Murphy, but Murphy wouldn't do it. O'Brien pestered Murphy about it for a long time until Murphy had enough. Murphy (The most decorated soldier of WWII and had severe PTSD) called O'Brian and said he'd draw against him anytime, but only face-to-face with live ammunition! The contest never took place. The O'Meara Himself Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abilene Slim SASS 81783 Posted August 15, 2016 Share Posted August 15, 2016 I found this image in one of my books. Warner Brothers TV cowboy stars publicity still for fast draw. Note Peter Brown (2nd from left) has drawn too quickly and shot himself in the leg. Glad they used blanks! Warner Brothers’ star stable (from left): Will “Sugarfoot” Hutchins, Peter “Lawman” Brown, Jack “Maverick” Kelly, Ty “Bronco” Hardin, James “Maverick” Garner, Wade “Colt .45” Preston and John “Lawman” Russell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cypress Sun Posted August 15, 2016 Share Posted August 15, 2016 Don Knotts? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yellowhouse Sam # 25171 Posted August 15, 2016 Share Posted August 15, 2016 I had never heard of Thell Reed until this thread. The link below is of his appearance on Ed Sullivan in 1966 http://www.gunfightergulch.com/videos/thell-reed-ed-sullivan-show-1966 The next video is a fun montage of actors he's taught and some of their scenes. I first learned of Reed from Elmer Keith's report on him in Guns and Ammo way back in the sixties. Elmer was pretty impressed by the fact he not only was really fast but could hit whatever target was presented. Thell and Elmer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Russ T. Sites Posted August 16, 2016 Share Posted August 16, 2016 Bob Munden said the Jerry Lewis was, in fact, the fastest celebrity with a sixgun. Strange what talents some celebrities possess that you don't usually hear about. My dad said that he saw Jerry demonstrate his skill with a handgun back in the late '50s and that it was stunning how fast he was. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dirty Redd Posted August 16, 2016 Share Posted August 16, 2016 This guy killed more men than Cecil B. DeMille , the Waco Kid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 Posted August 16, 2016 Share Posted August 16, 2016 Sammy Davis Jr and The Rifleman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddFqDq8LyKI Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dorado Posted August 16, 2016 Share Posted August 16, 2016 I know it's not what you're looking for but Bradley Cooper during the shooting of A-Team set the record for fastest reload on camera. He did this while hanging off of the side of a moving truck by a rope. Sad part is, it was cut from the movie as it was too fast. He still holds the record. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770 Posted August 17, 2016 Share Posted August 17, 2016 Sammy Davis Jr and The Rifleman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddFqDq8LyKI Sammy didn't really do that trick. It was done by Rod Redwing. He was another Hollywierd gun coach, just not as famous as Arvo Ohalla. The Glen Ford trick mentioned a few posts ago was one of his, too. He taught a lot of them that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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