Hollywood's fastest guns

[Alpo]

 

[Pat Riot]

Sammy Davis, Jr was fastest. I didn’t  watch the video. Bob Munden said so. 

[Doc Shapiro]

40 minutes ago, Pat Riot said:

Sammy Davis, Jr was fastest. I didn’t  watch the video. Bob Munden said so. 

 

I have heard the same from others.

[watab kid]

me too , 

[Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770]

1 hour ago, Pat Riot said:

Sammy Davis, Jr was fastest. I didn’t  watch the video. Bob Munden said so. 

 

39 minutes ago, Doc Shapiro said:

I have heard the same from others.

 

32 minutes ago, watab kid said:

me too , 

I think that I heard that Sammy and Jerry Lewis were about tied.

[Blackwater 53393]

Jerry Lewis was fastest according to Bob Munden himself.  I caught Munden’s show on more than one occasion and he said it more than once.

 

Sammy Davis Jr. was most notable because he actually participated in sanctioned fast draw competitions.

 

James Garner often got honorable mentions, especially for his gun spinning!

[WOLFY]

Munden ranked the fastest hollywood actors:

1.  Jerry Lewis

2.  Sammy Davis Jr

3.  Clint Eastwood

4.  Glen Ford

 

* Jerry Lewis’ speed was clocked at between .3 and .4 second

Edited January 23 by WOLFY

[Widder, SASS #59054]

I never considered myself any kind of fast draw, but heck, In my prime about 10 years back, I could draw

and fire a LIVE round in the low .3 range.    And my pistol was a standard Ruger Vaq, not short stroked

and using factory standard hammer.

 

I would think 'Fast Draw' would atleast be in the .2 range.

 

..........Widder

 

[Rye Miles #13621]

Arvo Ojala was supposedly the fastest even though he wasn’t a Hollywood star but he taught most of them mentioned.
 

He was recorded at 0.2 seconds

Edited January 23 by Rye Miles #13621

[Stump Water]

I've never heard Munden say it, but I've heard it was Jerry Lewis pretty much forever.

[Chantry]

Saw a similar video a week or so ago with a part about Audie Murphy being challenged by another actor repeatedly as to who was faster.  It wasn;t until this video that the actor Hugh O'Brien was named as that actor and that he stopped asking when  Audie Murphy said something to the effect of 'Let's use live ammo".

[Alpo]

Jerry Lewis might be the fastest of the old time Hollywood gunslingers. Get that gun out of the holster quick. Spin it around. Flip it in the air and catch it.

 

But I bet in a real life gunfight he would lose. Because I don't think he has any clue what a gun is.

 

Looking at that video where they throw it to him and he misses it and it bounces across the floor, for comedic effect. Where he tries to holster it and he drops it, for comedic effect. It's not a gun. It's a prop for his act.

 

 

[Stump Water]

55 minutes ago, Alpo said:

But I bet in a real life gunfight he would lose.

 

We'll put you over here with the crowd that proclamates that CAS is bad because it ingrains bad habits that would not "work" in a "real life gunfight".

[watab kid]

22 hours ago, Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770 said:

 

 

I think that I heard that Sammy and Jerry Lewis were about tied.

i think i heard that too , but dont recall where - may have been here = its come up before 

[Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770]

On 1/22/2026 at 9:53 PM, Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770 said:

I think that I heard that Sammy and Jerry Lewis were about tied.

 

1 hour ago, watab kid said:

i think i heard that too , but dont recall where - may have been here = its come up before 

I may have read it in an old "Guns of the Old West" magazine, but I think that I heard it other times too.

[watab kid]

so that might be it as well as i have a friend that wrote for that publication , i think my mind misses some things these days , getting old aint for sissys 

[Chantry]

17 hours ago, Alpo said:

Jerry Lewis might be the fastest of the old time Hollywood gunslingers. Get that gun out of the holster quick. Spin it around. Flip it in the air and catch it.

 

But I bet in a real life gunfight he would lose. Because I don't think he has any clue what a gun is.

 

Looking at that video where they throw it to him and he misses it and it bounces across the floor, for comedic effect. Where he tries to holster it and he drops it, for comedic effect. It's not a gun. It's a prop for his act.

 

 

 

Maybe, but I wouldn't bet my life on that.

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

My best time was 1.2 seconds under three minutes.

 

No brag, just fact.

 

I met Sammy Davis and Ben Cooper both.  Rodd Redwing would have been up there too.