10 Toughest Actors in Hollywood History, here goes my vote..
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- 10 Toughest Actors in Hollywood History, here goes my vote..
Are you ready to embark on a thrilling journey through the world of Hollywood's toughest actors? Hollywood legends have pushed their limits, both on and off the set. Trust me, you won't want to miss this!
I had a friend years ago whose dad was a geology professor and he and his class would take trips each year to different states to study rock formations etc. in the late 80's they went to Colorado and were digging in what was supposed to be a public field, excavating for unique formations when a man drove up in a jeep and asked them what they were doing. The professor explained and introduced his students, and the man in the jeep informed them they were actually on his land, not public property, but he was so interested he actually stayed with them and helped them dig and excavate, and even brought them food and coffee from his ranch house later in the day. At then end of the day when they were packing up the professor spoke to the man aside and told him "I know you are Charles Bronson, I'm just surprised none of my students identified you" and Bronson replied "I'm glad they didn't I would have left, instead I got to enjoy just being a normal guy for a day and I learned a lot." and they shook hands and parted ways.
Very cool story!
What a life !!!!
Kinda what I was eluding to when I was commenting above on William Smith. He worked steadily for 5+ decades in the industry. So I'm sure he was pretty well off, financially, connected well enough to get reservations, tickets etc to any choice restaurant's, events etc. Yet he never painted himself into the Ivory Tower of celebrity, that Bronson at that point came to realize it wasn't what it was cracked up to be. In present culture worse than ever!
WOW what a great story! I'm not surprised - I've read quite a bit about Charles Bronson and know he was a pretty down-to-earth guy.
A young reporter tried to interview Christopher Lee in depth about his life during the war and after. Lee leant forward and said "Can you keep a secret ?" The repoter said excitedly "Yes !" Lee replied "So can I !"
I read a non-fiction book about the plot to assassinate Heydrich, I don't recall any mention of Sir Christopher Lee. The book went into great detail about everything too, the 3 guys that were trained by the British SOE, the horsehair seat interior that infected his blood, how they were cornered in a church basement and their sad pact to end their lives. Maybe it wasn't publicly known at the time the book was written?
@@paulshaar4187 You could write a book about what people DIDN'T know about Sir Christopher Lee, especially his time with the SAS.
Apparently there is no evidence of Christopher Lee serving in any special services during the war. It is often mentioned in articles about him but there has not been any evidence to support the stories.
Most men who saw real combat didn't talk about it. There were many Uncles on both sides of my family and on my step fathers who did. I only remember one who ever taked about their experiences. After a meal just setting around the table he told me about being in a hospital building that was hit by a bomb.The walls were thick and he jumped into the basement window casement and survived ghe building collapse. My stepfather told me after we left that it surprised him his brother did that as he never talked about it..
Our church had a member that had been with troops that liberated a concentration camp.He never talked about that although it was known by some people and known it still haunted him.
From my experience it just depends on the individual... For examples. My Grandpa didn't mind talk about his time in World War 2, he won 2 Purple Heart a bronze star and a silver star and the distinguished service cross and many other metals that he gave me when he passed. He would talk about being shot in the upper shoulder while throwing a grenade from a foxhole and watching his buddy next to him get his head blowed off all kinds of stuff like that it didn't matter to him if you were to ask him about it... He was a good man, but he did have his problems like waking up in the middle of the night from time to time holler and scream and thinking he was still in the war but he would always try his best not to let it show... And I had an uncle that was in the Korean War he came back home shell shocked and would never talk about it... And my father-in-law was a door gunner in the Vietnam War he would talk about it sometimes but not a lot, but when it got too rough for him would stop... He told me that he did what he had to do what was expected of him but not because he wanted to...
Christopher Lee a true English Knight!
William Smith was on another level of strength and toughness. A great actor too.
indeed he played Conan's father
Sure was , the story is he and Rod Taylor who was also a boxer really went at it in the Darker than Amber fight scene with Taylor getting a broken nose and Smith getting broken ribs.
Big Bill was a boss!!!
He was legitimately a tough guy . I’m not going to look up all his bones fides but legit tough bad motor scooter. But everyone says he was the nicest guy until you started something you wished you hadn’t.
I really remember him from "Rich man, poor man" the TV series from the 70's. He was such a great villain in that series!
Bronson worked with my grandfather in the coal mines in PA. He was much younger than my grandfather but he always said when he knew him, Bronson was a good 'kid'.
One glaring omission in this was Eddie Albert of "Green Acres" fame. Before WW2 he toured Mexico with a Circus as part of a trapeze and high wire act. He was also working for US Intelligence and photographed German U-boats in Mexican harbors. During the invasion of Tarawa he was decorated for rescuing 47 Marines while piloting a landing craft under heavy fire from the Japanese.
I read about that many years ago. I think it mentioned that he never talked about his service, but the PTSD was always there. I believe they called it 'shell shock' in those days.
@@felixmadison5736I believe by World War Two it was called Battle Fatigue.
In World War II, the shell shock diagnosis was replaced by Combat Stress Reaction (CSR), also known as "battle fatigue." With long surges common in World War II, soldiers became battle weary and exhausted.@@cavemanjoe79
Wow…!
@cavemanjoe79 Shell shock was a ww1 holdover term and a lot of the older officers and doctors still used it. I think Battle Fatigue was being used later in ww2 and then through the Korean War.
Audey Murphy had the courage and determination to succeed at anything. It's a tragic tale though, since his time in the military left him with mental issues that today would be called PTSD. It cost him several marriages and friends.
Murphy portrayed himself in the biopic "To Hell And Back".
On his "retirement" he said that Hollywood had used him, and he hated that.
One fact that many forget is when they were filming “To Hell and Back” they had to actually tone down and minimize some of his amazing actions because they were so over the top they didn’t think the audience would believe them!
Probably the only person where they had to down play his actual feats!
Very few people understood ptsd in those days.
My dad was a veteran, and also suffered ptsd.
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Audie was the real deal.
Audie Murphy was not one of the most decorated soldiers of WWII, HE WAS THE MOST DECORATED SOLDER OF World War II !!
EXACTLY !
Correction, the most decorated US Soldier EVER.
@@davidvanhorn3340 No, he was the most decorated in WW2. There have been Marines and soldiers with more medals than Audie Murphy.
@@TexanUSMC8089 Like who?
Sir Christopher Lee was once asked by the director of a film he was making to "Imagine the feel and sound of stabbing a man in the back" Sir Christopher's reply? "I don't have to Imagine" Hard as nails and a world class opera singer too!!!!
He also witnessed the last public guillotining in France.
He also did a couple heavy metal albums.
Many of Lee's claimed exploits can not be verified. I much prefer David Niven, who was a commando and who kept his mouth shut about his duties.
The way I heard it was on the commentary track for LOTR. When Wormtongue stabs Saruman in the back, Peter Jackson tried to emulate the sound. Lee objected and said, "Peter, do you know what it sounds like when a knife goes into a mans back?" Jackson replied "No", and Lee rejoined, "Well, I do!"
And he was the only one of the cast who met Tolkien in the flesh...And his live was the reason of the James Bond books, he was a cousin of Ian Fleming...
Neville Brand was a highly decorated soldier during WWII, and also played tough guys too.
Kewanee, Ill., boy.
Audie Murphy was the Most Decorated American Soldier from the Medal of Honor on down. Definitely the definition of Bravery.
Most decorated in WW2.
Lee Marvin, Ben Johnson, James Cagney were also tough men on and of screen
Yes they were.
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and Burt Lancaster
Clarke Gable, Anthony Hopkins, David Niven, Richard Attenborough... The list just goes on!
The list starts and stops with Ben Johnson. One of the greatest cowboys to ever act in movies. A member of the John Ford Company he started his life working on an Oklahoma ranch that his father managed. He became a World Champion Rodeo winner and went on to win an Academy Award in acting. He was the toughest cowboy in real life and you can see it in his films. He was also the nicest kindest gentleman and that's the true mark of class. God Bless America.
I always remember William Smith as the villain Falconetti in the tv adaptation of Rich Man, Poor Man. He was scary in that !
A Great Fight Scene With Him And Nick Nolte .
I remember William Smith from Laredo.
@@jackrobinson8328Me too, loved him in that 😁👍
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His fight scene with Rod Taylor was the best and epic
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Yes in The Movie " Darker Than Amber " .The Sexy Ahna Capri Was in The Movie .
Brian Donlevy joined up with General Pershing to chase Pancho Villa in Mexico... at age 14.
As an actor, he was intense, focused, and quietly powerful. He was also a heavy drinker, and got into a lot of fights.
Put him in your next list.
Audie first exposed PTSD for the military. That may have been his greatest achievement.
Total BS, dummy.
It most certainly was.
I came to appreciate his service and his problems with PTSD (my late husband was in Vietnam, so I became familiar with it). Visiting Arlington Cemetery, I looked for his grave. I thought it would have a large headstone or it might even be a mausoleum. I had a map and kept looking around for something impressive, when I realized I was right near it. It is an ordinary marker, like thousands of others in Arlington. Perhaps that's how he wanted it, though he certainly was entitled to much more.
The Veterans Hospital in San Antonio Texas is named after him. They have one of his uniforms on display. I was surprised how small he was.
Basil Rathbone should probably have been on the list. A war hero in WWI, but never spoke about it. David Niven writes about how he as a young actor became part of "the English colony" in Hollywood, with cricket games of a Sunday afternoon. There, the older actors who served in WWI, would share memories. Niven says, "We younger actors listened very quietly." Nigel Bruce, Watson to Rathbones Holmes, was hit several times in the back. Ronald Colman, known for his raspy voice, was subjected to mustard gas during the war, and Herbert Marshall, who did have a certain gait, did this because of his wooden leg after a war wound.
Did you know David Niven was a war hero himself. He graduated from Sandhurst and served for a number of years before he resigned his commission. He went back to Britain after WW2 started and rejoined the Army. He was part of a top secret unit and did liaison between the UK units and foreign units as well as some type of commando work. He would never talk about his service in WW2 but others who knew about it did it for him.
@@marilynntobash6420 Niven was part of a special unit that operated at (and beyond) the front lines, monitoring and reporting German troop movements and strength.
@@marksprague1280 he was in a unit that were behind German lines mainly in Yugoslavia, called the 'Shadow Unit' they had modified jeeps and armoured cars parachuted in.
WWI brings to mind Leslie Banks, chorus in Oliver's Henry V and Count Zaroff in The Most Dangerous Game. Despite his WWI service leaving his face scarred and partially paralyzed, he returned to acting, featured in many stage and film roles.
Vintage TV you should be ashamed of yourself in mentioning Seagal in the same breath as Audey Murphy.
Seagal can't do much and is fake
@@karentucker2161Fake is too nice to describe Seagal. Fraud is a better choice of words. I laughed when I heard the story of how he was humiliated by a very senior Judo Gene Lebel. LOL!
*Audie*
I agree
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This video missed probably the toughest movie actor, Victor McLaglen. McLaglen was a professional heavyweight fighter, going 6 rounds in an exhibition match with no less than Jack Johnson. He was also a professional wrestler and circus strong man and acrobat. He stared in many Hollywood movies and stage presentations. Look him up online.
He re-joined the British army in 1913 and also served as military assistant provost marshal for the city of Baghdad in 1915. His life reads like an adventure story.
Getting shot at in wartime is tougher than a boxing match.
@@mikemccormick8115 He got shot at too
Lee Marvin got shot but it does not make him tougher than Victor Mclaglen..@@mikemccormick8115
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Charles Bronson's best ever film in my opinion was Hard Times, it was released in Hong Kong under the Title Street Fighter where I saw it for the first time, I have watched the film over 40 times since then, the music and setting make it a superb film.
Great movie
@@enigma9971 The best.
Hey there... : I believe I may quite possibly may have you beat on the count viewed, & continue still view it any time I see it come up for viewing! Am in total agreement regarding it being my favorite Charles Bronson movie ever made! I watched it 3 times this day alone! Thank you, J
@@jayceecombs6887 I bought the DVD as soon as it came out so Ill definitely be watching it more, it is a great film though.
Hard Times was great but in my opinion, his best film was Once Upon a Time in the West. "You brought two too many"
These men can be very proud of their toughness both in military combat and in the movies! My hat's off to all these brave men!
Omg, William Smith! That's the guy that scared the crap out of me when I was a kid. He was always so menacing and intense. Interesting guy.
And extremely bright.
I’d add Victor McLaughlin to that group. He was an ex-prize fighter and had served with distinction in the British Army, even serving as the Provost Marshal in British Mesopotamia.
He really was a tough guy!
As a man past 80, I grew up in a world that had heroes. Sadly, that was then and this now. The men featured here were wonderful. I also admired Burt Lancaster.
I was a friend .
Funny I use to admire him as well as a mans man. Turns out he was gay. Yuk!
Robert mitchum?
@@jonnytheboy7338 Indeed!
Yes I agree Mr. Burt Lancaster and also Mr. Robert Ryan and Mr. Clint Walker and Mr. Robert Mitchum, and of course let's not forget the Daddy of them all,, the Duke
Christopher Lee was a real life Jedi Knight. And that, children is why he played such a convincing Sith Lord
Not to mention Count Dracula
He was in 🇫🇮1939-1940 war against tyrany of Soviet
@@454FatJack --- The 1939-1940 war was against tyranny of HITLER !
Clint Walker. In 1971, at age 44, Clint was in a skiing accident where a ski pole pierced his heart. He recovered, continued acting and lived to be 90 years old. Charles Bronson was a personal hero, especially as Paul Kersey in Death Wish.
You must not have met Bronson .
Clint Walker was one of the finest specimen of a man that ever acted and a true gentleman..
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I got to speak with Clint Walker via the Mark Levin radio show in 2007 & we talked about
his career, but I intentionally omitted talking about his accident! At 77, I saw ""Cheyenne"
from its start in 1955 & loved it! If he had been born 20 years later, he would have been
as big a star as Stallone or Arnold! Great guy!
@@VeganSemihCyprus33 Garbage, don't watch.
James Arness and Clint Walker were both Bad a**
Clint Walker 6 ft 6 and James Arness 6 ft 7 .
James Arness was the first American serviceman on the beach of Iwo Jima in WW2.The reason?Because his commanding officer believed he would block a lot of shots for his fellow servicemen because he was so huge.
This is not what I have read, James Arness was in the US Army, he was wounded at D-Day and ALMOST lost a leg from German machine gun fire.@@cahg3871
He was actually wounded on Anzio fighting the Germans..@@cahg3871
I've never heard of #10, but wow what a dude! 24 metals from 3 different countries and he mastered TEN languages!! I'm still working on my first 🤨
I worked with Charles Bronson late in his career. He was indeed very professional but also quite friendly to the crew, much of whom were the age of his grandkids
Hard to overlook JACK PALANCE. Tougher than nails both on & off the screen !
I was just thinking of him, too.
+Robert Mitchum,Sean Connery
"Prove it!"
My Grandpa hit him in the face over a bad real estate deal in the 60’s.
Robert Ryan was a tough dude, Heavyweight College Boxing Champion for four years at Dartmouth College.
Another name to add to this list is Charles Durning. He was wounded at Omaha beach and recovered just in time for the battle of the bulge. He was a prolific character actor who was in many movies tv shows from the 60's onward.
To mention Audie Murphy in the same sentence as seagull (intentional) is an insult to Audie, seagull is a liar and a disgusting excuse for a human.
Thank you for your comment. That was exactly my thought when SEAGULL was mentioned.
You missed Aldo Ray, he was a frogman in WWII. He did underwater demolitions at Okinawa
Also look into Yakima Canutt. Early stuntman and rodeo champ.
What ever happened to Aldo Ray? He was in the GREEN BERETS and a very good movie about an officer that went bonkers in Korea and he was his driver. Was that his real name? Not much info on Aldo Ray with the unforgettable voice.
@@paulshaar4187 He died in 1991 of throat cancer (at the age of 64).
I had forgotten Yakima.
Actually, Sterling Hayden used his boat to rescue a group of US Army Nurses and their flight crew. The nurses and army flight crew went down in Albania in a C-47 in 1943. Hayden took the nurses back to Italy from Albania on their last leg of a several months journey.
Dominion (2018)
awsome comment 👌
On visiting Arlington National Cemetery, when disembarking the tour bus, Audie's grave was on the left and I was the only one to go visit it. I felt so sad for him, in life, as well as in death.
Sessue Hayakawa's performance in Bridge Over the River Kwai is stellar! And, this movie is possibly one of the best anti-war films ever made--although this sentiment is not obvious. Colonel Saito is a complex character, struggling between his tradition, duty, and humanity, which is subtly portrayed by this great actor. Between Sessue Hayakawa and Sir Alec Guinness, it is one of the best war/anti-war movies ever made, and I highly recommend it!
Agree with those who mention the omission of Lee Marvin. Also some others I hadn't thought of that it's impossible to come up with a top 10 and not leave people out or include some that are unworthy. When I drove a cab in LA in 1964 I picked up Jackie Coogan at LAX and drove him to his home in the valley. I frankly would not have recognized him except he used a credit card, a very rare thing in those days. I wasn't particularly impressed but in recent years I learned he was a glider pilot in world war 2 and was dropped behind enemy lines. He volunteered for hazardous duty with the first air commando group. In December 1943 the unit was sent to India we're using Waco cg-4a gliders, it airlifted crack British troops during the night Ariel invasion of Burma.
Jackie Coogan was married to Betty Grable a famous pin up girl during WW2 the story goes when he meet some Australian Soldiers he said " shake the hand that's held the cock that fucked Betty Grable"
Well, he had to simp for those poor oppressed minorities.
Have you ever watched the movie, "Soldier In The Rain", starring Jackie Gleason and Steve McQueen?
@@felixmadison5736 Yes, it is one of my favorite movies! Steve and Jackie were really great characters in that movie. Have not seen it in many years, think I will watch it again. What was it that Jackie would call Steve in the movie? Its on the tip of my tongue......
I don't recall, but I remember when Gleason got into a fight with another soldier and took care of him pretty good. I think it started over a female, like many fights. @@Memo-nd6fj
notice that MOST of the tough guys FOUGHT in WWII....the Greatest Genration.
I surely did notice.
It's not the "greatest generation", the American pioneers were.
@@davisworth5114 - Sure the American pioneers were tough, but fighting in a bloody war (like Audie Murphy etc.) must have been tougher!
@@HartmutJagerArtnah fighting in a war where single shout weapon that takes several minutes to reload bayonets a seriously used weapon Canon balls and also founding a country against the strongest empire. Ww2 great but not the greatest
How did you miss Burt Lancaster?
My uncles knew Stewart as a child. They ran moonshine to the store Stewart's parents had. Growing up in that area of PA is rough now, it was rougher then.
My Great Grandmother knew the family. She was from Indiana, Pa.
@@lindacuster1328 I have family all through that area - Indiana, Saltsburg, Blairsville, Johnstown.
@@raecyrulik9359 I am from Seward, Pa. I’m glad to hear from from someone that knows this area. And I am not far from where Charles Bronson is from. Two great men from around me.
Dale Robertson, decorated war hero and ex-boxer. Also, a superb horseman.
I watched Peter Ortiz in "Rio Grande" the other day. One of my favorites has always been Sterling Hayden. His "Tomorrow Show" with Tom Snyder were so interesting to listen to. While making "The Way West" Richard Widmark hated how he had to compete against Douglas' hammy performance. Widmark went to Robert Mitchum and asked how come he wasn't putting an effort into his role. Mitchum said, "Why bother Kirk is doing enough acting for all three of us."
Ortiz: All that experience and all they could do was make him a 2nd Lieutenant?
Audie Murphy: How can you mention Steven Segal along with Murphy. How insulting to Murphy.
He started as a private and got a battlefield commision, in actual fact he did pretty well rank wise.
I knew Bill Smith and he was fun guy. We used to play trivia games and he was tough to beat and he was tickled when I was lucky to beat him. I never knew about his outstanding life until this clip and it amazes me. He never came off as the man you describe. He was just sweet man. I was sorry when he passed.
S. Seagal is just a hot air balloon
Neville Brand was regularly cited as the 4th most decorated soldier in WWII, but that information is incorrect and was denied by Brand before his death. He was, however, according to official military records, the recipient of the Silver Star for gallantry in combat. His other awards and decorations are the Purple Heart, the Good Conduct Medal, the American Defense Service Ribbon, the European/African/Middle Eastern Theater Ribbon with three Battle Stars, one Overseas Service Bar, one Service Stripe, and the Combat Infantryman's Badge.
100% agree with Audie Murphy being number one.
Surprised, Bruce Lee and Chuck Norris didn't make the list?
I think that they are not on the list is because they didn't where in a war...
Audie was a good man.
@@peterang6912I believe Chuck Norris was in the Korean war, that's where he got his martial arts training.
William Smith was a very tough son of a gun in real life!! He was trained in martial arts.
Yeah he was the real deal. Even more than just martial arts. But everyone said he was the nicest guy unless you started crap with him….
And who would want to start crap with William Smith? You'd have to be crazy or a REAL badass. @@michaelberry1382
also very intelligent. He spoke Russian, French, German and Serbo Croatian
Gene Hackman, got in a fist fight at 71 after a fender bender. Then hit by a car at 81 but not hurt bad.
You forgot Lee Marvin who earned a Navy Cross on Iwo Jima.
Not awarded the Navy Cross. Wounded on Saipan, not Iwo Jima.
@@forestgreen315 I read, wounded at Tarawa.
@@johnemerson1363 There are numerous articles and links regarding Lee Marvin. He was wounded on Saipan. He did not receive a Navy Cross. If I remember, he narrated a documentary on the Marines which included quite a bit about Iwo Jima. That may be where the confusion arises.
I am in no way attempting to diminish his service. He was a Scout-Sniper which were the successors to the Marine Raiders from the 1942-44 South and Southwest Pacific campaigns. They had the same training and demeanor of the Raiders, just organized on the Platoon level rather than Battalion. Still; very tough fighters who received very difficult missions. Below is a link to the Department of Defense Valor data base for the Navy Cross. Lee Marvin is not listed.
valor.defense.gov/Recipients/Navy-Navy-Cross-Recipients/
You win the prize. He was wounded on Saipan and was never on Iwo Jima.
Wrong on both counts.
Love Sterling Heyden. While many younger folk remember him from his great roles in Strangelove and The Godfather I think his best role was in The Killing. As far as really tough guys I think there are so many it's really impossible to choose "the toughest" 10, especially if you include WWII warriors just because there were so many.
The Killing is such a perfect movie
It bothers me a little that I only knew of him as the corrupt police chief in The Godfather. Then I saw him in Dr. Strangelove and loved his crazy character. It fascinates me to learn the storied past of some of our iconic actors.
Glad you added Peter Ortiz. I first read about him when I was 9. I’m in my mid 60s now. He needs a biopic!
I agree Lee Marvin should be on this list and Charles Durning. He was a Rambo in WWI.
Sterling Hayden was outstanding in “the Asphalt Jungle”
Oh, snap! So glad you included James Doohan. He was a real life hero! He was remarkable.
PS
You should look into
Ronald Colman
Herbert Marshal
Basil Rathbone
Charles Durning was one of few that survived the Malmedy Massecre
He was awsome
No mention of the Australian Reginald “Snowy” Baker. Played rugby Union for Australia, Olympic boxer, diver and swimmer all at the same Olympics. He played polo and taught several actors how to ride, fence and swim. He acted in several Hollywood movies from the 1920’s through to the late 30’s.
And the poor guy died of blood poisoning...
You might want to rename this Hollywood Tough Guys part 1 and make it into an ongoing series. I was expecting to see Clint Walker and Wood Strode on the list but I appreciate you including Ortiz who I had never heard of before.
Charles Bronson couldn't have joined the U.S. Air Force in WWII, the Air Force didn't exist yet. It wasn't formed until 1947, 2 years after the war. It was the Army Air Corps, and yes, it matters to get the facts straight!!
It was Air Forces and some are still around today. They were never apart of the army except in paperwork. Facts are important. They were referred to as Air Forces in 1944.
@@jacksnyder7318 It was the Army Air Corps from 1926 until 1941, and the Army Air Forces until 1947. At THAT time it became the United States Air Force, not before. Facts are important.
ARMY AIR CORPS
Robert Mitchum,Glenn Ford, Bogart,Clark Gable
Feminists HATE Mitchum, with a violent passion. Too much MAN, for any given woman, I guess.
Great list but there were a couple of thing s you could have mentioned. William Smith trained with Ed Parker and was a black belt in Kenpo Karate. Charles Bronson relaxed by throwing knives. He is said to have been able to stick any type of knife with ease.
Add Lee Marvin, Burt Lancaster, Robert Ryan (four times Dartmouth boxing champ, Marine boot camp drill instructor), Jack Palance (one-armed push-up champ) and undoubtedly Laurence Tierney, the meanest, toughest SOB to ever grace the screen, with at least 12 police incarcerations to prove it.
Ortiz, purportedly upset over German comments in a bar regarding Roosevelt while he was scouting the area, subsequently returned wearing an overcoat, dropping the coat to reveal his full Marine uniform, drew two 1911s and “coerced “ the soldiers to drink toasts to Roosevelt before exiting! Balls!
Hayden ran away to sea at 16 and earned Master sailor rating before he was 21.
Murphy’s courage in discussing PTSD was wonderful. Purportedly, after some of his exploits became known and he was sought out for interviews in between battles, he was never found, apparently out on “seek and destroy “ missions, motivated by his desire for revenge for his dead friends. His courage in kicking drugs he took for years just to sleep (cold turkey !) may be his most impressive feat!
Charles was my grandmother's favorite actor. She used to crack me up about him. Once saying He is so Ugly he is handsome! She was dead serious when she said it. #SFIP both of them.🛐.
Charles was the Man when I was young.
Jack Warden, was a professional boxer, served with the US Navy on the Yangtze Patrol, US Merchant Marine, US Army with the 101 ST Airborne. However, he was injured before June 6,1944.
YOU WONT FIND PEOPLE LIKE THAT IN HOLLYWOOD TODAY.
ThomasPaine - Tom Cruise . . . . . LOL
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What war did Tom Cruise fought in?
@@ThomasPaine3 It was a joke, his only war was over cash the Scientology Movement over cash they ripped him off for :)
@@gusriley9785
My bad,
My right & left side of my brain keep fighting.
Stewart flew 20 official bombing raids in WWII. He also flew 13 more missions which were not officially credited to him. Hayakawa spied for the Allies in France during WW2.
Audie Murphy is second to none of these actors. And, i would be surprised if any of these actors would disagree!
Randall Tex Cobb fought for the heavyweight title, ko'd Earnie Shavers and fought Michael Dokes to a draw. Tony Danza was an ncaa wrestler and pro boxer with some 1st round ko's on his record. 6'5" Bo Svenson was a national Judo champion before playing Buford Pusser. Max Baer was world heavyweight champion and his brother Buddy Baer had more 1st round ko's than Mike Tyson. Before playing Non in Superman 2 Jack the Giant O'Halloran was a boxer that ended the boxing career of Muhammad Ali's brother. Judo champion Gene LeBelle was in a billion fight scenes over the years. 6'6" 340 pound Erland Van Lidth was an alternate for the '76 Olympic wrestling team before doing Stir Crazy and the Running Man. 6'7" James Arness won the Bronze Star at the battle of Anzio.
I like Jack Plance he was a tough guy too.
Leo Gordon was another tough one. An big, burly ex-convict who generally portrayed baddies on screen - but also became a recognized and respected screenwriter and novelist, educating himself while serving time behind bars at San Quentin for an attempted robbery, in which he was shot.
Audie Murphy was the real life Captain America
Ian Fleming based much of James Bond on his step cousin Christopher Lee.
I always laughed at the irony of him playing Scaramanga in the James Bond film, the man with the golden gun .
He played a bad guy against the role that his life had inspired.
Thanks so much for this - I had no idea Audie Murphy was such a real life hero! Also a very good selection of men otherwise.
I can't believe Steve McQueen didn't appear on this list. He definitely was a real-life tough guy.
much "tougher" than James Stewart. But for this video-creator somebody who is dropping tones of bombs on some foreign country is a hero while civillians like McQueen do not count
You bet!
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Especially when he was beating women. geez.
He wasn't a real tough guy. It's an image he was an a..hole
“Tough Guys” movie with Kirk Douglas and Burt Lancaster showed 2 old guys physique as well as acting abilities. For 2 old guys, they were hot stuff😃
On the set of Lord of the Rings, Peter Jackson was explaining to Christopher Lee how he wanted him to react when stabbed in the back. Christopher Lee asked: "Have you any idea what kind of noise happens when somebody’s stabbed in the back? Because I do.”
Victor McLaglen was one of the toughest men in show business a professional heavyweight boxer at one time
There were a lot of great men out of WW2.... One fact missed about Sir Christopher Lee. He was also fictionalized as another man of action and intelligence. His Nephew, Ian Fleming, use him for his titular character for a series of spy action adventure novels. Ian grew up hearing the stories about his famous uncle. When he became a writer, he fictionalized those stories into one of the longest lasting series of movies in history. Yes, James Bond, is based off Christopher Lee. When I hear of this or that person has been chosen, you might want to compare it to the real person this character was modeled after.
How did Ian Fleming (1908 - 1964) grow up listening to stories of Christopher Lee (1922 - 2015) war time experience? Ian was 14 years old when Christopher was born.
Ian joined the Royal Navy in 1939 and was involved in navel intelligence throughout WW2 including operation “Golden Eye”.
Christopher was in a military academy and joined the Finish Army to fight the Russians in 1939 but, was only there with other British volunteers for 2 weeks before they were sent back home. He then joined the Home guard in 1940 and then the RAF in 1941.
Ian’s involvement with navel intelligence clearly gave him more information for writing stories than his distant relative Christopher, Ian being his Step first uncle.
@@martinrandall5836 Not how I heard it... other than one was uncle and Bond is based on Sir Christopher Lee. It was a few decades ago, so the details got muddled, but even Mr. Fleming admits to this in one of his later interviews. Saw something on it in the 80's I believe.
Christopher Lee and Ian Fleming were step cousins. Christopher Lee's mom married Harcourt George St-Croix Rose the uncle of Ian Fleming.
Yea, I'm calling it. Something wrong with dates, names and places. Come on, get it right.
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Kind of weird tha MR. Lee was the villian in the Bond film " The Man with the Golden Gun". His alter ego fighting against his fictional self. lol
Rod Taylor was also a legitimate tough guy, the story is the fight scene in Darker than Amber with William Smith turned real with Taylor getting a broken nose and Smith ending up with broken ribs.
Rod Taylor was a class act, and a real badass, too!
I met William Smith at a film festival and asked him who was the toughest actor that he ever worked with. Without hesitation he said Rod Taylor. Said they'd go out after filming to a bar and Taylor would start brawls; 'He just liked to fight.". WS then told me that the director of 'The Deadly Trackers' kept Smith on location after his character's death just to keep Rod Taylor and Richard Harris from killing each other.
Hayden was a sailor.......but joined the Army and then the Marines.....makes sense😮
Although it isn't related to toughness, Audie Murphy was also a songwriter.
(Hard Times) Charles Bronson, I'll have to watch that one again before I die, better watch it soon
Other actors worth checking out for their real life toughness are Ernest Borgnine, Lee Marvin, and Neville Brand
Steve McQueen & Lee Marvin were both Marines.
Also bear in mind that Jimmy Stewart was a qualified Architect .
SIR Cristopher Lee.
And if you ever met him , you would call him SIR, you damn well better,if you know what's good for you !😮
And a fantastic actor also 👏!
DML.
He was in 🇫🇮1939-1940 war against Soviet tyranny
Charles Durning, escaped P.O.W
camp. 3 purple hearts. Dolph Sweet, 2 yrs POW.
You beat me to it. Survived Normandy and the Battle of the Bulge. Boxer and a Black Belt.
Eddie Albert was at Tarawa, remember them all, honor them all.
7:54 Kirk Douglas. To me, Kirk's movie "Seven Days in May" is his best work. It's ALL his best work.....but Seven Days in May is profound.
Audie Murphy is a giant compared to all the others combined
Great episode - thank you sir! 👍👍👍
Audie Murphy: one of the coolest RL moments as seen in "To Hell and Back" is REALLY real. During the battle for which he received the Medal of Honor he called in artillery fire on his own position and when asked by the Arty Commander on the other end of the phone "How close are they?" responded with the greatest line ever...."Hang on a minute and I'll let you talk to'm"; and earned virtually every military award possible (for a "ground pounder") BEFORE his 21st birthday.
OMG I had a HUGE crush on William Smith when I was a little girl and still do today. Not only was he drop dead gorgeous, he was well-spoken, highly intelligent, and spoke several different languages. R.I.P. Mr. Smith and all of the other men showcased here.
Murphy wasn't one of the most decorated soldiers of World War II, he was the most decorated soldier of World War II.
Murphy played the green recruit, Fleming, in the Civil War pic, "The Red Badge of Courage". It must have been a bit uncomfortable to play someone who was at first naive and clueless, to progress to the more seasoned fighter, that he was used to portraying.
Was certain Lee Marvin would be among the top 10. He was in the US marines and like several of these men also saw action during WW2. He never got high rank though because he was a troublemaker, but to me that just makes him even more tough.
Surprised Lee Marvin didn't make this list. A true fighting Marine.
Charles Durning was a true hero. Wounded on D Day and again later wherehe was awarded a Silver Star
There are rumors that James Bond was based on Sir Christopher Lee.
When Audey Murphy was consulting on the film of his life, he told the screenwriter that he would have to tone down his military accolades or else nobody would believe them.
You forgot to mention that William Smith was on the final episode of the TV series Batman.
Thank you for #1.
Audie Murphy was the kind of iconic hero that will never be seen again.
He also made many films,mostly westerns.
If anyone hasnt seen "To Hell And Back",you're missing something very special. Audie made sure that it was as acurate as it could be,due to the fact that it was his exploits that were being filmed.
Although I agree with your choices to a point I am suprised you didn't involve the youngest full bird colonel of US special forces in this list. Kris Kristopherson, Also Jack Polance who was a proffesional heavyweight Boxer, or Erol Flynn Champion Light middleweight boxer and also the only man to break out and back in to the Tower of london.
To me any person that actually participated in battle in a war are heroes