The most colorful Western character actors
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- Опубликовано: 10 фев 2025
- I have talked about western character actors before, and there are many. Both in movies and TV. Back in the day they often played in both.
Today I’m looking at some of the most colorful. The ones that often stole the limelight and lit up the room with their presence. You will know most of them I’m sure. They're all gone now, let’s keep their legacy alive!
Let's have fun and celebrate the genre.
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You just had to mention they are all gone now. Makes me feel my age. All are great artists and actors. And shan't be forgotten.
RIP to all of these wonderful Stars! As a lifelong lover of Westerns I loved all of them!
Well said
Thank You for this wonderful video on some of the most wonderful actors, who get second billing and yet they truly made the movies better.
Ben Johnson was a great Actor 👍 and he was a real cowboy too. In Pawhuska Oklahoma there is a museum.
See my video on him in the channel, mentioned in many more
More great stuff. Victor Mclaglan winning the oscar for the Informer is worth a mention.
Has been mentioned about him in other of my videos, missed in this one, doh!
The Quiet Man!
This should be a deeper dive series!
Yes, most videos I do just scratch the surface which is why I do so many follow up videos
Great list! Probably my first introduction to them was Andy Devine on TV in the 50s, in Adventures of Wild Bill Hickock. That accident certainly gave him a stellar career!
Another great, often overlooked character actor in skads of movies/TV shows was John Qualen. Just a smattering of Westerns -- The Searchers, Two Rode Together, A Big Hand for the Little Lady, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence. Also a distinctive voice.
The IMO the best scene-stealing CA -- Walter Brennan. When I first encountered him in '57 in The Real McCoys, I was shocked to later learn he had no limp IRL. Course, at 6 you're pretty impressionable :)
Victor Jory, Robert Wilke and Leo Gordon
Thank you. Brought back a lot of great memories.
Harrison Ford was an extra, sometimes, in westerns, along with Russel Johnson, saw both in a lot of older movies.
I very much enjoy your channel! You have some great stills of the actors! Great anecdotes too! Thank you!
The first character actor you named was not John McIntire but Willis Bouchey. The clip was from the 1961 John Ford Movie "Two Rode Together". Staring James Stewart and Richard Widmark. John McIntire played Maj. Frazer and Willis Bouchey played Harry J. Wringle.
I'm glad you as I caught that. You are correct. Not as well known as McIntyre but a great actor.
Bouchey was in The Horse Soldiers and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance with John Wayne
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Hi, Wrangler, ( Famous People )..., Excellent video and very informative and everyone likes Western character actors, often more than the lead actor in the movie. Western character actors were the backbone of the Western movie industry... There is not one Western movie..., that I haven't thought of the character actors and their excellent performances and their parts..., that I remember most ! ! * "Just think..., where would we be without Western character actors ?" They are and always will be, the backbone of Western movies... Excellent video and narration, movie scenes, and sound... Thank you for sharing the video... "Semper Fi" Mike in Montana :)
When your right your right :) Thanks
All of them are a big part of our lives
Joseph Cotton, Phil Carey, Van Johnson, Van Heffernan, Paul Newman , Robert Redford,
Much of the color in the characters comes from the writers, but that collection of actors did have the knack for bringing the characters to life.
They seemed to have a bit of freedom to develop their characters in them days
Great list of actors who made whatever they appeared in better. What always amassed me about John McIntire, Walter Brennan and Gabby Hayes is they never seemed to age. To me McIntire actually looks older in 1960's 'Flaming Star' than he does 7 years latter when he got cast on 'The Virginian'. Also you missed a really great character actor in Charles Bronson. It wasn't until after he got cast as "Harmonica" in 'Once Upon a Time in the West' that he got lead roles and top billing in films. Up until then he played mostly supporting roles in movies or on TV episodes.
Thank you for this video and remembering these wonderful actors.
What amazes me is that that isn't John McIntyre but Wills Boucher.
I think his break out role was in The Great Escape😊
You showed Jimmy Stewart when you talked about John MacIntire.
Willis Bouchey was the actor he got confused with John McIntire. They were all in the movie Two Road Together.
Man I must be old I love old westerns I know a lot old characters my dad watched them the duke rules I’m Mexican American
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I'm finding this video hard to be objective to. I grew up watching these guys. As much as I like leading stars in western movies and TV, they weren't the most interesting guys. Let's face it. If you saw Wayne, Eastwood, Randolph, Rodgers in one movie you know what they'll be doing in all movies.
That's still mostly true of character actors but definitely not entirely. Henry Morgan played soldiers in WW2 movies as Army, Navy. Henry was bad guys, good guys, major, father, you name it.
Ken Curtis played various types like singer, side kick, hill billy, calvary, knuckle head, etc.
Jack Elam is utterly awesome in so many ways.
Walter Brennan is the ultimate everthing including lead actor in his own western series, Guns of Will Sonnet.
Jack Palance is good guy, bad guy, last man on Earth, despicable, comical. There's nothing he can't be and terrific.
I look at this exceptional list and realize I watched all these movies not so much to see John, Clint, Joel, or Brandon for their expected roles but to see the more interesting gents and ladies that were the best part of the show.
It's hard for me to accept they are gone forever. Its hard not to react emotionally to them like family. Nevertheless, thanks FP. Awesome video and actually saved this to a history playlist of mine. RIP ye fine fellows. 😢
They will forever ride across the prairies as long as they live in our hearts and memories!
I agree with you 💯, 💯 👍 your totally right ✅ 👍
“It is easier to make an actor out of a cowboy than to make a cowboy out of an actor”…….John Ford
True, many examples in his Actors Stock Company
The great B Western sidekicks, like Àl St John, would be a great video.
I think I have him in one of my other character actors videos, sounds familiar
After seeing a couple of these, there's one actor you miss every time, Pedro Armendariz Jr. He was in a lot of John Wayne films, along with Harry Carry Jr. Sorry about misspelling his name.
You could do a whole video on Lee Marvin's roles in war movies.
I have one on his westerns, take a look. Will think about a war video. I have one on John Waynes
All my life I have identified more with the sidekick or character actor than the lead or straight man type. The unfailing indispensable best friend and accomplice without whom the leading man could accomplish nothing. Nobel, loyal, dependable, trustworthy. These are the people I always loved and admired. Their example made me a living version of them always thinking more of the mission and the team than ourselves. They seldom got the girl and life imitates art, but without these people, the glue, the movies and real life are just a house of cards.
Well said
My Uncle James Jackson Wheat was a character, a real Texan cowboy and oilman with a working cattle ranch of 1,000,000,000 acres also with lots of oil and gas. After driving jeeps he was so wealthy he switched to Rolls Royces out in that desert of mesquite bushes, jackrabbit, cotton tails, roadrunners and rattlers
Cool
Ye any bleeding wonder he could have Rolls Royces ripping people off with the price of oil.
As I liked john McIntire I neverbcosider him colorful I always wonder about Jack's eye and Andy's voice as I w as told it was from muster gas thank you
I believe it was Harry Carry ( Sr.) who convinced John Wayne that his walk would set him apart from other Western actors. His rolling gate, was his earmark walk as seen in The Searchers. Also, Harry Carry and the Duke were very close friends
Victor served in the world war one in the British army in the middle east. He was the first military governor of what is now Iraq
Harry Carey was the announcer for the Chicago Cubs.
I itterate what someone else has already stated, what about Dub Taylor?
He is in another character actor video in my channel
Bruce Dern was one of the best bad guys in the westerns and one of the very few to kill John Wayne.
Check out a recent video I did on Villains in John Wayne movies. Also I have a video on Dern the man who killed John Wayne
Pat Brady on the Roy Rogers Show.
Pity about dreadful background noise.
Harry Morgan was in a lot of westerns.
Too bad Johnny Crawford got left out, he certainly earned his child actor fame
your first actor , John Mcintire has the wrong actor pictured. That is Willis Bouchey. mistakes happen .
That wasn’t John McIntire
Pat Butram?
Now theres someone I haven't thought of, good call.
LEE VAN CLEEF???