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Offline Hambone Dave

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Worst Western Actors
« on: March 25, 2014, 03:33:22 PM »
I vote for:

Fred MacMurray
Frank Sinatra
Jack Lemmon
James Darren
Ricky Nelson
Rock Hudson
Paul Lynd
Elvis Presley
William Shatner
James Cagney

So come up with some more stinkers, they gotta be out there

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Re: Worst Western Actors
« Reply #1 on: March 25, 2014, 04:40:45 PM »
All the ones who sang.
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Re: Worst Western Actors
« Reply #2 on: March 25, 2014, 05:35:43 PM »
John Wayne was 'Singing Sandy'.
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Re: Worst Western Actors
« Reply #3 on: March 25, 2014, 05:46:56 PM »
Never could understand the appeal to Glenn Ford or Glen Campbell.


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Re: Worst Western Actors
« Reply #4 on: March 25, 2014, 05:52:13 PM »
John Wayne was 'Singing Sandy'.

He did not sing though, his were dubbed. 
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Re: Worst Western Actors
« Reply #5 on: March 26, 2014, 07:56:13 AM »
I would add Victor Mature, never much cared for his acting.  Boy did my mom like to watch him though.   I think she would have been okay with the sound off, she kind of thought the same of Clint Walker, but I did not mind his acting.

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Re: Worst Western Actors
« Reply #6 on: March 26, 2014, 10:36:44 AM »
Sean Connery in "Salako".

Arnold Schwartzeneger in "The Villain"
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Re: Worst Western Actors
« Reply #7 on: March 26, 2014, 11:27:04 AM »
You know, Kevin Costner, isn't a bad actor but if he'd learn to edit it would help. His movies are all to long and try to pack way to much into the story.
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Re: Worst Western Actors
« Reply #8 on: March 26, 2014, 12:01:54 PM »
That's because he wants to tell more of the story of the times - he wants to educate 'and' entertain.

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Re: Worst Western Actors
« Reply #9 on: March 26, 2014, 12:41:52 PM »
Glenn Ford wouldn't be on my list of worst western actors.   I liked him in Cowboys,  3:10 to Yuma,  and The Rounders.

For the best I'd have to put Walter Brennan at the top of the list.  He played so many characters - sidekick in Red River,  bad guy in My Darling Clementine, wild and crazy cowboy in The Cowboy and the Lady. And many more.

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« Reply #10 on: March 26, 2014, 01:56:13 PM »
Glenn Ford wouldn't be on my list of worst western actors.   I liked him in Cowboys,  3:10 to Yuma,  and The Rounders.

For the best I'd have to put Walter Brennan at the top of the list.  He played so many characters - sidekick in Red River,  bad guy in My Darling Clementine, wild and crazy cowboy in The Cowboy and the Lady. And many more.

Good picks.  Brennan's characterization of Judge Roy Bean was a classic as well.  Only character actor to win three best supporting Oscars.  Guy was amazing. 
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Re: Worst Western Actors
« Reply #11 on: March 26, 2014, 08:03:05 PM »
They say that Glenn Ford was the fastest draw in the Westerns.
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Re: Worst Western Actors
« Reply #12 on: March 26, 2014, 11:53:31 PM »
I doubt he was faster than Jerry Lewis or Sammy Davis Jr.

You can see them on a couple of 'youtube' videos.

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Re: Worst Western Actors
« Reply #13 on: March 27, 2014, 04:39:10 AM »
Speaking of Sammy Davis Jr,   he was in one of the worse westerns ever - Sergeants 3.   It was a remake of Gunga Din set in the old west and stared the whole Rat Pack.

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Re: Worst Western Actors
« Reply #14 on: March 27, 2014, 07:46:08 AM »
To me, the only member of the rat pack who should have done westerns was Dino.   I always enjoyed watching his westerns.Sammy Davis Jr. was not bad as well, and he was reputed to be a wicked fast draw.  He also was an avid shooter and collector.   I had totally forgotten that Jerry Lewis had a similar reputation.   We need a new crop of western actors!  I wish they would take the crew of Justified and do a period western.   That or I have to dig out my DVD of Deadwood again.  It is nearly plum wore out.

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Re: Worst Western Actors
« Reply #15 on: March 27, 2014, 08:21:46 AM »
I vote for:

Fred MacMurray
Frank Sinatra
Jack Lemmon
James Darren
Ricky Nelson
Rock Hudson
Paul Lynd
Elvis Presley
William Shatner
James Cagney

So come up with some more stinkers, they gotta be out there

Elvis did a good job in Flaming Star.
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Re: Worst Western Actors
« Reply #16 on: March 27, 2014, 09:37:55 AM »
Speaking of Sammy Davis Jr,   he was in one of the worse westerns ever - Sergeants 3.   It was a remake of Gunga Din set in the old west and stared the whole Rat Pack.

Now wait a minute.

I was an extra in that movie, a cavalryman with no speaking part, and I'll watch it over and over until I find myself on that screen.

BTW, Sammy is the greatest actor I ever met... as a person.
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Re: Worst Western Actors
« Reply #17 on: March 27, 2014, 01:58:46 PM »
Elvis did a good job in Flaming Star.

And Hudson adored it and went because of the title.
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Re: Worst Western Actors
« Reply #18 on: March 27, 2014, 02:47:19 PM »
Now wait a minute.

I was an extra in that movie, a cavalryman with no speaking part, and I'll watch it over and over until I find myself on that screen.

BTW, Sammy is the greatest actor I ever met... as a person.

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Re: Worst Western Actors
« Reply #19 on: May 18, 2014, 09:15:24 PM »
Richard Farnsworth, no contest! Seemed like a nice fellow and looked the part but should have stayed a stunt man.

 

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