- John Wayne
John Wayne (May 26, 1907 - June 11, 1979) was an iconic, Academy Award-winning, American film actor. He epitomized ruggedly individualistic masculinity, and has become an enduring American icon. He is famous for his distinctive voice, walk and height. In 1999, the American Film Institute named Wayne thirteenth among the Greatest Male Stars of All Time. A Harris Poll released in 2007 placed Wayne third among America's favorite film stars, … - Clint Eastwood
Clint Eastwood (born Clinton Eastwood, Jr. on May 31, 1930) is an American actor, composer, film director and producer. While his recent work as a director, on films like "Million Dollar Baby" and "Letters from Iwo Jima", is consistently praised by critics, Eastwood is perhaps most famous for his tough guy, anti-hero acting roles, … - William Boyd
William Boyd (June 5, 1895 - September 12, 1972) was an American actor. Born William Lawrence Boyd in Cambridge, Ohio, he was raised in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He became famous as a Hollywood leading man in silent film romances with a yearly salary of $100,000, but by the end of the 1920s his career had begun to deteriorate, Boyd was without a contract and going broke. - Roy Rogers
Leonard Franklin Slye (November 5, 1911 - July 6, 1998), who became famous as Roy Rogers, was a singer and cowboy actor. He and his second wife Dale Evans, his golden palomino Trigger, and his German shepherd, Bullet, were featured in over one hundred movies and "The Roy Rogers Show". The show ran on radio for nine years before moving to television from 1951 through 1957. His productions usually featured two sidekicks, Pat Brady, … - Lee van Cleef
Lee Van Cleef (January 9 1925 - December 16 1989) was an American film actor, who appeared mostly in Western and action pictures. His sharp features and piercing eyes made him an ideal "bad guy," though he was occasionally cast in a hero's role, such as a bounty hunter in "For a Few Dollars More". - Gregory Peck
Gregory Peck (April 5, 1916 - June 12, 2003) was an Academy Award-winning American film actor. He was one of 20th Century Fox's most popular film stars, from the 1940s to the 1960s, and played important roles well into the 1990s. One of his most notable performances was as Atticus Finch in the 1963 film version of "To Kill a Mockingbird", for which he won an Academy Award. - Harry Carey
Harry Carey (January 16, 1878 - September 21, 1947) was an American actor and one of silent film's earliest superstars. - Gene Autry
Orvon Gene Autry (September 29 1907 - October 2 1998) was an American performer who gained fame as The Singing Cowboy on the radio, in movies and on television. - James Stewart
James Maitland Stewart (May 20, 1908 - July 2, 1997) was an iconic, Academy Award-winning American film and stage actor, best known for his self-effacing screen persona. Over the course of his career, he starred in many films widely considered classics and was nominated for five Oscars, winning one in competition and one life achievement. He also had a noted military career, rising to the rank of Brigadier General in the United States Air Force. - Buck Jones
Buck Jones (born Charles Gebhart, December 4, 1889, Vincennes, Indiana; died November 30, 1942 in Boston, Massachusetts) was an American motion picture star of the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s, best known for his work starring in many popular western movies. In his early film appearances, he was billed as Charles Jones. Jones had more than 160 film credits to his name, in a career that began in 1918. - Tom Mix
Thomas Edwin Mix (born Thomas Hezikiah Mix was an American film actor and the star of many early Western movies. He made a reported 336 films between 1910 and 1935, all but 9 of which were silent features. He was Hollywood’s first Western megastar and is noted as having defined the genre for all cowboy actors who followed. - Jack Palance
Jack Palance (February 18, 1919 - November 10, 2006) was an Oscar-winning American film actor. With his rugged facial features and gravelly voice, Palance was best known to modern movie audiences as both the characters of Curly and Duke in the two "City Slickers" movies, but his career spanned half a century of film and television appearances. - Robert Redford
Robert Redford (born Charles Robert Redford, Jr. on August 18 1936), is a American motion picture actor, director, producer, businessman, model, environmentalist, and philanthropist. One of Hollywood's biggest superstars, Redford's appeal has lasted several decades. - Smiley Burnette
Lester Alvin (Smiley) Burnette (born March 18, 1911, Summum, Illinois - February 16, 1967, Encino, California), an American singer-songwriter who could play as many as 100 different musical instruments, was a successful comedy actor in Western films over three decades. Burnette began singing in childhood and learned to play a variety of instruments while still a boy. In his teens, he worked in vaudeville and at a local radio station. - Will Rogers
William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers (November 4, 1879 - August 15, 1935) was an American comedian, humorist, social commentator, vaudeville performer, and actor. He has been named Oklahoma's favorite son. - Henry Fonda
Henry Jaynes Fonda (May 16, 1905 - August 12, 1982) was a highly acclaimed Academy Award-winning American film and stage actor, best known for his roles as plain-speaking idealists. Fonda's subtle, naturalistic acting style preceded by many years the popularization of method acting. Fonda made his mark early as a Broadway actor, and made his Hollywood debut in 1935. - Gary Cooper
Gary Cooper was a two-time Academy Award-winning American film actor of English heritage. His career spanned from the 1920s until the year of his death, and saw him make one hundred films. He was renowned for his quiet, understated acting style and his stoic, individualistic, emotionally restrained, but at times intense screen persona, which was particularly well suited for the many Westerns he made. Cooper received five Oscar nominations for Best Actor, winning twice. - Anthony Quinn
Anthony Quinn was a two-time Academy Award-winning Mexican/American actor, as well as a painter and writer. He is perhaps best known in the US for his roles in two Hollywood films, the title role in "Zorba the Greek" and his Oscar-winning performance in "Viva Zapata!", while in the rest of the world he is associated with his role of the brutish circus strongman Zampanò in Federico Fellini's "La strada". - Randolph Scott
Randolph Scott was an American motion picture actor whose career spanned from 1928 to 1962. - Kevin Costner
Kevin Michael Costner (born January 18, 1955) is an American film actor and director who has often produced his own films. - Harry Carey Jr.
Harry Carey, Jr. (nickname "Dobe") (born May 16, 1921 in Saugus, California) is an American film actor. Harry Carey Jr. appeared in over 90 films. He is mostly remembered for appearing in western films and television programs. He is the son of acclaimed actor, Harry Carey (1878-1947) and actress Olive Fuller Golden (1896-1988). A respected character actor, like his father, he acted in a large number of Western genre films. They appeared together in the acclaimed 1948 film, … - James Coburn
James Harrison Coburn (August 31, 1928 - November 18, 2002) was an Academy Award-winning American actor. - Glenn Ford
Gwyllyn Samuel Newton "Glenn" Ford (May 1, 1916 - August 30, 2006) was an acclaimed Canadian-born actor from Hollywood's Golden Era with a career that spanned seven decades. He was born to Anglo-Quebecer parents at Jeffrey Hale Hospital in Quebec City, Quebec and was a grand-nephew of Canada's first Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald. Ford moved to Santa Monica, California with his family at the age of eight, and became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1939. - William S. Hart
William Surrey Hart (December 6, 1864 in Newburgh, New York - June 23, 1946 in Newhall, California) was a silent film actor, screenwriter, director, and producer. A successful Shakespearian actor on Broadway, William S. Hart went on to become one of the first great stars of the motion picture western. Hart appeared in original 1899 stage production of " Ben Hur." He entered films in 1914 where, after playing supporting roles in two short films, … - John Russell
John Russell was an American actor most noted for playing Marshal Dan Troop in the western television series "Lawman" from 1958 to 1962. Born John Lawrence Russell in Los Angeles, California, he fit the Hollywood image of tall, dark, and handsome. He attended the University of California as a student athlete. Following the outbreak of World War II, he joined the United States Marines, received a battlefield commission as lieutenant at Guadacanal, … - Ernest Borgnine
Ernest Borgnine (born Ermes Effron Borgnino in Hamden, Connecticut on January 24, 1917) is a Golden Globe, BAFTA and Academy Award winning American actor. Borgnine is the son of Carlo Borgnino and Anna Boselli, who immigrated to the U.S. from Modena, Italy. His parents divorced when he was two years old and he and his mother went to live in Italy, but five years later they returned to Hamden, Connecticut, where he attended public schools. - Kirk Douglas
Kirk Douglas (born Issur Danielovitch Demsky December 9, 1916) is an American actor and film producer known for his gravelly voice and his recurring roles as the kinds of characters Douglas himself once described as "sons of bitches". He is also father to Hollywood actor and producer Michael Douglas. - Edgar Buchanan
Edgar Buchanan was an American actor with a long career in both film and television, most familiar today as Uncle Joe Carson from the "Petticoat Junction" and "Green Acres" television sitcoms of the 1960s. As Uncle Joe "who is moving kinda slow", he took over as proprietor of the Shady Rest Hotel following the death of Bea Benaderet, who had played Kate Bradley. - Yakima Canutt
Yakima Canutt (November 29, 1896 - May 24, 1986) was an American actor and stuntman in Hollywood movies from the 1920s through the 1950s. He was born Enos Edward Canutt in the Snake River Hills, near Colfax, Washington. As a young man, he gained fame as a very successful rodeo rider. He got his nickname when he was caught fraternizing with several rival rodeo performers from Yakima, Washington. His friends never let him forget and the name stuck. - Charles Bronson
Charles Bronson was an American actor of "tough guy" roles. In most of his roles he starred as a brutal police detective, a western gunfighter, vigilante, boxer or a Mafia hitman. - Errol Flynn
Errol Leslie Thomson Flynn was an Australian-born film actor, most famous for his romantic swashbuckler roles in Hollywood films and his flamboyant lifestyle. - Tex Ritter
Tex Ritter (January 12, 1905 - January 2, 1974) was an American country singer and actor. - Van Heflin
Van Heflin (December 13, 1910 - July 23, 1971) was an Academy Award-winning American film and theater actor. - Lane Chandler
Lane Chandler (June 4, 1899 - September 14, 1972) was an American actor specializing in Westerns. He was born Robert Chandler Oakes in rural South Dakota, the son of a horse rancher. At an early age, the family relocated to Culbertson, Montana and later to Helena, Montana, where he graduated from high school. He briefly attended Montana Wesleyan College (which later merged and became part of Rocky Mountain College), … - Burt Lancaster
Burt Lancaster was an Oscar-winning American film actor, noted for his athletic physique (a rare thing for leading men of that time), distinct smile (which he called "The Grin") and, later, his willingness to play roles that went against his initial "tough guy" image. Initially dismissed as "Mr Muscles and Teeth", in the late 1950s Lancaster would abandon his all-American image and gradually he would be regarded as one of the best actors of his generation. - Lee Marvin
Lee Marvin (February 19, 1924 - August 29, 1987) was an Academy Award-winning American film actor. Known for his gravelly voice, Marvin was originally limited to playing mostly villains and war veterans in supporting parts on the big screen, but later (after winning a Best Actor Oscar) he appeared in more heroic and sympathetic roles. - John Carradine
John Carradine (February 5, 1906 - November 27, 1988) was a Daytime Emmy Award winning American actor, best known for his roles in horror films and Westerns. Carradine appeared in ten John Ford productions, including "The Grapes of Wrath" (1940) and "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" (1962). He also portrayed the Biblical hero Aaron in "The Ten Commandments" (1956). - Joel McCrea
Joel Albert McCrea, (November 5, 1905 - October 20, 1990) was an American film actor. Born in South Pasadena, California, McCrea became interested in films after graduating from Pomona College. He worked as an extra in films from 1927 before being cast in a major role in "The Jazz Age" (1929). A contract with MGM followed, and then another contract with RKO. - Paul Newman
Paul Leonard Newman (born January 26, 1925) is an Academy Award, Golden Globe, Cannes Award, and Emmy Award-winning American actor and film director. He is also the founder of Newman's Own, a food company of which all profits and royalties are donated to charity. As of May 2007, these donations have exceeded $220 million USD. - Dale Evans
Dale Evans was the stage name of Frances Octavia Smith, a writer, movie star, and singer-songwriter. She was the wife of singing cowboy Roy Rogers.
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