smitty1931 Posted October 20, 2013 Share Posted October 20, 2013 WHO AMONG THE MAJOR MALE STARS NEVER MADE A WESTERN IN HIS CAREER? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kid Dabb Posted October 20, 2013 Share Posted October 20, 2013 Cary Grant Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyM108 Posted October 20, 2013 Share Posted October 20, 2013 If Cary Grant ever made a Western, I don't even want to think about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sepiatone Posted October 20, 2013 Share Posted October 20, 2013 I was going to chime in with Grant as well. I think the closest he came was with SHE DONE HIM WRONG. Sepiatone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kid Dabb Posted October 20, 2013 Share Posted October 20, 2013 Who wouldn't you expect to see in a western? When I first saw Silverado, there was John Cleese as the town Sheriff. After doing a quick double-take I settled back and thought, "Yeah. It's working." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winslow_Leach Posted October 20, 2013 Share Posted October 20, 2013 Well...*Cary Grant* did fight Indians in *Gunga Din*. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlyBackTransformer Posted October 20, 2013 Share Posted October 20, 2013 > Who wouldn't you expect to see in a western? When I first saw Silverado, there was John Cleese as the town Sheriff. After doing a quick double-take I settled back and thought, "Yeah. It's working." Well, british actor Kenneth More played a pacifist sheriff in a western once. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyM108 Posted October 20, 2013 Share Posted October 20, 2013 Well...Cary Grant did fight Indians in Gunga Din. Cue in a reply by "the Major" in Fawlty Towers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fredbaetz Posted October 20, 2013 Share Posted October 20, 2013 Howard Hawks offered Cary Grant the role of Cherry Valance in "Red River", but Grant turned it down. I have to assume the role was a lot different then the one played by John Ireland. I know Hawks cut the part way down because of Ireland's drinking. But Grant had worked with Hawks a number of times in the past and would work again in the future. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopBilled Posted October 20, 2013 Share Posted October 20, 2013 Did Laurence Olivier ever make a western? Humphrey Bogart seems out of place in a western-- but there he is cast as an outlaw in VIRGINIA CITY. I also do not associate Pat O'Brien with westerns-- but yet he does appear in an episode of The Virginian television series in the 1960s, as a country doctor, and it seems to work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lanceroten Posted October 20, 2013 Share Posted October 20, 2013 Cary Grant came to mind. I've seen Cagney in at least one, and uh, well, back to other things here :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfpcc2 Posted October 20, 2013 Share Posted October 20, 2013 I don't think Greta Garbo made a western. I know Jack Lemmon made one western with Glen Ford but I can't remember the name of it. Did Lon Chaney or Peter Lorre Make a western? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyM108 Posted October 20, 2013 Share Posted October 20, 2013 Humphrey Bogart seems out of place in a western-- but there he is cast as an outlaw in VIRGINIA CITY. Bogart was also billed with Cagney in The Oklahoma Kid. (1939). Somehow it failed to win a nomination for Best Picture of the Year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopBilled Posted October 20, 2013 Share Posted October 20, 2013 >Bogart was also billed with Cagney in The Oklahoma Kid. Thanks for mentioning that one. I haven't seen it but have heard about it. Speaking of Cagney, I think he's wonderful in TRIBUTE TO A BAD MAN. That is one of my favorite mid-50s westerns and it would not be as great as it is without him. He should have made more westerns if you ask me! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winslow_Leach Posted October 20, 2013 Share Posted October 20, 2013 Well observed Andy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slaytonf Posted October 21, 2013 Share Posted October 21, 2013 Robert Montgomery. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kid Dabb Posted October 21, 2013 Share Posted October 21, 2013 How about George Raft ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slaytonf Posted October 21, 2013 Share Posted October 21, 2013 While it is true that George Raft has not appeared in any westerns (if you discount his cameo in Around the World in Eighty Days), he does not qualify as he is not an actor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Kimble Posted October 21, 2013 Share Posted October 21, 2013 >Bogart was also billed with Cagney in The Oklahoma Kid. (1939). Somehow it failed to win a nomination for Best Picture of the Year It's a very entertaining film, and I at least prefer it to biggies like Duel In The Sun and Dances With Wolves Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Kimble Posted October 21, 2013 Share Posted October 21, 2013 > I know Jack Lemmon made one western with Glen Ford but I can't remember the name of it It was called, appropriately enough, Cowboy Lemmon also did an episode of TV's Zane Grey Theatre > Did Lon Chaney or Peter Lorre Make a western? Lorre did an episode of Wagon Train Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Kimble Posted October 21, 2013 Share Posted October 21, 2013 > If Cary Grant ever made a Western, I don't even want to think about it If Errol Flynn could do it, why not Grant? Their friend David Niven did some episodes of Zane Grey Theatre Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomJH Posted October 21, 2013 Share Posted October 21, 2013 Flynn was an adventurer throughout his life. That natural adventurous spirit of his embued his screen performances with an authenticity in larger-than-life heroic roles, no matter which action genre in which he worked, including westerns. Because of his uniqueness, he was the only non American-born actor who was a hit at the U.S. box office as a western hero. That was not the case with Grant, though, to be fair, he was excellent in Gunga Din. Take a look at him, though, in The Howards of Virginia as an illustration of a costume film in which he looks completely out of place. That was never the case with Flynn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clore Posted October 21, 2013 Share Posted October 21, 2013 >Did Lon Chaney or Peter Lorre Make a western? Lon Chaney was the villain in RIDDLE GAWNE with William S. Hart. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MilesArcher Posted October 21, 2013 Share Posted October 21, 2013 We had a thread called "Were They Ever In A Western?" a couple of years ago on the "Games And Trivia" forum. It was fun and informative. I don't mind saying that since I started it. Check it out! http://forums.tcm.com/thread.jspa?threadID=156976&tstart=165 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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