Cowboy Actors

The movie Western is an unlikely franchise, largely because of the difficulty of wrangling all those horses. But since the Silent Era it has been popular because of the Good Guy/Bad Guy dynamic. For better or worse numerous actors became typecast as Western archetypes. Others transcended it with diverse career roles. Here are the ones I remembered.

Tom Mixx

John Wayne

Randolph Scott

Audie Murphy

Gene Autry

Roy Rogers

George O’Brien

Johnny Mack Brown

Harry Carey

Hoot Gibson

Walter Brennan

Clayton Moore

Alan Ladd

Jack Buetel

James Stewart

Ward Bond

Glenn Ford

William Holden

Dub Taylor

Jack Elam

Arthur Hunnicut

Charles Starrett

Harry Caey Jr.

Patrick Wayne