Good point. McLaglen seemingly had a greater role range, due perhaps to a coterie of Hollywood buddies, but Ben Johnson, of Pawnee OK was an astute observer of behaviors - from Mighty Joe Young thru Shane thru The Last Picture Show. Both men added personas that shored up leading characters. I'll always remember the look Ben Johnson gave the two boys as they set off for a weekend in Mexico in The Last Picture Show. That look spoke volumes of emotion. I guess I remember it because I'm an old man. That "look" showed age's experiences and regrets because it was an old man seeing two young men making the mistakes that young men must make to become old men.

@@nomadpi1, almost every movie I see, I like the second actor better than the main star. That second actor is also usually the one that gets killed in the movie.

I have to agree with Ben Johnson 100% He had a prolific movie and television career making appearances on shows like Bonanza and Laramie.

@@Dixie60 Only one I can come up with off the top of my head where Elam survived was Once Upon A Texas Train. It's quite a fun one, especially if you like aging character actors, since they made up a bunch of the cast.

@@nomadpi1 Sugarland Express????

Yeap, Strother Martin there is a two part Gunsmoke where he plays an old miner. "Island in the Desert" Festus is shot by the killer he is pursuing in the blazing desert, only to be helped by a crazed hermit and forced to tote water to try and get him to a town 80 miles away. Strother Martin's character has a pet snake which he later uses as a weapon .The year before Martin played a scientist researching snakes and developing a serum .The last scenes martin plays bring tears to your eyes and don't forget the classic line from Cool Hand Luke.... "what we got here is a fail to communicate"

Jack's my favorite as well, I'm 71 and must have seen him in over a 100 movies

Richard Boone as Paladin.

Bruce Dern complained his career was ruined for a tad after killing John Wayne in The Cowboys. Nobody would hire The Duke's killer.

@@kuvasz5252 My wife hates my Panama hat, because ever time I wear it, she knows I'm going to figure out some way to work that line into our conversation 😄

I loved him and James Garner in Support your Local Sheriff and Support your Local Gunfighter.

@@pauljoyner4338 great movies

I don't think there's a role Jack Elam couldn't play excellently. Good guy, funny guy, evil guy, serious guy, smart, dumb, loyal, conniving... I've seen him do everything and in movies, TV shows, interviews. Behind that pretty face was a very smart man with endless skill.

@@PlanetEarth3141 well said

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Jack Palance in "Shane".

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I haven’t seen the movie in decades but Jack had a small part in ‘Dirty Dingus Magee’ where he was a deadly and feared gunslinger but had someone shoot his hat off his head a few times.

I agree with you about Jack Elam, he and Walter Brennen were pretty much my favorite. My favorite bad guy is Lee Van Cleef. I don't like to think of Walter Brennen as a bad guy but he was in several films and did a great job.

Agree about L.Q. Jones, and Brennan was the best actor in any group.

Martin was great.

Couldn't agree more on both counts.

I thought Marvin's inclusion here was leaning more to the leading man. Strother Martin was great indeed!

The narrator does say that Lee Marvin started as a supporting character, then turned into a star.

Lee Marvin started acting in 1951. His Wikipedia entry says: "Marvin finally became a star for his comic role in the offbeat Western Cat Ballou (1965)".

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That's Correct...especially since his son's name is Newly O'Brien the Dodge City gun smith/ part time Doctor/ part time deputy/ all around flunky for Matt..

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John Dehner must have done 100 Gunsmokes playing different characters.

never knew that about John Doucette, interesting.

I always say "the GREAT John Dehner" when I see him on the screen. My wife is tired of me doing it, but I can't help it. Did you see him as an FAA investigator in Columbo?

@@psiclops521 I saw that. He also played a Commodore who waS killed on a yacht in Columbo. Saw him on the Rockford Files. Great actor.

I don't know if you know it or not, Ken Curtis was also a great singer. You can hear him on u-tube. He was also an original member of the singing cowboys. He had a great voice. I think a lot of these character actors made more movies then the supposed stars. They were all stars.

@@larryambrose2660 Thanks! Yes I did know that. I believe it was The Sons of the Pioneers that also Roy Rogers sang with. Ken had a great voice and was quite a good looking chap without his Festus characture garb. They do not make them like they used to!

Well Lee van Cleef was a star in my eyes .But yeah how Victor McLaglen isnt in this is a mystery…

@@larryambrose2660 Thanks for the additions to the list as I 100% agree with your choices.

There's a chicken shop called "slim chickens", always makes me laugh

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The Hunt was my favorite Twilight Zone also. Always makes me cry at the end.

"The Hunt" with Authur Hunnicut is my favorite Twilight Zone episode. +1

His part in 1941 is one of the funniest things I've ever seen.

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Absolutely!

I agree and what about Eli Wallach?

@@colintapp4876 Bang on mate !

@@colintapp4876 Eli Wallach was not really a character actor but was an “A Lister” that shared top billing with other well known actors.

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Did you see Dern in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Great !

Yep, Bruce Dern was outstanding in 'The Cowboys', and most all roles he ever played.

@@famouspeople63 I checked it out, very good! I guess Bruce was more in the star quality than a character actor, not anything against those guys for sure. My favorite on your list was Jack Elam.

Will Penny, The Cowboys.

I loved Arthur Hunnicutt. He played the same character and even wore the same outfit with the coonskin hat in almost all of his appearances.

Yes, I also look for who is in the background in westerns, a lot of regulars pop up regularly

I love strother Martin, but don’t think he was the greatest. I’d say Walter Brennan was the greatest.

Great list. I think Yakima Canutt is a great call. I always thought of him more of a stunt man/coordinator but I'm glad you included him.

Quite the list

I loved him as Aldo in Battle for the Planet of the Apes and as Sheriff Lobo. Amongst a pile of other stuff he did.

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Nah Eli was a Star Actor.

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Sorry about Dad 🙁 reMember Jack Elam in " Kansas City Confidential " as ill faded chain smoking Pete 👍

R.I.P. Elam and your dad

In my family, he was called (sorry) “Ol’ Ugly,” and we all watched him in everything we could find. Somehow, he was just special.

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I met him and his wife many years ago in Baja California Husong or some name like that Ensenada I think this was the’70s

A good one. He also appeared a lot in "Gunsmoke". Also, tossed in Royal Dano, Morgan Woodward, Leo Gordon, and Neville Brand.

All great baddies mentioned. Dano tended to play eccentrics and Gordon had a scary deep voice. Could I throw in Jeff Corey who was wonderfull in True Grit? ( The John Wayne one )

Not correct, he was Pearce

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So nice of you

Yes some of the best

Yes quite the character

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Thank you very much!

Appreciate it

Some of the best

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Thanks both good stories

John Ford's insults were spoken of as jokingly. They weren't. If John Ford was looking for an asshole, he merely should have looked into a mirror.

Ford was THE BIGGEST asshole. A bully.

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His son Buck, of Gunsmoke is still alive.

I never knew Buck was his son thanks for the info

@@rufust.firefly4890 never knew that thanks

Dub Taylor always wore his bowler hat in whatever role he played.

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Yes and they really were a tight group, a family as you say

Very true. I saw Ben Johnson in a rodeo deal in Houston Texas. A real cowboy.

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Very unique

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Interesting comparison

Charles Bronson and Lee Van Cleef outclassed Clint in the Character actor department 👍👍

@@rafaelramirez1507 Yes but they actually played completely different characters in different movies. Clint is Clint in every movie.

@@MichaelClark-uw7ex yes ,but Clint wasn't actually a character actor , 95% of the time he was a front line top star actor , while Bronson and Lee Van Cleef had over 150 television appeances where they gueststarred as character actors , before they became front line star actors .... so in reality Clint Eastwood has got nothing on Bronson & Lee Van Cleef in character acting .... only as a Star is Eastwood over the two , he starred in lots & lots of "movie" classics

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Winchester was a pivotal role for him, I think

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Elam is there. Also I have videos on both of them in the channel

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Thanks so much. A good start

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Ye-ha!

Yes some chsracter and support actors broke through and made names for themselves

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Also an excellent singer.

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So was Ben Johnson.

These characters really made these movies. Without them would be void of life and texture

Probably referring to Percy Helton .The little man with a squeaky voice who gave up Butch and Sundance Kid to the posse.Great little actor.

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@@famouspeople63 I don't know about that, your Women in Western video got over 5.6K views. Maybe this one could do well too?

Thanks, Western scores is on my list.