The comments seem to show the AFI isn't correct in so many cases. I agree.

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Depictions of accurate shooting......but not many depictions of realistic shooting. Gus McCrae excepted. The 'Quigley Shot' is not possible. The rifle Quigley used was so heavy that an aluminum copy was made for Mr. Sellick to appear to fire from the shoulder. Mr. Sellick is no small or weak man either. All the 'fast draw and hip-shooting' are mostly Hollywood crap - not to say they don't make for good movies! And, of course, everyone toting a Colt Single Action Army - model of 1873 and not really available for commercial sale till the Army Contract had been filled a couple of years later. No way in Hell would any of the cowboys in 'Red River' have had one. But good movie!

Another character actor from the period for any follow up episodes is John Fielder. Few people, even from his era, remember his name but they'll know his face from everything from 12 Angry Man to Lawyer Daggett in the original True Grit. They'll also know his voice as Piglet from the Disney Winnie the Pooh cartoons.

Any of the actors in The Magnificent Seven!

I thought Rio Grande was the best of the cavalry trilogy. Better than either Fort Apach or She Wore a Yellow Ribbon.

So glad to see Breakheart Pass on this list! Full of action and suspense! One of the last movies I saw at the drive-in before they tore it down! A huge screen is the best way to see this movie. The scenery is fantastic!

Seen Akins and Elam in a ton of movies. If they showed up the movie was better. Nothing wrong with the other ones you showed either.

Day of the Outlaw was excellent. I don't know anyone but myself who knows Joel McRae. Shame.

It's a real gift to be an effective character actor in many different series, especially when in some you portray villains, others good guys. I can only imagine the preparation it must take to jump from role to role like this with such ease!

So many wonderful movies, so little appreciated today. As we discussed in your recent Hall of Fame video, even the greats are being ignored by the young of today. When our generation passes, I fear there will be few to carry on the love of the greats (whether Western or other genre)....

I am going to give a very overlooked supporting actor: William Demarest ( My Three Sons) His Westerns? 1: Along Came Jones ( Gary Cooper & Loretta Young). 2: Escape From Fort Bravo ( William Holden). 3: Whispering Smith ( Alan Ladd). 4: Never A Dull Moment ( modern day western with Fred MacMurray & Irene Dunne). 5: The Far Horizons ( Charlton Heston). Worked with some of the best: Cooper, Holden, Ladd & Heston. I am also a huge Irene Dunne fan ( I love her in anything except musicals)

Great list, but you’re still stubbornly insisting on slaughtering Budd Boetticher’s and Yakima Canutt’s names. Why?

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Wrangler: Hood selections: Here are a few more: 1: Gunfighters: Randolph Scott with the best job of casting non related women as sisters I ever saw: Dorothy Hart ( Good) & Barbara Britton ( Bad) 2: I Take This Woman. Modern Day ( 1931) western with Gary Cooper & Carole Lombard. 3: The Texan: Cooper & Fay Wray. 4: Branded; ( 1950). A remake of The Texan with Alan Ladd & Mona Freeman. 4: Cowboy & The Movie Star ( 1998). Absolutely brilliant modern day western with Sean Young. 5: Mexican Moon. Takes place in the 1970’s but made in 2021. Great modern western 6: Hostiles: Maybe Christian Bale’s most under appreciated film. 7: The Furies ( 1950). 8: Hell’s Heroes ( 1930). Original version of 3 Godfathers. Directed by William Wyler. 9: 1000 Pieces of Gold. Very uplifting true story 10: 2 Flags West: The stunning Linda Darnell is never more lovely and doing her best acting as well 11: The Range Feud: Buck Jones and in a supporting role: John Wayne. 12 The Redhead & the Cowboy: Rhonda Fleming & Glenn Ford as the title characters. Co-Starring Alan Reed: Who was he? Voice of Fred Flintstone.

Great list! Many of my favorites!

This is great, Wrangler. Honoring these great character actors. You are fantastic at picking different subjects every day. This is just an idea, and you might not have the material to do it, but ever think about doing actors known for well identified characters in a tv series or movies that has done their share of westerns. For example DeForest Kelly, know for his role as Doctor Leonard McCoy on Star Trek who did a lot if westerns himself.

Reap the Wild Wind was re-released when I was a very small boy in the early 1950s. From the day I saw it until the day of John Wayne's death, John Wayne was my favorite actor.

A made for TV movie; a Gunfight with Kirk Douglas and Johnny Cash. Two different endings.

Nice stuff, they are rifles, guns, pistols and revolvers poor choice to call them weapons im sure if you went to a resteraunt and cuttlery was not on the table you would ask the waiter for a knife not a weapon, just saying.

No, I do not agree with the list. But some were great.

Ben Cooper and Jim Davis in Duel at Apache Wells. Ben Cooper had the fastest draw in Hollywood. Not bad for a Connecticut boy.

Hi, "Wrangler"..., Because of you and your "My Favorite 10" ( John Wayne ) movies..., I decided to watch the "Cowboys" again ! ! * You and the movie ( Cowboys ) changed my mind and now ( Cowboys ) is in my "TOP 10" John Wayne Western movies... * I "Thank You"... * Excellent video and very informative, and "Thank you" for sharing the video ! ! Excellent video and information... "Semper Fi" Mike in Montana :)

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Gary Cooper is number one in my book. Why? I am waiting for anyone who can find a bad Cooper performance in a western ( despite doing over 20 of them).

Here are a few you overlooked 1: Colt 45. Randolph Scott was an actor who really knew how to use guns. 2:Texas Across The River: Why? Alain Delon and the turkey shoot scene. 3: Winchester 73: Obvious overlook. 4: The Violent Men: Watch Glenn Ford versus Brian Keith. Shows accuracy over speed clearly. 5: Vera Cruz: Burt Lancaster & Gary Cooper showing how accurate they are with rifles to the Mexican Government. Later on, one of the great showdown scenes with Cooper over Lancaster.

John Qualen, 8 movies and Hank Worden, 9 movies.

Great list! Not Westerns, but I liked Wake of the Red Witch and Island in the Sky

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Hondo, easily Wayne's best and fairest regard to Native peoples.

Good list although I liked Rio Grande instead of Fort Apache while for me El Dorado is nothing more than warmed-over Rio Bravo.

A better video would would be who is NOT in the Western performers hall of fame. William Holden, Robert Ryan, Van Heflin, and here is the ultimate overlook: Charles Bronson. Bronson falls in most Top 10 Western Performers lists. He also starred in two films that starred in two films that are in most people’s top 10 westerns list: Once Upon A Time In The West & The Magnificent 7.

I have visited the Cowboys Hall of Fame in Oklahoma and it is worth the time, very much so! Also, the Gene Autry Museum in Los Angeles is very entertaining for lovers of the real & reel old west!Thank you for including the stars form the smaller production movie companies!

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I haven't seen all of "The Greatest Western Performers" videos yet, but I thought you might include Kevin Kostner in your video on accuracy in Westerns. I think the scene, in the movie "Silverado" where Jake backs a rifleman up some stairs qualifies him as being an accurate pistol shot. The movie has all four of the principaI characters making amazingly accurate shots. I also believe that "Dances with Wolves" fits him into one of "The Greatest Western Performers" category.

Strother Martin has always been my favorite.

Alan Ladd.

Walter Brennan continued to give great performances in the,,60s and 70s . He was a hoot in Support your local Sheriff.

James Stewart in Winchester 73 should be in here.

Another is Lebeouf from up on the c!iff in True Grit 2010.

Good choices! A couple more candidates: 1. My Name is Nobody. Scenes where both Fonda/Hill shoot holes in each other's hats; Fonda hitting saddle packs at range in train standoff. 2. Destry Rides Again. Destry shoots decorations off sign to show how much harmless 'fun' guns can be. 3. Winchester '73. Stewart wins rifle in sharpshooting contest. 4. Blazing Saddles. Most unrealistic, but fun, when Jim shoots pistols out of hands of numerous foes; also at great range shoots dynamite bundles that have failed to ignite...with a pistol!

I like the selection

So many icons! I wonder if the young folk of today are even aware of most of them....

Nice selection of films. I look forward to part two.

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How come James Arness , Ken Curtis Robert Fuller John Mcintire and many others from the western genre haven’t been listed on your video , you might want to update your stuff even if it’s an hour long I’ll watch it I love westerns

I would love to see you do something about Bob Steele

James Ellison, Russell Hayden, Ray Corrigan, Max Terhune, Donald Woods, Charles Starrett, Jim Davis, Forrest Tucker, Raymond Hatton, Fred Scott, too many to count.

Last I heard was Peter Breck better remembered as Nick Barkley on the series The Big Valley had the fastest gun draw in all of Hollywood cowboy stars .

The Quick and the Dead was about the stupidest western ever made.