Top 10 Greatest Cowboys In Movie Of All Time
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A lot of people have romantic notions about America's Wild West. They dream of a time when people rode on horseback and followed their own code of ethics. Back then, there was still land to discover, and people settled their differences with a showdown at high noon.
It seems like it would have been an exciting time to be alive, which is probably why so many people flock to Westerns, and why these stories often feature so many iconic characters. Here is a list of the greatest cowboy characters to ever grace the big and small screens.
The List of Top 10 Greatest Movie Cowboys Of All Time
1.Gary Cooper
2.Henry Fonda
3.The Ringo Kid (John Wayne)
4.Jason McCullough (James Garner)
5.James Stewart
6.Clint Eastwood
7.Rio (Marlon Brando)
8.The Lone Ranger (Clayton Moore)
9.Woody
10.Will Penny (Charlton Heston)
Who are the greatest cowboys in movie?
1.Gary Cooper
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Born in Montana, Cooper became an authentic star in the first major sound western, The Virginian (1929), heir apparent to the great silent cowboy William S Hart. For the following 30 years, his rangy, laconic presence was a permanent feature of frontier movies including three DeMille epics. His greatest period was the 1950s when he won an Oscar in the anti-McCarthy allegory High Noon, co-starred with Burt Lancaster in Vera Cruz and made Man of the West. When he died in 1961, Corriere della Sera wrote: “Perhaps with him there has ended a certain America: that of the frontier and of innocence”
2.Henry Fonda
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“I’m not really Henry Fonda, nobody could have that much integrity,” Fonda said of his screen persona, and his western role that first comes to mind is the upright Wyatt Earp in Ford’s My Darling Clementine (1946). But in his first two westerns, Jesse James (1939) and The Return of Frank James (1940), he played outlaws, albeit sympathetic ones; in his last important film, Sergio Leone’s Once Upon a Time in the West (1968), he was a cold-blooded killer. Leone, a life-long admirer, thought he looked best in extreme close-up and long shot. His son, Peter, and daughter, Jane, both made significant westerns.
3.The Ringo Kid (John Wayne)
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Ringo set the template for every John Wayne performance in a western. Handy with a shotgun, polite with the ladies, and more at ease on the frontier than in civilized society, the character was a game changer for the actor, Stagecoach director John Ford, and the western genre. To this day, anywhere in the world, John Wayne remains the idealized personification of the American cowboy of the Old West. And if nothing that has happened since — from the darker Sergio Leone westerns to the potty-mouthed Deadwood — has been able to shake that perception, odds are The Duke will still be topping lists like this in another hundred years.
4.Jason McCullough (James Garner)
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Jason McCullough just wanted to go to Australia; he wound up sheriff in a town where the jail doesn’t have any bars. Support Your Local Sheriff celebrates the lighter side of the West, and there’s no better ringmaster for this type of adventure than James Garner, already a veteran at the wiseass cowboy routine from his years playing Bret Maverick. Self-assured even when improvising his way out of an ambush, McCullough is a reminder that a quick wit will get you out of more trouble than a fast draw.
5.James Stewart
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Tall, gangling, his “aw shucks” country-boy manner much influenced by Gary Cooper, Stewart made his western debut opposite Marlene Dietrich in the comic Destry Rides Again (1939). But it was his collaboration with Anthony Mann on Winchester 73 (1950) and four more intense westerns, invariably playing an obsessed avenger, that made him a key figure in the genre. When Mann cast Cooper in Man of the West (1958) Stewart never spoke to him again. He also played opposite Wayne in Ford’s subtle The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, a fable about the western itself, and was Wayne’s doctor in The Shootist
6.Clint Eastwood
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In 1964, Eastwood was snatched from the semi-obscurity of TV by Sergio Leone for his Dollar trilogy of spaghetti westerns and became the last American star to owe his reputation to cowboy movies. His semi-mystical “man with no name” persona clung to him, and he directed his first western, the Italianate High Plains Drifter, in 1973. After that he made only three more: The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976), Pale Rider (1985) and Unforgiven (1992). Following the comparable success of Kevin Costner’s Dances With Wolves, Unforgiven, which won Oscars for best film and direction, was wrongly hailed as the harbinger of a western renaissance.
7.Rio (Marlon Brando)
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Rio is a brooding Billy the Kid pastiche perfectly suited to Marlon Brando, who turned the 60-day shooting schedule of One-Eyed Jacks into a six-month marathon, as he obsessed over every scene as both star and director. The result was worth it, even if audiences didn’t think so at the time. The character’s steely-eyed stares, introspective pondering, and sudden bursts of temper were something of a revelation for the western genre, but Brando’s off-the-charts charisma made it impossible to look away.
8.The Lone Ranger (Clayton Moore)
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As ludicrous as a bright blue jumpsuit looks on a cowboy hero, The Lone Ranger remains as iconic as Superman, a credit to the sincerity and kid-friendly appeal of Clayton Moore. Through adventures on radio and television and in movies and comic books, the masked rider of the plains was the vigilante you could bring home to mother. And through his partnership with Tonto, he created a new Old West dynamic: the cowboy and the Indian, faithful companion and Kemosabe. The thrilling days of yesteryear have passed us by, but don’t dismiss the legend of The Lone Ranger yet — a new version is now in the works with Johnny Depp as Tonto.
9.Woody
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In 1954, US poet Horace Gregory and German futurologist Robert Jungk (Tomorrow Is Already Here) both predicted the imminent replacement of the cowboy hero by the spaceman. Fifty years later in the Toy Story trilogy, the dutiful, principled cowboy doll, Woody, is still competing for Andy’s affections with his rival, Buzz Lightyear, the vainglorious space ranger. The non-aggressive Woody has an empty holster and he’s voiced by Tom Hanks, who’s played an astronaut but hasn’t been nearer a western than running through Monument Valley in Forrest Gump.
10.Will Penny (Charlton Heston)
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Will is a loner who can’t settle down, even when presented with the most comfortable of homes and a caring woman to love. He is a “good, steady hand,” who does what’s right. A man like that deserves a comfortable retirement, but sometimes a virtuous life doesn’t leave much to rely on in its twilight. Lacking the bombast of a typical Charlton Heston hero, Will is just another rugged man in a rugged age who had the guts but never got the glory.
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