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Old 30-06-2008, 12:35 AM
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I never fully recovered from seeing Shalako...

I mean Connery as a gunfighter - Eric Sykes out west - and it wasn't a spoof!

And then I found out that John Mills made a western - Chuka (1967)! I've never seen it - keep missing it when they show it on TV.

Who are your favourite or least favourite Brits to ride west?

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Favourite - Ian McShane in Deadwood.

Least favourite - Dirk Bogarde and Johnny Mills in The Singer Not the Song - LOVE the actors. Found the movie utterly perplexing.
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John Cleese in SILVERADO.
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Michael Gambon in "Open Range"

(Excellent movie btw. Highly recommended if you haven't seen it.)
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I liked John Hurt in 'Heaven's Gate'.
.....You couldn't hear it, if they were shooting at me with howitzers!
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(Excellent movie btw. Highly recommended if you haven't seen it.)
Yes! A superb performance in an amazingly well made film!

Stetson hats off to Kevin Costner for keeping the genre alive.



I know he wasn't technically a Brit - or was he? But Richard Harris gave a great turn as English Bob in Eastwood's Unforgiven - "The Duck of Death" himself!
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I know he wasn't technically a Brit - or was he? But Richard Harris gave a great turn as English Bob in Eastwood's Unforgiven
Richard Harris was born in Limerick and Michael Gambon in Dublin - so they're as British as each other really!

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The late Percy Herbert in a western TV series. I forgot the name, he played an Irishman and very good too.
I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous.
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Richard Harris was born in Limerick and Michael Gambon in Dublin - so they're as British as each other really!

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Not necessarly. Spike Milligan was born in India - didn't make him Indian.

Also, I don't know if Harris (or Gambon) ever became British citizens/passport holders. There is an element of choice in it as well as parental/geographical determination.

For the record: Michael is a British citizen.
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Stephen Boyd was in several westerns. The Bravados, Shalako, The Man

called Noon, Charge !

Terence Stamp seemed a bit out of place in Blue!
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Terence Stamp seemed a bit out of place in Blue!
Did he not also play a Scotsman (apparently with brain-damage if his accent was anything to go by!) in Young Guns?
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Oliver Reed in The Great Scout and Cathouse Thursday - playing a Red Indian
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Charles Laughton in Ruggles of Red Gap (1935)
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Richard Harris was born in Limerick and Michael Gambon in Dublin - so they're as British as each other really!

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The Republic of Ireland only became the Republic in 1937. Richard Harris was born in 1930. Limerick was part of the Irish Free State at the time.

It depends not only where you were born, but when you were born and what country that piece of land was part of at the time.

Although, as Graeme said with the example of Spike Milligan, it's not only where (and when) you were born that determines nationality

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