Brits in Westerns

[GRAEME]

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?

[Wicked Lady]

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.

[BristolUK]

John Cleese in SILVERADO.

[narabdela]

Michael Gambon in "Open Range"



(Excellent movie btw. Highly recommended if you haven't seen it.)

[Harleybloke]

I liked John Hurt in 'Heaven's Gate'.

[GRAEME]

name='narabdela']Michael Gambon in "Open Range"



(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!

[Briant]

Kenneth Moore in 'The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw.'

[Dame Starry]

name='GRAEME']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!



DS x.

[earlb]

The late Percy Herbert in a western TV series. I forgot the name, he played an Irishman and very good too.

[GRAEME]

name='Dame Starry']Richard Harris was born in Limerick and Michael Gambon in Dublin - so they're as British as each other really!



DS x.

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.

[wadsy]

Stephen Boyd was in several westerns. The Bravados, Shalako, The Man



called Noon, Charge !



Terence Stamp seemed a bit out of place in Blue!

[GRAEME]

name='wadsy']

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?

[SirOllyBolly]

Oliver Reed in The Great Scout and Cathouse Thursday - playing a Red Indian

[GRAEME]

Charles Laughton in Ruggles of Red Gap (1935)

[Steve Crook]

name='Dame Starry']Richard Harris was born in Limerick and Michael Gambon in Dublin - so they're as British as each other really!



DS x.

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



Steve

[Wicked Lady]

name='GRAEME']Did he not also play a Scotsman (apparently with brain-damage if his accent was anything to go by!) in Young Guns?

Was Terrence Stamp supposed to be Scottish?



Good Lord, I would never have guessed it!

[GRAEME]

name='Wicked Lady']Was Terrence Stamp supposed to be Scottish?



Good Lord, I would never have guessed it!

I wouldn't guess he was meant to be human most of the time!

[scholes]

Liam Neeson(Northern Irish) and Pearce Brosnan (Irish) in Seraphim Falls



Filmed in Oregon and New Mexico, the opening scene quickly sharpens the viewer's appetite for what is to come. The film strikes a worthy note also as probably Brosnan's best role in Cinema

[Joe Fraguela]

A British/Spanish co-production from 1971 called A Town Called Hell which featured brits Robert Shaw, Dudley Sutton and Michael Craig.

[Third Man]

There's also Julie Christie in the excellent McCabe and Mrs Miller by Robert Altman - Harris is in another excellent western as a Irish Confederate in Peckinpahs Major Dundee and more recently Kelly McDonald was in No Country for Old Men, while Christain Bale from Wales was in the new version of 3:10 to Yuma.



Simon