Favourite Cowboys

[zabadak]

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Oh yes

[amethyst]

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Agreed! Clint!

Oh yes

[zabadak]

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Agreed! Clint!

[amethyst]

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Fist full of dollars
A few dollars more

[spuggybridge]

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Good, bad and the ugly.

[Zincubus]

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Clint Eastwood

[angliaknight]

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Ty hardin as Bronco lane, Chuck connors on Branded, Dale robertson as Jim hardie on Wells fargo, Robert fuller on Laramie, Dan blocker on Bonanza.

[xmark1234]

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Magnificent severn
The good bad and the ughly
Alamo
True grit

[angliaknight]

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Yes pussywillow, i echo your words exactly, F Troop with Forest Tucker,the long running Wagon Train, and you might want to look for a docu' on youtube called PIONEERS OF TELEVISION which not only covered westerns but also other genres, i caught this on PBS and really enjoyed it.Fascinating insight in to the cowboy series thru to the '70s interviews with many of the old stars.

[Pussywillow]

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Loved westerns as a kid, still do.

Think all my favourites have been mentioned from the comedy-drama of the brilliant Alias Smith and Jones (both series) to the classic Italian movies of the 60's and early 70's. It's funny I'm still on a voyage of discovery of the latter genre and still coming across films I should have seen but never have.

Don't think anyone's mentioned the hilarious F Troop an American comedy about the antics of a US Cavalry outfit.

I grew up with Rawhide, Wagon Train, The High Chapparal (bet no-one else knows how to spell it either) and Custer (anyone collect those Custer cards in chewing gum ?) I actually used to go and play in the woods with my cap gun to shoot Indians I was so obsessed.

Ah what fun.

But the thread topic is actually your favourite cowboys, so I'd have to say either Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid or the brilliant Lee Van Cleef who played Douglas Mortimer in the Clint Eastwood 'man-with-no-name' films.

[staffslad]

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The Custer and Hondo TV series, both from 1967.

[amethyst]

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Rawhide
The Virginian

[Mulletino]

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Hank!



My parents still have the leather Pouf with a picture of him on that myself and my siblings used to love sitting on as kids.

[catflap]

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Does this count as a favourite cowboy?

[angliaknight]

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Think the turning points were Soldier blue and the spaghetti westerns.
Regarding tv back in the '60s remember broadcasts were 4.30 in the afternoon till closedown before midnight and there was a limit on the screening of U.S. imports , so to settle down and watch a cowboy was a fairly big family event.We would watch Laramie and all the others and the one thing they all had in common was a fantastic opening and closing themes and credits. Rawhide, Lone ranger, Bonanza, surprisingly the longest running series Gunsmoke had, in my opinion a rather limp opening intro.