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See more awards » Videos Texas Ranger Jake Cutter arrests gambler Paul Regret, but soon finds himself teamed with his prisoner in an undercover effort to defeat a band of renegade arms merchants and thieves known as Comancheros. Directors: Michael Curtiz, John Wayne Stars: John Wayne, Stuart Whitman, Ina Balin A Union Cavalry outfit is sent behind Confederate lines in strength to destroy a rail/supply center. Along with them is sent a doctor who causes instant antipathy between him and the ... See full summary » Director: John Ford A dramatization of the World War II Battle of Iwo Jima. Director: Allan Dwan During the Alaska gold rush, prospector George sends partner Sam to Seattle to bring his fiancée but when it turns out that she married another man, Sam returns with a pretty substitute, the hostess of the Henhouse dance hall. Director: Henry Hathaway 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 5.6/10 X Col. Mike Kirby picks two teams of crack Green Berets for a mission in South Vietnam.

First off is to build and control a camp that is trying to be taken by the enemy the second mission is to kidnap a North Vietnamese General. Directors: Ray Kellogg, John Wayne, and 1 more credit » Stars: John Wayne, David Janssen, Jim Hutton Ranch owner Katie Elder's four sons determine to avenge the murder of their father and the swindling of their mother. Director: Henry Hathaway After the Civil War, Cord McNally searches for the traitor whose perfidy caused the defeat of McNally's unit and the loss of a close friend. Director: Howard Hawks Based on the 1836 standoff between a group of Texan and Tejano men, led by Davy Crockett and Jim Bowie, and Mexican dictator Santa Anna's forces at the Alamo in San Antonio, Texas. Director: John Lee Hancock Cattle baron John Chisum joins forces with Billy the Kid and Pat Garrett to fight the Lincoln County land war. Director: Andrew V. McLaglen Wealthy rancher G.W. McLintock uses his power and influence in the territory to keep the peace between farmers, ranchers, land-grabbers, Indians and corrupt government officials. Director: Andrew V.

McLaglen J.D. Cahill is the toughest U.S. Marshal they've got, just the sound of his name makes bad guys stop in their tracks, so when his two young boys want to get his attention they decide to rob... See full summary » Director: Andrew V. McLaglen After the Civil War, ex-Union Colonel John Henry Thomas and ex-Confederate Colonel James Langdon are leading two disparate groups of people through strife-torn Mexico. John Henry and ... See full summary » Director: Andrew V. McLaglen Edit Storyline In 1836 General Santa Anna and the Mexican army is sweeping across Texas. To be able to stop him, General Sam Houston needs time to get his main force into shape. To buy that time he orders Colonel William Travis to defend a small mission on the Mexicans' route at all costs. Travis' small troop is swelled by groups accompanying Jim Bowie and Davy Crockett, but as the situation becomes ever more desperate Travis makes it clear there will be no shame if they leave while they can.

Written by Jeremy Perkins <jwp@aber.ac.uk> The Mission That Became a Fortress, The Fortress That Became a Shrine See more » Genres: 24 October 1960 (USA) See more » Also Known As: (director's cut) (1993 video release) | 140 min 3 Channel Stereo (Westrex Recording System) (5.0) (L-R) Color: Did You Know? Trivia John Wayne formed a close friendship with Laurence Harvey during filming. He later said Harvey should have received an Oscar nomination instead of Chill Wills . See more » Goofs The distinctive Alamo church sports upper windows that were not installed until about 15 years after the battle. There are other architectural inaccuracies, too. See more » Quotes Col. Davy Crockett : Step down off your high horse, Mister. Ya don't get lard less'n you boil a hog! If You Really Want to Know John Wayne, See This Legacy 16 February 2005 | by Bob-45 (Savannah, GA) – See all my reviews Corny? At times long-winded and stilted? Touching, poignant and inspiring?

John Wayne's "The Alamo" is all of these things; and, of this, I'm certain John Wayne would agree. For, unlike the lessor men who make up most of Wayne's critics, Wayne was fair. This is clear even in "The Alamo," in his depiction of Santana's army. Wayne believed in the basic nobility of men, much like those heroes depicted in "Rio Bravo". That his life and memory is treated more like that of Marshal Sam Kane's in the Wayne-despised "High Noon," or even in Wayne's own "The Shootist" is testimony that Wayne HOPED men were better than they are. I'd never seen the full-length version of "The Alamo" until it was released on VHS in the early 90s. I realized then the greatest scene in the movie is "The Birthday Party," which was cut from the general release version of the film. NOTE: For those that don't remember, during the 50s and 60s, Hollywood would release long, big budget movies as reserved seat attractions. The film would show at a "roadshow" theater for several months before general release.

Since "roadshow" theaters showed the movies only twice a day, running time was restricted pretty much to the patience of audiences. However, when the same film was shown general release, time restrictions became important, so films were cut to maximize theater owner profits. It still happens today, except now the "director's cut" reaches the home audience via DVD. In any event, the short version of "The Alamo," while impressive, is still a pale shadow of the Wayne's original cut. Most importantly, to see "The Alamo" is to understand John Wayne as a man, not an idol or actor. Wayne generously gave virtually all the big scenes to his costars. Certainly, Lawrence Harvey, Richard Widmark, Ken Curtis, Joan O'Brian and Richard Boone get better scenes. Also certainly, Chill Wills, Jester Hairston (Jethro) Hank Worden (Parson) and Veda Ann Borg (Blind Nell Robertson) have showier ones than Wayne. The scenes between Wayne and Linda Crystal in the first hour seem out of a different movie, though neither Wayne's nor Cristals are as big or showy as the ones I've mentioned.

One thing I hope to suffer again was the "reunion" video attached to the VHS. The same old garbage about Wayne not being able to direct actors (by his SON, no less), that he really wasn't a very good director (Wayne's action scenes will match or beat anybody's in Hollywood). Especially rude was Richard Widmark's idea of impressing Wayne by insisting Wayne call him "Richard" and not "Dick" during their first meeting. Widmark came across as a pompous ass. However, the rudest cut was from Ken "Festis" Curtis. Curtis never had a better, more respectful part in ANY movie, but he didn't miss an opportunity to try to soil Wayne's memory. Forget that "The Alamo" is a topnotch, if not entirely historically accurate historical western. Forget that Wayne directs action better than his mentor, John Ford, or that Chill Wills got an Oscar nomination, the only of his career, thanks to this "lousy director/actor". Remember this, Wayne risked EVERYTHING on "The Alamo" and lost. He was broke for years afterward. Wayne's continued success on the "A" list was by no means assured.

He was 54 years old and raising a second family. Wayne had recently been swindled by a business manager and recently lost a best friend to suicide (Grant Withers). Wayne had to take a role in "The Alamo" to secure financing, and "The Alamo" is probably STILL the biggest movie ever directed by one of its stars. During filming, Wayne had to contend with interference from mentor John Ford and a murder investigation of one of his actresses. That same year Wayne's house was severely damaged by fire. Yet Wayne took continued carping by lessor men, those "artists" in Hollywood who ridiculed his acting and his directing. I'm sure they sneered in satisfaction when "The Alamo" failed to break even. However, it's reported the movie eventually made a small profit, probably part of it through sale of "Alamo Village" in Bracketville, Texas. Wayne continued to make fine movies for sixteen more years after "The Alamo." In 1969 he was finally awarded by his peers an Oscar for "Rooster Cogburn." However, by then, Wayne had P.O.d them again with "The Green Berets".

War service or not, NOBODY can say the man ever ran from a fight. I'm not sure I would have liked John Wayne had I known him. I'm not a drinker and I'm not obsessively patriotic about this country, particularly since we started picking fights in the Middle East. However, as Wayne proved with Lawrence Harvey and Rock Hudson, Wayne didn't have to agree with someone's lifestyle or even their personal views to treat them with respect. I most certainly would respect him better than the "friends" he gave jobs in "The Alamo;" at least, those who slandered him. Oh, and by the way, "RICHARD Widmark never won an Oscar." I give "The Alamo" a solid 8. 53 of 80 people found this review helpful. Was this review helpful to you? Yes Obituary: Richard Widmark | Film | The Guardian Richard Widmark Wednesday 26 March 2008 20.09 EDT First published on Wednesday 26 March 2008 20.09 EDT Share on Messenger Close 'You're Nick Bianco, aren't you? You're a big man. I'm Tommy Udo.

Imagine me on this cheap rap - big man like me, picked up just for shoving a guy's ears off his head. Traffic ticket stuff." These were the first words uttered on screen by Richard Widmark, who has died aged 93. It was one of the most striking debuts in Hollywood history. The film was Henry Hathaway's Kiss of Death (1947), and the nominal stars were Victor Mature and Brian Donlevy. But it was Widmark, in a relatively small part, whom everyone remembered. No matter how far he moved away from Tommy Udo in his long career, even when he played noble characters, that giggling psychopath was always just beneath the surface. Widmark was born in the farming community of Sunrise, Minnesota, where his Swedish-born father ran the general store. His original ambition was to become a lawyer, so he enrolled at Lake Forest College in Chicago. It was there that he became involved in the dramatic society. After graduating in 1936, he remained at the college as an instructor in speech and drama. In 1937, while he and a friend were touring Europe on bicycles, they shot a short 8mm documentary about Hitler Youth camps.

He then moved to New York, where he worked on radio and landed a few Broadway roles, the best of which were directed by Elia Kazan. It was through Kazan's influence that Widmark was auditioned by 20th Century Fox and put under contract, and immediately cast in Kiss of Death, for which he was nominated for an Oscar. Critic James Agee described the character of Tommy Udo thus: "A rather frail fellow with maniacal eyes who uses a sinister kind of falsetto baby talk laced with tittering laughs. It is clear that murder is one of the kindest things he is capable of." Certainly, Udo seems to delight in pushing an elderly wheelchair-bound woman down a flight of stairs. Of the spine-chilling snigger, Widmark explained that it derived from his nervousness at his first screen role, and "I've always had a goofy laugh." In the Hollywood tradition of stringent typecasting, Widmark reprised this sadistic character, with slight variations, in his next three movies, all released in 1948.

In Street With No Name, he played a crooked fight promoter, wrapped up in a scarf and using inhalers, terrified of catching a cold, who wishes to run his gang "along scientific lines". In one scene, later toned down to get past the censor, he beats up his wife (Barbara Lawrence), whom he suspects of having tipped off the police. In Road House, he was a psychotic ex-serviceman pushed over the edge by sexual jealousy, and in the William Wellman western Yellow Sky he was the nastiest of the bank robbers opposing reformed outlaw Gregory Peck. The last of his fanatical chortling villains was in Joseph Mankiewicz's No Way Out (1950), in which he played a hospitalised racist hoodlum under the care of a black doctor (Sidney Poitier). So convincing was Widmark that a great deal of Poitier's anger was genuine. In fact, the two actors became firm friends and appeared together again in two films, The Long Ships (1964) and The Bedford Incident (1965).

From the early 1950s, Widmark edged his way into more sympathetic roles, gradually entering the pantheon of Hollywood heroes. During the transitionary period, he gave one of his best performances in Jules Dassin's Night and the City (1950), shot over 60 straight nights on location in London. As a small-time crook with ambitions to be a wrestling promoter, he is forced on the run by a racketeer before being killed and tossed into the Thames. In the same year, Widmark crossed sides in Kazan's Panic in the Streets, playing a doctor in the New Orleans public health service who hunts a gang of petty criminals carrying pneumonic plague. This time, he himself was upstaged by the villain (Jack Palance, in his screen debut).

More good guys followed in war movies - Halls of Montezuma (1950), The Frogmen (1951) and Destination Gobi (1953) - and westerns Red Skies of Montana (1952), Broken Lance and Garden of Evil (both (1954) in which Widmark turned the steely-eyed, gaunt, albino-like figure of his psychopath characters into a straightforward, blue-eyed, muscular blond. But his white rat persona surfaced from time to time, giggle and all. In Sam Fuller's Pickup on South Street (1953), he played a seedy pickpocket who inadvertently "lifts" some top secret microfilm, which he is prepared to sell to the "commies". Widmark brilliantly presents the moral ambiguity of the man, finally turning against the spies out of revenge, not patriotism. He was the heavy, challenging Robert Taylor in The Law and Jack Wade (1958), and Mr Ratchett, the millionaire victim in Murder on the Orient Express (1974), so detestable that almost every passenger on the train has a motive to kill him.

On the whole, however, Widmark played mainly hardbitten heroes, especially in a number of westerns, such as John Ford's leisurely Two Rode Together (1961), in which he partnered James Stewart; Alvarez Kelly (1966), as William Holden's antagonist; and The Way West (1967), billed third after Kirk Douglas and Robert Mitchum. "I love westerns," Widmark commented. "I love the outdoors, I love horses. That's why I raise them." Apart from his film work, he made a fortune investing in land and owned a couple of ranches for himself. He married former actor and screenwriter Jean Hazelwood in 1942, and claimed never to have even flirted with another woman. "After I was married I thought, 'well, that's it'. I never thought beyond that. I happen to like my wife a lot." Politically, Widmark was a liberal, poles apart from John Wayne, who directed him in The Alamo (1960). Wayne wanted him to play Colonel William Travis, but Widmark insisted on playing Jim Bowie. "You're not big enough," Wayne told him. "I'll be big enough," Widmark replied.

And he was. The following year, he was the belligerent prosecutor in Judgment at Nuremberg, curiously less sympathetic than Maximilian Schell's defence attorney. In 1968, he took the title role in Don Siegel's Madigan as a tough New York detective. Although he is killed at the climax, the character was resurrected for six TV movies in the early 1970s. Widmark played Sergeant Dan Madigan as a cold loner, speaking in metallic tones. From the 1980s, his light hair turned silver, he made fewer appearances, but whenever he gave an interview, the character of Tommy Udo always came up, even though he had created that monster almost half a century earlier. Jean died in 1997, but he is survived by his second wife, Susan Blanchard, whom he married in 1999, and his daughter Anne from his first marriage.

· Richard Widmark, actor, born December 26 1914; died March 24 2008 johnwayne-thealamo.com • View topic - Actors that played Davy Crockett Actors that played Davy Crockett Actors that played Davy Crockett by teresa1971 on Tue May 15, 2012 8:40 pm Beside Fess Parker, John Wayne, and, Billy Bob Thornton, who else portrayed Davy Crockett in Television and Movies?

Joined: Wed Jul 27, 2011 2:28 pm Location: Brownsville, Texas by NefariousNed on Tue May 15, 2012 9:22 pm Just offhand: Arthur Hunnicutt, in LAST COMMAND (1955) Merrill Connolly, in ALAMO, THE PRICE OF FREEDOM (1988) Cullen Landis, in DAVY CROCKETT AT THE FALL OF THE ALAMO (1926) Mac Davis, in Shelley Duvall's TALL TALES & LEGENDS (TV) (1986) Robert Barratt, in MAN OF CONQUEST (1939) Johnny Cash, (older Crockett) Tim Dunigan, (younger Crockett) in Disney's DAVY CROCKETT (TV) (1988) The "OUTSIDE THE ALAMO, Songs of Ned Huthmacher Performed by John Beland" CD Facebook page: by Davy on Tue May 15, 2012 9:32 pm Nefarious wrote: Arthur Hunnicutt, in LAST COMMAND (1

955) Merrill Connolly, in ALAMO, THE PRICE OF FREEDOM (1988) Cullen Landis, in DAVY CROCKETT AT THE FALL OF THE ALAMO (1926) Mac Davis, in Shelley Duvall's TALL TALES & LEGENDS (TV) (1986) Robert Barratt, in MAN OF CONQUEST (1939) Johnny Cash, (older Crockett) Tim Dunigan, (younger Crockett) in Disney's DAVY CROCKETT (TV) (1988) also John Schneider in one of em too!

James Michener's TEXAS (1994) And Brian Keith! 13 Days To Glory (1986) In God we trust. Everyone else keep your hands where we can see them. Anonymous .. Joined: Wed Sep 24, 2008 11:50 pm Location: Ft. Worth by gtj222 on Tue May 15, 2012 10:22 pm Don't forget Brian Keith in 13 days of Boredom!!!! Re: Actors that played Davy Crockett by mrbassbone on Tue May 15, 2012 11:08 pm And how could you forget Fred Munster's portrayal of Davy Crockett in the old tv show YOU ARE THERE. "Tenacity, Dick! Stay with the B*****DS until they are on the bottom!" "Mush" Morton to his XO Richard H. O'Kane on the USS WAHOO while on patrol in the East China Sea 1943 by Seguin on Wed May 16, 2012 2:28 am And what´s-his-name in, "The First Texan".

Attachments TheFirstTexan-Crockett.jpg (23.38 KiB) Viewed 3328 times Recuerden El Alamo! Joined: Sat Sep 27, 2008 7:40 pm Location: Copenhagen, Denmark. by TexianAtHeartII on Wed May 16, 2012 2:31 am George Montgomery in Davy Crockett, Indian Scout. James Griffith in The First Texan. Joined: Tue Oct 28, 2008 3:26 am Location: Westland, Mi by mrbassbone on Wed May 16, 2012 4:17 am James Griffith. And what´s-his-name in, "The First Texan". "Tenacity, Dick! Stay with the B*****DS until they are on the bottom!" "Mush" Morton to his XO Richard H. O'Kane on the USS WAHOO while on patrol in the East China Sea 1943 by Seguin on Wed May 16, 2012 5:17 am James Griffith? Thanks, both of you! Recuerden El Alamo!

Joined: Sat Sep 27, 2008 7:40 pm Location: Copenhagen, Denmark. by MartyB on Wed May 16, 2012 6:08 am Don't forget...... 0_0_CrockettDuck.JPG (85.63 KiB) Viewed 3297 times Marty Brazil Our past is not a dead past, but still lives. Our forefathers created the present by their sacrifice of the past. What they dreamed, we live…and…what they lived we dream.

Joined: Tue Oct 28, 2008 8:01 pm Location: Biloxi Mississippi by NefariousNed on Wed May 16, 2012 6:54 pm MartyB wrote: Attachments donaldcrockett.jpg (66.04 KiB) Viewed 2863 times The "OUTSIDE THE ALAMO, Songs of Ned Huthmacher Performed by John Beland" CD Facebook page: by Seguin on Thu May 17, 2012 8:21 am Nefarious wrote: Donald-PanelDeleted.jpg (10.66 KiB) Viewed 2818 times Recuerden El Alamo! Joined: Sat Sep 27, 2008 7:40 pm Location: Copenhagen, Denmark.

Re: Actors that played Davy Crockett by alamonorth on Fri May 18, 2012 4:16 am For newer and younger members not familiar with all the Alamo films, I recommend they check out Alamo Movies by Frank Thompson, American Frontiersmen on Film and Television by Ed Andreychuk and Hollywood Goes to the Alamo by Rosemary Calcagno. by Fargo Fenwyck on Sun May 20, 2012 1:04 pm Fred Gwyen in "You Are There" Joined: Mon Sep 29, 2008 1:25 pm Location: Northwood, Ohio by mrbassbone on Sun May 20, 2012 1:34 pm Already said that....LOL. Although I referred to him as Herman Munster.... Fargo Fenwyck wrote: Fred Gwyen in "You Are There" "Tenacity, Dick! Stay with the B*****DS until they are on the bottom!" "Mush" Morton to his XO Richard H.

O'Kane on the USS WAHOO while on patrol in the East China Sea 1943 by MartyB on Sun May 20, 2012 3:24 pm Fargo Fenwyck wrote: Fred Gwyen in "You Are There" Great program...... Ya had your Davy Crockett and Travis.....You had your Mrs Dickenson.....and your Santy Anny...... Attachments 0_0_YouAreThere+TravisCrockett.jpg (63.61 KiB) Viewed 2720 times 0_0_YouAreThere+MrsDickenson.jpg (153.9 KiB) Viewed 2708 times 0_0_YouAreThere+SantyAnny.jpg (101.79 KiB) Viewed 2722 times Marty Brazil Our past is not a dead past, but still lives. Our forefathers created the present by their sacrifice of the past. What they dreamed, we live…and…what they lived we dream.

Joined: Tue Oct 28, 2008 8:01 pm Location: Biloxi Mississippi by MartyB on Sun May 20, 2012 3:25 pm And of course, the great Jim Bowie...... Wait....um....er.....That's not even the right franchise! Attachments 0_0_YouAreThere+Bowie.jpg (195.72 KiB) Viewed 2768 times Marty Brazil Our past is not a dead past, but still lives. Our forefathers created the present by their sacrifice of the past. What they dreamed, we live…and…what they lived we dream. Joined: Tue Oct 28, 2008 8:01 pm Location: Biloxi Mississippi by MartyB on Sun May 20, 2012 7:39 pm Of all the actors that have 'portrayed' the Buckskin Buccaneer...these are my favorites: Arthur Hunnicutt....Came closer to the 'Davy' persona that the real David projected in public.... Fess Parker..........Portrayed Davy Crockett as we wanted him to be... John Wayne.........Hey!

He's the Duke....... Attachments 0_0_Davy_001.jpg (227.5 KiB) Viewed 2728 times 0_0_Davy_002.jpg (63.25 KiB) Viewed 2678 times 0_0_Davy_003.jpg (212.3 KiB) Viewed 2687 times Marty Brazil Our past is not a dead past, but still lives. Our forefathers created the present by their sacrifice of the past. What they dreamed, we live…and…what they lived we dream. Joined: Tue Oct 28, 2008 8:01 pm Location: Biloxi Mississippi by RLC-GTT on Sun May 20, 2012 8:17 pm TexianAtHeartII wrote: George Montgomery in Davy Crockett, Indian Scout. Doesn't count! George Montgomery played our Davy's nephew or some such relative, so they could be totally fictional -- just a B-Western.

by RLC-GTT on Sun May 20, 2012 8:20 pm mrbassbone wrote: Already said that....LOL. Although I referred to him as Herman Munster.... Fargo Fenwyck wrote: Fred Gwyen in "You Are There" And I think of him as Tootie and Muldoon. by MartyB on Sun May 20, 2012 8:28 pm teresa1971 wrote: Beside Fess Parker, John Wayne, and, Billy Bob Thornton, who else portrayed Davy Crockett in Television and Movies? Of interest... Gittin' back to your first inquiry....

I submit the followin' Davy Crockett productions, i.e., movies and television (from IMDb) Davy Crockett Battles Kung Fu Vampires (2008)…..Played by Andrew Sensenig "King of the Hill"…aka "Hank of the Hill…How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Alamo (2004) TV episode…Played by David Herman The Alamo (2004)… Played by Billy Bob Thornton The Anarchist Cookbook (2002)…Played by Justin S.

Simons Time Machine: Boone and Crockett - The Hunter Heroes (2001) (TV)…Played by Mark Baker Dear America: A Line in the Sand (2000) (TV)…Played by Scott Wickware "Melissa" (1997) TV series…Played by Gordon Sterne Texas (1994) (TV)…Played by John Schneider The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear (1991)…Played by David Zucker "Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color" - Davy Crockett: A Letter to Polly (1989) TV episode, - Davy Crockett: Guardian Spirit (1989) TV episode, - Davy Crockett: A Natural Man (1988) TV episode, - Davy Crockett: Rainbow in the Thunder (1988) TV episode,……. Played by Tim Dunigan / Johnny Cash (as Elder Davy Crockett) Davy Crockett and the River Pirates (1955) TV episode,…Played by Fess Parker Alamo: The Price of Freedom (1988)….

Played by Merrill Connally The Alamo: Thirteen Days to Glory (1987) (TV)…. Played by Brian Keith "Tall Tales & Legends"…aka "Shelley Duvall's Tall Tales & Legends" - Davy Crockett (1986)…Played by Mac Davis "Amazing Stories"... aka "Steven Spielberg's Amazing Stories”….Alamo Jobe (1985)…Played by Richard Young Fantasma en el Oeste (1976) ...

aka "Whisky and Ghosts …Played by Fernando Bilbao "The Red Skelton Hour"…”He Died with His Boots on Cause He Had Cold Feet to Start or He Died with His Boots Off, That's Why He Stubbed His Toe” (1970) TV episode,…Played by Fess Parker…”Deadeye and the Alamo” (1961) TV episode,…Played by James Seay The Alamo (1960)…Played by John Wayne Alias Jesse James (1959)….Played by Fess Parker "The Adventures of Jim Bowie"… A Night in Tennessee (1958) TV episode,…Played by George Dunn The First Texan (1956)…Played by James Griffith The Last Command (1955)…Played by Arthur Hunnicutt Dateline: Disneyland (1955) (TV)…Played by Fess Parker The Man from the Alamo (1953)…Played by Trevor Bardette Man of Conquest (1939)…Played by Robert Barrat The Alamo: Shrine of Texas Liberty (1938)…Played by Sterling Waters Heroes of the Alamo (1937

)…Played by Lane Chandler The Painted Stallion (1937)…Played by Jack Perrin The Miracle Rider (1935)…Played by Bud Geary Davy Crockett at the Fall of the Alamo (1926)… Played by Cullen Landis Davy Crockett (1916)…Played by Dustin Farnum Martyrs of the Alamo (1915)…Played by Allan Sears Davy Crockett - In Hearts United (1909)…Played by Charles K.

French Now…before ya ask…as far as Jim Bowie is concerned…. Got this off of: ...

-film.html Alfred Paget, Martyrs of the Alamo (1915) Hal Taliaferro, The Painted Stallion (1937) Roger Williams, Heroes of the Alamo (1937) Robert Armstrong, Man of Conquest (1939) Macdonald Carey, Comanche Territory (1950) Alan Ladd, The Iron Mistress (1952) Stuart Randall, The Man from the Alamo (1953) Sterling Hayden, The Last Command (1955) Jeff Morrow, The First Texan (1956) Scott Forbes, The Adventures of Jim Bowie (1956-1958, TV) Richard Widmark, The Alamo (1960) Michael Beck, Houston: The Legend of Texas (1986, TV) James Arness, The Alamo: Thirteen Days to Glory (1987, TV) Steve Sandor, Alamo: The Price of Freedom (1988) David Keith, Texas (1994, TV) Peter Coyote, Two for Texas (1998, TV) Jason Patric, The Alamo (20

04) Now what I thought was interesting was comments on both Crockett and Bowie from Alamo-2004 from the Blog owner…and also author of the book “Bowie Knife Fights, Fighters, and Fighting Techniques”(fella by the name of Paul Kirchner) had to say: “….casting Billy Bob Thornton as Davy Crockett, a role filled by John Wayne in The Alamo (1960).

Thornton made as sorry a Davy Crockett as I could imagine, short of putting Philip Seymour Hoffman in the part. Thornton plays a great loser in films like Bad Santa, but it is impossible to see him as a charismatic leader-of-men like Crockett. That said, Thornton's Davy Crockett had his equal in Jason Patric's lackluster Jim Bowie. The first few seconds of this clip from The Alamo (2004) shows Crockett examining Bowie's knife. Neither actor comes off as a fighter. In fact, both look like they'd burst into tears if someone gave them a good shove.” Oh my……. Well....it don't matter...needless to say the boys get around...... Attachments 0_0_Davy_004.jpg (157.59 KiB) Viewed 3352 times 0_0_Davy_005.jpg (198.64 KiB) Viewed 3295 times Marty Brazil Our past is not a dead past, but still lives. Our forefathers created the present by their sacrifice of the past. What they dreamed, we live…and…what they lived we dream.

by RLC-GTT on Sun May 20, 2012 9:46 pm MartyB wrote: Now what I thought was interesting was comments on both Crockett and Bowie from Alamo-2004 from the Blog owner…and also author of the book “Bowie Knife Fights, Fighters, and Fighting Techniques”(fella by the name of Paul Kirchner) had to say: “….casting Billy Bob Thornton as Davy Crockett, a role filled by John Wayne in The Alamo (1960). Thornton made as sorry a Davy Crockett as I could imagine, short of putting Philip Seymour Hoffman in the part. Thornton plays a great loser in films like Bad Santa, but it is impossible to see him as a charismatic leader-of-men like Crockett. That said, Thornton's Davy Crockett had his equal in Jason Patric's lackluster Jim Bowie. The first few seconds of this clip from The Alamo (2004) shows Crockett examining Bowie's knife. Neither actor comes off as a fighter. In fact, both look like they'd burst into tears if someone gave them a good shove.” Oh my…….

Obviously, somebody else who watched the movie while doing other things. They are about as common "as flies around a molasses barrel." Richard Widmark - TV.com Richard Widmark EDIT Midwestern born actor who became an overnight sensation as psychotic gangster Tommy Udo in the 1947 film Kiss of Death for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

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Choose background: Actor's villains drenched in evil - SFGate Actor's villains drenched in evil RICHARD WIDMARK: 1914-2008 Aljean Harmetz, New York Times Published 4:00 am, Thursday, March 27, 2008 Photo: 20TH CENTURY FOX Close Image 1 of 2 (NYT8) NEW YORK -- March 26, 2008 -- Richard Widmark as Tommy Udo, a psychopathic killer in the 1947 gangster film "Kiss of Death." Widmark, whose portrayal of Udo in his first movie role was so repellent and frightening that the actor became a star overnight, died Monday, March 24, 2008 at his home in Roxbury, Conn. He was 93. His death was announced Wednesday morning by his wife, Susan Blanchard.

(20TH Century Fox/The New York Times) less (NYT8) NEW YORK -- March 26, 2008 -- Richard Widmark as Tommy Udo, a psychopathic killer in the 1947 gangster film "Kiss of Death." Widmark, whose portrayal of Udo in his first movie role was so repellent and ... more Photo: 20TH CENTURY FOX Image 2 of 2 ** FILE ** Actor Richard Widmark is shown in Normandy, France in this July 9, 1991 file photo. Widmark died at his home in Roxbury after a long illness. He was 93. Widmark's wife, Susan Blanchard, said he died Monday, March 24, 2008. (AP Photo/file) less ** FILE ** Actor Richard Widmark is shown in Normandy, France in this July 9, 1991 file photo. Widmark died at his home in Roxbury after a long illness. He was 93. Widmark's wife, Susan Blanchard, said he died ...

more Actor's villains drenched in evil 1 / 2 Back to Gallery Richard Widmark, who created a villain in his first movie role who was so repellent and frightening that the actor became a star overnight, died Monday at his home in Roxbury, Conn. He was 93. His death was announced Wednesday morning by his wife, Susan Blanchard . She said that Widmark had fractured a vertebra in recent months and that his conditioned had worsened. As Tommy Udo, a giggling, psychopathic killer in the 1947 gangster film "Kiss of Death," Widmark tied up an old woman (played by Mildred Dunnock ) in a wheelchair with a cord ripped from a lamp and shoved her down a flight of stairs to her death. "The sadism of that character, the fearful laugh, the skull showing through drawn skin, and the surely conscious evocation of a concentration-camp degenerate established Widmark as the most frightening person on the screen," critic David Thomson wrote in "The Biographical Dictionary of Film." The performance won Widmark his sole Academy Award nomination, for best supporting actor.

Tommy Udo made the 32-year-old Widmark, who had been an established radio actor, an instant movie star, and he spent the next seven years playing a variety of flawed heroes and relentlessly anti-social mobsters in 20th Century Fox's juiciest melodramas. His mobsters were drenched in evil. Even his heroes, including the doctor who fights bubonic plague in Elia Kazan 's "Panic in the Streets" (1950), the daredevil pilot flying into the eye of a storm in "Slattery's Hurricane" (1949), and the pickpocket who refuses to be a traitor in Samuel Fuller 's "Pickup on South Street" (1953), were nerve-strained and feral. "Movie audiences fasten on to one aspect of the actor, and then they decide what they want you to be," Widmark once said. "They think you're playing yourself.

The truth is that the only person who can ever really play himself is a baby." In real life, the screen's most vicious psychopath was a mild-mannered former teacher who had married his college sweetheart, actress Jean Hazlewood , and who told a reporter 48 years later that he had never been unfaithful and had never even flirted with women because, he said, "I happen to like my wife a lot." Among the 65 movies he made over five decades were "The Cobweb" (1955), in which he played the head of a psychiatric clinic where the staff seemed more emotionally troubled than the patients; "Saint Joan" (1957), as the Dauphin to Joan Seberg 's Joan of Arc; John Wayne 's "The Alamo" (1960), as Jim Bowie , the inventor of the Bowie knife; "Judgment at Nuremberg" (1961), as an American army colonel prosecuting German war criminals; and John Ford 's revisionist western "Cheyenne Autumn" (1964), as an army captain who risks his career to help the Indians. Widmark created the role of Detective Sgt.

Daniel Madigan in Don Siegel 's 1968 film "Madigan." It proved so popular that he later played the loner Madigan on an NBC television series during the 1972-73 season. Widmark, who hated the limelight, spent his Hollywood years living quietly on a large farm in Connecticut and an 80-acre horse ranch in Hidden Valley, north of Los Angeles. Asked once if he had been "astute" with his money, he answered, "No, just tight." He sold the ranch in 1997 after the death of Hazlewood, his wife of 55 years. "I don't care how well known an actor is," Widmark insisted. "He can lead a normal life if he wants to." Besides his wife, Blanchard, Widmark is survived by his daughter, Anne Heath Widmark of Santa Fe, N.M., who once was married to Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Sandy Koufax . Well into his later years, the nonviolent, gun-hating Widmark, who described himself as "gentle," was accosted by strangers who expected him to be a tough guy.

There is even a story that Joey Gallo , the New York mobster, was so taken by Widmark's performance in "Kiss of Death" that he copied the actor's natty posture, sadistic smirk and tittering laugh. "It's a bit rough," Widmark once said, "priding oneself that one isn't too bad an actor and then finding one's only remembered for a giggle." Latest from the SFGATE homepage: Click below for the top news from around the Bay Area and beyond. Sign up for our newsletters to be the first to learn about breaking news and more. Go to 'Sign In' and 'Manage Profile' at the top of the page.

Richard Widmark, Film's Hoodlum And Flawed Hero, 93 - Google Groups Richard Widmark, Film's Hoodlum And Flawed Hero, 93 Showing 1-1 of 1 messages Richard Widmark, Film's Hoodlum and Flawed Hero, Dies at 93 By ALJEAN HARMETZ Richard Widmark, whose movie debut as a giggling killer made him an overnight star, giving rise to an enduring Hollywood [California] career playing a gallery of chilling hoodlums and flawed heroes, died Monday [March 24, 2008] at his home in Roxbury, Connecticut. He was 93. His death was announced on Wednesday [March 26, 2008] by his wife, Susan Blanchard. His health had been declining since he fractured a vertebra in recent months, she said. Mr. Widmark first etched his name in film noir history in the 1947 gangster movie "Kiss of Death," playing Tommy Udo, a snickering, psychopathic ex-convict seeking revenge against an informer (played by Victor Mature).

In one indelible scene, he binds the squealer's mother (Mildred Dunnock) in her wheelchair with a cord ripped from a lamp and shoves her down a flight of stairs to her death. "The sadism of that character, the fearful laugh, the skull showing through drawn skin, and the surely conscious evocation of a concentration-camp degenerate established Widmark as the most frightening person on the screen," the critic David Thomson wrote in "The Biographical Dictionary of Film." The performance made Mr. Widmark, who had been an established radio actor, an instant movie star, and it brought him his sole Academy Award nomination, for best supporting actor. For the next seven years, as a contract actor, he was given parts in 20th Century Fox's juiciest melodramas. His mobsters were drenched in evil.

But even his heroes were nerve-strained and feral -- the daredevil pilot flying into the eye of a storm in "Slattery's Hurricane" (1949); the doctor who fights pneumonic plague in Elia Kazan's "Panic in the Streets" (1950), and the pickpocket who refuses to be a traitor in Samuel Fuller's "Pickup on South Street" (1953). "Movie audiences fasten on to one aspect of the actor, and then they decide what they want you to be," Mr. Widmark once said. "They think you're playing yourself. The truth is that the only person who can ever really play himself is a baby." In reality, the screen's most vicious bad guy was a mild-mannered former college instructor who had married his college sweetheart, the playwright and screenwriter Ora Jean Hazlewood, and stayed married to her for nearly 55 years, until her death in 1997. In 1990 Mr. Widmark told a reporter that he had never been unfaithul to Ms.

Hazlewood and had never flirted with women because, he said, "I happen to like my wife a lot." His trademark villains overshadowed his work in a wide range of roles in a career that spanned six decades and more than 60 movies. In "The Halls of Montezuma," he led marines in the Pacific in World War II; in "The Cobweb" (1955), he played the head of a psychiatric clinic where the staff seemed more emotionally troubled than the patients; in "Saint Joan" (1957), he was the Dauphin to Jean Seberg's Joan of Arc; in "The Alamo" (1960), with John Wayne, he was Jim Bowie, the inventor of the Bowie knife; in "Judgment at Nuremberg" (1961), he was an American Army colonel prosecuting German war criminals; and in John Ford's revisionist western "Cheyenne Autumn" (1964), he played an Army captain who risks his career to help the Indians. Mr. Widmark also created the role of Detective Sgt.

Daniel Madigan in Don Siegel's 1968 film "Madigan." It proved so popular that he later played the loner Madigan on an NBC television series during the 1972-73 season. Earlier Mr. Widmark won an Emmy nomination for his first television role, playing the president of the United States in a 1971 mini-series based on Fletcher Knebel's novel "Vanished." As his blond hair turned gray, Mr. Widmark played generals in the nuclear thriller "Twilight's Last Gleaming" (1977) and "The Swarm" (1978), in which he waged war on bees. He was the evil head of a hospital in "Coma" (1978) and a United States senator in "True Colors" (1991). He was forever fighting producers' efforts to stereotype him and consistently lent credibility to inferior movies. "I suppose I wanted to act in order to have a place in the sun," he once told a reporter.

"I'd always lived in small towns, and acting meant having some kind of identity." Richard Widmark (he had no middle name) was born on December 26, 1914, in Sunrise, Minnesota., and grew up throughout the Midwest. His father, Carl Widmark, was a traveling salesman who took his wife, Mae Ethel, and two sons from Minnesota to Sioux Falls, South Dakota; Henry, Ill.; Chillicothe, Missouri; and Princeton, Illinois, where Mr. Widmark graduated from high school as senior class president. Movie crazy, he was afraid to admit his interest in the "sissy" job of acting. On a full scholarship at Lake Forest College in Illinois, he played end on the football team, took third place in a state oratory contest, starred in plays and was, again, senior class president. Graduating in 1936, he spent two years as an instructor in the Lake Forest drama department while acting in stage productions. Then he headed to New York City, [New York] where a classmate was producing 15- minute radio soap operas and cast Mr. Widmark in a variety of roles.

"Getting launched was easy for me -- too easy, perhaps," he said of his success playing "young, neurotic guys" on shows like "Stella Dallas," "Front Page Farrell," "Aunt Jenny's Real Life Stories" and "Inner Sanctum." In World War II, Mr. Widmark tried to enlist in the Army but was rejected three times because of a perforated eardrum. So he turned to Broadway. In his first stage role, in 1943, he played an Army lieutenant in F. Hugh Herbert's "Kiss and Tell," directed by George Abbott. Appearing in the play "Trio," which was closed by the License Commissioner after 67 performances because it touched on lesbianism, he received glowing reviews as a college student who fights to free the girl he loves from the domination of an older woman. After a successful 10 years as a radio actor, Mr. Widmark tried the movies with "Kiss of Death," which was being filmed in New York. He was originally turned down for the role by the director, Henry Hathaway, who told him that he was too clean cut and intellectual for the part. It was Darryl F.

Zanuck, the Fox studio head, who, after watching Mr. Widmark's screen test, insisted that he be given the part. After the movie was released, Mr. Widmark, older than most new recruits, was, to his surprise, summoned to Hollywood.. "I'm probably the only actor who gave up a swimming pool to go out to Hollywood," Mr. Widmark told The New Yorker in 1961. In the seven years of his Fox contract, he starred in 20 movies, inc luding "Yellow Sky" (1948), as the blackguard who menaces Gregory Peck; "Down to the Sea in Ships" (1949), as a valiant whaler; Jules Dassin's "Night and the City" (1950), as a small- time hustler; and "Don't Bother to Knock" (1952), in which the tables were turned and he was the prey of a psychopathic Marilyn Monroe. A passionate liberal Democrat, Mr. Widmark played a bigot who baits a black doctor in Joseph Mankiewicz's "No Way Out" (1950).

He was so embarrassed by the character that after every scene he apologized to the young actor he was required to torment, Sidney Poitier. In 1990, when Mr. Widmark was given the D. W. Griffith Career Achievement Award by the National Board of Review, it was Mr. Poitier who presented it to him. After his Fox contract ended, Mr. Widmark formed a production company and produced "Time Limit" (1957), a serious dissection of possible treason by an American prisoner of war. Directed by the actor Karl Malden, "Time Limit" starred Mr. Widmark as an Army colonel who is investigating a major (Richard Basehart) who is suspected of having broken under pressure during the Korean War and having aided the enemy. Mr. Widmark produced two more films: "The Secret Ways" (1961) in which he went behind the Iron Curtain to bring out an anti-Communist leader; and "The Bedford Incident" (1964), another Cold War drama, in which he played an ultraconservative naval captain trailing a Russian submarine and putting the world in danger of a nuclear catastrophe. Mr.

Widmark told the British newspaper The Guardian in 1995 that he had not become a producer to make money but to have greater artistic control. "The businessmen who run Hollywood today have no self- respect," he told the paper. "What interests them is not movies but the bottom line. Look at 'Dumb and Dumber,' which turns idiocy into something positive, or 'Forrest Gump,' a hymn to stupidity. 'Intellectual' has become a dirty word." He also vowed that he would never appear on a television talk show, saying, "When I see people destroying their privacy -- what they think, what they feel -- by beaming it out to millions of viewers, I think it cheapens them as individuals." By the 1980s, television movies had transformed the jittery psychopath of his early days into a wise and stalwart lawman.

He played a Texas Ranger opposite Willie Nelson's train robber in "Once Upon a Texas Train," a small-town police chief in "Blackout" and a bayou country sheriff faced with a group of aged black men who have confessed to a murder in "A Gathering of Old Men." "The older you get, the less you know about acting," he told one reporter, "but the more you know about what makes the really great actors." Mr. Widmark, who shunned the limelight, spent his Hollywood years living quietly on a large farm in Connecticut and on an 80-acre horse ranch in Hidden Valley, north of Los Angeles. He sold the ranch in 1997 after the death of Ms. Hazlewood. Besides his wife, Ms. Blanchard, a former wife of Henry Fonda, Mr. Widmark is survived by his daughter, Anne Heath Widmark, of Santa Fe, New Mexico, who was formerly married to the Hall of Fame pitcher Sandy Koufax; a stepdaughter, Amy Fonda Ivers, and a stepson, Marc Weisgal. Well into his later years, Mr. Widmark was sometimes accosted by strangers who expected him to be a tough guy.

There is even a story that Joey Gallo, the New York mobster, was so taken by Mr. Widmark's performance in "Kiss of Death" that he copied the actor's natty posture, sadistic smirk and tittering laugh. "It's a bit rough," Mr. Widmark once said, "priding oneself that one isn't too bad an actor and then finding one's only remembered for a giggle."

Question: Which blond actor who died in 2008 played Jim Bowie in the 1960 film 'The Alamo'?
Answer: Richard Widmark