Happy Birthday to Bruce Cabot, born Étienne de Pelissier Bujac Jr. 122 years ago today
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Happy Birthday to the late James Gammon, born 86 years ago today
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*I know that he was also sort of a bad fella, so I also hope he was suitably punished for his many crimes
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Happy Birthday* to the late Ryan O'Neal, born Charles Patrick Ryan O'Neal 85 years ago today
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Happy Birthday to the great Harold Lloyd, born 133 years ago today
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John Ford was a huge fan of F.W. Murnau's Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans, which starred George O'Brien & Janet Gaynor, two Ford alumni. He went on record calling it "the greatest picture that has been produced"
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Happy Birthday to the late Hugh O'Brian, born Hugh Charles Krampe 101 years ago today
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Happy Birthday to George O'Brien, born 127 years ago today
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Happy Birthday to the late James Drury, born 92 years ago today
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Six years ago I went on Wrong Reel
to discuss the making of The Wild Bunch with @colebrax.bsky.social & to rant at length about why I consider it the greatest Western of all time.
You can listen to that 👇
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An Argentinian comic book adaptation of The Wild Bunch (La Pandilla Salvaje) from 1970. Art by Gianni Dalfiume (1/4)
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Watch Art Acord in The Show Down (1921) 👇
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Watch Art Acord in The Show Down* 👇
*I mistakenly called it The Showdown earlier
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Or did he? Here's a quote from John Wayne on how tough Art Acord was & his own take on Acord's seemingly mysterious death (many of Acord's friends believed he was murdered by a Mexican politician for having an affair with his wife):
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But Art had trouble adapting to talkies & struggled with alcoholism. He left the film industry & ended up mining in Mexico. In January 1931, in Chihuahua, Mexico, Art Acord committed suicide by taking cyanide...
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Yakima Canutt & his wife Kitty
Broncho Billy Anderson
Bee Ho Gray throwing knives at Erich von Stroheim on the set of Greed (Gray was cut, but his knife throwing skills remain in the film)
Tom Mix
He joined the 101 Ranch Traveling Wild West Show where he met Yakima Canutt, Broncho Billy Anderson, Bee Ho Gray & Tom Mix. After a stint in the Army during WWI (where he was awarded the Croix de Guerre for bravery) he began starring in his own Westerns.
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Art Acord "The Mormon Cowboy"
Hoot Gibson
Art Acord was born to Mormon pioneers & worked as a cowboy as a young man. He participated in numerous rodeos & won his share of awards. In 1916, he beat Hoot Gibson at the World Steer Wrestling Championship. He was also fond of riding horses off of cliffs (I assume into water)
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