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Francis Benjamin Johnson Jr. (June 13, 1918 – April 8, 1996) was an American film and television actor, stuntman, and world-champion rodeo cowboy.Johnson brought authenticity to many roles in Westerns with his droll manner and expert horsemanship.
Scott Glenn is H.D. Dalton, a champion bull rider whose career is ruined after being gored by a bull. He returns to his hometown of Guthrie, Oklahoma, to discover things have drastically changed — the family farm has been abandoned, his old girlfriend Jolie (Kate Capshaw) is a now a widowed mother, and his sister Cheryl (Tess Harper) has put his father (Ben Johnson) in a nursing home. H.D ...
One-Eyed Jacks is a 1961 American Western film directed by and starring Marlon Brando, his only directorial credit.Brando portrays the lead character Rio, and Karl Malden plays his partner, "Dad" Longworth.
While the radio series had relatively few recurring supporting characters, and those roles were often shared, the following actors played recurring roles with comparative consistency, in addition to a variety of one-time roles Harry Bartell played Mr. Hightower; James Nusser played Moss Grimmick
[a] Rio Grande's supporting cast features Ben Johnson, Claude Jarman Jr., Harry Carey Jr., Chill Wills, J. Carrol Naish, Victor McLaglen, Grant Withers, the Western singing group the Sons of the Pioneers and Stan Jones. In the film, Yorke leads a cavalry regiment at the border of Texas and Mexico.
Ryan Bingham may play the famed crooner Walker on TV, but in real life, the 43-year-old has experience as a cowboy. Bingham grew up working on his family’s ranch in Hobbs, a small town on the ...
Ben Johnson: Third Cowboy on the Right is a 1996 documentary film about the life of actor Ben Johnson. The film was directed by Tom Thurman and written by Thurman and Tom Marksbury. External links
In an interview with Ben Johnson and Harry Carey Jr., Ben recalls teaching many actors to ride a horse, including Bill. Bill didn't just learn to ride a horse but asked Ben many questions about style and technique. According to Ben, Bill become a very good horseman in his own right while the others "looked like a sack of walnuts on a horse." [3]