Western Actors Who Brought The Wild West To Life

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Western Actors Who Brought The Wild West To Life

The Western Actors area of Wild Western Classics contains an extensive list of western stars. From some of the first cowboys on the screen like Gene Autry and Roy Rogers to present day actors who decided to test the water of the western genre.

Western Actors in the Spotlight

Here are a select few of the western actors featured on this site.

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Roy Rogers "King Of The Cowboys"

Leonard Slye's first big break was joining up with the western styled musical group "The Sons of the Pioneers", which lead to his first appearance in a western movie "Gallant Defender ". He soon went for a solo career, changing his name to Roy Rogers, and made his first starring role in "Under Western Stars".

John "Duke" Wayne

He began his western movie career as a singing cowboy, like most other western actors of his time. One of his most well-known roles was as the character Rooster Cogburn from the intended trilogy of "True Grit", "Rooster Cogburn", and Sometime, the last never went into production due to the second in the series doing little more than average at the box office.

Clint Eastwood "The Man With No Name"

His debut performance was in the television western series "Rawhide". In no time he became the star of the show as Rowdy Yates. As the years passed he began to tire of the 'good guy' image and moved onto a darker version of the cowboy in Sergio Leone's "The Man With No Name" trilogy.