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Edited: WE HAVE A WINNER! My friend Frenchy, from high school, came up with the correct name of the cowboy actor in the Read an E-Book Week photo on my sidebar. She has declined to accept a prize, saying it was fun to do the challenge. And the name of this famous tough-guy, leading man, and all-around great actor is:
He played Jim Bowie in the 1960 version of The Alamo, and is well known for his role as Col. Tad Lawson in Judgment at Nuremberg. Other films include his debut role as the killer, Tommy Udo, in the 1947 film, Kiss of Death, for which he won a Best Supporting Actor Academy Award nomination. He also appeared in How the West Was Won, 1974's Murder on the Orient Express, and Madigan, which was both a film in 1968 and a TV series that ran in 1972-73.
Have you ever seen Richard Widmark in an old movie? Which one, and how'd he do?
Is Jim Bowie related to David Bowie, the famous rock star from way back when?
ReplyDeleteI have no idea. He'd be a progenitor, if he is somehow related. Jim Bowie died at the Alamo. He is credit with inventing the Bowie knife.
ReplyDeleteHere's a link to the "Ballad of Jim Bowie," from the TV show of the 50s. Link to video I loved all the Westerns from that era, and can still hum the theme songs, even though I've forgotten most of the words: Cheyenne, Sugerfoot, The Rifleman, The Lawman, Maverick. I think I composed a piano medley of the tunes (by ear) as a girl, but that's long gone!
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