The 5 Best Wyatt Earps
by sethgecko61 | created - 15 Jun 2011 | updated - 15 Jun 2011 | PublicThis is a list of the 5 best actors who portrayed of legendary lawman Wyatt Earp. It is based on performance, not historical accuracy.
1. Kurt Russell
Actor | Escape from New York
Kurt Vogel Russell was born on March 17, 1951 in Springfield, Massachusetts and raised in Thousand Oaks, California to Louise Julia Russell (née Crone), a dancer & Bing Russell, an actor. He is of English, German, Scottish and Irish descent. His first roles were as a child on television series, ...
Great performance as the stoic Earp in the neoclassic Tombstone. Gave us great lines like "are you gonna do something or just stand there and bleed". Val Kilmer steals the show as Doc Holliday, but Russell's performance is the backbone of the film.
2. James Garner
Actor | The Notebook
Amiable and handsome James Garner had obtained success in both films and television, often playing variations of the charming anti-hero/con-man persona he first developed in Maverick, the offbeat western TV series that shot him to stardom in the late 1950s.
James Garner was born James Scott ...
Gave an outstanding performance in Hour of the Gun, also reprised the role as an aged Earp in the unappreciated Sunset with Bruce Willis who played cowboy star Tom Mix.
3. Burt Lancaster
Actor | From Here to Eternity
Burt Lancaster, one of five children, was born in Manhattan, to Elizabeth (Roberts) and James Henry Lancaster, a postal worker. All his grandparents were immigrants from the north of Ireland. He was a tough street kid who took an early interest in gymnastics. He joined the circus as an acrobat and ...
Gave a great performance in Gunfight at the OK Corral
4. Henry Fonda
Actor | 12 Angry Men
This remarkable, soft-spoken American began in films as a diffident juvenile. With passing years, he matured into a star character actor who exemplified not only integrity and strength, but an ideal of the common man fighting against social injustice and oppression. He was born in Grand Island, ...
Portrayed the lawman in My Darling Clementine
5. Kevin Costner
Actor | The Postman
Kevin Michael Costner was born on January 18, 1955 in Lynwood, California, the third child of Bill Costner, a ditch digger and ultimately an electric line servicer for Southern California Edison, and Sharon Costner (née Tedrick), a welfare worker. His older brother, Dan, was born in 1950. A middle ...
Undervalued perfomance in the epic Wyatt Earp
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