Name as many stars of Westerns as you think are worth being in a poll to determine SDMB’s favorite. Once we get a decent number I’ll put up said poll.
Add to these:
Clint Eastwood
Tom Selleck
Russell Crowe
Gene Hackman
John Wayne
Alan Ladd
Burt Lancaster
Bob Steele
Gene Autry
Roy Rogers
Charles Starrett
Smiley Burnette
Charles Bronson
Lee Van Cleef
Hopalong Cassidy
Here’s one source to help jog memories: http://wikibin.org/articles/list-of-western-film-actors.html
Randolph Scott
Joel McCrea
Lee Marvin (and his horse)
Tom Berenger
Jimmy Stewart
Arthur Hunnicutt
Jack Elam
Walter Brennan
Let’s hear it for the sidekicks!
To be a bit more serious, Gary Cooper.
And Audie Murphy.
Russell Crowe?!? On the basis of what exactly?
Ditch him and add Tom Mix, Glenn Ford, and Henry Fonda.
His IMDb resume’ includes several Westerns, perhaps most notably
3:10 to Yuma
The Quick and the Dead (which I just saw on Netflix the other day).
from two popular shows.
William Conrad
Parley Baer
James Arness
Dennis Weaver
Burt Reynolds
Ken Curtis
John Dehner
Richard Boone
Tom Mix
Tommy Lee Jones
Robert Duvall
Slim Pickens
Here’s the list so far, alphabetized on last name:
James Arness
Gene Autry
Parley Baer
Tom Berenger
Richard Boone
Walter Brennan
Charles Bronson
Smiley Burnette
Hopalong Cassidy
William Conrad
Gary Cooper
Russell Crowe
Ken Curtis
John Dehner
Robert Duvall
Clint Eastwood
Jack Elam
Henry Fonda
Glenn Ford
Gene Hackman
Arthur Hunnicutt
Tommy Lee Jones
Alan Ladd
Burt Lancaster
Lee Marvin
Joel McCrea
Tom Mix Tom Mix
Audie Murphy
Slim Pickens
Burt Reynolds
Roy Rogers
Randolph Scott
Tom Selleck
Charles Starrett
Bob Steele
Jimmy Stewart
Lee Van Cleef
John Wayne
Dennis Weaver
Strother Martin
Warren Oates
Woody Strode
Dub Taylor
Eli Wallach
And Warren Oates!
There’s two Warren Oateses?
Steve McQueen
James Garner
Thank you and thank you.
Paul Newman
Robert Redford
(Besides the obvious there’s Hombre and Jeremiah Johnson)
Clayton Moore and Jay Silverheels
Jay Silverheels
Clayton Moore
Clint Walker
Clu Gulager
Lash LaRue
James Drury
Chuck Connors
Ward Bond
Yakima Canutt
Chief Dan George
Wes Studi
Graham Greene
William S. Hart
Broncho Billy Anderson
Tom Mix
Yes, they were from the silent days, but Anderson created the Hollywood image of the cowboy, and Hart was nearly as big an influence.
I was pretty sure that some of these names looked familiar here at SDMB so I did some looking and found
Best Western (movie) which ran from 03-21-2010, 10:46 AM through 04-03-2010, 07:21 AM
and which led to
Best Western (not the motel chain) which was up from 04-03-2010, 12:30 AM until 04-05-2010, 12:17 PM (and may still be accepting votes!)
There may be other such threads, so I’ll look some more.
If you know of similar threads please post a link. 
Hey, you left Lee Marvin’s horse off the list. The horse shared an Oscar - he needs to be represented!
In his Oscar acceptance speech, Lee Marvin concluded by saying, “I think, though, that half of this belongs to a horse somewhere out in San Fernando Valley,” a reference to the horse Kid Shelleen rode, which appeared to be as drunk as Shelleen was.
