# All-Time Westerns Stars -- Tidy-Up #1

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-westerns-stars-tidy-up-1/718813>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [April 29, 2015, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-westerns-stars-tidy-up-1/718813 "2015-04-29T15:01:21Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 8\
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**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\
**Post date:** [April 29, 2015, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-westerns-stars-tidy-up-1/718813/1 "2015-04-29T15:01:21Z")

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See [Pre-Poll Data Collecting – Westerns Stars](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=753389) and [Your Top 5 All-Time Westerns Stars](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=755009) for background.

In this poll please limit your votes to THREE. Top finishers will move on to later voting.

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**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2015, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-westerns-stars-tidy-up-1/718813/2 "2015-04-30T21:41:24Z")

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Early reporting:

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View Poll Results: All-Time Westerns Stars -- Tidy-Up #1  
This poll will close on 06-28-2015 at 10:05 AM 

Sam Elliott (1944- ) 4 40.00% 

Charles Bronson (1921–2003) 3 30.00% 
Lee Van Cleef (1925–1989) 3 30.00% 
Tom Selleck (1945- ) 3 30.00% 

Randolph Scott (1898–1987) 2 20.00% 
Clayton Moore (1914–1999) 2 20.00% 
Chuck Connors (1921–1992) 2 20.00% 
Gene Hackman (1930- ) 2 20.00% 

Chief Dan George (1899–1981) 1 10.00% 
William Holden (1918–1981) 1 10.00% 
Alan Ladd (1913–1964) 1 10.00% 
Yul Brynner (1920–1985) 1 10.00% 
Tommy Lee Jones (1946- ) 1 10.00% 
Timothy Olyphant (1968- ) 1 10.00% 

Gene Autry (1907–1998) 0 0% 
Tom Mix (1880–1940) 0 0% 
George 'Gabby' Hayes (1885–1969) 0 0% 
Dean Martin (1917–1995) 0 0% 
Graham Greene (1952- ) 0 0% 
Ian McShane (1942- ) 0 0% 

Multiple Choice Poll. Voters: 10 

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**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2015, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-westerns-stars-tidy-up-1/718813/3 "2015-04-30T21:50:26Z")

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Why the additional poll without the big 2?

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**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2015, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-westerns-stars-tidy-up-1/718813/4 "2015-04-30T22:06:02Z")

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> [@What\_Exit](#):
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> Why the additional poll without the big 2?

Tidy-up means these are stragglers that would get left behind without a second chance for votes.

Main voting is at

> **[Your Top 5 All-Time Westerns Stars](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=755009)**
>
> Refer to Pre-Poll Data Collecting – Westerns Stars (or specifically this post) for background. The preliminary threads will be open a while longer, but since it looks like things are winding down, this is a first pass at tidying things up.

Your Top 5 All-Time Westerns Stars

Whatever final poll we have will be based on those votes, these, and any worth including from

> **[All-Time Westerns Stars -- Tidy-up #2](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=755668)**
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> Rather than putting up another poll with oodles of names to pick a few from, let’s try to resort to posts in this thread to determine how much (if any) additional clean-up is going to be needed before moving on to some sort of final voting. As...

All-Time Westerns Stars – Tidy-up #2

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**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\
**Post date:** [May 1, 2015, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-westerns-stars-tidy-up-1/718813/5 "2015-05-01T14:48:20Z")

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Where are all the Randolph Scott fans?!

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View Poll Results: All-Time Westerns Stars -- Tidy-Up #1  
This poll will close on 06-28-2015 at 10:05 AM 

Lee Van Cleef (1925–1989) 5 35.71% 

Clayton Moore (1914–1999) 4 28.57% 
Charles Bronson (1921–2003) 4 28.57% 
Sam Elliott (1944- ) 4 28.57% 

Randolph Scott (1898–1987) 3 21.43% 
Timothy Olyphant (1968- ) 3 21.43% 
Tom Selleck (1945- ) 3 21.43% 

Chief Dan George (1899–1981) 2 14.29% 
Dean Martin (1917–1995) 2 14.29% 
Yul Brynner (1920–1985) 2 14.29% 
Chuck Connors (1921–1992) 2 14.29% 
Gene Hackman (1930- ) 2 14.29% 
Ian McShane (1942- ) 2 14.29% 

William Holden (1918–1981) 1 7.14% 
Alan Ladd (1913–1964) 1 7.14% 
Tommy Lee Jones (1946- ) 1 7.14% 

Gene Autry (1907–1998) 0 0% 
Tom Mix (1880–1940) 0 0% 
George 'Gabby' Hayes (1885–1969) 0 0% 
Graham Greene (1952- ) 0 0% 

Multiple Choice Poll. Voters: 14 

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**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2015, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-westerns-stars-tidy-up-1/718813/6 "2015-05-02T15:00:59Z")

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20 Voters so far:

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View Poll Results: All-Time Westerns Stars -- Tidy-Up #1  
This poll will close on 06-28-2015 at 10:05 AM 

Sam Elliott (1944- ) 9 45.00% 
Lee Van Cleef (1925–1989) 7 35.00% 
Tom Selleck (1945- ) 6 30.00% 

Clayton Moore (1914–1999) 5 25.00% 
Charles Bronson (1921–2003) 5 25.00% 
Timothy Olyphant (1968- ) 4 20.00% 

Randolph Scott (1898–1987) 3 15.00% 
Chuck Connors (1921–1992) 3 15.00% 

Chief Dan George (1899–1981) 2 10.00% 
Dean Martin (1917–1995) 2 10.00% 
Yul Brynner (1920–1985) 2 10.00% 
Tommy Lee Jones (1946- ) 2 10.00% 
Gene Hackman (1930- ) 2 10.00% 
Ian McShane (1942- ) 2 10.00% 

Tom Mix (1880–1940) 1 5.00% 
William Holden (1918–1981) 1 5.00% 
Alan Ladd (1913–1964) 1 5.00% 

Gene Autry (1907–1998) 0 0% 
George 'Gabby' Hayes (1885–1969) 0 0% 
Graham Greene (1952- ) 0 0% 

Multiple Choice Poll. Voters: 20

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Some of these guys will definitely be in whatever final poll(s) we have.

Keep 'em comin'!

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Where’s all the **Randolph Scott** love? 😃

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**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2015, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-westerns-stars-tidy-up-1/718813/7 "2015-05-02T15:04:14Z")

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Try checking in [Rock Ridge](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071230/quotes?item=qt1102486).

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**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2015, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-westerns-stars-tidy-up-1/718813/8 "2015-05-02T15:06:56Z")

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> [@What\_Exit](#):
>
> Try checking in [Rock Ridge](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071230/quotes?item=qt1102486).

Good plan!
