# Favorite Westerns Stars born before 1910 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 15, 2015, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-westerns-stars-born-before-1910/717721 "2015-04-15T11:31:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2015, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-westerns-stars-born-before-1910/717721/1 "2015-04-15T11:31:40Z")
See [Pre-Poll Data Collecting – Westerns Stars](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=753389) for background. Vote for up to FIVE from this list. Other later lists will focus on other years’ ranges – to be determined as nominations continue coming in. Use OTHER to mention other stars not on the list (check [IMDb](http://www.imdb.com/) for dates). ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2015, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-westerns-stars-born-before-1910/717721/2 "2015-04-15T13:34:36Z")
Just to be clear: I will be counting the First Five votes from each Voter. Others votes by the same person will be ignored. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2015, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-westerns-stars-born-before-1910/717721/3 "2015-04-16T13:32:33Z")
Hmmm… my votes perfectly matched the top 5 vote getters so far. I may be some kind of cowboy whisperer. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2015, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-westerns-stars-born-before-1910/717721/4 "2015-04-16T13:37:15Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > Hmmm… my votes perfectly matched the top 5 vote getters so far. I may be some kind of cowboy whisperer. Cool! ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2015, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-westerns-stars-born-before-1910/717721/5 "2015-04-16T13:53:29Z")
Dang, I didn’t catch that it’s multiple select. Can you add Brennan, Cooper, Fonda and Stewart when you’re doing the final tally? I actually picked Autry, singing cowboys are the best cowboys. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2015, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-westerns-stars-born-before-1910/717721/6 "2015-04-16T14:00:09Z")
> [@scabpicker](#): > > Dang, I didn’t catch that it’s multiple select. Can you add Brennan, Cooper, Fonda and Stewart when you’re doing the final tally? > > I actually picked Autry, singing cowboys are the best cowboys. 🙂 Glad to! That’s an option still open to others who only voted on one: **longhair75, Frodo, janeslogin** (if you choose to add a post to add more names). ---
**Author:** ![Bill\_Door](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@Bill\_Door](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bill_Door)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2015, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-westerns-stars-born-before-1910/717721/7 "2015-04-16T14:33:53Z")
I was going to write in one but ole Roy wasn’t born until November 5, 1911. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2015, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-westerns-stars-born-before-1910/717721/8 "2015-04-16T14:46:43Z")
> [@Bill\_Door](#): > > I was going to write in one but ole Roy wasn’t born until November 5, 1911. I was surprised by that, as well. [This post](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=18263563&postcount=44) had a few names added later but the older folks seem (to me at least) to be scattered about through the decades. Some older, and others younger, than I would have thought before checking IMDb. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2015, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-westerns-stars-born-before-1910/717721/9 "2015-04-17T03:36:35Z")
I didn’t vote for a few (e.g., Jimmy Stewart), because I don’t consider them primarily western stars. ---
**Author:** ![jimbuff314](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c57346/32.png) [@jimbuff314](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jimbuff314)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2015, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-westerns-stars-born-before-1910/717721/10 "2015-04-17T06:04:08Z")
Loved, loved, loved Walter Brennan. My maternal great-grandfather looked almost exactly like him. And had to go with Tom Mix - in 1911 he was a night Marshall in the small town I grew up in - Dewey, OK. It has a Tom Mix museum, complete with a facsimile of Tony, that was Grand Openinged by the Duke himself. His 3rd wife, Olive, was part-Cherokee and, having worked on a ranch herself, could ride and rope as well as he could. She was from Dewey. His first movie, by Selig Productions, was shot on a ranch about 4 miles ENE of Dewey at the foot of a roughly 200 ft hill called Blue Mound. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2015, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-westerns-stars-born-before-1910/717721/11 "2015-04-17T06:57:16Z")
I’ve never seen most of these guys. Jed and Granny on the Beverly Hillbillies mentioned Tom Mix and Hopalong Cassidy cowboy movies. Thats the only reason I know their names. Should Fonda be on this list? He made a couple Westerns but he was by no means a cowboy actor. Jimmy Stewart, John Wayne, and Walter Brennan are the three most famous. Ward Bond was a tv actor, Wagon Train.