Favorite/Best Tough Guy Actors - Page 2

**palo5** · August 8th, 2013, 03:40 PM

He's not my favorite actor, and none of his movies I know are memorable. But here is a real tough guy. He looks like about 15 in this pic, but he didn't find his Medal of Honor in the cornflakes. Respekt!

Audie Murphy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audie_Murphy

~~savage560~~ · August 8th, 2013, 03:56 PM

Anyone remember this guy?Played in a movie called Johnny Cool.He was from the mean streets of Harlem in NY 1/2 Sicillian/Spanish (Hispanic?) herritage.

~~savage560~~ · August 8th, 2013, 04:07 PM

WOW ,Steve McQueen, the "Bullett" man!

Of the now era ,Gerrard Butler in "The 300" was DA MAN!

**winebeavis** · August 8th, 2013, 10:02 PM

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Originally Posted by tygrkhat40

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I thought about adding him, but let's face it: Richie Cunningham would beat the bejesus out of Michael Caine in a cage match Bones Jones Style and call him "bucko."

I also considered Robert Englund, but really without those knife fingers and imbecile teenagers, he's probably a putz. I'd like to see him take his act to someplace like east Bronx or South Central L.A., he'd get shot and robbed of his knife fingers.

But in all serious, the baddest, toughest guy, in a big motion picture of the last few years is probably Quentin "Rampage" Jackson who played B.A. during the "A-Team" movie. I also think Jim Brown was a tough guy back in the "Dirty Dozen" era. But they were cast more for being tough guys than their acting chops.

Pauldec · August 8th, 2013, 11:01 PM

Robert Ryan was a great actor and superb but multi-layered tough guy. Like a lot of actors of that generation he had quite a interesting and diverse early life, ranch hand, successful amateur boxer, ship's stoker, drill instructor with the marines so not exactly a shrinking violet. His performance as the killer in Crossfire is masterly conveying his vileness and his increasing desperation and panic when he realises he has been caught out. A tall imposing figure who had no need to buff up in the manner of certain later so-callled toughies, in real life he stood up to McCarthy and held left-wing pacifist views yet as an an actor specialised in tough,complex and sometimes brutal men. A real tough guy on and off the screen.

**haroldeye** · August 9th, 2013, 07:03 AM

Never played a tough guy but if you want someone who was genuinely hard check out Bill Travers war record.

**Mal Hombre** · August 9th, 2013, 01:10 PM

I've always been a big fan of Robert Mitchum,He was tough off screen as well as on,He was a talented amateur boxer.In 1953's Second Chance, He appeared with another boxer and tough guy Jack Palance,At the start of filming for the climatic cable car fight,Palance punched Mitchum full in the face,After recovering Mitchum returned the favour,Gutpunching Palance so hard He nearly vomited.Mitchum bent down to the retching Palance and said"Why don't We just pretend from now on ?"

**tygrkhat40** · August 9th, 2013, 03:38 PM

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Originally Posted by savage560

Anyone remember this guy?Played in a movie called Johnny Cool.He was from the mean streets of Harlem in NY 1/2 Sicillian/Spanish (Hispanic?) herritage.

Henry Silva. Also played Killer Kane in the pilot for Buck Rogers in the 25th Century and was in Ocean's 11 (both versions), The Manchurian Candidate, Green Mansions and the previously mentioned Johnny Cool. He played Dick Tracy-villain Influence in 1990's Dick Tracy.

~~savage560~~ · August 10th, 2013, 07:59 PM

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Originally Posted by tygrkhat40

Henry Silva. Also played Killer Kane in the pilot for Buck Rogers in the 25th Century and was in Ocean's 11 (both versions), The Manchurian Candidate, Green Mansions and the previously mentioned Johnny Cool. He played Dick Tracy-villain Influence in 1990's Dick Tracy.

I could just look at this guy Henry Silva & tell this dude is no one to be F'd with.He recaled his roots in Spanish Harlem & learning to speak his mothers tongue of Spanish.His father,Scicilian immigrant left his mother when he was a child,so he had to get tough,living in the streets of one of the worst sections of NY.In reality he was really a nice guy, & was a Member of the Rat Pack, & a friend of Sinatra's.He disliked his stereotyping in movies.

Others I'd add Liam Neeson,Broderick Crawford, & who can forget 100 rifles star & ex NFL football great Jim Brown!

Heard a true story Richard Pryor told,that when a guy was at his house for a party in the 70s he had a little bit too much to drink, got a little mouthy with Brown, who was there.Hestarted a confrontation with Brown.

Pryor heard this dude yell,MF you Jim Brown!He heard him say "Jim Brown,I'll kick your ass!"Brown stood calm & his irate adversary heard him say,If you think you can, them come on with it ,I guess thats an ass whoppin' I got a take,then.Pryor & a couple guys grabbed Browns would be adversary & they told him that Jim Brown was'nt a guy he should be challenging.

He soon came to his senses, & told the guys holding him back,"Just ease me out the door & tell me to leave"!I any of you n**^#*s let me go ,'ll come back to kick your asses!"

Then as he was out the door Pyror said he left!

**ubu55** · August 10th, 2013, 09:41 PM

Richard Boone

Fine actor, best known as Paladin in 'Have Gun Will Travel', was always a believable tough guy, playing good or bad equally well. His villains are notable for being intelligent & ruthless. 'The Kremlin Letter' is a favorite.

Victor McLaglen

Oscar-winner (The Informer 1935). best known as John Wayne's Top Sgt. in the John Ford cavalry pictures: ('She Wore a Yellow Ribbon' etc.), he seldom pumped up the menace, instead usually came across as very funny and likable. He's particularly hilarious even while trying to be threatening in 'The Quiet Man'.
And IRL, he really was a tough guy. Soldier, professional wrestler (at which he must have been terrific!)... and as an amateur boxer had exhibition bouts with newly-crowned Champ, Jack Johnson(!!!), and later-Champion Jess Willard:

http://boxrec.com/media/index.php/Victor_McLaglen

Johnson Exhibition
at the Vancouver AC

Little known fact: The first person newly-crowned World Heavyweight Champion Jack Johnson ever fought after winning the title from Tommy Burns was McLaglen. When Johnson returned to North America from Australia, he came to Vancouver, B.C., in March 1909, on the way to Chicago. The two boxed a six-round exhibition March 10 as the feature at the Vancouver Athletic Club. According to some accounts of that bout:

"Johnson had little trouble with McLaglen, tagging him in the solar plexus within the first minute of their exhibition. Like a giant cedar having received an axeman's final blow, McLaglen paused for a moment before slowing collapsing to his knees. He was winded but able to continue fighting, although the champion mostly toyed with him for the rest of the bout, showing agility, superior footwork, and a full repertoire of punches.

On Sept. 26, 1911, McLaglen boxed a four-round exhibition with future World Heavyweight Champion Jess Willard at Springfield, MO, USA, using the name "Paul Romano." IBRO Journal #84, p. 44; Springfield Daily Ledger, Sept. 22 & 26.

... and then there's this:

"Per the Jan. 10, 1912 Tacoma Daily News, McLaglen was involved in a fencing duel with Carl Brosius at Milwaukee, WI."

WTH?????????

August 9th, 2013, 01:10 PM	#17
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August 8th, 2013, 03:40 PM	#11
palo5 Former Staff Join Date: Sep 2009 Posts: 16,579 Thanks: 452,836 Thanked 222,658 Times in 16,567 Posts	He's not my favorite actor, and none of his movies I know are memorable. But here is a real tough guy. He looks like about 15 in this pic, but he didn't find his Medal of Honor in the cornflakes. Respekt! Audie Murphy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audie_Murphy

August 8th, 2013, 03:56 PM	#12
~~savage560~~ Banned! Join Date: May 2008 Location: the south US near the west from Chicagoland born in the USA,just like the song says! Posts: 3,719 Thanks: 13,008 Thanked 24,480 Times in 3,630 Posts	Anyone remember this guy?Played in a movie called Johnny Cool.He was from the mean streets of Harlem in NY 1/2 Sicillian/Spanish (Hispanic?) herritage.

August 8th, 2013, 04:07 PM	#13
~~savage560~~ Banned! Join Date: May 2008 Location: the south US near the west from Chicagoland born in the USA,just like the song says! Posts: 3,719 Thanks: 13,008 Thanked 24,480 Times in 3,630 Posts	WOW ,Steve McQueen, the "Bullett" man! Of the now era ,Gerrard Butler in "The 300" was DA MAN!

August 8th, 2013, 11:01 PM	#15
Pauldec Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2010 Posts: 231 Thanks: 1,035 Thanked 5,180 Times in 227 Posts	Robert Ryan was a great actor and superb but multi-layered tough guy. Like a lot of actors of that generation he had quite a interesting and diverse early life, ranch hand, successful amateur boxer, ship's stoker, drill instructor with the marines so not exactly a shrinking violet. His performance as the killer in Crossfire is masterly conveying his vileness and his increasing desperation and panic when he realises he has been caught out. A tall imposing figure who had no need to buff up in the manner of certain later so-callled toughies, in real life he stood up to McCarthy and held left-wing pacifist views yet as an an actor specialised in tough,complex and sometimes brutal men. A real tough guy on and off the screen.

August 9th, 2013, 07:03 AM	#16
haroldeye Moderator Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Halfwitistan Posts: 5,716 Thanks: 113,534 Thanked 59,972 Times in 5,708 Posts	Never played a tough guy but if you want someone who was genuinely hard check out Bill Travers war record.

August 10th, 2013, 09:41 PM	#20
ubu55 Former Staff Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Behind the Redwood Curtain Posts: 2,800 Thanks: 122,910 Thanked 51,109 Times in 2,795 Posts	Richard Boone Fine actor, best known as Paladin in 'Have Gun Will Travel', was always a believable tough guy, playing good or bad equally well. His villains are notable for being intelligent & ruthless. 'The Kremlin Letter' is a favorite. Victor McLaglen Oscar-winner (The Informer 1935). best known as John Wayne's Top Sgt. in the John Ford cavalry pictures: ('She Wore a Yellow Ribbon' etc.), he seldom pumped up the menace, instead usually came across as very funny and likable. He's particularly hilarious even while trying to be threatening in 'The Quiet Man'. And IRL, he really was a tough guy. Soldier, professional wrestler (at which he must have been terrific!)... and as an amateur boxer had exhibition bouts with newly-crowned Champ, Jack Johnson(!!!), and later-Champion Jess Willard: http://boxrec.com/media/index.php/Victor_McLaglen Johnson Exhibition at the Vancouver AC Little known fact: The first person newly-crowned World Heavyweight Champion Jack Johnson ever fought after winning the title from Tommy Burns was McLaglen. When Johnson returned to North America from Australia, he came to Vancouver, B.C., in March 1909, on the way to Chicago. The two boxed a six-round exhibition March 10 as the feature at the Vancouver Athletic Club. According to some accounts of that bout: "Johnson had little trouble with McLaglen, tagging him in the solar plexus within the first minute of their exhibition. Like a giant cedar having received an axeman's final blow, McLaglen paused for a moment before slowing collapsing to his knees. He was winded but able to continue fighting, although the champion mostly toyed with him for the rest of the bout, showing agility, superior footwork, and a full repertoire of punches. On Sept. 26, 1911, McLaglen boxed a four-round exhibition with future World Heavyweight Champion Jess Willard at Springfield, MO, USA, using the name "Paul Romano." IBRO Journal #84, p. 44; Springfield Daily Ledger, Sept. 22 & 26. ... and then there's this: "Per the Jan. 10, 1912 Tacoma Daily News, McLaglen was involved in a fencing duel with Carl Brosius at Milwaukee, WI." WTH?????????