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Who are some of the top bad guys in Westerns?

by | Apr 6, 2009 | Inside History

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I’ve compiled this list of the Westerns top bad guys: James Best, Robert Wilke, Jack Elam, Lee Van Cleef, Claude Akins, Leo Gordon, Henry Silva, Ted de Corsia and Jack Palance. Who else would fit in with these guys? Gary Rader Blue Springs, Missouri Western movies have produced some great villains. Along with the ones you’ve listed here are some of my favorites: Bruce Dern, Warren Oates, Richard Boone, Strother Martin, Donald Pleasence, Walter Brennan, Lon Chaney Jr., Robert Mitchum


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