My Favorite Pop Culture Cowboys
by pearsonj-89635 | created - 20 Mar 2019 | updated - 20 Mar 2019 | PublicIt's been 15 years since the drama series "Deadwood," starring Ian McShane and Timothy Olyphant, made its debut on HBO on March 21, 2004. In honor of the Western's anniversary, I'm rounding up my favorite pop culture cowboys. Giddy-up to see the roughest, toughest, hottest Hollywood gunslingers of the wild Wild West.
1. Tom Hanks
Producer | Cast Away
Thomas Jeffrey Hanks was born in Concord, California, to Janet Marylyn (Frager), a hospital worker, and Amos Mefford Hanks, an itinerant cook. His mother's family, originally surnamed "Fraga", was entirely Portuguese, while his father was of mostly English ancestry. Tom grew up in what he has ...
Woody from the "Toy Story" films (1995, 1999, 2010, & 2019).
2. Jamie Foxx
Actor | Collateral
Jamie Foxx is an American actor, singer and comedian. He won an Academy Award for Best Actor, BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role, and Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy, for his work in the biographical film Ray (2004). The same year, he was nominated for the Academy...
Django from "Django Unchained" (2012).
3. Val Kilmer
Actor | The Doors
Val Kilmer was born in Los Angeles, California, to Gladys Swanette (Ekstadt) and Eugene Dorris Kilmer, who was a real estate developer and aerospace equipment distributor. His mother, born in Indiana, was from a Swedish family, and his father was from Texas. Val studied at Hollywood's ...
Doc Holliday from "Tombstone" (1993).
4. Jeff Bridges
Actor | The Big Lebowski
Jeffrey Leon Bridges was born on December 4, 1949 in Los Angeles, California, the son of well-known film and TV star Lloyd Bridges and his long-time wife Dorothy Dean Bridges (née Simpson). He grew up amid the happening Hollywood scene with big brother Beau Bridges. Both boys popped up, without ...
Rooster Cogburn from "True Grit" (2010).
5. Clint Eastwood
Actor | Million Dollar Baby
Clint Eastwood was born May 31, 1930 in San Francisco, to Clinton Eastwood Sr., a bond salesman and later manufacturing executive for Georgia-Pacific Corporation, and Ruth Wood (née Margret Ruth Runner), a housewife turned IBM clerk. He grew up in nearby Piedmont. At school Clint took interest in ...
William Munny from "Unforgiven" (1992).
6. Kurt Russell
Actor | Escape from New York
Kurt Vogel Russell was born on March 17, 1951 in Springfield, Massachusetts and raised in Thousand Oaks, California to Louise Julia Russell (née Crone), a dancer & Bing Russell, an actor. He is of English, German, Scottish and Irish descent. His first roles were as a child on television series, ...
Wyatt Earp from "Tombstone" (1993).
7. Daniel Craig
Actor | Casino Royale
One of the British theatre's most famous faces, Daniel Craig, who waited tables as a struggling teenage actor with the National Youth Theatre, has gone on to star as James Bond in Casino Royale (2006), Quantum of Solace (2008), Skyfall (2012), Spectre (2015) and No Time to Die (2021).
He was born ...
Jake Lonergan from "Cowboys & Aliens" (2011).
8. Chuck Norris
Actor | Walker, Texas Ranger
Chuck Norris is familiar to fans worldwide as the star of action films such as The Hitman (1991), The Delta Force (1986) and Delta Force 2: The Colombian Connection (1990). He also starred in Missing in Action (1984) and its sequels, Firewalker (1986) and Sidekicks (1992). He was an executive ...
He's not a cowboy. He's a cowman.
9. Tony Romo
Actor | Trainwreck
Tony Romo was born on April 21, 1980 in San Diego, California, USA. He is a producer and actor, known for Trainwreck (2015), Undrafted (2016) and Untitled Chace Crawford/Tony RomoDrew Comins/Showtime Project. He has been married to Candice Crawford Romo since May 28, 2011. They have three children.
Dallas Cowboys #9.
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