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Who is your favorite non-Western genre actor that starred in a Western?


That is to say, an actor that typically doesn't star in Westerns OR doesn't look like they walked right out of the Wild West.

Clint Eastwood, John Wayne, Lee Van Cleef, Lee Marvin, Anson Mount, Sam Elliot, etc are all out.

Someone like, say, Jonah Hill or Richard Armitage or Rebecca Ferguson typically do not come to mind when one thinks "Western". They are examples of the type of actor I have in mind.
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Montgomery Clift in "Red River"

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Ray Milland in "A Man Alone" and "California"

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Liam Neeson and Pierce Brosnan in Seraphim Falls.
Roger Moore in Gold Of The Seven Saints.
Sidney Poitier in Duel At Diablo, and with Harry Belafonte in Buck And The Preacher.
Joan Crawford in Johnny Guitar.
Kenneth More in The Sheriff Of Fractured Jaw.
Christopher Lee in Hannie Caulder.
Frank Sinatra in Johnny Concho.
Omar Sharif in Mackenna's Gold.
Tyrone Power in Rawhide.
Sean Connery in Shalako (although he certainly looked the part).

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Jack Lemmon in Cowboy. Supposedly one of the reason's he turned down Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid he didn't like horses

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Donald Pleasence - Will Penny




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Lionel Stander in Once Upon A Time In The West
Orson Welles in Tepepa
Martin Balsam in Hombre
Edmund O'Brien in Rio Conchos and The Wild Bunch

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O'Brien was also in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance; how many westerns must an actor appear in before they can be considered a "genre" actor?

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No one has mentioned and the most obvious, Victor Mature as Doc Holliday in MY DARLING CLEMENTINE

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That was some odd casting but he carried it off just fine.

One of my favorite Westerns.

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