Western Cinema History

Stagecoach is a 1939 American Western film directed by John Ford, starring Claire Trevor and John Wayne in his breakthrough role

Stagecoach is a 1939 American Western film directed by John Ford, starring Claire Trevor and John Wayne in his breakthrough role

Stagecoach is a 1939 American Western film directed by John Ford, starring Claire Trevor and John Wayne in his breakthrough role

Winner of Best Supporting Actor for The Westerner

The Westerner is a 1940 film directed by William Wyler and starring Gary Cooper

Directs the western film Western Union.

Appears in the western Star in the Dust before his later breakthrough in television westerns.

Rio Bravo is a 1959 American Western film, directed by Howard Hawks

Bronson gained attention in 1960 with his role in John Sturges western The Magnificent Seven, where he played one of seven gunfighters taking up the cause of the defenseless, which was based on Akira Kurosawas Seven Samurai

Eastwood meets producer Dino De Laurentiis in New York City and agrees to star in a non-Western five-part anthology production named Le Streghe ("The Witches") opposite De Laurentiis wife, actress Silvana Mangano

Clint Eastwood stars in the American revisionist western Hang Em High, featured alongside Inger Stevens, Pat Hingle, Dennis Hopper, Ed Begley, Alan Hale, Ben Johnson, Bruce Dern, and James MacArthur

Stars in the revisionist western Hang Em High with Inger Stevens, Pat Hingle and Dennis Hopper.

Clint Eastwood stars in the American revisionist western Hang Em High, featured alongside Inger Stevens, Pat Hingle, Dennis Hopper, Ed Begley, Alan Hale, Ben Johnson, Bruce Dern, and James MacArthur

Stars as Harmonica in Once Upon a Time in the West, director, Sergio Leone, once called him "the greatest actor I ever worked with", and had wanted to cast Bronson for the lead in all three of his previous westerns, now known as the Dollars trilogy

Stars in the musical western Paint Your Wagon with Lee Marvin and Jean Seberg.

Stars with Shirley MacLaine in Don Siegel's western Two Mules for Sister Sara.

Stars in Joe Kidd, a western directed by John Sturges.

Directs and stars in The Outlaw Josey Wales, one of his major westerns.

All Quiet on the Western Front is a television movie produced by ITC Entertainment starring actors Richard Thomas from The Waltons fame as Paul Baumer, and Ernest Borgnine as Katczinsky

Stars in, "All Quiet on the Western Front"

All Quiet on the Western Front is a television movie produced by ITC Entertainment starring actors Richard Thomas from The Waltons fame as Paul Baumer, and Ernest Borgnine as Katczinsky

All Quiet on the Western Front is a television movie produced by ITC Entertainment starring actors Richard Thomas from The Waltons fame as Paul Baumer, and Ernest Borgnine as Katczinsky

All Quiet on the Western Front is a television movie produced by ITC Entertainment starring actors Richard Thomas from The Waltons fame as Paul Baumer, and Ernest Borgnine as Katczinsky

Directs and stars in Pale Rider, reviving the western at the mid-1980s box office.

Directs Near Dark, blending vampire horror with the visual language of the western.

Directs and stars in Unforgiven, a revisionist western examining violence and reputation.

Plays Major Marquis Warren in Quentin Tarantino's western The Hateful Eight.

Directs and stars in Cry Macho, a late-career western road drama.

Directs the German film adaptation of All Quiet on the Western Front.