Tag: FAMOUS DEATHS

• From World War I mortars to six shooters

  

  Way back in World War I, Randy Scott was a 19-year-old artillery man with the Trench Mortar Division in France. His training in firearms and horsemanship later came in handy in more than 60 westerns.

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  March 2, 2020

  FAMOUS COWBOY ACTORS

  ’Ride the High Country’, Cary Grant, FAMOUS DEATHS, Joel McCrea, MOVIE STARS, Randolph Scott, Sam Peckinpah, The Old West, WESTERN MOVIES

• The Laurence Olivier of spoofs

  

  REMEMBERING LESLIE NIELSEN Died on this day, November 28, 2010. “I’ve been called the Laurence Olivier of spoofs. That would make Laurence Olivier the Leslie Nielsen of Shakespeare.” Leslie Nielsen, the son of a Mountie, was born in Regina, Saskatchewan, and raised in Tulita (formerly Fort Norman), Northwest Territories. One of his two brothers, Erik, became…

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  November 28, 2019

  COMIC ACTORS

  ‘Airplane’, ‘Naked Gun’, ’Forbidden Planet’, ”Don’t call me Shirley.”, Canada, FAMOUS DEATHS, Leslie Nielsen