There once was a young man with a fad,
’Twas nothing so dreadfully bad,
But his benevolent friends thought it silly
When in full Piccadilly
He youdled because he was glad. 
Great westerns topic, or lousy limericks topic!
Would you care to contribute to…?
There was a young sailor from Wales.
An expert at pissing in gales.
He could pee from a bar.
On the topgallent spar.
Without even wetting the sails!
Now, he was obviously a great western!
Great westerns topic, or lousy limericks topic!
Both, my dear Mr. David, although those original (and sadly misinterpreted!:() gems of British poetry, originally composed by the Rev. Charles Inge, were acknowledged as the best poems in this specific field by a renowned professor Langford Reed in his significant study “The Origin, History and Achievements of the Limerick” (Jarrolds Publishers, London. – 1925, p. 38).
Nevertheless, let’s go back to the original theme of this thread. Here is my latest offer, honorable ladies and gentlemen: “The Untamed” from 1920. Yes, I know – many of us are too young to remember those far – away days, and the pre-Vitaphone film era. Hence, of all the Western stars who have ridden across the Hollywood sagebrush since movies began, there has never been much doubt that Mr. Tom Mix was amongst the greatest.
“The Untamed”, 1920 – Tom Mix
Mr. Mix brought authenticity, pep, escapism and – above all! – true showmanship to the western genre. And in the process he developed a popularity and a box office value equaled by no other Western star, perhaps not even by Mr. John Wayne.
A rugged adventurere, Mr. Mix had been a soldier, bronc-buster for the British during the Boer War, western marshal, and rodeo-performer before the films called him. Furthermore, he often wrote and directed them as well! Some of these early westerns had moments of real hell-for-leather action. His films were all pep and energy, and had the same spirit of boyish fun as the early Douglas Fairbanks films. Being a tough westerner himself, his performance naturally carried authority, but otherwise they were cheerful, breezy, aimed at wide audience, careful not to contain elements that might disturb children, and – thank God! – free of romantic entanglements. Mix’s screen hero never drank, smoked or cursed, and always eschewed unnecessary violence.
Probably we have never quite realized what good films he was making, movies that would retain their appeal and merit long after films hailed as great at the time. All he wanted to do was to put on a darned good show – and I am assuring you that he always did! 
And now, please - present us your film preferences!
Tom Mix?..now, you’re really going back, my father used to rave about him.
If we’re talking individual characters then we cannot ignore Hoppy!
The ring of the silver spurs…
http://www.hopalong.com/home.asp
Which leads us to Roy Rogers (vomit).
The Cisco Kid. (Ah, Pancho. Ah, Cisco. Latin laughter. Fade as silly short legged ponies clatter into the distance.)
The Texas Rangers. Not too bad as a kid.
The Lone Ranger. (Hi Ho Silver. What a punce! Preferred but never televised version: LR and Tonto are surrounded by attacking Indians. LR says to Tonto “We’re in big trouble.” Tonto replies “What’s this ‘we’, white man?”)
Wagon Train. Yawn.
Rawhide. Yawn, except for Rowdy Yates who went on to give the greatest performance in the history of cinema in the greatest western film ever made, being The Outlaw Josey Wales.
Bonanza. Yawn, apart from the burning map at the start, which unfortunately failed to burn the set and cast before the show could be broadcast.
Hec Ramsay. Great. One of the best TV westerns ever made.
?Paladin?, also with Richard Boone and also pretty good.
Rifleman. Yawn verging on vomit.
The Marshal Dillon / Miss Kitty / Chester the whining cripple show, the name of which I cannot recall and of which I do not wish to be reminded.
Riverboat. Yawn.
Cheyenne. Passable at times.
I actually saw Hopalong Cassidy at Myers department store when I was about five or six years old, which was a bit of a concession on my part as I was spending most of my time running around in a Davey Crockett suit at the time. Hoppy’s horse could do arithmetic, clumping it’s hoof to give the answer. It took me a while, but I worked out later that it probably wasn’t the real Hoppy and that the horse’s arithmetic was a set up. Admittedly, I was in my forties before I had that blinding flash of cosmic insight, but I bet some of the other kids still think they saw the real Hoppy and that his nag could count.
Tom Mix?..now, you’re really going back, my father used to rave about him.
Completely deservedly, my dear Mr. 32 Bravo. Tom never let his public down!
If nothing else, Mr. Mix certainly used a double less than any western star, and since most of his stunts were photographed relatively close up, there can be no doubt about it. What’s more - Mr. Mix always liked to bring modern touches into his westerns – like car racing.
Tom Mix – The Road Demon, 1921
Furthermore, action there was in plenty, but never of a vicious nature. Tom would never shoot a villain if he could subdue him by other means – and since those other means usually entailed fancy work with a lariat, or a helter-skelter chase climaxed with a fistic fracas, nobody missed the blood. :rolleyes:
Today’s blood-splattered westerns might take note of Tom’s approach to it.
Nevertheless, if we have to talk about the Old Stars who have galloped over the California landscape, William Surrey Hart is without any doubt the most important – and actually the most beloved! Bronco Billy Anderson literally created the Western Star – from him all else sprang. Tom Mix gave the western showmanship, color and excitement. But the greatest of the silent screen epoch, William S. Hart, brought realism and a rugged poetry to the “horse opera.” He arrived on the scene in 1914 as an actor, and later as a director, to breathe new and vigorous life into what were literally the first adult westerns. And even today, they remain the best adult westerns!
William Surrey Hart – The Return of Draw Egan, 1916
Mr. Hart traveled the West as a youngster. He grew up with Indians and trail herders, and acquired deep love of the West, which was to remain with him all his life. But stardom in westerns arrived relatively late – he spent 20 years first on the Broadway as a Shakespearean actor! Drifting into westerns in 1914, he played heavy, good badman roles. He was a tremendously sentimental man, and also a man so devoted to the lore of the West that nothing but the real thing would do for him. His rugged adventures had an almost documentary-like realism to them.
There was nothing glamorous about Hart’s West, with its shabby wooden-shack towns, dusty exteriors, and practical, rather than colorful costumes. Despite his sentimental streak, Hart was a big, rugged fellow too, and took his chances in the fight and ridding scenes along with his loyal crew, and his bellowed little pinto pony, Fritz.
Pinto Ben, 1915 - William Surrey Hart and his Fritz
His last screen appearance was in 1939, in a spoken prologue of reissued Tumbleweeds. His fine, old voice, with the range and emotion that comes only from years of stage work, boomed out as he told of the early days of the West, of his love of the west, and his love of motion pictures. Probably it was the most moving 8 minutes ever put on film – literally a man delivering his own epitaph! :shock:
It is a pity that an actor as fine as hart never had a chance to star in talkies. Had he been a little younger, he might well have occupied the position that Gary Cooper assumed in the mid-thirties… 
There once was a girl from Nizais
who had tits of two different sizes
one was so small
it was nothing at all
the other was large and won prizes
There once was a couple named Kelly
who went around belly to belly
because in their haste
they used library paste
instead of petroleum jelly
Tom Mix and William S. Hart were both pallbearers at Wyatt Earps funeral…
Tom Mix wept…
So did Jesus, apparently.
Okay, you’ve persuaded me - to look at them, at least - I’ll reserve my opinion until then.
here are some DVD’s: http://turnerclassic.moviesunlimited.com/browse_list.asp?cid=si&dept=Tom+Mix&media=d
No discussion of great westerns can be complete without mentioning Ben Johnson.
Ben has always been one of my favorite cowboys, like Hart and others he was a real cowboy. He was a ranchhand who Howard Hughes hired to move a herd of horses to California in 1940 to use in making The Outlaw. He decided to stay and work in the movies because of the pay (“I’d been making a dollar a day as a cowboy, and my first check in Hollywood was for $300. After that, you couldn’t have driven me back to Oklahoma with a club.”). Only once was he tapped to play a leading role and that was still as a cowboy of sorts in Mighty Joe Young. Handsome and tall at 6’2" with a great western drawl to his voice Ben was an addition to any western. Laconic discribes how I see Ben in his roles. His “Sgt. Tyree” and “Trooper Tyree” in She Wore a Yellow Ribbon and Rio Grande typlifies Ben at his best. Ben was in many of the greats, including The Wild Bunch and Hang 'em High where he saved Clint’s bacon by cutting his hang rope. He must have liked Clint’s character’s name because he right afterward played “Jed Cooper” on The Virginian. Ben was the only actor to ever quit the movie business and return to cowboying, he took off for a year and won a world championship roping competition, but after only making enough to clear expenses he went back to Hollywood. Thank goodness for that, he went on to make 50 + more appearances in movies and TV shows for the next 40 years. So here’s to Ben…I miss you.
Neville Brand who played Texas Ranger Reese Bennett in the western TV series Laredo which ran from 1965-1967.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neville_Brand
LAREDO Actor Info
NEVILLE BRAND as Reese Bennett (a Texas Ranger)
http://www.williamsmith.org/brand.html
http://www.williamsmith.org/laredo.html
http://www.williamsmith.org/pilot.html
http://www.williamsmith.org/laredo1.html
http://www.williamsmith.org/laredo2.html
http://www.williamsmith.org/laredo3.html
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058819/
Laredo (TV series)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laredo_(TV_series)
http://www.tv.com/show/4583/summary.html
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058819/
Laredo (TV series) - YouTube Video Clips:
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=&search_query=laredo+neville+brand&aq=0&oq=laredo+neville+b
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=laredo+neville+brand&page=2
I remember watching the western series Larado on TV as a little kid in the 1960’s - it was one of my favorites.
IMDb
Biography for Neville Brand
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0104507/bio
Biography for Neville Brand
Date of Birth
13 August 1920, Griswold, Iowa, USA
Date of Death
16 April 1992, Sacramento, California, USA. (emphysema)
Height
5’ 8" (1.73 m)
Mini Biography
Neville Brand joined the US Army in 1939, meaning to make a career in the military. It was while he was in the Army that he made his acting debut, in Army training films, and this experience apparently changed the direction of his life. Once a civilian again, he used his GI Bill education assistance to study drama with the American Theater Wing, then appeared in several Broadway plays. His first movie was 1950’s D.O.A. (1950). Among his earliest films was the Oscar-winning Stalag 17 (1953). His heavy features and gravelly voice made Brand a natural tough guy: “With this kisser, I knew early in the game I wasn’t going to make the world forget Clark Gable”, he once told a reporter. He played Al Capone in The George Raft Story (1961), The Scarface Mob (1959) (TV), and TV’s “The Untouchables” (1959). Among his other memorable roles are the sympathetic guard in Birdman of Alcatraz (1962) and the representative of rioting convicts in Riot in Cell Block 11 (1954). Perhaps his best-loved role was that of the soft-hearted, loud-mouthed, none-too-bright-but-very-effective Texas Ranger Reese Bennett of Backtrack! (1969), Three Guns for Texas (1968), and TV’s “Laredo” (1965).
Spouse
Rae Brand (? - 16 April 1992) (his death) 2 children
Trivia
Neville Brand was regularly cited as the ‘4th most decorated soldier in WWII’ but that information is incorrect and was denied by Brand before his death. He was, however, a recipient of, according to official military records the Silver Star, for gallantry in combat. His other awards and decorations are the Purple Heart, the Good Conduct Medal, the American Defense Service Ribbon, the European/African/Middle Eastern Theater Ribbon with three Battle Stars, one Overseas Service Bar, one Service Stripe, and the Combat Infantryman’s Badge.
NEVILLE BRAND
Setting the Record Straight
by Robert E. Witter
http://www.jodavidsmeyer.com/combat/military/neville_brand.html
How many of you remember the tough, but compassionate prison guard Bull Ransom in the 1962 classic “The Birdman of Alcatraz?” What about Duke, the barely restrained prisoner of war in “Stalag 17” ? Well, Ransom, Duke, and dozens of other characters, shared the same craggy face and gravelly voice of one man — Mr. Neville Brand — an "actor’s actor"1 and real life World War II hero. If you do a little searching, you’ll find references to his acting career, but nearly every biographical account of his military service is just, plain wrong. As his brother, Bryce Brand, once put it, “There was a lot they printed about Nev that wasn’t true.” To illustrate his point, one example is a published account of how Neville Brand participated in (and barely survived) the ill-fated Dieppe Raid on the coast of Western Europe – two years before he ever left the States!
One of seven children, Neville Brand was born to Leo and Helen Brand on August 135h, 1920, in Griswold, Iowa. At the age of seven, he and his family moved to Kewanee, Illinois, where he grew up, graduated from high school, and entered the Illinois National Guard on October 23rd, 1939, as a private with Company F, 129th Infantry. A year-and-a-half later, Corporal Brand was inducted into Federal service with the 129th, and assigned Army Serial Number 20602562.
After five weeks of infantry training, and an unsuccessful attempt at Officers Candidate School, the twenty-four-year-old former shoe salesman departed for the European Theater of Operations on December 9th, 1944, and arrived there on December 16th. Relatively little is known of his nine months and nineteen days overseas, but his official military records reflect that Neville Brand participated in the Ardennes, Rhineland, and Central European campaigns, and received the Silver star while convalescing at the 21st General Hospital for gallantry in combat. His other awards and decorations are the Purple Heart, the Good Conduct Medal, the American Defense Service Ribbon, the European/African/Middle Eastern Theater Ribbon with three Battle Stars, one Overseas Service Bar, one Service Stripe, and the Combat Infantryman’s Badge. [b]In a rare 1966 interview in which he consented to speak of his wartime service, Brand recalled how he earned his Silver Star when his unit came under intense fire from German machine guns located within a hunting lodge. “I must have flipped my lid,” he said, for “I decided to go into that lodge.” Disregarding his own safety, he worked his way around to the rear of the lodge/command post, burst in through the back and single-handedly dispatched the enemy within.
Later, on April 7th, 1945, exactly one month and a day before the official German surrender, Sergeant Brand was wounded in action by the Weser River. Felled by a gunshot to his upper right arm, and pinned down by withering enemy ground fire, Brand lay there slowly bleeding to death. “I knew I was dying,” he said, “It was a lovely feeling, like being half-loaded.” Rescued and treated, Brand was evacuated to a military hospital and, on September 17th, 1945, he departed for the United States. Less than a month later, Staff Sergeant Brand was honorably discharged from the U.S. Army at Fort Sheridan, Illinois.[/b]
After his discharge, Neville Brand studied acting under the G.I. Bill, and appeared in his first film as a sadistic hoodlum opposite Edmond O’Brien in the 1950 production of “D.O.A.” Over the next thirty-five years, Neville Brand consistently delivered outstanding performances on the stage, television and film, winning the prestigious Sylvania Award in 1958 for his performance in “All the King’s Men.” Having performed with Mr. Brand in a 1964 episode of the television show Combat!, Mr. Richard Peabody (who played the part of “Littlejohn”) recalled that, “He was sort of an actor’s actor…his peers respected his work a great deal.” Moreover, “He was one of the nicer guests we had on the show; extremely friendly, and very well liked by both the cast and the crew.”
One of Neville Brand’s passions was reading. Having once visited Mr. Brand’s home in Malibu, co-star Richard Peabody remembers, “I saw all these book cases — I couldn’t believe it, I’ve never seen such an array of books in anybody’s private home in my life – it looked like a library … I was amazed about what an avid reader he was. You look at the titles, and his tastes were really eclectic — he was interested in everything.”
Neville Brand’s home was destroyed by fire, and most of his personal mementoes (and cherished books) were lost. Some years later, reclusive and enduring a protracted struggle with emphysema, Neville Brand passed away on April 16th, 1992, at Sutter General Hospital in Sacramento, California. His ashes are interred at East Lawn Memorial Park, Sacramento, California, in a vessel shaped like a book, with his name engraved on the spine.
Combat! episode review
iFly Away Home[/i]
http://www.jodavidsmeyer.com/combat/episodes/Fly_Away_Home.html
In his column in the Mountain Democrat, Dick Peabody said, “The late Neville Brand was as interesting as any guest we had. He liked to drink, but wisely held off until the last scene was shot. We invited him to the bar in Vic’s dressing room, and a couple of hours later everyone had left except Neville and myself.” Dick Peabody had to drive Brand to his Malibu home, where his wife invited him in for a drink. Peabody was impressed with the floor-to-ceiling bookshelves in every room of the house. “There were literally thousands of volumes,” says Peabody. “His tastes were eclectic, since almost everything interested him. Neville’s wife pointed to the books and said, ‘He’s read every one of them.’” A high-school drop-out, Neville Brand was self-educated.
SEE ALSO:
Neville Brand Biography
http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1800036869/bio
Neville Brand Movies
http://www.bestprices.com/cgi-bin/vlink/actors/dvds-by-actor-Neville-Brand.html
Neville Brand (Actor)
Filmography
http://www.bestprices.com/cgi-bin/vlink/dvd_person?id=uu2MwYcT&p_id=P--8058
http://www.bestprices.com/cgi-bin/vlink/024543025443.html
George, I was an avid fan of Laredo, back in the Sixties.
I was looking at the pics in your post above and remembered that the trwo younger Rangers were quite muscular. One of them was especially familiar, and here he is:
http://www.williamsmith.org/image1Q3.JPG
http://www.imdb.com/media/rm412455936/nm0810342
Falconetti
And, speaking of great westerns, how about Bronco Billy?
Yes, actor William Smith who played “Joe Riley” in the Laredo series was quite muscular. He was a body builder, but slimmed down before joining the cast.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Smith_(actor)
quote: “The physically imposing 6’2” actor was a lifelong bodybuilder and had the distinction of being the final Marlboro Man before the cigarette ads were discontinued on TV.
…Going against his rough-hewn image, Smith was also highly educated. He held a Bachelor of Arts from Syracuse and a Master’s Degree in Russian Studies from UCLA. He even taught Russian at UCLA before abandoning his Ph.D. studies for an MGM contract. He also studied at the Sorbonne in Paris and the University of Munich while learning languages courtesy of the military. Smith is fluent in Russian, Serbo-Croatian, French, and German. During the Korean War he was a Russian Intercept Interrogator and was awarded a Purple Heart. He had both CIA and NSA clearance and intended to enter a classified position with the U.S. government, but married a French actress which meant he lost his security clearance."
I have seen William Smith as a character actor in later movies such as The Frisco Kid (1979) where he played the desperado “Matt Diggs”, and in Red Dawn (1984), where he played Russian “Col. Strelnikov” (The Hunter) a specialist in counter-insurgency.
The other rangers Peter Brown as “Chad Cooper” and Neville Brand as “Reese Bennett” might also be recognized from movies they have appeared in. Peter Brown played Pvt. / Cpl. Rollo Burns in the movie Darby’s Rangers (1958) and the sniper “Bullseye” in the movie Merrill’s Marauders (1962). And Neville Brand played the bully character “Duke” - one of the American POW’s in the movie Stalag 17 (1953) with actor William Holden.
LAREDO STAR INFO
WILLIAM SMITH as Joe Riley
http://www.williamsmith.org/smith.html
Laredo’s Ranger JOE RILEY was an orphan raised by Indians. [In “Meanwhile Back at the Reservation” he tells an Indian boy that although he’s not an Indian, he was raised by them. He tells the Indian defendant in “Question of Guilt” the same thing.] It was this childhood which helped him become the best tracker in the Rangers and made him deadly with the knife he always wore in a sheath on his pant leg. He also had an eagle eye for long-distance rifle fire.
Although Laredo was the story of three Rangers (2nd season four) it was Chad and Joe who were the real team. In fact, it was fortunate that William Smith and Peter Brown got along so well because their characters were essentially joined at the hip. In most episodes they were in almost every scene together, especially in the first year. Reese was often their foil, the butt of their jokes, the manipulated sucker or otherwise the comedy focal point.
Although in real life it was William Smith who was highly educated, in Laredo Peter Brown’s character Chad was the educated one who frequently used words Joe had to ask to be translated into English. The show took advantage of Peter Brown’s excellent Spanish but left Joe with only his uneducated English despite the fact that in real life Bill is a master of many languages. Joe was, however, the wild west equivalent of “street smart”.
Interaction with women was always fleeting on Laredo, but what there was went mostly to Chad or sometimes Reese and the Captain (and in year two, Erik Hunter) but rarely to Joe unless one counts his being the object of infatuation of the bloodthirsty Linda Littletrees.
Some descriptions of Laredo call William Smith a “gentle giant” but in fact he didn’t particularly stand out in size next to the wiry 6’ foot Peter Brown and the 6’6” heavily built Philip Carey, Although 6’2” with excellent musculature, Bill had slimmed down considerably from his previous body-builder days. (He would bulk up again for his future biker films in which he would rarely be referred to as “gentle”).
WILLIAM SMITH Laredo PIX: Joe & Co.
http://www.williamsmith.org/wsphoto.html
http://www.williamsmith.org/wsphoto2.html
Laredo Episode Eleven 12-2-1965 (season 1)
“JINX”
http://www.williamsmith.org/jinx.html
Written by JOHN D. F. BLACK
Directed by PAUL STANLEY
Guest Cast:
ALBERT SALMI as Cletus Grogan
SHELLEY MORRISON as Linda Littletrees
JOHN ABBOTT as Mr. Irwing
RICHARD DEVON as Max Vander
RALPH MANZA as Blue Dog
ROY BARCROFT as Marshal Speaks
RICHARD COLLIER as Jones
X BRANDS as Randoe
When Reese’s friend Cletus comes to Laredo, things go wrong all around him - runaway horses, broken wagon wheels, busted feed sacks. Reese tries to show him he’s not a jinx by getting him signed up as a Ranger. When Chad hears about the jinx, his first thought is to figure how to use it in a card game to his advantage. However, when they’re all assigned to hunt down Linda Littletrees’ gang, the first thing Cletus does is disconnect Chad’s shoulder, driving thoughts of profit from Chad’s mind. Littletrees’ gang has robbed the bank in the first town the Rangers come to. While Chad sees the doctor, Joe’s attempt to track the gang is hampered by a freak rainstorm. The Littletrees gang watches Joe from a ridge. When the rain stops, Joe takes off his wet shirt. Linda’s eyes bulge at the sight. She’s in love — much to the dismay of her ardent suitor Blue Dog who is now determined to kill Joe. The gang sets a trap to capture Joe, He manages to fight them off until Linda hits him on the head with a rock. While the rest of the gang goes off to intercept the other Rangers, Linda proposes marriage to Joe. He’s rescued by the arrival of the other Rangers. During the gunfight, Reese sets it up so Cletus can rescue him, leading Cletus to believe the Jinx is gone. Cletus resigns from the Rangers to return to his waiting girlfriend, leaving disaster striking everywhere Reese walks.
NiteOwl Review:
Much as we disliked the stereotypical Indians in Laredo, there was something interesting about the Linda Littletrees persona. In her previous appearance she duped Martin Milner’s character. Joe is not as easily manipulated. On the whole this was an amusing episode. Cast Note: Shelley Morrison later played a nun on The Flying Nun and in the 1999-2000 season joined the cast of the sitcom Will and Grace. Albert Salmi was another of the actors considered to replace Neville Brand due to Brand’s on-going inability to cope with the heavy demands of series television. Production Note: Producers combined “Jinx” with 2 other Linda Littletrees episode “Yahoo” & “No Bugles, One Drum” to make the feature film “Three Guns for Texas” for overseas distribution.
SEE ALSO:
LAREDO Episode Fifty-Seven 4-7-1967 (season 3)
“Split the Difference” (last and final episode of the series)
http://www.williamsmith.org/split.html
LAREDO Actor Info
PETER BROWN as CHAD COOPER
http://www.williamsmith.org/brown.html
http://www.williamsmith.org/pbphotos.html
http://www.williamsmith.org/pbphoto2.html
LAREDO Actor Info
PHILIP CAREY as Captain Edward Parmalee
http://www.williamsmith.org/carey.html
LAREDO Actor Info
NEVILLE BRAND as Reese Bennett
http://www.williamsmith.org/brand.html
LAREDO Star Info
ROBERT WOLDERS as Erik Hunter
http://www.williamsmith.org/wolders.html
Obviously, you are a bit of a fan, george.
I wouldn’t have made the ‘Kwai’ connection with Peter brown, but, then, I haven’t seen Laredo since the Sixities. Perhaps if I saw it again I might. I’ll have to check out your links when I have a few moments.
Ta, la’!
I’m sorry 32Bravo, my mistake.
It was actor Geoffrey Horne who played the Canadian Lieutenant Joyce in the movie Bridge on the River Kwai (1957).
Actor Peter Brown was close to the same age and played Pvt. / Cpl. Rollo Burns in the movie Darby’s Rangers (1958) and the sniper “Bullseye” in the movie Merrill’s Marauders (1962).
Peter Brown
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Brown_(actor)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darby's_Rangers_(1958_film)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merrill's_Marauders_(film)
Geoffrey Horne
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Horne
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridge_on_the_river_kwai