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I can think of several that I would have liked included in the poll.

Sam L Jackson
Harrison Ford
Bruce Willis

But out of those choices, I'll go with Wesley Snipes or Charlton Heston.

Definitely Heston.

Yeah, I picked Heston, too.  Too many good choices though!!

I picked Jimmy Cagney.Whatta tuff little SOB he was!!!!

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Aw, c'mon -- where is Tom Atkins?
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I think that Ray Liotta and Joe Pesci should be on the list, but I have to admit it's pretty complete as it is. All these guys have had many great on-screen moments, but I had to go with John Wayne.
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What!? No Joe Don Baker?!?!?!?!?  :teddyr:

*Sigh* I guess I'll have to go with Humphrey Bogart. None of those other guys could have handled Lauren Bacall...

Had to go with Clint Eastwood but it was tough lots of good choices.

"Thrill me!"

I second that mention of Tom Atkins.  :thumbup:


(and anyone with an avatar of the "Dill Man" is alright in my book. :wink:)

Derf:

I thought of Joe Don Baker.  He may deserve to be here on the merit of WALKING TALL alone.  However, his appearance in movies like MITCHELL and WACKO forced me to leave him off the list.

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Lee Van Cleef

Where's Gregory Peck on the list? He almost took out the anti-Christ, for God's sake! Plus, he got ahold of Audrey Hepburn (yum).

Lee Marvin, for sure, but I'd have to include lots of runner ups: Bronson, Van Cleef, Mitchum from the list.

Honorable mention to George Raft, he apparently associated with real gangsters and they began to copy his style of dress and mannerisms. It says something when those guys copy you.

Where's:
Burt Lancaster
Danny Trejo
Tex Cobb
Lawrence Tierney
Toshiro Mifune
Jean Reno
Jack Palance
William Holden - He almost took out the Anti-Christ and got ahold of Audrey Hepburn too.

I voted for Steve McQueen, the guy was tough and real cool, man.  Clint Eastwood and John Wayne would be the next two on my list.

I really wanted to put AL LETTIERI on the list, too.  He played a great bad ass in movies like MR. MAJESTYK and THE GETAWAY.  And, of course, Virgil Sollozzo in THE GODFATHER.  Unfortunately, he died too young and didn't have quite enough memorable tough-guy screen appearances to make my list.  But he is one of my favorites.

I went with Clint, and if you put him in a movie with Lee Van Cleef, hey, I'm in heaven.

Yup, I voted McQueen also.  He just owned the screen!  Everything he did was the essence cool.  I just watched "The Getaway" last night on HD DVD!  I'm watching "Bullitt" (also HD) tonight.  Steve was taken from us much too soon.

You have to have Jack Palance.

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Is that when Palance won the coveted role of 'PigPen' in that Peanuts western?  :bouncegiggle:

Just kidding...if you're Palance fan though, I don't remember just how, but at YouTube I cam across this  Welcome to Blood City clip (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1Cc5yIghC8). It's some weird Prisoner/West World mashup from the late 70s with some scenery chewing from Jack. 

Looks quite cool.  Can't imagine how on earth to get ahold of it.  Guess I'll add it to my 'Eyes Peeled" list for the Chiller convention in April.

/me hi-fives soylentgreen

You are both a gentleman and a scholar, sir =D

BTW: I second Danny Trejo, and hope all to hell Rodriguez does more than a fake trailer of a Machete feature.

Me too. Almost Picked Lee Marvin, a real Marine! So...hard ...to...choose!...

It's amazing to me that some of the Hollywood types you'd expect to be warriors (Like John Wayne, too old for WWII) aren't and the people you'd never even guess at are. I'm thinking of Eddie Albert, the guy from the Green Acres TV series, the man who spent the day of the landing at Tarawa atoll driving his landing craft back and forth from the reef to the hospital ship ferrying out the wounded Marines he was pulling out of the water and the wrecked amtracks, all the while under fire from the Japanese on the island. Also Charles Durning, the pudgy character acter, landed on Omaha Beach on D-Day, fought in the Battle of the Bulge, survived the Malmedy Massacre, was awarded the silver star and 3 purple hearts, most people just don't picture these guys as tough, but they are. Just goes to show that there are movie tough guys and real tough guys, and they aren't always the people you'd expect.

Dennis:

Yeah . . . even Ed McMahon was a marine . . .

Man! I knew about Albert. Explains why he was so good at Military roles, like with Lee Marvin, Robert Ryam ( Marine), and others. Durning was all that? I am impressed!