Poll
Question:
vote!
Option 1: Danny Trejo
votes: 6
Option 2: Sam Elliott
votes: 7
Option 3: Charles Bronson
votes: 1
Option 4: John Carradine
votes: 1
Option 5: James Coburn
votes: 1
Option 6: Lee Van Cleef
votes: 0
Option 7: Clint Eastwood
votes: 2
Option 8: Kris Kristofferson
votes: 0
Option 9: Nick Nolte
votes: 1
Option 10: Jack Palance
votes: 1
Option 11: William Smith
votes: 0
Option 12: Robert Shaw
votes: 1
Option 13: Tom Berenger
votes: 0
Option 14: David Carradine
votes: 0
Option 15: Lance Henriksen
votes: 0
Option 16: Anne Ramsey
votes: 1
Option 17: other
votes: 5
Got the idea after watching Machete. Who to you is/was the most grizzled actor.
For me personally, I've got to go with Clint. Not sure why, he just seems like an old guy who is likely to keep money in a coffee can or be distrustful in some way. Like the old guy in the neighborhood who nobody really talks to and is in a quasi bad mood all the time.
My pick is definitely Sam Elliott. A combo of the voice, the skin and the huge 'stache.
He was at his most grizzled in Ghost Rider. That part suited him perfectly.
I'm guessing it was the joke choice, but I'm going with Anne Ramsey. Her performance in "Throw Momma From the Train" was a masterpiece.
I choose other-cuz Gabby Hayes beats em all!
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I think Rory Calhoun was pretty dadburn Grizzled :teddyr:
Other: R G Armstrong gets my vote. :smile:
I went with James Coburn because he looked grizzled even when he was young.
Here are a few honorable mentions:
* Lee Marvin
* Jack Elam
* Wilford Brimley
* Dub Taylor
* LQ Jones and Strother Martin (in westerns)
* Jeff Bridges is becoming grizzled
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Quote from: lester1/2jr on January 09, 2011, 10:05:55 AM
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Haha, I think that's most "grizzlied" actor. Nice photo btw. :smile:
I voted for Sam Eilliot just because he seems like he's been grizzled since he was about 10 years old . Gabby Hayes is a great choice too. And let's not forget Walter Huston is The Treasure of Sierra Madre.
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That's a tough call with the options given. There are some serious grizzlies there. I picked Clint Eastwood, but it's a tossup between him and a few others. I based it mainly on seeing Gran Torino recently. He is seriously grizzled in that one, and it an awesome way.
Jack Elam.
Jim Greer: Hello, everyone! I'm Jim Greer, and it's time once again for "Who's More Grizzled?" the game show that finds out who is the roughest, toughest, most hardbitten old-timer around, so let's bring out our contestants. He is our returning champion.. [ audience applauds as Wayne enters ] Yes, you have some fans in the audience, Wayne. You are a former sharecropper and a World War II veteran who hails rom Adler, Mississippi. So, what are you up to these days, Wayne?
Wayne: I mostly been huntin' and whittlin'.
Jim Greer: Well, that is great. Now, let's meet your opponent, he worked on an offshore oil rig until he broke his back, now he is a prospector. Please welcome Tate Mitchum! [ Tate walks out ] Welcome, Tate, and it looks like Wayne has his work cut our for him, because you, sir, are extremely grizzled!
Tate Mitchum: [ stares ] I don't much care for you.
Jim Greer: A lot of people don't - save it for the game! Let's get started. The categories are: "War", "Hard Times", "Bear Attacks", "Ailments", "Dead Wives", and finally "Coal Mining". And, Wayne, as the returning champion, you pick first.
Wayne: I don't much cotton to these computers today.
Jim Greer: You are good! As always, I'll pick for you. Let's try "Ailments". The question is: "How things treatin' ya?"
Wayne: I can't complain. My leg hurts, it means it's bound to rain. Wish them doctors at the VA could get that shrapnel out of my shoulder.
Jim Greer: That is correct! And, my, you are grizzled. It's still your board, Wayne.
Wayne: A lot of people don't know I was the first man to get a team of horses up Bear Mountain!
Jim Greer: [ pause ] Let's go with "War!" The question is: "Grandpa, tell me a story." [ Tate buzzes in ] Tate!
Tate Mitchum: I was separated from our unit, came across a bunch of Germans asleep a field. Bayonetted every last one of them! Didn't find out 'til later the war had been over for a week.
Jim Greer: Very nice, Tate!
Tate Mitchum: When I was your age, I didn't call my seniors by their Christian name!
Jim Greer: Well, I'm sorry, sir.
Tate Mitchum: Keep it, boy, I'll take a strap to ya!
Jim Greer: I wish I could give you points for that grizzled exchange, but I can't. Let's go to "Dead Wives". The question is: "Life's hard, isn't it?"
Wayne: Damn right it is, Sonny! I lost Adeline in childbirth 40 years ago! Every Spring, when the dogwoods bloom and the foals take a first step, I think of the way she.. [ buzzer ]
Jim Greer: I'm sorry, that's wrong. No, no that wasn't grizzled, that was wistful. [ Tate buzzes in ] Mr. Mitchum, you can take a commanding lead here!
Tate Mitchum: I've buried wives, but a father should never bury a son. It was the flood of '52, we were all caught on the levee, but.. I don't want to talk about this no more.
Wayne: Yes! Yes, that is the answer! Well, now, you know what time it is? It's time for the Grizzled Speed Round! This is your chance to catch up, Wayne. One minute, $200 a question, let's begin. Money! [ Wayne buzzes in ]
Wayne: I don't believe in banks, I keep my earnings in a coffee can!
Jim Greer: Correct! Government! [ Tate buzzes in ] Mr. Mitchum!
Tate Mitchum: They oughtta keep their damn noses out of people's business!
Jim Greer: That's right! Higher Education! [ Wayne buzzes in ] Wayne!
Wayne: Never had much cause for book larnin'!
Jim Greer: Yes! Immigration! [ Tate buzzes in ] Mr. Mitchum!
Tate Mitchum: Got a strong back, we can use you!
Jim Greer: Correct! Religion! [ Wayne buzzes in ] Wayne!
Wayne: The day I set foot on that beach in Normandy, I never wished more that there was a god in heaven, and I was never more certain that they wasn't.
Tate Mitchum: Damn.. you are grizzled..
Jim Greer: We have a winner, and still champion - Wayne Little! Wayne, let's take a look and see what you've won!
Prize Keeper: You have won some salted meats and a bottle of Rebel Yell!
Jim Greer: Thank you both for playing, and, Wayne, enjoy your prizes!
Wayne: No, no, I don't need your charity, they ain't no such thing as a free lunch where I come from! Now, if you'll excuse, I got some work to do. [ exits ]
Tate Mitchum: I'll be waiting for you after the show!
Jim Greer: Okay, that's all the time we have! Thanks for joining us on "Who's More Grizzled?"
What, no Tom Skerritt?
In the Rifftrax for Top Gun, Bill Corbett does a bit on Tom Skerritt being the world's most grizzled man, even more grizzled than Sam Elliott or Jack Palance.
Seriously, though, I voted for Sam Elliott. The guy does grizzled very well.
Nick Nolte.
Its gotta be him. :thumbup:
All good choices, but I have to go with my gut when I saw the title of the thread: definitely Sam Elliott.
Can you imagine how fun it would be to put together a "most grizzled" competition where you present 5 scenes from each actor and then vote afterwards. Pure, unfiltered bliss is what it would be.
Before there was Danny Trejo there was Edward James Olmos.
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Mel Gibson in Mad Max 1&2.
No Ed Harris yet?
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While watching "The way back", which has lots of shots showing landscape, I joked to my friends that he had become his own landscape, all full of wrinkles and grey hair.
Old "Chuck" Heston was lookin' pretty grizzled in "The Mother Load". :drink: