McCahill, U.S. Marshal

[Bob Wright]

The movie "McCahill, U.S. Marshal" was on the Outlaw Channel tonight. In the scene where the littl boy is sick in bed and the doctor comes out, the doctor is the one who played Willie McPheeters, the town drunk on Gunsmoke. Not exactluy who I'm want for my family doctor, James Nusser truly did have a drinking problem.

Bob Wright

 

[Ruger Accumulator]

You haven't met some of the "doctors" that I have!

 

[gunzo]

Amazing the actors that crossed over in those days.

If ya want to really look it over, look at Clint Eastwood movies. The ferry operator in Josie Whales was the barber in High Plains Drifter, the Biker gang leader in Every Which way ya can was the wagon driver in HPD. Uncanny how a group of actors played so many roles in his westerns.

OTOH, there's Gunsmoke. Several actors turned up over the years in different roles. Heck, Ken Curtis appeared on GS in several different roles before he became Festus. Some rolls were better IMO.

 

[gunman42782]

I even seen "Hedi" from Home Improvement on Married with Children the other day! LOL (No joke). Vanna White has been on there too.

 

[Wvfarrier]

It shocking how many older western movies a lot of these bit part actors are in

 

[blume357]

Not being a star has its advantages as an actor... show up and do your job and don't cause trouble. I've noticed for years that Eastwood movies often have the same 'bit' players in them. I think it was the same with John Wayne westerns. On TV watch something like the Rockford files and then the later Magnum PI shows and you'll see the same actors show up often.

 

[Jeepnik]

One I have always liked was Michael Pate. An Aussie who, in westerns alone, played everything from Indians to a vampire gunfighter.

 

[Yaworski]

The movie "McCahill, U.S. Marshal" was on the Outlaw Channel tonight.

Cahill U.S. Marshal (1973) ⭐ 6.4 | Drama, Western

1h 43m | PG

www.imdb.com

 

[Deer Hunter]

The movie "McCahill, U.S. Marshal" was on the Outlaw Channel tonight. In the scene where the littl boy is sick in bed and the doctor comes out, the doctor is the one who played Willie McPheeters, the town drunk on Gunsmoke. Not exactluy who I'm want for my family doctor, James Nusser truly did have a drinking problem.

Bob Wright

The drunk was Louie Pheeters, although the name Willie McPheeters is ringing a bell that I can't put my finger on.

 

[remshooter]

The drunk was Louie Pheeters, although the name Willie McPheeters is ringing a bell that I can't put my finger on.

Would you be thinking of the old early 60's t.v western ,

The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters (TV series) - Wikipedia

Charles Bronson as Linc Murdock. The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters is an American Western television series based on Robert Lewis Taylor's 1958 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name, and starring Kurt Russell, Dan O'Herlihy

 

[WendyZXZ]

One I have always liked was Michael Pate. An Aussie who, in westerns alone, played everything from Indians to a vampire gunfighter.

I agree with that.

McLintock: Puma, honored enemy.

Puma: Does big McLintock forget, also blood brother?

 

[WendyZXZ]

Not being a star has its advantages as an actor... show up and do your job and don't cause trouble. I've noticed for years that Eastwood movies often have the same 'bit' players in them. I think it was the same with John Wayne westerns. On TV watch something like the Rockford files and then the later Magnum PI shows and you'll see the same actors show up often.

Those old stock actors, character actors and the like often were some of the best parts of old movies and shows. My favorite has always been Dick Miller especially in The Terminator: Just what ya see pal.

 

[Deer Hunter]

Would you be thinking of the old early 60's t.v western ,

The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters (TV series) - Wikipedia

Charles Bronson as Linc Murdock. The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters is an American Western television series based on Robert Lewis Taylor's 1958 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name, and starring Kurt Russell, Dan O'Herlihy

That;s the one!

 

[Sacramento Johnson]

I've come to appreciate the bad guy character actors in westerns; they could really make or break a film. Recently have been catching Leo Gordon and Robert Wilke as bad guys in a bunch of films/TV programs; kind of overshadowed by Dan Duryea and Jack Elam, but quite good at their jobs. Lyle Bettger comes to mind as well; a bit more smarmy than the above ones, but also in a bunch of westerns.

 

[KIR]

I remember Dan Duryea of some sort of investigator by the name of China Smith, but my fave movie of his was Along Came Jones.
As for best character actor, nobody but nobody better then Jack Elam!

 

[Crockett12]

Good movie! I don't remember names very well and a few years ago I met a rancher in SE Oregon and I remember his name because it's Cahill! Next time I watch that movie I'll have to take a look at the doctor!

 

[Joe Reilly]

I don't remember the movie title, but someone arrived at Dodge City and there was Louie the drunk from Gunsmoke. I told the wife "yep, they're in Dodge alright, there's Louie.