Actor: Tim Holt

Tim Holt spent most of his career in low-budget westerns for RKO, making dozens of them, and appeared in two of the most admired American films almost by accident.

The Magnificent Ambersons gives him George Minafer, a spoiled young man the film is happy to see humbled, and The Treasure of the Sierra Madre gives him the least greedy of the three prospectors.

He served as a bombardier in the Pacific during the war and later ran a radio station in Oklahoma.

Stagecoach (1939) film posterAndy Devine

Stagecoach (1939)

Nine strangers in a coach, each a study in social position. Stagecoach is the John Ford-directed western that revived the genre after a decade of decline and established the template that the next half-century of American westerns would follow.

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