According to Quora these are the draw times for several actors. I can’t substantiate these times. So if you guys have more on this let me know in the comments. I don’t have footage of the actual timed draws. I’ll show you what I have. Audi Murphy is said to be the most accurate, I guess his military service had something to do with that. Keanu Reeves is said to currently be the fastest actor.
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Wild Bill Hickok said that being fast is not as important as being accurate!
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We see how that turned out
@@greg4876 With his back turned playing cards, and shot in the back of the head, didn't have much chance to be accurate hey?
@@markhartung everyone makes mistakes the fact he lived as long as he did is impressive. Best Hickock, Jeff Bridges.
@@maddhatter3564 That doesn't negate the fact that accuracy or speed had nothing to do with his death ........
Audie Murphy also grew up in a poor family and as a child he also hunted for the family to eat, so he was very familiar with firearms from a young age.
He didn’t learn how to use an SAA until Jimmy Cagney brought to stay at his house in Hollywood, because he believed he had a future in westerns. When he arrived he went out and purchased two SAA pistols and practiced until he became very good. He was definitely one of the fastest actors.
Not just "fast". Extraordinarily accurate "wing shooter"; at least according to a biography of Audie that I read. Which makes sense, considering his background during the Great Depression and the absolute necessity to make every single (costly) bullet count, for food. Another in this class - same reasons? - Annie Oakley.
that hunting background has NOTHING to do with fast draw nor skill with handguns. You might as well be a bowler and "think' that makes you a skilled tennis player!
@@user-ci2mn1oy3w Your right about hunting having nothing with fast draw. But not only was Audie fast but he was accurate also. And the experience of hunting and war got him that way, so it helped.
@@user-ci2mn1oy3w It kept Audie alive, throughout World War II. He was one of the tiny handful of his very active combat group who came through the non-stop action intact.
Glad you include Scott Glenn in his gunshooting scene in Silverado. Being a lefty made him unique.
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Dale Robertson(Jim Hardy in Tales of Wells Fargo) was also a lefty. He was actually ambidextrous in real life and decided to draw from the left on the show just to be a bit different from the usual. He demonstrates his ambidextrous abilities on the show -- whenever he writes it's with the right hand.
@@tablature6121 Interesting . As I posted on the Hickok comment an erudite guy I knew who read and studied this stuff said that Wild Bill Hickok was ambidextrous and that was what made him dangerous .
@@dagnabbit6187 Probably true. Most pictures of him armed show him with 2 pistols -- one on each side --but never holstered, only stuck in a belt or a sash with butt out, "cavalry style."
Just watched "Ride a Crooked Trail" the other night. He was so fast it almost looked like the gun materialized in his hand, straight from the holster. And, yes, I'm a Murphy fan.
Oh, you are a long way from being by yourself... He was real..Hollywood didn't make him.
Saw this movie a few months back as well. I like the old movies and Murphy was a good actor.
I seen on here a list of some of fastest draw actors, Audie was ranked #3, and they said he was the most accurate. So yeah, the was quick.
@@tommypackwood1013 Comes from shooting rabbits in Texas and Germans in the war.
Who was #1?@@tommypackwood1013
In case you forgot Clint Walker in Cheyenne was very, very fast!
He could go bear hunting with a switch.
According to Wyatt Earp it was not about speed, rather, it was about steadiness and best aim. Interesting too that he said in his day no-one would have ever thought of fanning his pistol as he shot. This, he wrote, was an invention of Hollywood. Cheers!
Wyatt earp also said he was afraid of only one man.that man was bat Masterson, he always kept his head and rarely ever missed
You left out my favorite John Wayne
When I say that I learned to take my time in a gunfight, I do not wish to be misunderstood, for the time to be taken was only that split fraction of a second that means the difference between deadly accuracy with a sixgun and a miss.
That's what Bob Munden says too .. Quick Draw Gun fights were Invented by Hollywood . Yet Quick Draw Gun fights are in most every Western Cowboy Movie .
He's also credited as saying "Take your time. In a hurry."
The Late Bob Munden had them all beat, though not all of his records have full documentation. His fast draw was a record .175. In .25 he could fire twice and hit two balloons 6 feet apart.
He was a professional not an actor.
I thought he was at .02 seconds
it was .0175 actually..
I have seen Bob Munden twice in person do his fast draw show along with his wife. He would show what some of the actor's speed was compared to his own. He also was very accurate shooter.
He was amazing i met him few times over the years and saw him perform his wife was amazing as well
Peter Breck (Nick) from the show the Big Valley was pretty quick as well. The instructor that worked with him said he'd never seen anyone faster.
His time is listed in a western magazine. I’ll have look it up, but I believe he was the fastest of all.
1/16th of a second
Yes, Breck was considered one of the fasted
@@chars1184yeah but he was the one who said he was that fast. He was a guest contributor at that western magazine, so take it with a grain of salt.I’ve found that among the actors who claimed to be the fastest, most of them weren’t. The actors who were really fast let their actions in front of the camera say it all.
@@petersearls4443 He was timed so he didn’t just say it. Also there’s a scene in a Big Valley episode where the three brothers draw simultaneously. Peter Breck draws BOTH of his guns while Lee Majors and Richard Long only draw one. The director had him do that because he was faster than the other actors and drawing both slowed him down just enough.
I am glad you included Sammy Davis Jr. He is fun to watch.
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Sammy was a showman with that six shooter .
@@benniebarrow348 with or without a 6 shooter. An all around entertainer, when that actually was a thing.
@@maddhatter3564 The topic is the six shooter fast draw but he definitely was a great entertainer no matter what he was involved in .
I herd years ago that when all the actors were timed now mind you I'm 69yrs Old so I've seen alot of westerns My favorite being Charles Bronson but it was said Sammy Davis Jr was the fastest
I enjoyed this video but Audie Murphy was always a WWII hero, nothing 'former' about it.
You might check out Jay Silverheels (played Tonto in the Lone Ranger TV series). As for Audie Murphy, his neighbor once accused Audie of taking a shot at him. At his trial, Audie denied doing any such thing, saying, "If I'd shot at him, I wouldn't have missed."
Jay Silverheels was at the other end of the opening shootout in Gunsmoke. They had to keep retaking the opening because he was so much faster than James Arnes
I'm not surprised. I saw him demonstrate it on it was either Johnny Carson or Ed Sullivan. He was fast! And, when you watch that opening, you can hear a shot go off just ahead of Jim Arnes'.
Lone Ranger. BASS REEVES. Shot 12, arrested hundreds.
@@robertwarden8408 Ed Ames throwing a tomahawk on Johnny Carson is one of early TV's funniest moments.
Don't know about fastest but I absolutely would not have wanted Audie Murphy shooting at me.
The most decorated soldier of WW2, but quick draw??? But definitely someone you wanted on your side, and he was.
Drawing an empty gun doesn't mean anything. When you have live rounds and it's real. it's a whole different story. Audi Murphy was the real deal.
They actually had contests for this back in the 1960s. Various western stars and actors would compete under some rules and they raised funds for charity if I recall. The winner of one of these, I think the first one, was Peter Brown who played the deputy on Lawman.
One of those celebrity charity drawing & shooting contests had Glenn Ford as the quickest draw and Ben Johnson as the best marksman with a six shooter. They placed second in the competition they didn’t win.
🥃👴🏻 AWW SHUT UP.
I heard a story once about Audie Murphy, he was on set of a movie when another big name actor, kept picking at him about who was fastest, Murphy got tired of it, and said ok, but they'd use real bullets, that ended the teasing. 😅😅😅
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@@RobbGF * Give it a rest, will ya.
The other actor was Hugh O’Brian.
I saw a documentary years back and Jerry Lewis came up pretty high as a quick draw shooter.
@@RobbGF Wow thanks for making the germane boring. 🙄😂🙄
Was there anything Sammy Davis Jr couldn’t do ? What an amazing talent .
Yeah you consider he perfected the art of gun juggling and the guy also was an accomplished tap dancer, singer, actor, etc. He should of did a tap dance while twirling his pistol 😂
Yes, he could not leave a wagon track in a mud puddle. Hollyweird magic made them all look fast.
Bob munden the fastest gun thought Sammy Daviis was faster than him using a 7 1/2 inch barrel to a 4 1/2 inch
@@richardhovenden4258 Your source please, I cannot find it.
well he couldnt detect depth. He only had 1 eye.
Audie Murphy was a real badass in the service.
Won just about every medal .
I’d say Clint Eastwood but trinity was the bomb right and the left hand of the devil
Clint ain't even in the top 10 ....@@randymiller1074
Murphy was the most Decorated American Soldier in WW2. but the fastest draw in Hollywood was Sammy Davis Jr, followed closely by Steve McQueen's Brother, can't recall his name, but he was a Stuntman...
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I read in a Western magazine one time that. The guy in black that James Arness shots in the opening. Was the weapons expert who provided the guns. And taught a lot of them how to handle the guns and shoot.
That's correct. His name was Arvo Ojala, and he also made the quick draw rigs for a lot of the stars.
It was said that jay Silverheels of Lone Ranger fame was the fastest in the 50's and 60's. In addition, Jerry Lewis was said to be a fast draw expert as well.
yes i think on johnny carson a guest and johnny discussed jerry lewis as the number one fast draw in hollywood
Until someone can post a clip of Jerry making a fast draw, I can’t take those comments about him seriously.
@@petersearls4443 The man who trained Sammy Davis also trained Jerry Lewis. According to him(his last name was Ocala; can't remember his first name, but he trained MANY actors in fast draw), Lewis beat Davis to the draw consistently. Lewis made only one western, a comedy, with Dean Martin, and his character never used a gun, so there are no clips of his prowess
@@mikegrossberg8624 actually Ben Cooper was the first to teach Sammy in the early 50s. Ben went to visit Sammy when he was recovering from the auto accident where he lost his eye. When he arrived Sammy was up, dressed and had his gun rig on wanting to compete. 😃 Here is Ben doing a little spinning. kzhead.info/sun/pbZ6dstqmGiaq68/bejne.htmlsi=3t52cAfEEOfydO9U
Glenn Ford made a Western called the Desperadoes. He then joined the US Marines (post Pearl Harbor). During Basic training his Sergeant made him recreate a fancy shot he had done in the movie. Ford tried to explain about Hollywood special effects the Sergeant didn’t care & he made Ford endlessly repeat the shot until he got it right.
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Yea, Sgt are like that...
To be honest I don’t think Ford would be stupid enough to do a fast draw with live ammo.
Glen Ford had a special belt made for himself in front of his holster he had a thick piece of leather so he could cock the hammer with it,you can see it in this video if you pause it just right you will see his gun shooting sideways.
@@ChiefThundermoon very informative~thanks for sharing
Of all the fast guns, mentioned and unmentioned, only one placed high in formal fast gun competition, Sammy Davis, Jr.
Can you find any results from fast draw competition with actors back in the 50’s and 60’s?
Clint Eastwood also entered legit fast draw competitions and placed well
Dean Martin as well
I enjoyed watching many of these shows growing up, Just for the fun of it, I always liked "My name is Nobody" Terrance HIll
He starred in those Trinity movies too.
@@billcowden5226i always wondered what happened to him..... i thought he would be a big star then all of a sudden he was gone
Clint Walker. ❤❤
I read the guy James Arness is drawing against was the professional that trained Arness in how to draw and handle a gun.
True, and I heard Arness never could beat him...They would have a contest for dinner.
HIs name was Arvo Ojala.
I think consideration should be given to Val Kilmer in tombstone as Doc Holiday
The real Doc yea, but Val those scenes were edited.
And Clint Eastwood who played many fast draws
Johnny Ringo was a lot faster than doc👍
@@kennethhlavik8155 yet he finished up with a bullet in his head irl.
One of the fastest I ever saw was Robert Fuller on Laramie
Heck yeah. Dale Robertson of Tales of Wells Fargo looked fast.
As soon as I saw the title of this video I remembered Sammy Davis Jr. and a demonstration he did on some TV show. Thanks for including him.
Sammy Davis Jr 60th anniversary 1990.
Sammy carried live rounds during a period. After threats against him. Since he included the quick draw to his act already.it wasn't obvious.
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I saw a lot of westerns, but when I saw Audie Murphy, I was amazed how fast he drew.
🤣 so we're some Germans in WW2.
@@DavidTucker-yk1bkBut not for long it was a case of " mein go..." then they were in himmel or likely the other place. 😂
That would be the great “Quick Draw McGraw” of Hannah Barbara productions!!!!!
😂😂 And don’t forget “Kid Curry” 😂 (Alias Smith and Jones)
@@dianebuzek723 A short lived tv series, when one of the actors committed suicide????
@@patrickregan3302 I meant Curry’s fast draw. It was a joke because he didn’t really draw, it was just a cut away and then back and he was pointing his gun. Like he was lightning fast.
Love it❤❤
When I was a kid there was a guy from Rogers Arkansas named Dee Woolem. He wore a cowboy outfit and called his character ‘The Daisy Kid’. He played shows as a fast draw champion which he was. He was four time winner of America’s fastest draw contest championship which was electronically timed (by sound) to one hundredth of a second and had to accurately hit a target. Dee could draw, cock a single action old West style revolver, aim, and fire in 21/100ths of a second! His favorite stage trick was to face someone about a foot apart with their hands body width apart ready to clap. Dee could draw and put the the gun with a click of the trigger up to their chest before they could clap their hands together. I think he was on the TV show “I’ve Got A Secret” showing his quick draw around early 1960’s. There might be a film clip of him on line. Not sure I spelled his name right.
Yup - I saw that episode of "Secret", first time on T.V. (... yeah ... I'm older 🤣.) One of my Mom's favorite programs. 😂 His demonstration was pretty amazing. First - he really didn't "look" like a "gunslinger". And, oh - he was FAST!
I once heard Glenn Ford was quite fast. The modern day fast draw was Bob Munden . He was named fastest quick draw in the world. Just very few seconds like 4.2 are somewhere along that amount of time. I saw him draw several times and it was like lightening.
You meant to say. 02 of a second.
I knew about Glen Ford’s speed of hand. The others, however, I did not know about. Thanks for making the video.
Did anyone ever see just how fast Audie Murphy was in the movie Night Passage with James Stewart? There is a scene where Audie’s character is talking to a young member of the outlaw gang. Audie has his hand a horse stall post, the youngster who had been bragging about outshooting a man and taking his gun belt and guns. Audie tell him to draw, Audie’s hand was so fast you hardly saw it as he pulled his gun out of the holster. And the man was a real life bad ass as well. He won every medal our country could give him, plus 2 from France and 1 from Belgium. All before he was 19 years old. I read a story once from a actor (sorry don’t remember name) he was in several movies with Audie, but he and Audie were in this movie together and it required this actor to grow his hair long. They had went to this bar and ordered rum and coke I believe, but Audie kept pushing over his rum to the other actor and was only drinking coke. This big man came in and started harassing them, in particular the actor with the long hair. They tried to ignore him but he kept on and finally got up from his table and came up to that actor, and yanked his head back by his hair. Audie didn’t say a word, he just got up and cold cocked that man right in the jaw. That man went down like a ton of bricks and didn’t get up. Audie calmly sat back down and finished his coke. That’s how badass he was. Audie wasn’t a big man, but that man could fight. I wish I could remember that actors name who told that story. He usually played bad guys in Western films. If ever there was anyone whom I’d want in a fight, it would be Audie Murphy.
Hugh O"Brian was well known for for being exceedingly fast
As was Micheal Landon as little Joe Cartwright……he had a wicked fast left handed draw on Bonanza
Chickened out when it came to facing Audi for real though.
@@pughoneycutt1986well who wouldn't chicken out.....that would be crazy just to prove who's fastest
@@greg4876 don't issue a challenge unless you are willing to back it up.
Wyatt Earp said "the deadliest gunfighter is the one who takes his time. The first guy to draw is usually jumpy and misses. A good gunfighter will draw the same speed regardless of who he's facing. He takes the same amount of time. He doesn't waste time, he keeps a cool head and takes his time."
Trinity for sure . Terrance Hill.
Absolutely
He looks great on film indeed, but it;'s a trick. They speeded up the film frames. And it's pretty obvious. He wasn't really that fast (I'm sorry to say)
Trinity is the fastest gun
GLEN FORD WAS TRULY IMPRESSIVE
IRL Ford was a diva, My grandmother was in his class in school. Way she tells it he was spoiled Mamas boy.
@@FirstLast-hs4gw actually Audie, Ben Cooper and Sammy Davis jr. we’re probably at the top with a number of others close behind.
@@maddhatter3564 Yup, also morally bankrupt. My mother never could stand him after what he did to Eleanor Powell who gave up her career for the guy.
Anything can go faster (or slower) while watching film - depending on the frames per second you're viewing. And in real world fights involving guns, you don't fire one shot and then see how well that works - you shoot the enemy right into the ground before you stop shooting to reload. Most actors handling firearms in movies get professional training from people who used firearms for a living. Editing can't fix everything... and they probably know there's lots of cops, competitive shooters, and veterans who have been to the two way gun range in the audience. Some are better students than others, some have more interest in firearms than others. Sammi Davis Jr., Tom Sellick, and Keano Reeves are three that were enthusiastic and diligent students. Baldwin proved that he was among the worst. Watching shooting live is something else again. I saw Bob Munden shoot numerous times at exhibitions here in Montana where he lived. He was a top competitor in fast draw competition for quite a while. Then there's Jerry Miculek whose made his living as a pro shooter in action shooting for decades - and he's still a threat in competition in his senior citizen years... age hasn't slowed him down too much. Munden and Miculek appeared in different segments of a TV series that showed incredible shooting with handgun, rifle, and longbow. 1.88 seconds to knock down six steel plates at 15 yards, starting with hands head high (instead of just above the gun grip as with fast draw competition), using ammunition powerful enough to knock the plates over. Miculek did that at age 69 to set a new world record for shooting revolvers... kzhead.info/sun/o6Wlkt6Ep2p5g58/bejne.htmlsi=1LWC1rmpRv0kWk1T&t=178
There is one actor you may want to check into may top your list was Robert Fuller hard to see his draw.if you blink you WILL miss it..
Yep, he looked incredibly fast!
In filming all the scenes are edited, and the fastest is usually the lead actor.
Yeah and he had that magnificent voice.
Yelp Fuller is the fastest actor hands down
Get to watch him frequently as Dr. Kelly Brackett on Emergency....
Audie Murphy, a true American Hero and Patriot.
James Arness as well
If I remember correctly, the person Arness is drawing against in the opening credits of Gunsmoke was the fastest draw in the U S at the time and taught Arness how to draw.
Yes that is correct, see my other video on this them in my channel
I wondered if his 7" barrel was at a disadvantage to the 4".
Arvo Ojala
Rory Calhoun who played the Texan.
Yes he was very fast.
From a show on "The Rifleman" called The Sidewinder, that little boy called Gridley Maule Jr. was extremely fast with a gun. Played by Billy E. Hughes
I was about to say same...also Denny Miller from "The Promoter" episode of the rifleman who played "Reuben"
I saw most of those movies and TV shows when I was growing up. Those were the days.
Absolutely. Those were the days of quality, not quantity.
Even though it's never mentioned Ken Curtis (Festus) from Gunsmoke always seemed faster than anyone else on the series
I always liked Alex Cord when he handled the draw. Looked impressive.
Very nicely done. I didn’t think I’d be interested, but this was so well presented. Great music, great choice of scenes, which speak for themselves - and they’re all from my childhood. Too bad Paladin didn’t make the list, but it doesn’t matter, he was incredible. Such a good actor - and so ___ you fill in your own thing. :) 🐺🐎🐦⬛😼✨
When I was kid I can remember going to my Uncle's Ranch in the Santa Cruz Hills CA. Where he taught many of the Actors in the late 50's and early 60's quick draw. His name was Ron Welch, My dad and I met Clint Eastwood there once when I was 13, that was pretty cool to say the least. Dad would always ask whos the fastest and Uncle would say the camera, the movie parts are all edited. They would train off and on horses for technic with planks to make it look more realistic for the camera, it would save a lot of time on the set.
Read that Wyatt Earp Said, " Take your time in a hurry." Be accurate in quick time.
I've got a feeling when you get to those miniscule microseconds personal attitude is the deciding factor. In other words, not just God-given quickness, but finally fearlessness and total concentration - regardless of the consequences. With that in mind ... Audie Murphy. I definitely want him in combat with me. Also, it would have been fun to see how fast and accurate Bruce Lee could have achieved, had he gone that route.
Sammy Davis, Jr., according to an old article.
Way back when I was a kid, Sammy might have been the fatest of the better know Hollywood crowd. After seeing Audey Murphy though, Sammy was definetly slower. I have seen and read about Bob Munden, plus saw the video where they had a gravity measure and reaction time device on his wrist. He was faster than a rattle snake, his mass in motion gun grasp and fire was the fastest ever know or measured. I don't think anyone would every face Munden or Murphy. It would be a certainty that Murphy would naturally kill you.@@davegreene8588
Love the classic westerns .....when I first saw the episode of the Rifleman with Sammy Davis jr. I was amazed how lightning fast he was. An honorable mention would be Peter Brown from the Lawman tv series. He didn't expose it but a couple times but he could smoke that holster too. Great presentation , thanks !
Thanks so much!
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Many years ago, participating in the sport of fast draw, Sammy Davis jr was rated third in the world.
@@davidvance8843I’m sorry but that is pure fiction. He was one of the fastest actors, but he couldn’t even come close to beating someone like Bob Munden.
@@petersearls4443no one could....that man was amazing at drawing
Top guns for sure. Wouldn't it be interesting to imagine this group in a contest such as the one in the movie 'The Quick And The Dead'. My money is on Ford and Murphy.
Yes, a missed opportunity to get more recorded images of these guys timed.
@@famouspeople63 I think I mentioned this before, but Ford was recognized by Hollywood as their official gunfighter, which was why he was cast in so many westerns as a fast draw gunslinger. 'The Last Challenge' is a rare one that's not seen much, where the plot is centered around an inevitable gunfight, just to prove who's fastest. Same as 'The Fastest Gun Alive'. I always enjoy your western videos and this one is a dandy. Great stuff, appreciate you keeping the wild west alive.
My two picks as well along with Audie Murohy.
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You should watch Bob Mundin, he was the fastest alive and to this day. He would fire a single action so fast it sounds like one shot
The Rifleman was a class acf. He had Sammy Davis on there. Wow.
When I was a kid, I use to go to a shoe repair shop in Venice Calif, where the owner was a man by the name of Nick Nacastro. His shop walls had hundreds of pictures with him and a lot of the western stars of the day. He was (to my understanding) the fastest quick draw in the US., and he trained a lot of the western stars. As I remember, his speed was 0.04 of a second (I think, 65 years ago) In the opening shot of Gunsmoke, he was the man in black facing James Arness. Also I remember Sammy Davis also having this skill. Great Video, and wonderful to see them listed like this. Thank You!
The man facing Arness was Arvo Ojala.
Mr pat you got some facts wrong but I'm sure that was your understanding of it
@@petersearls4443 Right, and Ohala was probably the fastest ever. From his Wiki bio: " His speed was clocked and verified a number of times. He could draw, fire, and hit the target in one-sixth of a second, faster than the eye can blink." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arvo_Ojala
Jelly Bryce was the fastest gun that ever lived. He could draw and fire and hit his target in 2/10ths of a second. A life magazine story on him in 1945 shows him with high-speed camera photos' He has a coin on the back of his hand at waist level. He draws the gun, and the coin hasn't cleared his knees. In his storied law enforcement career, he killed many criminals who had the drop on him. In a competition with the Vice President of Smith and Wesson, The VP of S&W was holding a gun in his hand. Bryce drew and fired before the VP could get a shot off.
The difference is that Jelly Bryce was the real deal, not an actor. That 2/10th of a second draw was done from under a suit jacket.
I once went to the Rivera in Vegas to see Dean Martin..during his show he put on an Exceptional exhibition in drawing a gun..
Giving Sammy Davis Jr some competition!
Arvo Ojala was the most famous cowboy holster maker in Hollywood and not only made holsters, he taught many actors how to draw quickly and properly, and was the man who OUTDREW Matt Dillon in the opening scene of "Gunsmoke". He also taught many TV 'gunmen', especially Hugh O'Brian as "Wyatt Earp" in drawing his 'Buntline'. (I shoot some CAS with a Ruger Super Blackhawk .44 'Buntline' and it takes a specially made rig and LOTS of practice to get a sub-1-second draw.)
That opening episode of Gunsmoke (season 1) is still my all time favorite.
The other quick draw teacher in H-wood was Rod Redwing. Rod and Arvo trained all of them
I saw a video recently that said that Glen Ford was the fastest of all the cowboys in the old Westerns...
You Did Darn-it I Can’t Beat With You 👍
He wasn’t but he was in the group of the top 6 or 7 actors.
Well then, I guess that settles it.
Michael Landon was fast aswell
2:07 You mention Audie Murphy's military experience, but you didn't give any information about three things that WWII military experience greatly affected about James Arness' western character Matt Dillon on Gunsmoke. Arness was one of the first ashore on the beaches at the battle of Anzio, Italy in January 1944. Arness was wounded in both legs by German machine gun fire. He had one bullet go through an ankle and at 6'6" tall it gave him his trademark walk, actually more of a limp on Gunsmoke. He was in constant pain during filming and many breaks had to be taken for him to deal with his extremely painful injuries that there was no cure for at that time, there weren't any artificial replacement joints like there are now. So he was good with all kinds of weapons, not just a wheel gun, but he was fast and accurate in real life from his military training and he had an imposing walk that made him look really mean, even though he was the nicest guy in the world in everyday life.
I talked to a Gunsmith that was a judge at them Shooting competion, He told me James Arness won every time he showed up.
you left one notable out-- JERRY LEWIS! he was very fast and fancy with a gun :D
I had heard he was the fastest actor in Hollywood. That's what Bob Munden said and he trained most of the gunslingers. He was the fastest man that ever lived.
@@rogerkruse7121 not just fast , Munden was uncommonly accurate , hip shooting a winchester at a moving target and hitting a target at 200 feet with a snub nose revolver.
i too have heard for years that Jerry Lewis, funny man and gun collector, was judged to be the fastest gun draw of all the actors 🙂 counter-intuitive for a comedian to be the bad ass, the baddest ass, but life is funny that way sometimes 😜 and Sammy Davis Jr. was number 2, second fastest gun hand among actors! there you have it, Lewis and Davis, the very best 🙂👍🏼 maybe you should fix your video 🤔
@@p.thompson5375 how can you include someone when no one has been able to find a clip of him making a fast draw.
@@p.thompson5375Turned out Sammy was number 3, Buddy Hackett was just a tiny bit faster.
I feel like Clint Eastwood and Terrance Hill should be in vids like this.
A number of years ago a western based channel wanted to know who was the fastest gun. Their final answer was Gene Wilder in the movie Blazing Saddles. He shoot guns from the hands of 6 men with pulled guns and he was so fast you don't see him draw! That ended their search!
Hehehe
Amazing Wrangler. Great research! .25 seconds anazing
4:29 Glenn Ford!!! The Glenn Ford Westerns Playlist kzhead.info/sun/graBnJWiZIGhYH0/bejne.html
Thanks, Famous People.
You missed the fastest man ever Lee van cleef 2 frames of 8mm film draw and fire and hit his target
And where is this clip?
Arvil Ojala would have been a good addition. While he was mostly a background actor (Who Dillon shoots in the Gunsmoke opening) was also a fantastic armorer and taught almost everyone else in this piece how to draw and shoot.
Correct. Arvo had an unofficial world record in draw . His draw was 1/6 of a second . In actual wild west it did NOT matter much how fast somebody was. Many gunslingers were either ambushed or shot to back . Names like Wild Bill , Wes Hardin, Ben Thompson and Morgan Earp comes to mind. They all died that way. Rudi Rafael
@@jyrkikk Very true and thank you for correcting my spelling of his name. Ironically, the only documented "classic show down" was Wild Bill... considering his end. There were a few notable running gunfights where coolness under fire was the key. Bass Reeves and Wyatt Earp were two examples that come to mind. In Earp's case he was very fast but to buffalo an opponent. When it came to six-gun shootouts, Earp had two. One in KS (before Tombstone) where he was under fire by a dude with a rifle from some distance. It's reported that he dropped to one knee, took aim and dropped the attacker with a single shot. At the gunfight in Tombstone, it is said he didn't move while everyone else was jockeying for position. There are two quotes attributed to him though I'm not sure which goes with which incident. One was, "I took my time, in a hurry." I personally believe that was related to the KS shooting. The other was, "Fast is fine but accuracy is final." That seems to fit the Tombstone shootout. In my mind anyway. But looking back through 140 years and not to mentioning the years of dramatic promotion from even the contemporaries makes it impossible to know which was which. I know we're off topic now but since I got on Wyatt Earp, it's interesting that he's famous for being a ruthless gunman. I believe there's only four people he's known to shoot as far as I remember. The man in KS (whose name escapes me), I think he was "credited" with Billy Clanton (but I'm not sure), Frank Spence (ambush) and Curly Bill (Iron Springs). Also, Virgil was far more experienced and famous at the time as a lawman. I don't think anyone can argue he was not cool under fire though.
Lots of Hollywood actors were involved in the Walk & Draw craze. As you see many were very fast.
This was entertaining!
Bob was used to thumbing the single action with live ammunition, which was slower than the fanning style used by the fastest blank competitors. Once introduced to Fast Draw with blanks, he immediately began practicing and developed his own fanning style of draw, shooting thousands of rounds with blank ammunition every week. By 1961 Bob Munden was winning just about every shoot he entered, and eventually set 18 world records, including Fastest Time in the Walk and Draw Level event at 15 hundredths of a second, using a .45 caliber stock-weight Colt.
Did you know that almost all of his records have been removed from Guinness due to lack of documentation.
You tube has videos of Bob Munden where they slowed down the video so you could hear he shot twice hitting balloons 6 ft. apart. At speed it sounds like one shot! It's awesome!
@@larryfoster4141 Yes I have it on DVD ..
@@petersearls4443 That's Sad I see his Fast Draw record was broke by like 0.003 seconds or some small fraction .
Clint Eastwood won the quickdraw contest in Vegas against a slew of coy boy actors. He won saddle bags full of silver dollars.
I heard Hugh O'Brian was the fastest in Hollywood. The big trick to fast draws was the film was cut and sped up during the draw. So who can really say watching film clips.
Yeah, I look for witnessed and timed draws
Only if the actor was not capable of doing it on their own. By the 50’s and 60s most of the time if the actor wasn’t fast enough the scene would be edited. Ex: showing the good guy going for his gun, cut to the bad guy, cut back to the good guy as he was firing the gun. To see fast actors look for scenes where you can see that the actor was the person making the draw and there are no cuts away from him.
Thanks for posting this. How about James Garner in Support Your Local Gunslinger or Tom Selleck in Quigley Down Under.
James Garner did a great Wyatt Earp
Interesting note, Steve McQueen almost got fired from the magnificent 7, he would go off script to draw attention to himself. The scene where he dips water out of the creek in his hat from horse back wasn't scripted, but they did like it and left it
The scene where he is riding in the wagon with a double barrel shotgun and he shakes the shotgun shells before he puts them into the shotgun. It was said that his 'scene-stealing' behavior did not endear him to fellow actors. LOL
His scene stealing was why he wasn’t included in the first sequel. Yul Brenner said, if he is in the film, I won’t be.
@@petersearls4443 it worked well for him
I heard Val Kilmer became pretty fast doing Tombstone. So you know how fast he was?
Was there a scene in the movie where he made a fast draw and there no edits cutting away and back?
i used to like when palladin would recite a profound quote from a book to somebody to give them a chance to backdown before popping him one.
Great job.
Excellent video! Thanks for sharing
Dont matter if eastwood or john wayne were fast they would DRAW the biggest crowds FAST
Great video.
What is funny is that one on one quick draw gun duels shown in movies actually rarely rarely ever happened in the real west.
My Name is Nobody Terrence Hill: The slap Scene and some fast drawing,
That was editing.
Audie was a true hero his characters were plausible and he wore the black hat as well as the white...unfortunately he had many life challenges
I am always amazed at Audie Murphy's acting skills. His characters, as you say, are plausible. I also appreciated that no matter how bad his finances got ( and he did have to declare bankruptcy), he never took a job hawking cigarettes or liquor.
You all gotta love the gunslicks who still used cap&ball 10yrs into the cartridge era...amazing
I agree with those who say Terrence Hill should be added to the list. One name I don't see in the comments so far and who was a very fast draw was James Garner ("Maverick").
Robert fuller on Laramie in case no one mentioned him
The main point should be which actor was the fastest gun and capable of taking life. Audie Murphy was considered one of the fastest gun handlers in Hollywood and one of the few men who could take life if he had to do it. Most men (and women) not matter how fast hesitate to take a life, unless in fear of their own or a loved one. I would have loved to see any of them go up against Delf "Jelly" Bryce, a Oklahoma Lawman and FBI Agent/Firearms Instructor who survived nineteen gun fights without a scratch. Including his most famous gunfight where he killed the assailant who had the drop on him with two loaded Colt 1911's) and he (Bryce) was still able to draw from the holster and fire, killing him (Harvey Pugh, a cohort of Clyde Barrow of "Bonnie and Clyde" fame) with five shots to the head at less than seven feet in a boarding house room. During his time as a Firearms Instructor for the FBI (he introduced the concept of shooting from the holster with one hand). He'd been timed at firing in less two tenths of a second with a 44 Special revolver (his personal gun and the gun he used to kill Harvey Pugh, also called "Lucky 13") and a 357 Magnum revolver (with full power loads). Jelly Bryce was the real deal in gunfighting. Most others are just play actors.
Thats uncomon knowlege, i take your word for it but you do know about .357 loads which few do. (modern 357 has been derated for use in snub nose revolvers.)
thanks for that.checking him out now...wow..!
Funny! I noticed at 5:59 in "The Fastest Gun Alive", that's John Doucette as one of the townpeople, his face is recognizable as the first man standing on the left looking where the shattered beer glass fell after Glenn Ford's shot. Ha! I wrote my first comment before I watched this video. Caught me by surprize! 😯
"You must learn to be slow in a hurry.” - Wyatt Earp He should know I suppose. 🤔
Robert Fuller (who played Jess) on the TV Series Laramie, was pretty doggone fast too! Anyone else agree?
Hollyweird magic made them all fast, lol
I always thought he was fast because he always won on the show lol loved that show and still watch it every now and then
He says he loves Laramie reruns 89yrs 3/27/24
@@williamh3823 - Leonard Leroy Lee, He'll be 91 yrs old come this July 29th. Too bad he didn't use his middle name "Leroy" in there some where, as every Leroy I ever knew was a tough SOB! As I suspect he is also! 🙂 🙂
If they're going off of the screen time draw speeds for these numbers it's best to take them with a grain of salt. In order to get a clear shot in a safe manner using actors who might not be that experienced with guns they'd sometimes film at a different frame rate for those shots then adjust them for the final cut of the film. They used a similar trick for a lot of golden age sword fights in swashbuckler films.
Like I said at the beginning of the video, I don't have actual footage of the recorded draw.
4:29 Glenn Ford!!! The Glenn Ford Westerns Playlist kzhead.info/sun/graBnJWiZIGhYH0/bejne.html
Wow!! Just look at Sammy Davis go! That’s freaking amazing. I’m just gobsmacked :) Gosh, he was so talented. Of the Rat Pack, he and Sinatra were the top singer and actor talents. Dean is second cause was so good with Jerry Lewis.
One of the fastest draws I have ever seen was on two episodes of Gunsmoke. Steve Forrest portrayed Will Mannon ( Mannon) and Scott Coltrane ( The Widow Maker) He was just plain deadly! 10:47 10:47
Terence Hill. My Name is Nobody...Nobody was faster.
you got to remember they where all edited, the lead actor always won.
Should have Dale Robertson in the list somewhere.
Funny that he taught himself to shoot Left Handed for the TV Series.
@@OldDood so true …..and was very good at it .
Yeah I was thinking him and also Rory Calhoun.
He was a left draw in "Dakota Incident" and "A Day Of Fury" (1956) but wore 2 guns in "The Silver Whip" and "City Of Bad Men" (1953). Yet they (not sure who they are)say he was naturally right handed and taught himself to draw and shoot south-paw for TOWF (1957-1962). So who knows?
@@Emanonik Damn those are excellent Dale Robertson westerns. Especially 'Day Of Fury', which featured Jock Mahoney, and 'The Silver Whip', which featured Rory Calhoun. Great stuff for sure 👍
Supposedly Peter breck, well-known for play Nick Barkley on the The Big Valley, clocked in at 16/100th of a second, which I believe would have made him the fastest of all, yet he's not mentioned here.
It may be because he was the one who claimed the speed with nothing to back it up.
Just watched Sammy Davis Jr on the rifleman tv show. This guy was a quick draw very impressive and one scene he shows off by twirling his gun around.
Hugh who played Wyatt earp was said to be .42 followed closely by glen ford
Got any data on this, thanks?
I read onetime that Glen Ford could draw and fire in 0.35 seconds.
Might have been the reason he was chosen as the lead in the classic "Fastest Gun Alive".
I think you should have included Russel Crow from The Quick and the Dead and 310 to Yuma. As an actor, he was really good with cowboy six guns
I love the guitar music. Does anyone know if it's an excerpt from a song?