Kurt Russell on a crop of the poster for Bone Tomahawk (2015)
Kurt Russell has the kind of gruffness that makes him seem born to play Western roles . Yet it’s surprising to look back on his decades-spanning filmography and see that he’s only been in a handful of theatrically-released Westerns, not including TV work like The Quest, which also had a TV film called The Quest: The Longest Drive. That one’s technically a film, but not a theatrical one, plus it was also definable as a two-part episode of the show.
5 'The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band' Director: Michael O’Herlihy Though his days as a child actor aren’t talked about nearly so often now , Kurt Russell’s earliest films were ones he appeared in when he was super young. These early acting roles led to him signing a 10-year contract with Disney in 1966, when he was 15, and even if the movies this led to aren’t his best known nowadays, they did ultimately help to establish Russell as a credible actor.
Narratively, Guns of Diablo is fairly simple stuff, with Bronson’s character and Russell’s forming an unlikely team as they go hunting for gold. Also, Bronson’s character has a whole conflict regarding his ex-lover and her new partner, but that’s all a bit melodramatic and less Western-y. Guns of Diablo technically began on TV, as the final episode of a series called The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters, but it was expanded and then released theatrically, so it counts here.
2 'The Hateful Eight' Director: Quentin Tarantino Another violent Western from 2015 was The Hateful Eight, and what do you know: Kurt Russell played a significant role in this one, too. It wasn’t the actor’s first time working with Quentin Tarantino, as Russell had also starred in Death Proof, a lesser Tarantino film with some shaky pacing, but undeniably home to a handful of great sequences.
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