Plenty of familiar faces and stars from many movies and TV series that I love. Thanks for the memories, and you live on in our reruns and replays, and in our hearts.
This was quite touching. Shed many tears. I loved Katheryn Hays when I was a boy. James Caan is one of my all time favorite actors. Larry Storch and F-troop along with McHale's Navy and Hogan's Heroes where my favorite comedys when I was a kid I once had the pleasure of having breakfast at a Jack-in-the-Box in Madera California on a Sunday morning with Jack Hannah and his brother Jo and Lon. Three of the nicest guys you ever met. Felt like I was part of their family. That one hit me the hardest. RIP to all these great celuloide and magnetic tape heroes. Thanks for the lasting memories.
I loved Andy Prine from the time I was a teenager. I'm eighty now and, in retrospect, I think his appearance in westerns were some of my favorites. RIP, Andy, you were the best.
Most of these are my friends of my youth I lived for tv it was my escape of daily life. I watch every old western still being used . When I hear ones passed away I feel the loss like if they were family. I thank God for clean movies and series produced before the 80s most after that were bloody or loaded with cussing as normal speech. I enjoy all these videos. Big thank you Mr Word
I am 78 and I get an ache in my heart when I see all who have passed away. I watched all of them as a kid and on through the years. Just some of the best actors, character actors that the younger generation will never have the pleasure of knowing. Thanks Rob, I’m sure it is hard for you too, you knew so many personally. This was a wonderful tribute.
I'm 68 and I grew up watching these actors and actresses,in movies and on TV, growing up in the 60s and 70 s was my learning ground for them all, so many familiar faces,burned in my mind...Thank you Rob and company for keeping our memories alive.
I love cowboy movies or westerns witch ever you prefer. Born in Boston and raised in Ft. Lauderdale FL. and just love western style clothing, hats , boots the whole nine yards as they say. Westerns I guess you could say made me fall in love with movies all together and I have to say I love black & white most of all. There's something special about a black & white movie. It's hard to explain but you either like them or you don't. Thanks for sharing these Stars with me, these great people that I watched on my TV all my life are a part of my life and that's why their still part of my life even to this very day. I Thank you Sir. I thoroughly enjoyed watching this wonderful program.
I feel so sad at the enormous loss of so many gifted people from my childhood watching them on TV. A loss of a generation that in this day and age can never be replaced to that caliber.
Thank Thank Thank you Rob. Again you have made a old man very happy with bringing these fine actors of a time gone by. God Bless and good health to you and yours..
Can't begin to tell you how touched I was, am, with this few minutes of 'greats'. Mostly gracious folks who we all wished we knew, could have broken bread or bent an elbow with. I hope they're all at the right hand of God. Beautifully, respectfully crafted. L. J. Martin
How very appropriate to end this tribute with Clu Gulager's observations on the life of a western star: "Who cares? You do." As do we all here at AWOW, and most especially you, Rob Word. Long live the western. Thanks for this memorial.
Oh wow !! How wonderful this was, thankyou for all your work. Bitter sweet I bet. The majority lived a long life says alot for westerns. Lovely to see Marsha Hunt, I was named after her.
May we all live to be Nehemiah Persoff! Thank you for posting this most-informative video. It exhibits greater depth and knowledge than any printed obituary ever could. These folks have been given their rightful last respects that only a true fan could give.
Thanks Rob for putting this together! I was born in 1948. Perfect year for catching all the great westerns! My favorite being Rawhide. It still is! Loved The Tall Man, The Virginian, Gun smoke and every western we could get on the major networks! Eric Fleming was my favorite actor! Also Clu Gulager and Robert Fuller! Thanks again for this!
How many admired and great Westerners have gone forever on tour this year. Nehemiah Persoff, James Caan, Bo Hoskins, Sidney Poitier, Clu Gulager, Andrew Prine, (yesterday I knew if) George Segal ... I can't erase of my mind the very moving remembrance of Henry Silva crying so much in December 1998 by the death of Frank Sinatra. Today I have to say thanks for so much joy and shed some tears for each of them!!!
Rob, you and your son deserve an award for this retrospective.....its heartwarming and also heartbreaking...It is so well-researched and thoughtfully edited and we can hear and feel the emotion and meaning in your spoken words.....thank you....
Fabulous …..simply fabulous to see these living treasures talking to us or described to us by Rob….some strange happiness arises in celebration of their lives….counting their years……knowing their dignity was solid, their work honest…..mesmerising to the end. Thanks Rob🙏❤️
THANKS. ROB. GOR. SHOWING. ALL. THESE. GREAT. STAR S. THAT. WILL. NEVER. BE. Forgotten. SOO. Sorry. To. Lose. So. Many. Wonderful. Good. PEOPLE. R I. P. And. May. GOD. BLESS. THOES. THEY. LEFT. BEHIND
Rob, I enjoy your programs so much; I try not to miss a one of them. I'm 76 years old and nearly all of these western stars are familiar to me and I wonder when you no longer are doing this program......who will today's kids or young adults have for heros? A few times in the last year I've heard that westerns are coming back.....I sure hope so. We all watched these "shoot 'em ups" and yet our generation is not responsible for much of today's violence. The "experts" keep telling us that violence on TV is responsible to our violence today. I think that it's not the violence on the screen but how it is presented on the newworks.
I'm 65 and grew up in the 60s watching television westerns. Of course both Gunsmoke and Bonanza were the gold standards.. But I also loved The Rifleman, Wanted Dead Or Alive, Wagon Train, The Big Valley, Have Gun Will Travel ( which I thought was half gun) Death Valley Days, The High Chaparral, Branded, The Wild, Wild Western (which was more of a fantasy show) Rawhide, Alias Smith And Jones and even Kung Fu, Laredo. That's just a few of the great western that filled the airwaves from 1948 to about 1975. When they cancelled Gunsmoke in 1975 that was the end of the era.
To me they are all alive, thanks to the movies. Every now and then I watch The Searchers or El Dorado, and there they are my favorites John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, Vera Miles, Olive Carey, Paul Fix, Hank Worden, more than forty times I have seen those wonderful movies. Thanks be to God for all those wonderful guys, rip
it is so sad they are gone, but they live on in there work, L Q jones was such a great story teller, and he was in with so many great people, and movies!
Thanks a bunch Rob that was very touching. To you Clu just to let you know I care your work was just great quality we all miss you Sir. Rest In Peace. Keep up this channel I love it.
We lost some true greats last year and we'll lose more this year. That's how life works, BUT, as long as we have Mr. Word doing what he does, they will always be remembered. Thank you for another excellent tribute to those we have lost, Mr. Word! May those that have left us truly rest in peace.
Rob you outdid yourself here...this episode was just over the top outstanding. It was great ( just wish they wouldn't have died) to see my favorites being respected and celebrated. Actors from Hollywood's Golden Age are miles above from what we have in modern Tinsel Town. Thanx
Gone but not forgotten. Thank you Rob and team of AWOW for the lovely tribute to the western stars who made the films we remember so well and their acting abilities that enhance our memories.
Thank you, Rob, for the history of these great film artists. We feel that we knew them too, and so appreciate your work to keep this wonderful genre preserved for so many to enjoy.
I never know what to say. A lot of truly great talent was taken from us. Thank you for helping keep their memory alive. Could not have been easy but I can tell it is a labor of love.
Thank you Rob for preserving the stories and memories of such people I have zero idea how you can accomplish this from choice of who to include to script and narration all I know is they are a blessing to me.
Rob, I was just talking to my sister (who’s about to turn 73) that I have lost three dear friends in the past two weeks. I feel like I’m about the only one left. 😄 My 97 year old uncle passed last week. Another friend of almost forty years just checked into the VA hospital today for two weeks of intravenous antibiotics treatment for MRSA infection. You look up and your loved ones have gone on, but we cherish great memories that keep them alive in our hearts. The Bible says that this earthly life is like a vapor that quickly passes. So true. I greatly appreciate the work you put into assembling this treasure trove of remembrances of our dear Western heroes of film. Thank you once again and God bless!
@@AWordonWesterns Thank you. For sure! Last time I saw an interview with Bob Fuller he was almost 90 and still looked great. He has a ranch north of Dallas about 350 miles NE of here (Midland). My 91 year old aunt in Orange County, CA is full of vitality and still drives all over. I’m in my late 60’s and not so willing to brave the SoCal freeways anymore.
I just saw there today MON,20 FEB,23,GEE I NOW AM 81,I KNEW SO MANY OF THERE ACTORS, SADLY,time tells, THANKS, so much for this episode,, from NJ,,,,🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Many thanks, Rob, for this poignant and highly informative program. May they all rest in peace, and may their contributions to the Western genre live on. Many thanks again.
Wonderful just Wonderful & tearful Ah Sidney Poitier comments ....in the 60s I grew up with black & white Tv when we lived in the country. One night I was in town with a girlfriend running around her neighborhood. We went into a schoolfriends house and their TV had Star Trek on in color !! I had never seen any color TV before & I couldn't tear myself away from it. When I went home the next day I enthused so much to my Dad...he got us a color TV & we all enjoyed Star Trek episodes all over again, it was like seeing a new show
I'm sure it was like seeing them for the first time, katie. With the HD restorations for the older B&W films and seeing them on larger TV screens, they seem like new to me, too. Thanks.
We would never have such an insight into how our beloved westerns were made. Nor would we know our western heroes. The best part, you've brought all the real heroes from behind the scenes forward so we all could get to know them too. Thank you Rob, you do them justice ❤️
It was a sad day in Visalia ,Ca. when Jack Hannah passed a lot of people knew them personally,their Christmas shows were the best at the Fox Theater,Jack would bring a tear to my eyes when he sang a Hymnal song,i saw Joe Hannah with Juni Fisher at Mavericks Coffee shop it had many pictures of western stars and western posters,but they sold to someone else but it's where i still get my coffee.Thanks for the memories Rob!
Thanks, Sonny. That Maverick Coffee Shop was owned and run by the late Gary Brown's son. Gary was into westerns, especially Tom Mix! Great coffee and posters.
Thanks Rob for this video. I remember most of the men and women included in it. They will be missed. One mentioned in a story by a man being remembered, Bob Steele, reminded me of a reaction I had as a young fellow when I saw Bob Steele in a TV show as a bad guy. I was shocked because I had seen him as a boy on Saturday mornings as a matinee star of western movies. I had trouble with him being the bad guy and not the hero Star I remembered. Many of the people shown and honored had been in movies as both good guys and bad guys and are remembered for all they did playing the roles given them. Thanks again for this wonderful tribute to actors I enjoyed watching in the movies I saw in my youth.
Thanks, Richard. I'm still watching them. Seems like they get better. I was lucky to have spent some time with Battling Bob. A versatile movie hero...and bad guy.
We lost so many this was an excellent tribute to some of the people we lost. Truly grateful to have your historian recapturing with highlights to reference for many years and hopefully for future generations to learn from.
Mr Word, Another well done job of preserving the character actors & the leading men & women and those behind the camera we admire. Although you're work here is excellent and uplifting, I still find it sad, because all the above actors, stuntmen etc that you have showcased in this and many other of you're video's have worked hard to leave a professional & decent legacy for the future generation's to follow. Then I begin to think of the current condition of how the stars on the hollwood Blvd walk have not been maintained and just how the current general condition of the Hollywood itself has been so neglected. I am not even a resident of California and it disturbs me. So I can imagine how it must effect you and your contemporary's to have to watch a city which has always been so rich in history throughout the world, become uncared for & neglected. Having gotten that out of the way, Thank you for the good memories and an interesting look into western film's.
Also Golden Boot recipient Mickie Kuhn (September 21, 1932 - November 20, 2022), who played the young Matt Garth, adopted son of John Wayne in "Red River". Every one a great loss to the genre. But thankfully not entirely lost to its History, thanks to you guys and the stories and interviews preserved here on AWOW. Thanks for a wonderful, poignant tribute to them. May they all rest in peace.
Beautifully done Rob .Your heartfelt love and caring goes far beyond the genre. Like the others here I thank you and your son for discovering a 'soft' purpose that benefits so many.🥰
Watched this, and after the Nehemiah Persoff segment, I started watching Bob Steele movies. I had seen him in Hanging High, etc., but watching the 1930’s starring movies has been a real treat. Thank you for expanding my appreciation for so much unexplored cinema!
You bet, D. Glad you've discovered "Battling" Bob. We've got a couple of his films in our list of Videos. Here's a link to one: ua-cam.com/video/WWeWu7BH-FI/v-deo.html. Enjoy!
We all will miss these screen icons of our youth and I feel bad for that. I feel worse for their family and close friends...friends like you were with these fine individuals.
Thank you Mr. Word, for the time, effort, and plain hard work in putting this together. These were the stars I grew up watching. It was tough to watch, as the loss became harder to handle. I don't think there is an award worthy of the work you do. Thanks for posting.................
Plenty of familiar faces and stars from many movies and TV series that I love. Thanks for the memories, and you live on in our reruns and replays, and in our hearts.
This was quite touching. Shed many tears. I loved Katheryn Hays when I was a boy. James Caan is one of my all time favorite actors. Larry Storch and F-troop along with McHale's Navy and Hogan's Heroes where my favorite comedys when I was a kid
I once had the pleasure of having breakfast at a Jack-in-the-Box in Madera California on a Sunday morning with Jack Hannah and his brother Jo and Lon. Three of the nicest guys you ever met. Felt like I was part of their family. That one hit me the hardest.
RIP to all these great celuloide and magnetic tape heroes. Thanks for the lasting memories.
I loved Andy Prine from the time I was a teenager. I'm eighty now and, in retrospect, I think his appearance in westerns were some of my favorites. RIP, Andy, you were the best.
Beautiful, Moving, Returning all to sweet youth. ❤ Thank you, Rob. Excellent. ❤️
Thanks, Suzanne.
so sad, it seems like yesterday, time fly's but excellent, excellent, thanks Word
Most of these are my friends of my youth I lived for tv it was my escape of daily life. I watch every old western still being used . When I hear ones passed away I feel the loss like if they were family. I thank God for clean movies and series produced before the 80s most after that were bloody or loaded with cussing as normal speech.
I enjoy all these videos. Big thank you Mr Word
I am 78 and I get an ache in my heart when I see all who have passed away. I watched all of them as a kid and on through the years. Just some of the best actors, character actors that the younger generation will never have the pleasure of knowing. Thanks Rob, I’m sure it is hard for you too, you knew so many personally. This was a wonderful tribute.
Thank you, Elaine. Seems like each year gets tougher. Friends on screen and off.
I know too. 73 now and about every week an icon yester year passes. "All things must pass".
Same here 😢
The good old times.
Some of the best and most memorable of all time.
You are special. And you will always be the person that reminded me of all these western stars’ achievements. Thank you for this post.
I'm 68 and I grew up watching these actors and actresses,in movies and on TV, growing up in the 60s and 70 s was my learning ground for them all, so many familiar faces,burned in my mind...Thank you Rob and company for keeping our memories alive.
I love Western’s too! Especially The Searchers with John Wayne and the FABULOUS CAST!!
I love cowboy movies or westerns witch ever you prefer. Born in Boston and raised in Ft. Lauderdale FL. and just love western style clothing, hats , boots the whole nine yards as they say. Westerns I guess you could say made me fall in love with movies all together and I have to say I love black & white most of all. There's something special about a black & white movie. It's hard to explain but you either like them or you don't. Thanks for sharing these Stars with me, these great people that I watched on my TV all my life are a part of my life and that's why their still part of my life even to this very day. I Thank you Sir. I thoroughly enjoyed watching this wonderful program.
Thanks, Kevin. They are part of my life, too. RIP
I feel so sad at the enormous loss of so many gifted people from my childhood watching them on TV. A loss of a generation that in this day and age can never be replaced to that caliber.
Thank Thank Thank you Rob. Again you have made a old man very happy with bringing these fine actors of a time gone by. God Bless and good health to you and yours..
Thanks, Jack. These are getting tough for an old guy like me.
Well done Sir. RIP in these legends of the silver screen.
Can't begin to tell you how touched I was, am, with this few minutes of 'greats'. Mostly gracious folks who we all wished we knew, could have broken bread or bent an elbow with. I hope they're all at the right hand of God. Beautifully, respectfully crafted. L. J. Martin
Wow, thank you, LJ.
The Western is a vital part of our culture. It has shaped us and enriched us.
Thank you for your vital contributions Mr. Word.
Thanks, Rose.
Beautiful. So many memories. As long as they are on film, they're still with us.
How very appropriate to end this tribute with Clu Gulager's observations on the life of a western star: "Who cares? You do." As do we all here at AWOW, and most especially you, Rob Word. Long live the western.
Thanks for this memorial.
Thanks, Tab. I thought Clu would be the perfect end of our tributes.
Oh wow !! How wonderful this was, thankyou for all your work. Bitter sweet I bet. The majority lived a long life says alot for westerns. Lovely to see Marsha Hunt, I was named after her.
How nice, Marsha. Wishing you a nice long life, too.
May we all live to be Nehemiah Persoff!
Thank you for posting this most-informative video. It exhibits greater depth and knowledge than any printed obituary ever could. These folks have been given their rightful last respects that only a true fan could give.
Thanks Rob for making our Western Stars and the Western Movie be remembered and honored forever.
Thankyou Rob every thing about your shows are touching and very special to us true followers of the western life can't get enough many thanks
Thank you, Paul.
Immortalized forever on film for us to enjoy their performances over and over again.
Thanks Rob for putting this together! I was born in 1948. Perfect year for catching all the great westerns! My favorite being Rawhide. It still is! Loved The Tall Man, The Virginian, Gun smoke and every western we could get on the major networks! Eric Fleming was my favorite actor! Also Clu Gulager and Robert Fuller! Thanks again for this!
Oh wow Clu Gallagher...how sad. RIP.
Thank you Rob! So appreciate you and all you share with us! I LOVE WESTERNS!
Thank you so much for this video remembering some of the losses we experienced this past year. I did love westerns.
How many admired and great Westerners have gone forever on tour this year. Nehemiah Persoff, James Caan, Bo Hoskins, Sidney Poitier, Clu Gulager, Andrew Prine, (yesterday I knew if) George Segal ...
I can't erase of my mind the very moving remembrance of Henry Silva crying so much in December 1998 by the death of Frank Sinatra.
Today I have to say thanks for so much joy and shed some tears for each of them!!!
Thanks, Tor. Now buck up and screen some of their wonderful, lasting performances.
Thanks for remembering those whose artistry has enriched us all.
I tell you, those people will be missed by all of us that grew up watching Western Movies and Shows. Thanks for putting this together. 🤠
I have yet to see such a better Tribute to these gifted performers…Thank you….👍👍👍🙏
Wow, thank you, Judy.
Rob, you and your son deserve an award for this retrospective.....its heartwarming and also heartbreaking...It is so well-researched and thoughtfully edited and we can hear and feel the emotion and meaning in your spoken words.....thank you....
Thanks, M. These are tough to assemble but I'm sure glad we're able to do it.
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M. Allen,
Yes, I definitely concur with your sentiment!
Thanks Rob for keeping the memories alive. Sure would like to see Earl Holliman on your show.
This was WONDERFUL Rob. Thank you SO much. I remember them all. Their performances filled my days growing up and I cherish the memory.
Thanks Rob - wonderful words for each character.
Being 80 myself it feels as if everyone around me is dying off. I love movies as they take me into another world and look forward to your videos.
Thanks, Tom. I feel the same.
I’m going
I'm 70 and I feel the same way. Everybody's going. At least we still have their performances on film and can still "escape".
I feel the same. All my life I've been a film enthusiast.
🎉great
AND the music is so wonderful!
Fabulous …..simply fabulous to see these living treasures talking to us or described to us by Rob….some strange happiness arises in celebration of their lives….counting their years……knowing their dignity was solid, their work honest…..mesmerising to the end. Thanks Rob🙏❤️
Thanks for your thoughtful comments, Nic. We'll miss these folks.
73 there will never be another generation as those who have passed
THANKS. ROB. GOR. SHOWING. ALL. THESE. GREAT. STAR S. THAT. WILL. NEVER. BE. Forgotten. SOO. Sorry. To. Lose. So. Many. Wonderful. Good. PEOPLE. R I. P. And. May. GOD. BLESS. THOES. THEY. LEFT. BEHIND
And the award for the best UA-cam video on Jan 29, 2023 goes to Rob Word.👏👏.......wow, that was pretty damn good!
I'm buzzin' from your kind comment. Thanks.
Thank you so much. So sad as we grew up watching these people. It's part of our history, too.
Fantastic episode Rob! What a great way to start a Sunday morning. Thank you
So glad to come across this video didn't realize some of those lost last year. I loved F Troop and Larry Storch was my favorite. So many talents lost💜
Life is for the living and no matter how short it is. Have fun
Rob, I enjoy your programs so much; I try not to miss a one of them. I'm 76 years old and nearly all of these western stars are familiar to me and I wonder when you no longer are doing this program......who will today's kids or young adults have for heros? A few times in the last year I've heard that westerns are coming back.....I sure hope so. We all watched these "shoot 'em ups" and yet our generation is not responsible for much of today's violence. The "experts" keep telling us that violence on TV is responsible to our violence today. I think that it's not the violence on the screen but how it is presented on the newworks.
I'm 65 and grew up in the 60s watching television westerns. Of course both Gunsmoke and Bonanza were the gold standards.. But I also loved The Rifleman, Wanted Dead Or Alive, Wagon Train, The Big Valley, Have Gun Will Travel ( which I thought was half gun) Death Valley Days, The High Chaparral, Branded, The Wild, Wild Western (which was more of a fantasy show) Rawhide, Alias Smith And Jones and even Kung Fu, Laredo. That's just a few of the great western that filled the airwaves from 1948 to about 1975. When they cancelled Gunsmoke in 1975 that was the end of the era.
To me they are all alive, thanks to the movies. Every now and then I watch The Searchers or El Dorado, and there they are my favorites John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, Vera Miles, Olive Carey, Paul Fix, Hank Worden, more than forty times I have seen those wonderful movies. Thanks be to God for all those wonderful guys, rip
it is so sad they are gone, but they live on in there work, L Q jones was such a great story
teller, and he was in with so many great people, and movies!
Thanks a bunch Rob that was very touching. To you Clu just to let you know I care your work was just great quality we all miss you Sir. Rest In Peace. Keep up this channel I love it.
Rob, fantastic job making this video, wow, so many memories; so many great actors!! Thank You!!!!
Quite an emotion packed hour. Wonderful job, Rob! Thank you very much.
I'm 70 years of age and I grew up with all the western stars. Appreciate it very much, and I still have a deep affection for a good western movie
So many people I grew up watching in movies and on TV!
AWOW is always a class act.
Thanks so much for this AHOW this is so great I what these western s since the 1950s I am 71 years old.
We lost some true greats last year and we'll lose more this year. That's how life works, BUT, as long as we have Mr. Word doing what he does, they will always be remembered. Thank you for another excellent tribute to those we have lost, Mr. Word! May those that have left us truly rest in peace.
Thanks, Rich.
Excellent Rob, just excellent as usual!
Really enjoyed watching this, though a sad subject. I love a good western myself and liked watching the old ones very much. Thank you.
Many thanks, Tracy,
Rob you outdid yourself here...this episode was just over the top outstanding. It was great ( just wish they wouldn't have died) to see my favorites being respected and celebrated. Actors from Hollywood's Golden Age are miles above from what we have in modern Tinsel Town. Thanx
Gone but not forgotten. Thank you Rob and team of AWOW for the lovely tribute to the western stars who made the films we remember so well and their acting abilities that enhance our memories.
If it were not for you and your videos, these great stars stories would be lost to time. Thank you.
As actors they aren't real. You made them real.
Thank you for showing us that.
Thanks, Sue
Thank you, Rob, for the history of these great film artists. We feel that we knew them too, and so appreciate your work to keep this wonderful genre preserved for so many to enjoy.
I never know what to say. A lot of truly great talent was taken from us. Thank you for helping keep their memory alive. Could not have been easy but I can tell it is a labor of love.
Very informative. I learned of some flix that I will now seek to watch. As always, Thanx for a great episode 👍👍👍
Great to hear, Joe. Thanks.
Thanks, Rob, this was a beautiful memorial to these fine folks.
Sorry to see you have to endure the loss of so many friends, Rob. Know they will always be kept alive by both you and their work in film.
❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ Grew up watching westerns with Dad
Me, too, LR.
As he always has, Rob Word did not disappoint us with this touching ode to so many, now gone, great players of Western Cinema.
Thanks, Wendy. We sure lost a lot of good people last year.
I loved watching Tim Considine on those Walt Disney shows. He was just a bit older than me like 7or 8 years. A lovely time to grow up❤️❤️
It sure was, Barb. Thanks
This is a truly wonderful tribute Rob. Thank you!!! As a guy born in 1950 I grew up knowing all of these wonderful actors.
Thank you Rob for preserving the stories and memories of such people I have zero idea how you can accomplish this from choice of who to include to script and narration all I know is they are a blessing to me.
I watched these people in the westerns my grandparents raised us on. It has bothered me greatly to say goodbye to that generation.
Rob, I was just talking to my sister (who’s about to turn 73) that I have lost three dear friends in the past two weeks. I feel like I’m about the only one left. 😄 My 97 year old uncle passed last week. Another friend of almost forty years just checked into the VA hospital today for two weeks of intravenous antibiotics treatment for MRSA infection. You look up and your loved ones have gone on, but we cherish great memories that keep them alive in our hearts. The Bible says that this earthly life is like a vapor that quickly passes. So true. I greatly appreciate the work you put into assembling this treasure trove of remembrances of our dear Western heroes of film. Thank you once again and God bless!
Thank you, Kelly. Sorry to hear about your friends. RIP I hope I make it to your uncle's age!
@@AWordonWesterns Thank you. For sure! Last time I saw an interview with Bob Fuller he was almost 90 and still looked great. He has a ranch north of Dallas about 350 miles NE of here (Midland). My 91 year old aunt in Orange County, CA is full of vitality and still drives all over. I’m in my late 60’s and not so willing to brave the SoCal freeways anymore.
That was very well done.
Except for one thing. Larry Storch Played the corporal agar Not argon Other than that. This was excellent.
I just saw there today MON,20 FEB,23,GEE I NOW AM 81,I KNEW SO MANY OF THERE ACTORS, SADLY,time tells, THANKS, so much for this episode,, from NJ,,,,🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Many thanks, Rob, for this poignant and highly informative program. May they all rest in peace, and may their contributions to the Western genre live on. Many thanks again.
I really enjoyed your tribute to these great men and Western heroes.
Thank you very much, Randall
Wonderful just Wonderful & tearful Ah Sidney Poitier comments ....in the 60s I grew up with black & white Tv when we lived in the country. One night I was in town with a girlfriend running around her neighborhood. We went into a schoolfriends house and their TV had Star Trek on in color !! I had never seen any color TV before & I couldn't tear myself away from it. When I went home the next day I enthused so much to my Dad...he got us a color TV & we all enjoyed Star Trek episodes all over again, it was like seeing a new show
I'm sure it was like seeing them for the first time, katie. With the HD restorations for the older B&W films and seeing them on larger TV screens, they seem like new to me, too. Thanks.
We would never have such an insight into how our beloved westerns were made. Nor would we know our western heroes. The best part, you've brought all the real heroes from behind the scenes forward so we all could get to know them too. Thank you Rob, you do them justice ❤️
Thank you, Christine. They've been, and continue to be, a big part of my life.
So true!
Joyous while at same time heart rending.
It was a sad day in Visalia ,Ca. when Jack Hannah passed a lot of people knew them personally,their Christmas shows were the best at the Fox Theater,Jack would bring a tear to my eyes when he sang a Hymnal song,i saw Joe Hannah with Juni Fisher at Mavericks Coffee shop it had many pictures of western stars and western posters,but they sold to someone else but it's where i still get my coffee.Thanks for the memories Rob!
Thanks, Sonny. That Maverick Coffee Shop was owned and run by the late Gary Brown's son. Gary was into westerns, especially Tom Mix! Great coffee and posters.
Thanks Rob for this video. I remember most of the men and women included in it. They will be missed. One mentioned in a story by a man being remembered, Bob Steele, reminded me of a reaction I had as a young fellow when I saw Bob Steele in a TV show as a bad guy. I was shocked because I had seen him as a boy on Saturday mornings as a matinee star of western movies. I had trouble with him being the bad guy and not the hero Star I remembered. Many of the people shown and honored had been in movies as both good guys and bad guys and are remembered for all they did playing the roles given them. Thanks again for this wonderful tribute to actors I enjoyed watching in the movies I saw in my youth.
Thanks, Richard. I'm still watching them. Seems like they get better. I was lucky to have spent some time with Battling Bob. A versatile movie hero...and bad guy.
@@AWordonWesterns Thank you!
THE GOOD PEOPLE. THANK YOU FOR SHARING.
wonderful tribute. thanks Rob.
Been watching this in emotional sections Rob. A heart felt thank you for the love you put in this one.🇺🇸🖖
We lost so many this was an excellent tribute to some of the people we lost. Truly grateful to have your historian recapturing with highlights to reference for many years and hopefully for future generations to learn from.
Thanks for it all, well done sir.
Thanks for watching, smokey.
Mr Word, Another well done job of preserving the character actors & the leading men & women and those behind the camera we admire. Although you're work here is excellent and uplifting, I still find it sad, because all the above actors, stuntmen etc that you have showcased in this and many other of you're video's have worked hard to leave a professional & decent legacy for the future generation's to follow. Then I begin to think of the current condition of how the stars on the hollwood Blvd walk have not been maintained and just how the current general condition of the Hollywood itself has been so neglected. I am not even a resident of California and it disturbs me. So I can imagine how it must effect you and your contemporary's to have to watch a city which has always been so rich in history throughout the world, become uncared for & neglected. Having gotten that out of the way, Thank you for the good memories and an interesting look into western film's.
Also Golden Boot recipient Mickie Kuhn (September 21, 1932 - November 20, 2022), who played the young Matt Garth, adopted son of John Wayne in "Red River".
Every one a great loss to the genre. But thankfully not entirely lost to its History, thanks to you guys and the stories and interviews preserved here on AWOW.
Thanks for a wonderful, poignant tribute to them.
May they all rest in peace.
Beautifully done Rob .Your heartfelt love and caring goes far beyond the genre. Like the others here I thank you and your son for discovering a 'soft' purpose that benefits so many.🥰
Thank you from both of us, Alannah.
It’s a shame that we all have to age. These actors are all great. Sad that their gone. But heaven should be full of a lot of cowboy fun and bull
This is the best video I watched all week. Great actors who will be sorely missed. Good job, rob.
Wow what a great documentary. Mr Word is indeed the Word on movies.
Thanks, joe. Does that mean I'm "the last word on westerns?"
You have a talent showing wonderful things about wonderful people.
Watched this, and after the Nehemiah Persoff segment, I started watching Bob Steele movies. I had seen him in Hanging High, etc., but watching the 1930’s starring movies has been a real treat. Thank you for expanding my appreciation for so much unexplored cinema!
You bet, D. Glad you've discovered "Battling" Bob. We've got a couple of his films in our list of Videos. Here's a link to one: ua-cam.com/video/WWeWu7BH-FI/v-deo.html. Enjoy!
We all will miss these screen icons of our youth and I feel bad for that. I feel worse for their family and close friends...friends like you were with these fine individuals.
Thanks, Winton.
Like Mr blogs I grew up on Westerns and
love what you do Thanks Rob
Thank you Mr. Word, for the time, effort, and plain hard work in putting this together. These were the stars I grew up watching. It was tough to watch, as the loss became harder to handle. I don't think there is an award worthy of the work you do. Thanks for posting.................
You're very welcome, doug. Thanks for the kind words.
Great show it was
thank you Rob.
Thank you again for outstanding work.