Dern and his big, snarling teeth were a fixture on TV westerns.
BOR was showing old scenes from Gunsmoke during the interview - from the 50's. In one scene, Matt is breaking up some type of confrontation around a table in the bar. The guy he is talking to is a young Charles Bronson. It's great when you watch the old television programs and see young versions of Lee Marvin, Charles Bronson, Jack Warden, et al.
Yeah, and the dirty scoundrel shot John Wayne in "The Cowboys", too!
Dern and his big, snarling teeth were a fixture on TV westerns.
Trivia question: Bruce Dern was the first of only two white men ever to "shoot and kill" what American screen icon in a movie? I phrase the question that way not because it is important to me, but at the time it was important to Dern.
I also dearly love Bruce Dern's very quirky sci fi film Silent Running. That is the film that included little robots which George Lucas said inspired R2-D2.
Seperate trivia question: How did they work the little robots in Silent Running?
Bruce was such a good bad guy he got killed on every western on TV. I saw an interview of Dern where he told a story about how John Wayne beat the crap out of him filming a fight scene for "The Cowboys".
I always liked Bruce Dern on the westerns. We had a guy on my HS football team that could have been his brother. I stll get a kick when Bruce Dern speaks those words that he has immortalized, "I'm going to kill myself a Marshall".