What's your favorite Western TV series or Movie, and your favorite Western character/actor?

Clint Eastwood

- Pale Rider
– The Good the Bad & the Ugly
– For a Few Dollars More
– High Plains Drifter

Does Firefly count? It was, after all, a space western. If it does, it wins for me. If it doesn’t, well, it failed to get me interested in watching others but I loved Zorro as a kid (not quite the same, I’m afraid).

Will Smith in Wild WIld West.

John Wayne, John Wayne, John Wayne.

Well, it seems that we have three votes for John Wayne…

I hated John Wayne! I liked Gunsmoke. I wanted to be Miss Kitty.

I also liked Bonanza…still remember that, watching it with my whole family on a sunday night, when I was little.

And I had a crush on Blue from High Chapperel (sp?)

Movie: Jeremiah Johnson

Character: Del Gue (the guy in the sand)

Clint Eastwood in Unforgiven. Now that was a masterpiece.

He directed that movie, as I recall.

My favorite TV show is Kung Fu it took place in the West and was sort of kinda a Western maybe.

Yep, it was definitely a Western… Good choice!

Firefly. My favorite western by far.

Firefly. And my favorite character Mal (The captain)

More traditionally, the only western I like is Tombstone. Val Kilmer is great as Doc Holiday.

Does Brokeback Mountain count?

Brokeback Mountain does not count.

How about the Quick and the Dead?

@lightlyseared: Why not?

Because a “Western” is a story set primarily in the later half of the 19th century in what became the Western United States. While brokeback may be set in the western states it is not set in the latter half of the 19th century. OK I admit the opinions of some of the characters may make you think differently… (Also cinema owners in Utah)

@Lightlyseared: By that logic, Firefly wouldn’t count at all and the original asker has already said it does.

“Wiki Westerns.

‘High Chapparal’ was always my favourite (it had the coolest Indians). Does anyone remember ‘The Quest’? It starred kurt Russell as Twopersons who was raised by Indians and he teams up with his brother, Tim Mathieson, to find their missing sister. As for movies, I like Sam Peckinpah or the Bud Boetticher ones with Randolph Scott.

Firefly/Serenity…Kung Fu.

Oh! SABATA!!