"film was nominated for two Academy Awards. Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (film) Gunfight at the O.K. Corral is a 1957 American western film starring Burt Lancaster as Wyatt Earp and Kirk Douglas as Doc Holliday, loosely based on the actual event which took place on October 26, 1881. The picture was directed by John Sturges from a screenplay written by novelist Leon Uris. The shootout was portrayed in the movie as a protracted, heavily armed firefight that took place at medium range. The actual event began in a narrow wide empty lot between the Harwood house and C. S."
"during a showdown. Earp's brothers and Doc Holliday help him take on the outlaw and his gang. More trouble ensues when the sheriff becomes involved with the gang. Earp manages to get them on robbery charges and the situation finally culminates at the infamous O.K. Corral. Tombstone, the Town Too Tough to Die Tombstone: The Town Too Tough to Die is a 1942 Western film about the gunfight at the OK Corral directed by William McGann and starring Richard Dix as Wyatt Earp, Kent Taylor as Doc Holliday and Edgar Buchanan as Curly Bill Brocious. The supporting cast features Rex"
"on similarities shared with other known images. Doc Holliday is one of the most recognizable figures in the American Old West, but he is most remembered for his friendship with Wyatt Earp and his role in the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral. Holliday's friendship with the lawman has been a staple of popular sidekicks in American Western culture, and Holliday himself became a stereotypical image of a deputy and a loyal companion in modern times. He is typically portrayed in films as being loyal to his friend Wyatt, whom he sticks with during the duo's greatest conflicts, such as the"
"Tombstone, the Town Too Tough to Die Tombstone: The Town Too Tough to Die is a 1942 Western film about the gunfight at the OK Corral directed by William McGann and starring Richard Dix as Wyatt Earp, Kent Taylor as Doc Holliday and Edgar Buchanan as Curly Bill Brocious. The supporting cast features Rex Bell as Virgil Earp and Victor Jory as Ike Clanton. Set in the legendary town of Tombstone, Arizona, the plot centers on former gunslinger Wyatt Earp, who helps the sheriff round up criminals. Earp becomes a lawman after he sees an outlaw accidentally kill a child"
"2018. Holliday was nationally known during his life as a gambler and gunman. The shootout at the O.K. Corral is one of the most famous frontier stories in the American West and numerous Western TV shows and movies have been made about it. Holliday is usually a prominent part of the story. Actors who have portrayed Holliday include: Doc Holliday John Henry ""Doc"" Holliday (August 14, 1851 – November 8, 1887) was an American gambler, gunfighter, and dentist, and a good friend of Wyatt Earp. He is best known for his role in the events leading up to and following"
"boosted Wyatt's reputation. The book later inspired a number of stories, movies and television programs about outlaws and lawmen in Dodge City and Tombstone. Lake wrote a number of screenplays for these movies and twelve scripts for the 1955–61 television series ""The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp"" starring Hugh O'Brian as Earp. The popular movie ""Gunfight at the O.K. Corral"", released in 1957, starring Burt Lancaster as Earp, cemented his place in Western history as a hero lawman. The movie also altered the public's perception of cowboys, who in Earp's time and locale were outlaws, but in the movies"
"Doc Holliday John Henry ""Doc"" Holliday (August 14, 1851 – November 8, 1887) was an American gambler, gunfighter, and dentist, and a good friend of Wyatt Earp. He is best known for his role in the events leading up to and following the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral. At age 21 Holliday earned a degree in dentistry from the Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery. He set up practice in Atlanta, Georgia, but he was soon diagnosed with tuberculosis, the same disease that had claimed his mother when he was 15, having acquired it while tending to her needs while she"
"Times"", says: ""Garner turns in one of his best performances."" ""Hour of the Gun"" was released to DVD by MGM Home Video May 17, 2005, and later on Blu-ray by Twilight Time. Hour of the Gun Hour of the Gun is a 1967 Western film depicting Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday during their 1881 battles against Ike Clanton and his brothers in the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, and the gunfight's aftermath in and around Tombstone, Arizona, starring James Garner as Earp, Jason Robards as Holliday, and Robert Ryan as Clanton. The movie was directed by John Sturges. Sturges had"
"Doc (film) Doc is a 1971 American western film, which tells the story of the gunfight at the O.K. Corral and of one of its protagonists, Doc Holliday. It stars Stacy Keach, Faye Dunaway, and Harris Yulin. It was directed by Frank Perry. Pete Hamill wrote the original screenplay. The film was shot in Almeria in southern Spain. Doc Holliday (Stacy Keach) and Kate Elder (Faye Dunaway) spend time at the Continental Hotel in Tombstone, Arizona, hoping to find his old friend Wyatt Earp (Harris Yulin), deputy marshal of Cochise County, who is striving to become the town's new sheriff"
"Frankie Laine, pushes the movie's momentum relentlessly throughout. Members of the Western Writers of America chose the song ""Gunfight at the O.K. Corral"" as one of the Top 100 Western songs of all time. Sturges revisited the same material a decade later when he directed a more historically accurate sequel of sorts, ""Hour of the Gun"", starring James Garner as Wyatt Earp, Jason Robards as Doc Holliday, and Robert Ryan as Ike Clanton. That film begins with a more accurate version of the O.K. Corral gun battle, then moves forward into the aftermath for the balance of the movie. The"
"Gunfight at the OK Corral and Earp's vendetta, even with the ensuing violence and hardships which they both endured. Together with Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday has become a modern symbol of loyalty, brotherhood and friendship. The Holliday birth home is marked with an historical marker located in Fayetteville, Georgia. A life-sized statue of Holliday and Earp by sculptor Dan Bates was dedicated by the Southern Arizona Transportation Museum at the restored Historic Railroad Depot in Tucson, Arizona, on March 20, 2005, the 122nd anniversary of the killing of Frank Stilwell by Wyatt Earp. The statue stands at the approximate site"
"to Baltimore, Maryland, to be a dentist. After some time he decided to go out to the West, looking for a drier environment to cure his tuberculosis, for which he visits a Chinaman for herbs. (At another point in the movie, he is taking laudanum.) In the end, the showdown at the OK Corral takes place during a fiesta. John Behan (Richard McKenzie), Wyatt Earp, and Doc Holliday all survive the gunfight. Ike Clanton, Tom and Frank McClaury, and Billy Claiborne do not. Doc (film) Doc is a 1971 American western film, which tells the story of the gunfight at"
"romantic comedy ""The Art of Love"" (1965) with Dick Van Dyke, and the westerns ""Duel at Diablo"" (1966) with Sidney Poitier, and as Wyatt Earp in ""Hour of the Gun"" (1967) with Jason Robards, Jr. as Doc Holliday. In the smash hit ""The Great Escape"", Garner played the second lead for the only time during the decade, supporting fellow ex-TV series cowboy McQueen among a cast of British and American screen veterans including Richard Attenborough, Donald Pleasence, David McCallum, James Coburn, and Charles Bronson in a story depicting a mass escape from a German prisoner of war camp based on"
"film/TV actress Mary LaRoche. He appeared in numerous television shows, in guest appearances, such as ""Dragnet 1967"", ""77 Sunset Strip"", ""I Dream of Jeannie"", ""Sea Hunt"", ""Gunsmoke"", and ""Adam-12"". Hudson died at age 77 on April 5, 1996 in Los Angeles, California. John Hudson (actor) Jonathan C. ""John"" Hudson (January 24, 1919 - April 8, 1996) was an American actor best remembered for his roles in the films ""Gunfight at the OK Corral"" with film star Burt Lancaster and ""G.I. Blues"" where he appeared opposite Elvis Presley. He was the twin brother of late fellow film/TV actor William Hudson. Born"
"accuracy than most motion picture accounts of the events and is based on the non-fiction book ""Tombstone's Epitaph"" by Douglas D. Martin, with a screenplay by Edward Anhalt. In ""Hour of the Gun"" Ike Clanton is shown, correctly, to have survived the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, whereas previous films had him killed at the gunfight. Outnumbered but determined, Wyatt Earp (James Garner), his brothers Virgil (Frank Converse) and Morgan (Sam Melville) and ally Doc Holliday (Jason Robards) confront and clearly get the best of the Ike Clanton gang in a violent shootout at the O.K. Corral in the Arizona"
"Robert Fuller. He appeared ten times on another NBC western, ""The Virginian"", and four times on ""Laredo"". During the 1958-59 season Healey, billed as ""Michael Healey"", replaced Douglas Fowley as Doc Holliday in the popular ABC/Desilu western series ""The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp"", starring Hugh O'Brian in the title role. Earlier, on September 25, 1956, Healey played the drunken gunfighter Clay Allison in an episode of the same name on ""The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp"". In the story line, Pete Albright, a storeowner in Dodge City, Kansas, played by Charles Fredericks, tries to hire Allison to"
"Wyatt Earp: Return to Tombstone Wyatt Earp: Return to Tombstone is a 1994 American made-for-television western film starring Hugh O'Brian as Wyatt Earp, featuring new footage mixed with colorized sequences from O'Brian's 1955–1961 television series ""The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp"". The supporting cast for the new footage includes Bruce Boxleitner, Paul Brinegar, Harry Carey, Jr., Bo Hopkins, and Don Meredith. The colorized flashback archival footage from the original television series features Douglas Fowley as Doc Holliday and Lloyd Corrigan as Ned Buntline. The movie was directed by Paul Landres and Frank McDonald. Hugh O'Brian ... Wyatt Earp<br> Bruce"
"in 1955 and 1956. At times Holliday seemed affectionate toward Kate; at other time, he seemed oblivious to her existence. Earlier, on September 25, 1956, Healey played a drunken gunfighter Clay Allison, who comes into Dodge City to confront the Earp legend. In the story line, Pete Albright, a storeowner played by Charles Fredricks, tries to hire Allison to gun down Earp because the marshal is fighting crime in the town and costing merchants business in the process. Allison makes a point of not taking money, but is willing to challenge Earp until he is overcome by his own drunkenness.Mike"
"of the TV series ""M*A*S*H"" (S05E21, Movie Tonight), Col. Potter uses this movie to help boost camp morale; leading the entire viewing party to reenact the climactic gun fight which is then ""broken up"" when a bus carrying wounded soldiers arrives at the camp. My Darling Clementine My Darling Clementine is a 1946 American Western film directed by John Ford and starring Henry Fonda as Wyatt Earp during the period leading up to the gunfight at the OK Corral. The ensemble cast also features Victor Mature (as Doc Holliday), Linda Darnell, Walter Brennan, Tim Holt, Cathy Downs and Ward Bond."
"John Hudson (actor) Jonathan C. ""John"" Hudson (January 24, 1919 - April 8, 1996) was an American actor best remembered for his roles in the films ""Gunfight at the OK Corral"" with film star Burt Lancaster and ""G.I. Blues"" where he appeared opposite Elvis Presley. He was the twin brother of late fellow film/TV actor William Hudson. Born and raised in Gilroy, California, Hudson served as Second Lieutenant in the US Army Air Corps during World War II, where he attained the rank of Second Lieutenant, before embarking on his acting career. In the 1940s, he was married to late"
"reshot from the 1939 film. After the movie ""Gunfight at the O.K. Corral"" was released in 1957, the shootout came to be known by that name. Since then, Wyatt Earp and the conflict has been portrayed with varying degrees of accuracy in numerous Western films and books. The book later inspired a number of stories, movies and television programs about outlaws and lawmen in Dodge City and Tombstone, including the 1955 television series ""The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp"". Wyatt Earp: Frontier Marshal Wyatt Earp: Frontier Marshal (1931) was a best-selling but largely fictional biography of Wyatt Earp written"
"credited role was ""Doc Holliday Rewrites History"" (May 6, 1958), with Myron Healey as the frontier gunfighter and dentist Doc Holliday. His last uncredited roles aired thereafter in May and June 1958, ""Dig a Grave for Ben Thompson"", based on the historical figure Ben Thompson played by Denver Pyle, ""Frame-up"", and ""My Husband"". He was cast as Ike Clanton, not on ""The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp"", but in the 1964 episode ""After the OK Corral"" of the syndicated western anthology series, ""Death Valley Days"". Jim Davis portrayed Wyatt Earp in this particular episode. Tannen appeared twice, one role"
"and were married just two months later. Jennifer Nichols later worked as a film wardrobe supervisor. Nichols worked in American film and television throughout the 1950s. In the episode ""Doc Holliday Rewrites History"" (May 6, 1958) of the ABC/Desilu western television series, ""The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp"", with Hugh O'Brian in the title role, Nichols played a traveling photographer and historian who arrives in Dodge City, Kansas, to take pictures and write the biographies of interested citizens, who pay in advance the purchase price of the book that he produces. All kinds of troubles result when Doc Holliday"
"to ""Star Trek"". Coincidentally, Kelley also portrayed Morgan Earp in the 1957 John Sturges film, ""Gunfight at the O.K. Corral"". Ike Clanton Joseph Isaac Clanton (1847 – June 1, 1887) was a member of a loose association of outlaws known as The Cowboys who clashed with lawmen Wyatt, Virgil and Morgan Earp as well as Doc Holliday. On October 26, 1881, Clanton was present at the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral in the boomtown of Tombstone, Arizona Territory but was unarmed and ran from the gunfight, in which his 19-year-old brother, Billy, was killed. Clanton filed murder charges against the"
"Wyatt Earp in Dodge City, Kansas, played by Hugh O'Brian, investigates a series of mysterious shootings near Myra's house. He finds that she has been harboring Nettie Barnes (Lyn Guild), a wanted member of the Larson gang and a former Confederate who dislikes northern law. In 1957 and 1958, she was cast in two other western series, as Rose in ""The Town"" of the CBS series ""Trackdown"", starring Robert Culp and in the segment ""Iron Trail Ambush"" of the syndicated ""Frontier Doctor"", starring Rex Allen. Her last acting role was in 1960 as a mystery woman on the ABC sitcom,"
"filmed during this time was ""Gunfight at the O.K. Corral"" (1957) with Kirk Douglas and Burt Lancaster. The movie is historically inaccurate, but it shows the area known as Gold Canyon with the Superstitions towering over the Clanton ranch. During this time, Victor Panek contacted his neighbors in Apache Junction, Mr. and Mrs. J.K. Hutchens, to suggest the idea of building a studio in the Superstition area. Hutchens and Panek began to look for sites and soon found exactly what they were looking for, located in the Superstition Mountains in central Arizona, and intended to be the ""Western Movie Capitol"
"This led to an appearance in ""Gunfight at the O.K. Corral"" as Morgan Earp (brother to Burt Lancaster's Wyatt Earp). This role led to three movie offers, including ""Warlock"" with Henry Fonda and Anthony Quinn. In 1957, he had a small role as a Southern officer in ""Raintree County"", a Civil War film directed by Edward Dmytryk, alongside Elizabeth Taylor, Montgomery Clift and Lee Marvin. He also appeared in leading roles as a U.S. Navy submarine captain in the World War II set television series, ""The Silent Service"". He appeared in season 1, episode 5, ""The Spearfish Delivers"", as Commander"
"in the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, the most famous gunfight of the Old West. In the aftermath, Virgil Earp was maimed in an ambush and Morgan Earp was assassinated while playing billiards. Walter Noble Burns's novel ""Tombstone"" (1927) made Earp famous. Hollywood celebrated Earp's Tombstone days with John Ford's ""My Darling Clementine"" (1946), John Sturges's ""Gunfight at the O.K. Corral"" (1957) and ""Hour of the Gun"" (1967), Frank Perry's ""Doc"" (1971), George Cosmatos's ""Tombstone"" (1993), and Lawrence Kasdan's ""Wyatt Earp"" (1994). They solidified Earp's modern reputation as the Old West's deadliest gunman. Jennie Bauters (1862–1905) operated brothels in the"
"of the shooting on the train platform. ""Doc Holliday Days"" are held yearly in Holliday's birthplace of Griffin, Georgia. Valdosta, Georgia held a Doc Holliday look-alike contest in January 2010, to coincide with its sesquicentennial celebration. Tombstone, Arizona also holds an annual Doc Holli-Days, which started in 2017, and celebrates the gunfighter-dentist on the 2nd weekend of August each year. Events include gunfights, a parade, and a Doc Holliday look-alike contest. Val Kilmer, who played Doc in 1993's Tombstone, was the grand marshal in 2017 and Dennis Quaid, who played Doc in 1994's Wyatt Earp, was the grand marshal in"
"Allan Graf, Bill Hart, Bob Herron, Norman Howell, Jimmy Medearis, Denney Pierce, Jeff Ramsey, Neil Summers, Mike Washlake, Ted White, Brian J. Williams, Bobby Burns, Linda Fetters, and Keii Johnston, who was the stunt double for Bruce Willis. The running gag throughout the film was that Wyatt Earp cannot drive, though he does so on more than one occasion. Garner was considered an expert stunt driver and did quite a lot of his own driving on his TV series, ""The Rockford Files"" (1974–1980). Edwards went to great lengths to recreate the 1920s Hollywood era, including a recreation of the 1929"
"Lancaster, James Garner, Jimmy Stewart, Hugh O'Brian, Kurt Russell and Kevin Costner. Wyatt and Morgan Earp figure prominently in Michael Crichton's novel, ""Dragon Teeth"" (published posthumously in 2017). Wyatt Earp Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp (March 19, 1848 – January 13, 1929) was an American Old West lawman and gambler in Cochise County, Arizona Territory, and a deputy marshal in Tombstone. He worked in a wide variety of trades throughout his life and took part in the famous Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, during which lawmen killed three outlaw Cochise County Cowboys. He is often erroneously regarded as the central figure"
"along with Doc Holliday in a confrontation with five outlaw Cowboys: Wesley Fuller, Tom and Frank McLaury, Billy Claiborne and Ike Clanton. The Cowboys were armed in violation of a city ordinance prohibiting carrying weapons in town. This shootout became famous as the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral. Wes Fuller, Ike Clanton, and Billy Claiborne ran from the fight unharmed, but Billy Clanton and both McLaury brothers were killed. It took place at about 3:00 pm on October 26, 1881, in Tombstone, Arizona Territory of the United States. Although only three men were killed during the gunfight, it is generally"
"1961, Morgan Woodward, later on CBS's ""Dallas"" in the role of Marvin ""Punk"" Anderson and a frequent guest star on ""Gunsmoke"", as well, played folksy loyal deputy ""Shotgun"" Gibbs in 42 episodes. Douglas Fowley and Myron Healey were cast 49 and 10 times, respectively, as Earp's close friend John H. ""Doc"" Holliday, whom Earp had met in Texas prior to 1880. Carol Montgomery Stone played Kate Holliday or ""Big Nose Kate"", Holliday's common-law wife, in 10 episodes of the series in the 1957-1958 season. Collette Lyons played Big Kate in two 1958 episodes and ""Rowdy Kate"" in two other segments"