Hi...not new to the board, have been lurking and reading for a long time. Time to ask for help, I know the answer is here somewhere.

Remember William Holden's one-armed Confederate buddy from West Point in the Horse Soldiers? Carried the flag during the charge...

Fast forward to Liberty Valance.....the reporter who says at the end of the movie "When the fact becomes legend, write the legend" or very similar....

Questions:

Were those chaps one and the same?

Who is it?

Thanks for any help, it's been driving me nuts.

Grant

Welcome to the board! I'm sure there are others readying their welcome as well.

Glad you decided to join us, and since you've lurked for awhile, you're familiar with the lay of the land around here.

Chester :newyear: and the Mrs. :angel1:

Grant,

Glad to have you here on this board, and you pose a good question. I'll take a jab at it. Carleton Young is the actor who appeared in both movies you mentioned. In The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962), The character he played was Maxwell Scott, and in The Horse Soldiers (1959), he played Col. Jonathan Miles, CSA.

This seems to be the person you are looking for. He was born October 21, 1905, and deceased November 7, 1994.

This is a short bio on this man (credit imdb):
- American character actor noted for his deep, rich voice. Young made his Broadway debut in the early 1930s, appearing in such plays as 'Page Pygmalion,' 'The Man Who Reclaimed His Head,' 'Late Wisdom,' and 'Yesterday's Orchids.' Moving to Hollywood in 1936, he began getting small film roles and soon graduated to frequent appearances in B-Westerns and serials, occasionally as a supporting lead, but most often as a heavy. He was Dick Tracy's brother in 'Dick Tracy (1937)' , and was a familiar face in many oaters and serials at Republic, where he was a contract player (occasionally working under the stage name Gordon Roberts). In 1941, Young returned to Broadway to star in 'Cuckoos On the Hearth' by Parker Fennelly. Back in Hollywood, he made Westerns throughout the Forties, then began appearing in better roles in better films, becoming a late favorite of John Ford. His line in Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The (1962), "This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend", has become synonymous with Ford. Young retired in 1970 and died in 1994, at the age of 89. He is often confused with Carleton G. Young, a radio performer who made a few films and who was the father of actor Tony Young.

Hope this is what you are looking for.

Cheers, Hondo B)

I didn't think it would take long...I'm amazed at the wealth of knowledge in this group.

As O' Mose said in The Searchers...."Thank yuh kindly."

Grant

Was he also the one-armed man in the undefeated?

:agent:

Robbie,

You're talking about Royal Dano who played Maj. Sanders, CSA (the one-armed major). He was also in Cahill: United States Marshal as MacDonald, Hermit who sells Cahill the mule. He was born November 22, 1922 and died May 15, 1994 of a heart attack. He was 73 years old.

Cheers, Hondo B)

Hi all,
To update you still further Carlton Young played Colter Craven in the Wagon Train series The Colter Craven story and I think he was prosocuting council in Ford's Sergeant Rutledge.

Arthur