2023 Home Box Office, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Wild Bill Hickok - Gunfighter of the Wild West - ThoughtCo Actor By Action Role. Hickok is known to have fatally shot six men and is suspected of having killed a seventh (McCanles). Wild Bill (1995) - Full Cast & Crew - IMDb Despite Joe's warning that killing Indians "in a religious frame of mind" is bad luck, Bill shoots the man dead. McLintock used a cane to tap the body, face, and head, finding no soft tissue anywhere. Flashbacks show Bill, then a deputy U.S. marshal, killing several men in a saloon fight for knocking his hat off, before gunning down a group of soldiers after one purposely crushes his hat. "George Ward Nichols and the Legend of Wild Bill Hickok. Frank McDonald. [22] He died of emphysema at the Desert Hospital Hospice in Palm Springs, California, on February 6, 1996, at the age of 74. Marshal overheard him and arrested him, says the Law Library. Luke Hemsworth Wild Bill Hickok Kris Kristofferson George Knox Trace Adkins Phil Poe Bruce Dern Doc Rivers O'Roark Cameron Richardson Mattie Kaiwi Lyman John Wesley Hardin Hunter Fischer Joey Peter Sherayko Trail Boss Jason Lively Ike Bertrand-Xavier Corbi Sullivan (as Betrand Corbi) Brittany Elizabeth Williams Carrie (as Brittany Williams) Picks on rebels, especially Texans, to kill." [64], Hickok was playing five-card stud or five-card draw when he was shot. He seemed to have respect for Hickok's abilities and replied, "If Bill needs killing, why don't you kill him yourself? [citation needed] Although he was just 39, his marksmanship and health were apparently in decline, and he had been arrested several times for vagrancy,[53] despite earning a good income from gambling and displays of showmanship only a few years earlier. Hickok rode Buckshot while 300-pound Jingles rode Joker. He is best known for playing Wild Bill Hickok in the Western television series The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok from 1951 to 1958. He was holding two pairs: black aces and black eights (although there is some dispute as to the suit of one of the aces, diamond vs. spade) as his "up cards", which has since become widely known as the "dead man's hand". The trial did not last more than fifteen minutes.[23]. Hickok was assigned to bring the men to Topeka for trial, and he requested a military escort from Fort Hays. Legendary lawman and gunslinger, Wild Bill Hickok, is tasked with taming the wildest cow-town in the west. "He's kind of a male-oriented director, and he has great knowledge of the West and all of the folklore and all of the heroes. And that's about it: he beat up all the bad guys and somehow kept his good looks. Jack offers to let Bill kill himself with a gun loaded with one bullet, but deliberately takes the last bullet out so Bill will be humiliated when he tries to shoot him. The last poster tweaked my memory about the sponsor tooI seem to remember the intro showing Wild Bill and Jingles zooming across the range on their horses while the Kellogg's sugar pops overlay flashed on the screen. ", Rosa, Joseph G. (1979). Eulogized and ostracized, James Butler Hickok was alternately labeled courageous, affable, and self confident; cowardly, cold-blooded, and drunken; a fine specimen of physical manhood; an overdressed dandy with perfumed hair; an unequaled marksman; a poor shot. They arrived in Topeka on April 2. Company Credits The series took the usual liberties with history, and ran three. Pard, we will meet again in the happy hunting ground to part no more. It is a loose adaptation of Hickok's life, ending with his famous aces-and-eights card hand. He earned a great deal of notoriety in his own time, much of it bolstered by the many outlandish and often fabricated tales he told about himself.
