Ben Johnson Screencaps Page - benjohnsonscreencaps

A fan webpage for the Oscar-winning actor and
world rodeo champion Ben Johnson

Ben Johnson -- he is the epitome of the cowboy and the Western man.
-- Louis L'Amour

Two publicity photos from The Train Robbers, in the "Photos, Lobby Cards, Etc." album in the Memorabilia section.

Two publicity pictures from The Train Robbers in the "Photos, Lobby Cards, Etc." album in the Memorabilia section. I have several more pictures from The Train Robbers so Lane, Jesse, Grady, Mrs. Lowe and the gang will be showing up for about a week or so.

May 16
Happy 91st birthday to Harry Carey, Jr.

Just added:
A publicity picture for Mighty Joe Young, in the "Photos, Lobby Cards, Etc." album in the Memorabilia section.

May 15
Just added:
Would you believe...40 more screencaps to the Oklahoma! album in the Stunts section? I was channel surfing a couple of nights ago, came upon a broadcast of Oklahoma! and within a few minutes spotted Ben as an extra in a scene I hadn't noticed him in before. It's the scene where Jud (Rod Steiger) and Curly (Gordon MacRae) each get off a shot from their guns in Jud's shack. Aunt Eller (Charlotte Greenwood), Laurey (Shirley Jones) and their friends who have gathered to go together to the dance all come running. We first see Ben running down to the shack with the others...

The white arrow is pointing at Ben.

then crowding in around the shack door.

Eddie Albert as Ali Hakim is also there (he's in the plaid suit). Twenty years later a deranged-with-grief Ben would be pointing a gun at corrupt lawyer Eddie Albert in Hustle. The additional screencaps start right after no. 282.

May 14

Screencaps of Ben's scenes in the 1973 TV-movie version of John Steinbeck's The Red Pony, in the TV Shows section. This dramatization included an entirely new, not-in-the-book scene for Ben and Henry Fonda at a Salinas, California saloon.

May 11
Blu-ray and DVD News
Olive Films will release Rio Grande on August 7 on Blu-ray and standard DVD. (Olive will also release Nicholas Ray's Johnny Guitar on Blu-ray and DVD the same day.)

Press Release:

FROM THE DIRECTOR OF THE SEARCHERS & SHE WORE A YELLOW RIBBON
REMASTERED IN HD FROM AN ARCHIVAL 35MM PRINT
FIRST TIME ON Blu-ray©
DAY & DATE (DVD and Blu-ray)
JOHN WAYNE | MAUREEN O’HARA in RIO GRANDE (1950)
Directed by JOHN FORD (THE GRAPES OF WRATH)
with BEN JOHNSON | VICTOR McLAGLEN | HARRY CAREY JR. | CHILL WILLS

PREBOOK 7/10/12 STREET 8/7/12

DVD UPC# 887090044905 CAT# OF449 $19.95srp
BLU-RAY UPC# 887090045001 CAT# OF450 $29.95srp

In the John Ford (The Quiet Man) classic, John Wayne and Maureen O’Hara (first of five films together) are embroiled in an epic battle with the Apaches and each other. Wayne leads his Calvary troops to the Rio Grande to fight a warring tribe. His toughest battle lies ahead when his unorthodox plan to outwit the elusive Apaches leads to a possible court-martial. Locked in a bloody war, he must fight not only to save his family, but also to redeem his honor. This was the third and final of the John Wayne/John Ford Cavalry films, which started with Fort Apache and was followed by She Wore a Yellow Ribbon. The great supporting cast includes Ben Johnson, Harry Carey Jr., Victor McLaglen and Chill Wills.

1950 | B&W | 105 Minutes | Not Rated

SPECIAL FEATURES:
• THE MAKING OF RIO GRANDE (1993 – 23 MINUTES) - NARRATED BY LEONARD MALTIN
Includes Interviews with MICHAEL WAYNE | BEN JOHNSON | HARRY CAREY JR.
• THEATRICAL TRAILER
An Argosy Production JOHN WAYNE MAUREEN O’HARA in “RIO GRANDE” co-starring BEN JOHNSON CLAUDE JARMAN JR. HARRY CAREY JR. CHILL WILLS J. CARROLL NAISH VICTOR McLAGLEN
Screenplay by JAMES KEVIN McGUINNESS Based on a Saturday Evening Post Story by JAMES WARNER BELLAH
Produced by JOHN FORD and MERIAN C. COOPER Directed by JOHN FORD
RIO GRANDE © 1950 MELANGE PICTURES LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

May 9
Just added:
A third The Wild Bunch publicity picture, in the "Photos, Lobby Cards, Etc." album in the Memorabilia section.

May 8
Just added:
A publicity picture from The Wild Bunch, in the "Photos, Lobby Cards, Etc." album in the Memorabilia section.

May 7
Just added:
A publicity picture from The Wild Bunch, in the "Photos, Lobby Cards, Etc." album in the Memorabilia section.

May 5

Two publicity pictures from the 1955 musical Oklahoma!, in the "Photos, Lobby Cards, Etc." album in the Memorabilia section. Ben is the cowboy on the left in these pictures of the "Kansas City" number. This was Ben's first work in movies after his year off competing in rodeo. He was hired to double Rod Steiger in the runaway wagon scene, teach Gordon MacRae to ride, and he also rented cattle to the production. And he appeared as an extra in the "Kansas City" number.

May 3
Just added:
A very enjoyable four-page article about Ben by Jack Lewis in the Spring 2003 issue of Guns of the Old West magazine, in the Memorabilia section.

May 1
The War Drums DVD has arrived. The bad news: 1. The DVD cover is one of the ugliest DVD designs I've ever seen, and the photo makes supporting player Larry Chance look like he's the lead; 2. MGM did use (as is their bad habit) the old master on hand, so there is evidence of print damage (specks and lines), plus it's open matte, i.e. 4:3/fullframe, instead of the correct 1:85 widescreen aspect ratio. The good news is that it looks a lot better than any television broadcast I've ever seen, with rich colors and a lot more detail. Definitely worth a purchase as I think the chances of a remastered, widescreen version are zero for the forseeable future. The best place to buy War Drums (and any other MGM Limited Edition Collection DVD) is classicmoviesnow.com. Lowest prices and quickest shipping.

April 30

A publicity picture for One-Eyed Jacks, in the "Photos, Lobby Cards, Etc." album in the Memorabilia section.

A publicity picture for Hang 'Em High, in the "Photos, Lobby Cards, Etc." album in the Memorabilia section. This is the movie where Ben's rescue, on horseback (the horse is Blackie, his favorite movie horse during the late '60s and early '70s) of a hanged Clint Eastwood prompted cast member Bruce Dern to proclaim it "the single greatest stunt ever performed in the history of movies." Ben's gallop down the hill, the way he brings Blackie to a halt, pulls out his knife and cuts down Eastwood, in one singularly graceful flow of movement, is a beautiful thing to see.

Just added (or maybe re-added):

Screencaps of Ben's scenes in the Stoney Burke episode "Point of Honor." I thought I had posted these months ago but the album was not in the TV Shows section -- it's there now. Thanks to MissGoddess for pointing out the similarity of the Three Mesquiteers character name Stony Burke and the TV series (and character) Stoney Burke.

Screencaps from Riders of the Rio Grande (1943) in which Ben doubled for star Tom Tyler, in the Stunts Section.

April 24

Oklahoma @ The Movies

Opening May 2012

The Oklahoma History Center, in conjunction with the development of Tulsa-based OKPOP, will open an 8,000-square foot museum exhibit titled Oklahoma @ the Movies in 2012.

This celebration will showcase the creativity and innovation of Oklahomans and their legacy of creating, starring in, and watching motion pictures on the silver screen. Historic theaters bridging decades of change will be featured, including the Coleman in Miami, the Poncan in Ponca City, and the many ornate marquees that still grace the streets of Oklahoma’s towns and cities. These historic theaters of Oklahoma will be the highlight of the “in front of the screen” section of the exhibit. The theme will explore our “shared memories,” taking people back in time to those magical moments when reality was suspended for a short time.

Filmmakers, including all roles of crafting a movie, will populate the “behind the screen” part of the exhibit. These stories will focus on film industry pioneers such as cinematographer Buss Boggs (Oklahoma City); film editor Elmo Williams (Lone Wolf); public relations executive Stan Rosenfield (Oklahoma City); producer Gray Fredrickson (Oklahoma City); writer S.E. Hinton (Tulsa); art director K.K. Barrett (Tulsa); and academy award-winning directors Blake Edwards (Tulsa) and Ron Howard (Duncan).

Oklahoma’s vast number of actors will provide the magic of the “on screen” section of the exhibit. This creative talent ranges from early cinema heroes such as Tom Mix and Will Rogers to the current roster of stars. Hundreds of stories, many told by the stars themselves, will include the Oklahoma roots and Hollywood careers of Joan Crawford (Lawton), Gene Autry (Berwyn), James Garner (Norman), Tony Randall (Tulsa), Hopalong Cassidy (Tulsa), Kay Francis (Oklahoma City), Mary Kay Place (Tulsa), Dudley Dickerson (Chickasha), Gary Busey (Tulsa), Lon Chaney, Jr. (Oklahoma City), Vera Miles (Boise City), Ben Johnson (Foraker), Ed Harris (Oklahoma City), Jennifer Jones (Tulsa), Robert Knott (Oklahoma City), Alfre Woodard (Tulsa), Wes Studi (Nofire Hollow), Jeanne Tripplehorn (Tulsa), Brad Pitt (Shawnee), Tim Blake Nelson (Tulsa), and Chuck Norris (Ryan).

The exhibit will also explore film stories about Cowboys and Westerns, American Indians and Hollywood, African American movies filmed in the state, the film industry in Oklahoma, and the “Oklahoma Image” on screen.

April 23

A publicity picture for Wagon Master, in the "Photos, Lobby Cards, Etc." album. You can spot Ben way over on the right hand side. Also, all the photos, newspaper articles and information about the Silver Spur Award originally posted on January 27 have been collected into one album for easy reference. Both albums are in the Memorabilia section.

A publicity picture for Shane, in the "Photos, Lobby Cards, Etc." album in the Memorabilia section.

April 20
Screen Archives Entertainment just posted this as the artwork for the soon-to-be-released DVD of War Drums:

I really, really hope this is not the actual artwork. Why would they pick a photo that gives the impression that Larry Chance (who plays Lex Barker's sidekick) is the star? Where are Ben and Joan Taylor and why aren't the names of the three stars included?

HERE is an excellent review by Kevin Pyrtle of the new Bite the Bullet Blu-ray, with a nice number of frame grabs that display the superb picture quality on this disc. Two of the pictures are of Ben (see below) -- but reproduced here they are very small and don't really show how great the Blu-ray looks. Go to the review for the large-size, much better pictures.

A German movie program for Wagon Master, in the Memorabilia section. Here is the cover and two of the interior pages. The program is seven pages total.

A German movie program for Mighty Joe Young, in the Memorabilia section. Unfortunately someone punched holes in it but otherwise it is in perfect condition.

Screencaps (in the Movies section) of Ben's two scenes in the 1972 racing movie Corky, which starred Robert Blake. Ben had known Blake since the 1940s, when Blake played Little Beaver in the Red Ryder western series from Republic Studios and Ben frequently doubled for Red Ryder star "Wild" Bill Elliott.

Ms. Screencaps is back from the TCM Classic Movie Festival, where she had an absolutely mahhhh-velous time, even though none of Ben's films were on the schedule. But I did see three with John Wayne: The Longest Day, How the West Was Won, and Rio Bravo.

I was so busy preparing for the trip I completely overlooked a very important date -- the 40th anniversary of Ben's winning the Best Supporting Actor for The Last Picture Show at the 44th annual Oscar ceremony on April 10, 1972. Here is an Associated Press wire photo of Ben with his Oscar (in the "Photos, Lobby Cards, Etc." album in the Memorabilia section). Also, scroll down below the photo for DVD news about Bonanza and War Drums.

CBS will release "The Official Third Season" of Bonanza, vols. 1 and 2, on July 17. Ben's first Bonanza episode, "The Gamble," will be in vol. 2. Go HERE for additional information. Ben's second and third Bonanza episodes ("The Deserter" and "Top Hand") were in seasons 10 and 12 respectively, so it will be a long time before we see more Ben on Bonanza DVDs.

April 11
Ms. Screencaps has booked passage on the airborne Wells Fargo stagecoach and will be leaving on April 12 for Hollywood, California to attend the third annual Turner Classic Movies classic film fest. This is a fabulously fun event and Ms. S. hopes she gets to ogle lots of movie stars -- maybe even say hello to a few -- and meet lots of fellow classic film fans.

So... this will be the last post for almost a week. Today's picture (larger version in the "Photos, Lobby Cards, Etc." album in the Memorabilia section) is one I thought appropriate given the destination. It's an autographed picture of Ben with an unidentified (and no doubt thrilled) fan, probably from a film festival. Judging from Ben's appearance, his big tie, and the style of the fan's spectacles, I'd say this photo was taken in the early to mid '80s. Oh, how I remember (shudder) the oversized thick plastic frames of that era!

April 10

A publicity picture for The Sugarland Express, in the "Photos, Lobby Cards, Etc." album in the Memorabilia section.

Today is the 16th anniversary of Ben's passing.

He had been scheduled to host his Pro-Celebrity Rodeo in May but with his death, the great singer and Oklahoma native Reba McEntire assumed hosting duties. The event was dedicated in Ben's honor and later broadcast on TNN. Here is a publicity photo for the broadcast (larger version in the "Photos, Lobby Cards, Etc." album in the Memorabilia section). A description of the Pro-Celebrity Rodeo was published in The Tulsa World newspaper, which included this moving moment: "More than 5,000 people sat in rapt attention at the Lazy E Arena in Guthrie as Strike, Johnson's horse, stood saddled but riderless in a spotlight surrounded by Johnson's nephews, John and Ben Miller, grandnephew Trey Miller and grandniece Mary Ann Miller. A few yards away, under a smaller spotlight, singer-songwriter-producer Red Steagall sang 'My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys,' closing with the words, 'Especially Ben Johnson.' "

A publicity photo for The Sugarland Express, in the "Photos, Lobby Cards, Etc." album in the Memorabilia section.

April 6
Just added:
Screencaps of Ben's scenes in The Sugarland Express, the first feature film by Steven Spielberg, in the Movies section. One of a series of great performances by Ben in movies from the late '60s and early '70s.

4/23/2012 2:17:12 AM - 004096522645
Paula, Stella and I will be sending you Ben Johnson photos

3/20/2012 11:18:38 PM - 004077324516
Belated comment: that was a really nice St. Patrick's Day layout!

12/14/2011 10:57:53 AM - 004069989851
Great job Paula I am more than amazed at your ability's to put this all together your friend Fuzzy

5/3/2011 12:37:41 AM - 002007725912
Hi Paula, I'm sorry I missed your post at the McCain Ranch.
I do have a picture of Ben Johnson's display at the National Cowboy & Western Hertiage Museum. I would be glad to send you this picture if you would like to have it.
I've just got to see "Rebel In Town."
Hope to see ya' at the ranch!
Cowgirl/Margie

11/30/2010 5:38:07 AM - 003008332228
Moira, I changed the pictures but I promise someday to have another picture of Ben in The Last Picture Show at the top of the page.

11/8/2010 3:52:32 PM - 003067930567
I responded to your email!
Doug

9/18/2010 2:52:26 PM - fb:1499834889
I love these images, Paula. This is splendid and I really appreciate your skill and diligence. You make me wish I had a Mac too. I particularly love the image of an older Ben at the top right on the main page. His face was so eloquent. No words were needed.
Thanks so much for posting these,
Moira

April 5

The DVD Savant reviews the new Blu-ray of Bite the Bullet, and likes what he sees. "Veteran Ben Johnson's broken-down cowboy is a sentimental favorite. Fans of classic westerns can still see in his old man the terrific athlete and rodeo-caliber rider that Johnson once was."

It's going to be a little slow around here for the rest of April but things should get back to normal in May. Screencaps of Ben's scenes in The Sugarland Express will be posted soon.

April 1

Happy April Fool's Day!

SHAZAM!

Here is a fun photo of Ben perusing an issue of Big Reel, the sadly now-defunct magazine for collectors of all things cinematic, its pages filled with ads for film prints, videos, stills, lobby cards, and any kind of Hollywood collectible. The cover of the issue Ben is holding features a picture of his colleague and friend, the great Tom Tyler, in one of Tyler's signature roles, superhero Captain Marvel. (In the "Photos, Lobby Cards, Etc." album in the Memorabilia section.)

Based on a comic book, and directed by William Witney and John English, the 12-episode The Adventures of Captain Marvel was one of Republic Studios' best and most popular serials. Whenever teenager Billy Batson (played by Frank Coghlan, Jr.) proclaimed "Shazam!" he turned into superhero Captain Marvel, played by tall and strong Tom Tyler in a tight body suit and cape and ready to defeat the villains and save the day.

I don't know exactly when Ben and Tom Tyler first met, but it had to be in the early 1940s when both men were working on the same lots at Republic and Columbia. Ben doubled for Tyler in the 1943 Republic film Riders of the Rio Grande, one of the Three Mesquiteers series.

They were also both in Badman's Territory (1946) starring Randolph Scott, the film that gave Ben his first line of on-screen dialogue.

Tyler's real name was Luke Markowski. He worked a variety of manual labor jobs before arriving in Hollywood, where his muscular physique (he was a weightlifter too, winning an amateur championship in 1928) attracted the attention of producers. He became a star of silent Westerns in the 1920s, but like so many other actors talkies treated him less kindly, and during the 1930s made his living in B-westerns, mostly with Poverty Row studios.

Then John Ford cast Tyler as John Wayne's nemesis Luke Plummer in Stagecoach in 1939, and this performance led to better roles, albeit supporting ones, with major studios, and also to Republic's Captain Marvel, as well as another classic serial, The Phantom. Unfortunately an autoimmune disease, scleroderma, slowed Tyler's career by the late 1940s. One of his most memorable late roles was the wounded Sgt. Mike Quayne in She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, which opens with Tyler and Ben galloping furiously after a runaway stagecoach, recreating to some degree Ben's stopping a runaway team and saving the lives of several stuntmen on the set of Fort Apache.

Tom Tyler passed away in 1954 after suffering a heart attack. B-westerns.com has a terrific biographical article about Tyler, and those wanting to know even more should look for Mike Chapman and Bobby Copeland's biography The Tom Tyler Story: From Cowboy Star to Super Hero!

March 31

Just added:

A publicity still from Kid Blue (1973), in the "Photos, Lobby Cards, Etc." album in the Memorabilia section.

March 30

Bite the Bullet is now available in a splendid Blu-ray from Twilight Time which is a huge improvement over the old DVD. To celebrate, here is a publicity photo from the movie, autographed by Ben. The Blu-ray comes with a insert booklet that includes a very informative essay by Julie Kirgo about the film. You can find reviews of the Blu-ray at blu-ray.com and Home Theater Forum.

March 28

Just added:

A two-page pictorial about Ben's cowboy skills in the May 1949 issue of Night and Day, in theMemorabilia section. Night and Day was an oversize magazine about the world of entertainment, usually featuring scantily-clad beauties on the cover and often within its pages, as well as more mainstream stories. The December 1954 issue of Night and Day also ran a story on Ben and that article is available in the Memorabilia section. Some time ago JackFavell provided scans of the individual photos on these two pages to the Screencaps Archive (thank you, JackFavell!) but once we acquired our own copy, we were able to scan each page in its entirety.

March 26

Just added:

One more Chisum publicity picture, in the "Photos, Lobby Cards, Etc." album in the Memorabilia section. This is the last Chisum photo, at least for now.

March 25
Just added:

Chisum trading cards, in the Memorabilia section. I really love all these little cards with descriptions on the back about each character. There are 18 cards in total.

March 24

Here's a still from One-Eyed Jacks from the ending that was edited out of the film. In the background you can see Ben Johnson hanging upside down by one foot. That's really Ben, not a stuntman. In the movie as released, the last we see of Ben's character, Bob Amory, he is shot and lying on the street as townspeople rush up to him in the aftermath of the botched bank robbery. But there was more about Bob -- or more precisely, his corpse -- in the original script. Two of the townspeople and the bank teller (who was played by Elisha Cook, Jr.) pose for a photo with Bob's body, and afterwards the body is strung up, doused with kerosene and burned. Life magazine ran an article about One Eyed Jacks that included a photo of Marlon Brando standing next to the dangling Ben, with text that stated that Ben nearly fainted, he hung there for so long.

Toby, who runs the great website 50 Westerns from the '50s, has also added this picture to his Tumblr site about One-Eyed Jacks, A Million Feet of Film, where he discusses this ending cut from the final version of the film.

Screencaps of Ben's scenes in the 1982 TV movie The Shadow Riders, based on a novel by Louis L'Amour, in the TV Shows section.

Shout! Factory has a opened a Facebook page to promote its upcoming (May 22) release of Route 66: The Complete Series. (Ben appeared in two episodes of the show.) They're also holding a contest to give away a copy of the set, with other related prizes.

March 17

Happy St. Patrick's Day! Just added:

A publicity picture from Rio Grande, with Harry Carey, Jr., John Wayne, Claude Jarman, Jr., Ben Johnson and the loveliest of Irish ladies, Maureen O'Hara. In the "Photos, Lobby Cards, Etc." album in the Memorabilia section.

March 16
Just added:
A publicity picture for Chisum, in the "Photos, Lobby Cards, etc. album in the Memorabilia section.

March 15
Blu-ray News

All aboard! Shout! Factory is planning a Terror Train release on Blu-ray sometime in 2012. Beautifully photographed by Oscar-winning cinematographer John Alcott, Terror Train should look spectacular in the Blu-ray format.

Just added:
A publicity picture for Chisum, in the "Photos, Lobby Cards, etc. album in the Memorabilia section.

March 13

A fourth Major Dundee publicity photo, in the "Photos, Lobby Cards, Etc." album in the Memorabilia section.

DVD News
Wild Stallion DVD news, from the Warner Archive Collection Facebook page. WAC has posted that "Wild Stallion will see the light of day through WAC. We haven't firmed up our plans yet, but it will surface sooner than later." Oh boy! The Monogram B-westerns remastered and released by WAC in its Tim Holt and Monogram Cowboy collections are gorgeous and hopefully Wild Stallion will be equally beautiful on an official DVD.

Just added:

A publicity photo for Major Dundee, in the "Photos, Lobby Cards, Etc." album in the Memorabilia section.

March 11

Just added:

A publicity picture for Major Dundee, in the "Photos, Lobby Cards, Etc." album in the Memorabilia section.

Screencaps of Ben's scenes from his third and final Laramie episode, "Widow in White," which originally aired June 13, 1961. Ben plays Tarp, the leader of a small group (two other bad guys plus Tarp) who wants the loot he thinks is hidden on the titular widow's ranch. In the TV Shows section.

March 8
Just added:

An autographed publicity picture for The Wild Bunch, in the "Photos, Lobby Cards, Etc." album in the Memorabilia section.

Another publicity picture for The Wild Bunch, in the "Photos, Lobby Cards, Etc." album in the Memorabilia section.

March 6
Just added:
Another publicity picture for The Wild Bunch, in the "Photos, Lobby Cards, Etc." album in the Memorabilia section. It's Sam Peckinpah week here as I will be posting a series of publicity stills from The Wild Bunch and Major Dundee.

A publicity picture for The Wild Bunch, in the "Photos, Lobby Cards, Etc." album in the Memorabilia section.

An interview with Ben in the March 1991 issue of Interview magazine, in the Memorabilia section.

HEEEEEYYYY ABBOTT! Just added:

A publicity picture from Ben's stuntman days for The Naughty Nineties, a 1945 Abbott and Costello comedy in which he appeared briefly (and with no dialogue) as a coach driver. In the "Photos, Lobby Cards, Etc." album in the Memorabilia section. You can see screencaps of this scene HERE.

February 28
Just added:
An article about Ben in the June 8, 1978 issue of the French movie magazine Cine Revue, in the Memorabilia section. Three pages of wonderful photos (although most of them are very small) and one page of text. A translation is provided.

Here are the first two pages of the article.

February 26

Tonight is the 84th Academy Awards ceremony, and to celebrate, here is a picture of a group of past Oscar winners, including Ben Johnson, who gathered together in December 1975 at the opening of a new building for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Front row: Claire Trevor, Harold Russell, Red Buttons, Patty Duke

Second row: Eva Marie Saint, Walter Matthau, Rod Steiger

Third row: Ginger Rogers, Laurence Olivier, Maximilian Schell. Peter Ustinov is partially obscured behind Schell.

Back row: Jack Lemmon, Shelley Winters, Karl Malden, Sidney Poitier, Ben Johnson

Screencaps of Ben's scenes from the Laramie episode "A Sound of Bells," which originally aired December 27, 1960. Ben appeared in three Laramie episodes overall, two in the second season. This is the first of his second season episodes, and his one heroic character on the show; he played villains in his other two episodes. In the TV Shows section.

February 24
Mary-Kate has put together a *nine* minute video, "My Tribute to Ben Johnson (A Real Cowboy)" and posted it to Youtube. You can view it HERE. This is a fabulous video love letter to Ben's cowboy spirit and skills, with dozens of clips from his films and TV shows, accompanied by a wonderful selection of songs about cowboys that seem as if they could have been written just to describe Ben. This is a must-see for all of his fans, so go there now! The link is also permanently available in the Videos section.

And thank you, Mary-Kate, for the mention at the Youtube page. Much appreciated!

5/18/2012 8:16:25 PM

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