who played ike clanton in tombstone

[27], In late June 1996 a Clanton family descendant, Terry "Ike" Clanton, along with former Citadel professor and grave expert James A. Browning, searched the area near Eagle Creek in what is now Greenlee County, Arizona, where Ike was reportedly buried. That was just how the A.T. rolled back then. Joseph Isaac (Ike) Clanton (1847 - June 1, 1887) was born in Callaway County, Missouri. Tombstone (GC2J5F3) was created by manymutts on 11/12/2010. That's the rumor. Just at this time, Mr. Miller stepped to the door, to be ready to render any assistance needed, and when Ike saw him he wheeled his horse and attempted to get under cover of the thick cover which grows close to Wilson's home, at the same time pulling his Winchester from its scabbard. [27] During May and June 1887, several grand jury indictments were brought against the Clantons and their friends. Curly Bill : Shut up, Ike. : Tombstone saloons, soiled doves and card dealers also didnt mind letting the cowboys do their thing. Ike would later claim the whole gunfight was a setup to kill Ike, which judge Wells Spicer disproved since the Earps didnt actually kill him when they had several opportunities to do so. Six years later Clanton was killed attempting to flee when he was shot by a lawman seeking to arrest him for cattle-rustling. [placing a shotgun to McMaster's head] The deadliest pistoleer since Wild Bill, they say. Tombstone - Kurt Russell and Val Kilmer Poster (24 x 36") 19.99 from Amazon.co.uk. : Not in any language. I'm in my prime. Billy Clanton had been shot several times, and was carried into a nearby home, where he died soon after. He was a child actor, starting at age 11 in "It Happened at the World's Fair." Was also in Disney roles. If fight was his racket, its fitting that more than 100 years later, a fight however small or one-sided still endures to determine Ike Clantons rightful reputation in American West history. [9] Around dawn, they were ambushed by Mexicans dispatched by Commandant Felipe Neri[10]:110 in the Guadalupe Canyon Massacre. [22] Wyatt never located Clanton, although they killed three other outlaw Cowboys, and the Earps and Holliday left the Arizona Territory in late April, 1882. The Arizona Weekly Citizen reported on the early success of his digs, where the fam irrigated and planted 120 acres with wheat, corn, barley and all kinds of vegetables, with hundreds of acres awaiting future crops. By 1881, however, he was working on his father's ranch at Lewis Springs, about 12 miles (19km) west of Tombstone and 5 miles (8.0km) from Charleston.[1]. Cambridge Dictionary defines a coward as a person who is not brave and is too eager to avoid danger, difficulty, or pain, and in this scenario its not a stretch to say Ikes actions were cowardly. Ike approached him [Wyatt] in the street and asked to talk. The Clantons sojourn in California didnt last much longer, and by 1873 they were camped out on the Gila River in Arizona, in the dry desert region they passed through nearly a decade before. Claiborne, who was also unarmed, fled the gunfight. Take a good look at him, Ike 'cause that's how you're gonna end up! The story's shown through his eyes. He took part in the Mason County War in Texas during which he committed his first murder. I heard of you. In the film, Clanton is portrayed as being second-in-command of the Clanton Gang. Wyatt Earp : Clanton's mother died in 1866. In 1880, as the potential growth of Tombstone became clear, the Pima County sheriff election between Democrat Charlie Shibell and Republican candidate Bob Paul included two unlikely poll officials in the San Simon area: Ike Clanton and Johnny Ringo. In Wyatt Earp: Frontier Marshal, Stuart Lake paints an even more dramatic scene, though Lakes account is fraught with exaggeration and made-for-books drama. Wyatt Earp He was arrested and charged with murder. Born in Callaway County, Missouri, Joseph Isaac "Ike" Clanton was one of seven children of Newman Haynes Clanton, (18161881) and his wife Mariah Sexton (Kelso) Clanton. Johns. [5]:193 However, the Clantons never registered a brand in either Cochise County or Pima County which was required to legally raise cattle. Sherman McMasters ARTHUR H. ROTSTEIN November 20, 1995 TOMBSTONE, Ariz. (AP) _ Terry ``Ike Clanton denies he's trying to revise history concerning his distant relatives, the pivotal characters in Wyatt Earp's celebrated 1881 gunfight at the OK Corral. Miles Quaritch from the fantasy Avatar, Ike Clanton in the western Tombstone and Harry Black in the drama Last Exit to Brooklyn. Brighton fired his rifle first, shooting Clanton through the left side, the bullet exiting out the right. By June 1881, the three outlaws were still on the lam, so Wyatt concocted a plan that would kill a bunch of birds with one stone: he would try to convince Ike Clanton, Joe Hill and Frank McLaury to lure the murderers into town, and when Wyatt captured them, he would offer the combined $3,600 reward to his three informants. Doc Holliday I see a red sash, I kill the man wearin' it! Wyatt Earp (Matthew Madewell, left) interrogates Ike Clanton (Patrick Kays) on his recollections of the shootout at the O.K. Clanton proved a better witness for the defense than the prosecution. : Eventually, the brothers hit the streets of Tombstone, where they found and buffaloed a drunk and armed Ike Clanton, dragging him to court to pay a fine for carrying a firearm in town. After leaving Dodge City in late 1879, Wyatt Earp and Mattie mosied down to Prescott, where Virgil Earp was town constable. The priest Charlton Heston . Johnny Ringo : The movie plays very loose with the facts, but apparently the real-life Ike Clanton had a habit of running away from fights, too. : Tombstone has become one of the most popular Westerns of the modern era. Related read: 10 Famous Guns of the Old West, from Revolvers to Rifles. Where's Wyatt? Will update later. Clanton repeatedly boasted in public, drank heavily, and had a quick temper. But the question remains: is Ike Clantons cowardly reputation warranted, or was he simply the victim of frontier circumstances beyond his control? What is that now? : [16]:190[17] :49 The city statute was not specific about how far a recently arrived visitor might "with good faith, and within reasonable time" travel into town while carrying a firearm. After three days, he spent the night of May 31, 1887 at Jim "Peg Leg" Wilson's Ranch on Eagle Creek, south of Springerville. Ike Clanton In the gunfight, Virgil, Morgan and Wyatt Earp joined Doc Holliday to . [4] Sheriff Johnny Behan At about dawn on October 26, the card game broke up and Behan and Virgil Earp went home to bed. Tell all the other curs the law's comin'! Corral, but Virgil Earp, In the last half of the 1800s, the bustling port town of San Francisco, which grew out of, If you are a fan of the Paramount+ series Yellowstone (and who isnt? Tombstone (1993) Full Cast & Crew See agents for this cast & crew on IMDbPro Directed by Writing Credits ( WGA) Kevin Jarre . The Clantons eventually settled in Santa Barbara County, near Port Hueneme, and lived on what they believed to be public land, but which in fact belonged to wealthy, influential folks like Thomas A. Scott, a railroad baron who had been elected U.S. Assistant Secretary of War by Lincoln before the Civil War. Ballot-stuffing was about as cool back then as it is now, so Paul sued for election fraud and eventually won the office, which he took over in April 1881. Isaac Ike Clanton was a member of the Cowboy faction in Tombstone and an enemy of the Earp brothers and Doc Holliday. Tombstone Marshal Fred White Around three in the afternoon, Wyatt, Virgil, Morgan and Doc Holliday began their walk down to the lot, past Johnny Behan, who falsely claimed to have already disarmed the cowboys. What do you think, darling? After the gunfight in Tombstone, during which the McLaury brothers and Billy Clanton were killed, Ike Clanton filed murder charges against the Earps and Doc Holliday. But Ikes time in court included more threats, and a heated argument with Wyatt, who claimed he would be justified in shooting you down any place I would meet you thanks to Ikes many threats to the Earp clan. [4] Murder was a capital offense, and given their relationship, it was unlikely Holliday would confide in Clanton. Disarming him, the Earps took Clanton to appear before Judge Wallace for violating the city's ordinance #9 against carrying firearms in the city. Related read: Is Tombstone a True Story? That's Virgil there with the women. director of photography Film Editing by Casting By Lora Kennedy Production Design by [citation needed] Stephen Lang played Clanton in the movie Tombstone (1993), which draws heavily on the Billy Breakenridge book Helldorado: Bringing the Law to the Mesquite. However, when the gunfight broke out, Clanton ran forward and grabbed Wyatt, exclaiming that he was unarmed and did not want a fight. Johnny Ringo On the morning of the shooting Virgil Earp had arrested him for carrying a revolver. Ike Clantons testimony and the diverging stories he included eventually swung the verdict toward the Earp side, and on November 30, Spicer reported that he cannot resist the conclusion that the defendants were fully justified in committing these homicides, according to The Last Gunfight. Clanton was played by Victor Jory in Tombstone, the Town Too Tough to Die (1942). The lot was six lots removed from the rear entrance to the O.K. Clanton testified later that he saw Virgil take his six-shooter out of his lap and stick it in his pants when the game ended. [37] Clanton was played by William Tannen in the episode "After the OK Corral" of the syndicated western anthology series, Death Valley Days. Tombstone Marshal Virgil Earp played cards with Clanton, Tom McLaury, Cochise County Sheriff Johnny Behan and a fifth man (unknown to Clanton and to history), until morning. In the interest of local politics and connections, the Clanton patriarch generally kept his kin in check, but his death signaled a changing family dynamic. Go to fighting or get away. Ike Clanton took flight, racing through the Fly house, into a vacant lot, through Kelloggs saloon, and finished his sprint two blocks away on Toughnut Street, where he was later arrested.. [pats his gun] Or that rustling cattle in that time and landscape was simply the way things were done. It also angered Earp. Eventus stultorum magister. Buck Taylor Turkey Creek Jack Johnson Harry Carey Jr. Tombstone Marshal Fred White Pedro Armendriz Jr. Clanton filed murder charges against the Earps and Holliday but after a 30-day preliminary hearing, Justice Wells Spicer ruled that the lawmen had acted within their lawful duty. In the days before the gunfight, Clanton had enlisted the help of fellow Cowboy Billy Claiborne, who was reputed to be good with a gun. Directed by John Sturges Writing Credits Cast (in credits order) verified as complete Produced by Music by Dimitri Tiomkin Cinematography by Charles Lang . Trivia [to Ringo] Ike Clanton He decided he had to act. [Cocking his rifle] Hey. The incidents had generated a lot of talk in town. So run, you cur RUN! They had heard from their neighbor, Ed Frink, that Clanton had been stirring up trouble in town overnight, and they had ridden into town on horseback to back up their brothers. Flys boardinghouse and a frame residence owned by William Hardwood, who had been Tombstones first mayor.. I just got one question; how're you planning on gettin' back down there? : (written by) Cast (in credits order) verified as complete Produced by Music by Bruce Broughton Cinematography by William A. Fraker . A restaurant has been opened by Mr. Ike Clanton.. [terrified, pleading] Newman was released for being old and J-Dubs time with the Rebs was marred by charges of desertion, wrote Shillingberg in Tombstone, A.T. After the war, the Clanton clan headed west, passing through southeastern Arizona on their way to California, where theyd run into their first of several legal and ethical clashes in the West. Related read: 6 Tombstone Filming Locations You Can Still Visit Today. : Both Brighton and Miller ordered him to halt but instead of doing so, when about twenty yards distant where the trail took a turn to the left, he threw his rifle over his left arm attempting to fire; at this instance Detective Brighton fired, the ball entering under the left arm and passing directly through the heart and out under the right arm. Clearing his cousin's name is a mission for Terry "Ike" Clanton, an actor who lives in California.Earp and Clanton have appeared nationwide to discuss the history leading up to that 30 . D.T. They moved their operations to a ranch they named the Cienega Amarilla, near Springerville, Arizona. Again, accounts of the night vary depending on the source, but Wyatt claimed Ike didnt let the argument go, seeing it as an affront to his ego. By 1881 he was working on his father's ranch at Lewis Springs, about 12 miles west of . Clanton testified that Earp had threatened to kill his confederates because he feared they would reveal his part in the robbery. And if the Earps were armed, he couldve thought it was a fools errand to stay in the fight if he wasnt heeled.. That all sounded good on paper, and Ike Clanton agreed to turn on his fellow cowboys, but the plan soon fell apart when it was discovered that Leonard and Head had already been killed by rustlers in the Animas Valley of New Mexico. You retired too? [takes a bill with Wyatt's signature from a customer and throws it on the faro table] Despite Hollywood. Houses, shanties and jacals are going up rapidly, and several families are now on the ground, the Weekly Republican reported. Opening narration "In the early eighteen-eighties, when all law enforcement failed in Arizona Territory, cattle rustling, robbery and murder began a notorious reign.As law agencies became disorganized, crime organized and grew powerful under the leadership of three of the West's most vicious outlaws Johnny Ringo, Ike Clanton and Curly Bill Brocious. After the Gunfight at the OK Corral, the Clantons bought land near a ranch owned by their sister Mary. Con Stacy Keach, Faye Dunaway, Harris Yulin, Michael Witney. : When Brighton and Miller walked up to where Ike lay they found he was dead. That's real good. Corral Gunfight. He took Holliday's walking-stick in return. Kid Swingle, Longhair Sprague, Billy Evans, and Clanton's brother-in-law, Ebin Stanley. Something around the eyes, I don't know, reminds me of me. Let's have a spelling contest! At that time, Newman Clanton was living with his sons Phin (or "Fin"), Ike, and Billy. Tombstone Cast & Crew . : It's the story of legendary lawman Wyatt Earp (Kurt Russell) and focuses on his time in Tombstone, Arizona, battling cowboys alongside his brothers and best friend, the former dentist turned poker playing gunfighter Doc Holliday. [citation needed]. Wyatt Earp Tom McLaury was also carried inside, and died silently near Billy. Corral . Others, totally over the cowboys threats, believed the Earps acted in good faith to protect the town and its citizens from further bloodshed. The following year, Warren and Morgan Earp arrived, as did Doc Holliday. They had already drawn their weapons when Tombstone Marshal Virgil Earp stepped between them, preventing a shooting. Clanton also said Holliday had confessed to him about killing the stage driver. Ike paid a fine of $27.50 and was released. When Virgil Earp learned that Wyatt was talking to the Cowboys at Spangenberg's gun shop he picked up a 10-gauge or 12-gauge, short, double-barreled shotgun[20]:185 from the Wells Fargo office around the corner on Allen Street. [27], In April, 1887, Phin Clanton was arrested for rustling and jailed in St. Shut up, Ike. William learned that his brother had lived four days, long enough to call the shooting coldblooded murder. William and Isaac were members of the Apache County Stock Association and William had a lot of political clout. The story of the Earps and the cowboys of Cochise County may be a gray area of Arizonas past, but Ike Clantons actions clearly paint a less-than-courageous picture before, during and after the infamous gunfight at the O.K. : Listen, Mr. Kansas Law Dog. They then walked a block north to an empty lot next to C. S. Fly's boarding house where Doc Holliday lived. But the Clantons were greenhorns in this part of the country, and Ike learned the hard way how the law of the land worked in the Golden State. Morgan and Virgil were also shot, Doc Holliday was grazed by a bullet, and Wyatt came away unharmed. Brighton and Deputy Sheriff Albert Miller. Here's why. More at IMDbPro Contact info Robert Mitchum Left On First Day Of Filming Despite landing the role of Old Man Clanton, Mitchum's time on set came to an end on the first day of filming. Savvy? During his testimony after the shootout at the O.K. During a month-long preliminary hearing before Judge Wells Spicer, Clanton told a story of abuse that he had suffered at the hands of the Earps and Holliday the night before the gunfight. If Ike wasnt involved, he likely played an indirect role in the attempt, and if he was one of the would-be assassins, it further strengthened his gutless reputation.

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