A Blood Meridian Casting Dream
by DinnerWithAndre | created - 07 Jul 2012 | updated - 07 Jul 2012 | Public
1. Frederick Coffin
Actor | Hard to Kill
A solid, reliable working actor since the early 70s, Frederick Coffin was born January 16, 1943 to actress Winnie Collins, as one of five siblings. Educated at Western Reserve Academy, in Hudson, Ohio, Coffin was both an excellent athlete and student. It was at WRA that he first began theater ...
Judge Holden: Imagine him as Big Zwey in Lonesome Dove, but shaved.
2. Ben Foster
Actor | Hell or High Water
Ben Foster was born October 29, 1980 in Boston, Massachusetts, to Gillian Kirwan and Steven Foster, restaurant owners. His younger brother is actor Jon Foster. His paternal grandparents were from Russian Jewish families that immigrated to Massachusetts (his grandfather became a prominent judge in ...
Capt. John Joel "Gallantin'" Glanton: All 3:10 to Yuma of him.
3. Cleavon Little
Actor | Blazing Saddles
Versatile, charismatic actor Cleavon Little was born on June 1, 1939, in Oklahoma but grew up in California and attended San Diego College. He earned a scholarship to Juilliard and moved to New York, then trained at the American Academy of Dramatic Art and was soon appearing off-Broadway. ...
The Black Jackson: Who else?
4. Brad Dourif
Actor | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Gaunt character actor Brad Dourif was born Bradford Claude Dourif on March 18, 1950 in Huntington, West Virginia. He is the son of Joan Mavis Felton (Bradford) and Jean Henri Dourif, a French-born art collector who owned and operated a dye factory. His father died when Dourif was three years old, ...
The expriest, Tobin: He popped up briefly in my mind as Doc Lincoln too, but I think that was just a hangover from that Deadwood marathon back in undergrad...
5. Danny Trejo
Actor | Machete
Danny Trejo was born Dan Trejo in Echo Park, Los Angeles, to Alice (Rivera) and Dan Trejo, a construction worker. A child drug addict and criminal, Trejo was in and out of jail for 11 years. While serving time in San Quentin, he won the lightweight and welterweight boxing titles. Imprisoned for ...
Mangas Colorado.
6. Robert Duvall
Actor | The Apostle
Veteran actor and director Robert Selden Duvall was born on January 5, 1931, in San Diego, CA, to Mildred Virginia (Hart), an amateur actress, and William Howard Duvall, a career military officer who later became an admiral. Duvall majored in drama at Principia College (Elsah, IL), then served a ...
The Hermit: 'Bring ye bed, bring ye possibles.'
7. Ian McShane
Actor | Deadwood
A natural at portraying complex villains, anti-heroes, and charming heavies, Ian McShane is the classically trained, award-winning actor who has grabbed attention and acclaim from audiences and critics around the world with his unforgettable gallery of scoundrels, kings, mobsters and thugs.
And, now...
The Voice of Judge Holden: If only voice-over worked...
8. Fred Asparagus
Actor | Three Amigos!
Fred Asparagus was born on June 10, 1947 in Los Angeles County, California, USA. He was an actor, known for Three Amigos! (1986), Beverly Hills Cop III (1994) and Colors (1988). He was married to Sandy Acord. He died on June 30, 1998 in Panorama City, California, USA.
The Bartender: "My little buttercup!"
9. Alfonso Arau
Actor | Three Amigos!
Alfonso Arau has had a long and fruitful career both in front of and behind the camera and is one of the most prominent Latino film-makers in Hollywood. He was a drama disciple of Seki Sano--a Japanese teacher, classmate of Lee Strasberg with Konstantin Stanislavski in Russia--and traveled the ...
Governor Angel Trias of Chihuahua. El Guapo vindicated.
10. Robin Weigert
Actress | Deadwood
Robin Weigert is an American actress. She is primarily known for television roles, and was once nominated for a "Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series."
In 1969, Weigert was born in Washington D.C. Her family is of Jewish heritage. Her parents were the ...
The Kid: I'm dead serious. It worked for Mary Martin in 'Peter Pan' (1960); it could damn well work for the extraordinarily talented Robin Weigert as el hombre mas joven. 'You got something I could do for a couple of drinks I know damn good and well.'
11. Dayton Callie
Actor | Volcano
Dayton Callie was born on July 18, 1946 in Newark, New Jersey, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for Volcano (1997), To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar (1995) and Halloween II (2009).
Brown.
12. Matt Letscher
Actor | The Mask of Zorro
Matt Letscher attended the University of Michigan and received a BA in Theatre, but it was a pair of workshops with the legendary Uta Hagen that cemented his love of the craft. His career since has ranged from stage to screen, beginning with a role in Jeff Daniel's original play The Tropical Pickle...
Captain White. Just transport him from 'The Mask of Zorro.'
13. William Sanderson
Actor | Blade Runner
Prolific and versatile character actor William Sanderson was born on January 10, 1944, in Memphis, Tennessee. His mother was an elementary school teacher and his father was a landscape designer. William served two years in the US Army. Following his military service he attended Southern Methodist ...
The Reverend Green: Because a western just isn't a western without the talents of Mr. Sanderson.
14. Helena Humann
Actress | Problem Child
Helena Humann was born on February 8, 1942 in Dallas, Texas, USA. She was an actress, known for Problem Child (1990), Tender Mercies (1983) and The Last Picture Show (1971). She died on December 13, 1994 in Dallas, Texas, USA.
Sarah Borginnis: If the late Helena Humann (you may remember her as the widow Peach Johnson in Lonesome Dove) were still with us, who else would seem fit to fill the role of The Great Western? Whom else could lift the imbecile in her powerful arms and lead him to the waters? I have another actress in mind whose name I cannot recall, though her face is clear as day. Either way, having casted the matronly Ms. Borginnis as the emancipator of the idiot brings us to...
15. Matt Damon
Actor | Good Will Hunting
Matthew Paige Damon was born on October 8, 1970, in Boston, Massachusetts, to Kent Damon, a stockbroker, realtor and tax preparer, and Nancy Carlsson-Paige, an early childhood education professor at Lesley University. Matt has an older brother, Kyle, a sculptor. His father was of English and ...
...as the imbecile: Reading the role in Blood Meridian easily evokes Mr. Damon's appearance in Team America: World Police. However, it is hare-brained and juvenile comments in real life that make him a shoo-in for the role of a caged idiot who bathes in his own feces and later lets the judge walk him on a leash through the desert, naked.
16. Jerry Biggs
Actor | Lonesome Dove
Jerry Biggs was born on May 28, 1950 in McKinney, Texas, USA. He was an actor, known for Lonesome Dove (1989), Silverado (1985) and Tender Mercies (1983). He died on March 30, 2014 in Klondike, Texas, USA.
Brown: Since much of this fantasy cast is lifted from Lonesome Dove (1989), and the players imagined in their Blood Meridian roles much as they appeared in that miniseries, I pick Jerry Biggs because of his turn as Roy Suggs, one of the three brothers who partner up, and are eventually hanged, with Jake Spoon.
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