Toughest Man....?

Bet you didn't know this about Bronson

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Murphy is the toughest, IMO, but Charles Bronson sure looks the toughest as far as I can tell. He came up tough, too.
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Well, Bronson started out as a coal miner in Wilkes-Barre, PA, and that's a pretty darn tough life. But after that he was a Boardwalk Pitchman in Atlantic City, like Ed McMahon or Ron Popeil or Billy Mays. That's a job that requires stamina and coglioni, but it can hardly be described as "tough".

Old-timers who worked with him say he smiled at everybody, which is de rigueur for the job, but not how we think of Bronson today. But I'll bet when he said, "Stand still and listen", the people stood still and listened, By Golly!

BTW, Jack Klugman and Robt. Redford also worked on the Boardwalk at about the same time.
 
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The Duke, Clint, Bruce, Chuck, Sylvester, Dolf, ase some of my favorite tough guys but Arnold has to be numero uno. He's used about every weapon know to mankind. Rumor has it he'll be back.
 
I'd have to go with Clint, and whatever he's carrying at the time.

My fave tough guy scene is Greeley's at the end of

"Unforgiven"--"He should have armed himself when he

decorated his saloon with my friend."--truly epic...

(although I do like the Deagle)
 
Forgotten real-life hero (and a crack shot with a 1911)

With all these well-deserved mentions of real-life military hero Audie Murphy, it would seem that a person who is conspicuous in his absence is Alvin C. York.
 
R U Kidding?

Das Guy:
Tom Cruise as Vincent in the movie "Collateral" with the H&K USP .45.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmKR6evZRQQ

Need I say more?
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Uh, excuse me. You're not serious, Right?

I don't care what kind of gun he's got in his hand, or what he's depicted as doing; to even mention Tom Cruise in the context of "Toughest Man...", ya gotta be inhabiting a different reality.

About the only thing worse I can think of is the proposed Hollywood re-make of "Have Gun, Will Travel": the actor proposed to play "Paladin"? Johnny Depp! Gimme a break!

No wonder our culture is in such deep doo-doo; we don't even know what a genuine tough guy is anymore. All day long I see guys who don't have the upper body strength to open a jar of mayonnaise, but they've got "barbed wire" tattoos circling what passes for their biceps! I don't know whether to laugh or weep.
 
Audie Murphy is for sure a bad mother on the screen, and an |American Hero, but, I have to give it up to Jack Palance, now he was badass in everything, including City Slickers. Honorable mention to Chloe Moretz as Hit Girl in Kick Ass,
 
Tough guys

The Winchester brothers in Supernatural with their nickel plated springfield 1911 and Taurus PT92.

+1 on Jack Bauer - he just won't die.

+1 on Tom Cruise in Collateral. That homie in the alley scene is just great.
 
TV, not movie, but Avery Brooks as "Hawk" on "Spenser for Hire" was a mean mother, and stylish. His Python and M29 were also tough.
 
We've run that collateral scenario a few times at matches and IIRC, 30% of the shooters could beat Cruise's time.

Nyah, Nyah. My wife and I watched it and I said that I could do that. She said but you don't look like Tom Cruise. Well, that's true. :D

She does think he is a jerk, though.
 
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