Guy Stockwell

A multi-talented actor and teacher who taught in the UCLA Masters Program for two years, Guy Stockwell was a familiar face on dozens of television Westerns including Gunsmoke, The Virginian, The Wild ,Wild West, Lancer, and Wagon Train. In a fine episode of Bonanza, entitled “Invention of a Gunfighter”, Guy played Johnny Chapman, who after finally learning how to shoot, turns bounty hunter and even against his friend and mentor Joe Cartwright.

He also starred as Buffalo bill Cody in the 1955 remake of The Plainsman and starred as Zorro in a 1963 Spanish production, The Three Swords of Zorro. The older brother of actor Dean Stockwell, Guy passed away on February 6, 2002 in Prescott, Arizona.

Wildest Westerns Magazine Awards!

Western film and television shows helped shape the moral values of many people in this country. Children grew up watching Gene Autry, Roy Rogers, The Lone Ranger, and many other heroes of the silver screen following the "Code of the West." The battle of wrong vs. right was the theme of virtually every Western movie and television show, and the right always prevailed.

Wildest Westerns is a Western magazine that is dedicated to revisiting those "thrilling tales of yesteryear" in the articles, interviews, reviews, and photos on our magazine pages. Some of America's most respected and remembered heroes and villains came from these Western genres. It is our hope that this Western magazine will awaken the memories in your heart, and also help bring to light the values of the Western to those who didn't have the benefit of knowing these wonderful heroes and villains. We will always remember them, and would like to say "Thank You" to all the actors, actresses, directors, producers, studios, and all the unsung heroes behind the scenes that brought us the Western.