Rod Steiger

An Academy® Award winner for 1967′s, In the Heat of the Night, Rod Steiger appeared in several memorable Westerns throughout his career including Rogers and Hammersteins’ Oklahoma!, Jubal (with Glenn Ford), Run of the Arrow, Duck You Sucker! (with James Coburn) and A Fistful of Dynamite. Steiger’s best performances often echoed the contemporary Big City, co-starring Marlon Brando in On the Waterfront, stunning audiences as The Pawnbroker and appearing with Sylvester Stallone in The Specialist. In all, Mr. Steiger appeared in over 100 feature films with roles as diverse as Al Capone, Benito Mussolini, Pontius Pilate, and as the title character in the original television broadcast of Marty. Suffering pneumonia and kidney failure, Mr. Steiger passed away on July 9, 2002.

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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.