Characters and Roles

Other Figures To The West

 

English Version: Jan 10th, 2025

 

Contents

 

In The West

Further Roles And Actors

 

 

In The West

 

Sam Trump

Description

Actor and theater manager in St. Louis

Actor

Peter O'Toole

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Episode 13, scene 12, 40

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The theater manager and - in his own oppinion - best actor on his stage is addicted to alcohol and doesn't hold back telling Willa Parker that he not only wants her as an actress but also for bookkeeping and keeping him to get drunk too much.

Peter O'Toole, * 02.08.1932 in Connemara, IRL, theatric roles in England, film and tv since 1954, + 14.12.2013 (81) in St. John's Wood, London, GB on stomach cancer

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Rosa

Description

Brothel madame in Santa Fe

Actress

Ruby Nelda Perez

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Luis

Description

Rosa's brother-in-law in Santa Fe, dies in 1865 (shot by Ashton)

Actor

Frank Pesce

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Mexican Rosa and her brother-in-law run a primitive brothel in Santa Fe, New Mexico Territory, where sunken deep Ashton has to serve as whore after the war. When Will Fenway gets to he a customer of hers, she can escape, rob some of Rosa's gold and shoot Luis.

Ruby Nelda Perez

Frank Pesce

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Adolphus O. Jackson

Description

Indian trader, dies in 1866 (ambushed by Indians)

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Rip Torn

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Jim

Description

Jackson's nephew, dies in 1866 (ambushed by Indians)

Actor

Chris Burke

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The headstrong Indian trader saves Charles from beaten to death by Captain Venable and his fellows in St. Louis and takes him out to the prairie. There, Charles learns a lot on Indians by Jackson and the mentally weak boy Jim. They both get brutally killed in an ambush by revengeful warrier "Scar".

Rip Torn, * 06.02.1931 in Temple, TX as Elmore Rual Torn, farmer, then small tv roles, 1962 on actor's school, + 09.07.2019 (88) in Lakeville, CT on complications with Alzheimers

Chris Burke

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"Scar"

Description

Cherokee Indian

Actor

Gregory Zaragoza

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Episode 13, scene 46, (47)

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Jackson, Jim and Charles have to use a ruse to escape from the young hateful and marked-up by a scar over his face Indian "Watchful Warrior", called "Scar" by the Whites, but the warrior later takes brutal revenge for this. In a duel, Charles comqueres the Indian, but then heals his wounds. The quid pro quo, as neccesary by the rules of honor, was that "Scar" scouted and showed Charles and George the way to Elkanah Bent's hiding place to rescue Charles' son.

Gregory Zaragoza, * 23.08.1954 in San Jose, CA

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Half Bear

Description

Cherokee medicine man, dies in 1866 (massacred by the army),

Actor

Moses Starr

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Running Wolf

Description

Cherokee Chief, dies in 1866 (massacred by the army)

Actor

Ted Thin Elk

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Chief Running Wolf and the medicine man Half Bear provide shelter for Jackson and Charles against "Scar". Later, they were massacred with their whole village despite Charles' warnings.

Moses Starr, Southern Cneyenne from Oklahoma

Ted Thin Elk, * 14.08.1919, Sicuangu Lakota Sioux, mostly in Rosebud Sioux Reservation, SD, first role with 72 years at "Thunderheart", + 27.01.1997 (77)

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Eric

Description

Realestate broker, Chicago

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When Ashton regained weath by Willl Fenway's piano business, she looks out for a suitable estate in St. Louis. Broker Eric gets charmed up by Ashton to deliver some delicate social informations to her.

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(woman on the farm)

Description

Woman on a farm in Illinois

Actress

Jill Parker Jones

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Sophie (girl on the farm)

Description

Girl on a farm in Illinois

Actress

Stephanie Wing

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(buffalo hunter's wife)

Description

Woman in Indian Territory

Actress

Jennifer Griffin

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In disguise as a moving dealer, Elkanah Bent lures young Sophie, daughter to a lonesome farm in Illinois, into the barn and abuses her.

Later on, the wife of a buffalo hunter in Indian Territory provides Bent and Gus a meal, but soon gets suspicious and chaches them off her property agaun.

Jill Parker Jones

Stephanie Wing

Jennifer Griffin

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Mr. Thurlow

Description

Cashier for Sam Trump

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Tom Todoroff

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Der Kassierer Mr. Thurlow weigert sich zunächst, Charles Theaterkarten für Farbige zu verkaufen. Erst als Charles Sam Trump konfrontiert, ändert sich diese Haltung

Tom Todoroff

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Septimus Glynn

Description

Local Dealer, died 1866 (killed by Bent)

Actor

Jerry Biggs

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Green Grass Woman

Description

Indian Woman

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Lusheia Sudon Lenaburg

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Greasy settler Glynn runs a trading post in Indian Territory and keeps Indian woman "Green Grass Woman" for himself and as hure. When Bent arrives and sets the stage for his final revenge to Charles, he kills Glynn and takes his place at the post.

Jerry Biggs

Lusheia Sudon Lenaburg

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Further Roles And Actors

 

episode, character name, actor

2 - a medic in Mexico - Drew Deighan

4-6 - a slave - Alveda King Beale

5 - a passenger at Harpers Ferry - Mac McClennahan

5 - Oliver, at Harper's Ferry - Michael McHugh

6 - a pedestrian, calls on Billy in the streets - Norman Bennett

6 - pastor at Billy and Brett's wedding - (unknown)

7 - General Scott - Lee Anthony (unknown where appearing)

8+10 - Lt. Roberts - Lloyd Alan

8 - Lt. Hurt - David Braselmann

9 - black gospel singer - Francis Strickland

10 - Tim - George De La Pena

10+14 - a major  arry Northup

12 - a sergeant, US camp - James Walsh

13 - front singer - Len Hunt

13 - Ashton's customer 1 - Clay Boss

13 - waiter - James Jernigan

13 - fellow officer 1 - Clay Boss

13 - fellow officer 2 - Lonnie Nelson

13 - fellow officer 3 - Jeff Schwan

13 - Ashton's customer 2 - Ron Douglas

13 - guardsman - Vince Davis

13 - buffalo hunter - Nik Hagler

13+15 - Beaufort - Brad Leland

13 - a veteran - Jimmy Ray Pickens

14 - an old man - Wayne Dehart

14 - telegram messenger - George Haynes

14 - Senator Stephens - Elbert Lewis

14 - Wesley - Marcus M. Mauldin

14 - colored convent speaker - Maurice Scott

14 - Anthony - (unknown)

14 - factory worker - Jim C. Thomas

15 - saloon waiter - Gil Glasgow

15 - agent - Richard Folmer

15 - Beecham - Brandon Smith

 

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