Sadly, almost all actors from this film are now deceased. I can think only of Russ Tamblyn still with us. On the other hand, several ladies are still around and kicking: Miss Reynolds and Miss Baker are here. Whom did I forget?
shareEli Wallach (Gant) is still alive. I was thinking about this the other day too.
"I'm in such bad shape, I'm wearing prescription underwear." Phyllis Diller 1917-2012
It was made over fifty years ago, so it's not really surprising. Eli Wallach is amazing - loved his cameo role in The Holiday. Apart from Clint Eastwood and Kirk Douglas, he must be about one of the few action movie stars from that era still alive.
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Harry Dean Stanton is alive as well.
shareQuestion; Which character does Harry Dean Stanton play ? Or is he an extra ? Remember, this film was made between mid 1961 and late 1962; and then released in 1963. How old is he now and how old was he then ? Was he working in Hollywood then ? Or, was he working on the stage ?
shareWow I never knew he was in it. A quick check here on IMDB says that he was one of the Gant gang and uncredited. Thank you for that interesting bit of movie history.
shareKim Charney, who plays Karl Malden's son and winds up with a broken leg, is a doctor in Orange County.
Stanley Livingston, who plays one of George Peppard's sons, was just at the Mid-Atlantic Nostalgia show with his brother Barry.
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Sadly, almost all actors from this film are now deceased. I can think only of Russ Tamblyn still with us. On the other hand, several ladies are still around and kicking: Miss Reynolds and Miss Baker are here. Whom did I forget?
I see that some of the chlld and teenage actors are stil alive, which isn't too unlikely.
IMDB lists what seems like hundreds of uncredited actors in the "Full Cast & Crew" secton of the page on How the Wast Was Won. I assume that the IMDB has some accurate method of identifying those uncredited actors.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056085/fullcredits/?ref_=tt_cl_sm
Byran Russell (1952-2016) 63 years old, as Zeke Prescott.
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0751050/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t85
Herbert Maneval born 1946, as Schoolboy.
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6652895/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t62
Stanley Livingston b. 1950, as Prescott Rawlings
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0515301/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t61
Claude Johnson (1938-2009) age 71 as Jemimah Rawlings
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0424804/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t56
Kim Charney b. 1945 as Sam Prescott
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0153368/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t40
And posibly some others since I didn't check all the actors.
does Harry Dean Stanton play"
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He was one of GAnt's /Wallach gang. He doesn't have a line. That went to great Mexican character actor Rodolfo Acosta. He said "Rollins."
Harry Dean Stanton is listed as "Gant Henchman (uncredited)" in IMDB.
That means he was not listed as an actor in either opening or closing credits. So IMDB must have other sources of information about the countless thousands of uncredited actors and extras they list for various movies.
I am assuming that they have accurate sources of some types for their lists of uncredited performers.
I note that the child and teenage actors who I list as still alive, Herbert Maneval, Stanley Livingston, and Kim Charney, are all in the section of uncredited actors listed alphabetically, like Harry Dean Stanton.
Harry Dean Stanton is listed as born July 14, 1926 and died September 15, 2017 age 91 so he is no longer a living actor.
I just checked the list of credited actors in IMDB. Those without death dates include Carroll Baker, May 28, 1931 and Russ Tamblyn, Dec. 30, 1934.
The people without death dates in the list of uncredited actors include Robert Banas Sept. 22, 1933; Kim Charney Aug. 2, 1945: Ben Black Elk, Sr. (who is probably dead by now); Barry Harvey (who is probably dead by now); Stanley Livingston Nov. 24, 1950: Herbert Maneval July, 1946; Jim Michael (iv) (who is probably dead by now); Red Perkins b. August 18, 1920 (who would be 101 if he is actually still alive); Jamie Ross May 4, 1939; and William Wellman Jr. Jan. 20, 1937.
Ben Black Elk Sr. is dead: https://www.sdhspress.com/journal/south-dakota-history-14-1/dakota-images-benjamin-black-elk/vol-14-no-1-dakota-images-benjamin-black-elk.pdf
More actors have died in the last 9 years or so.
My reply dated Nov. 7, 2021 lists the actors without death dates in the Internet Movie Database (IMDB)