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The cowman outlawDoc Holidayhas been played by dozens of famous worker in Western movies and boob tube series over the last 100 year of filmmaking . The dentist , gunfighter , and gambler Holliday has appeared in Western movies and show since the earliest days of American cinema and has been a mainstay in the Western musical style for decades due toHolliday ’s longstanding association with the Wild West peace officer Wyatt Earp . From classic Western adventures , clap films by directors like John Ford , and even supernatural television series , Holliday has been one of the Western musical genre ' most enduring literal - life role .
As an outlaw best know for his involvement in the notorious Gunfight at the O.K. Corral , Holliday had a reputation for killing dozens of men and has been portray as a barbarous and unpredictable gun for hire by everyone from Adam West to Val Kilmer . With iconic appearing inTombstoneand the repulsion seriesWynonna Earp , the popularity of Holliday as a westerly anti - hero has never falter as he keep on to appear across westerly media for generation . Through a mixture of real account and fictional mythmaking , the famed actors who played Holiday have transformed him into an icon of the Wild West .
Tombstone is full of memorable cinematic moments , not least of which are Doc Holliday ’s infinitely repeatable one - liners .
10Harvey Clark
Law for Tombstone (1937)
Clark played Holliday inLaw for Tombstone .
In one of the earlier portrays of the tooth doctor and outlaw Doc Holliday on photographic film he was portray by prolific Hollywood role player Harvey Clark . In one of his final roles , Clark play Holliday inLaw for Tombstone , a Buck Jones - led Western movie that follow a string of gold shipment robberies during the Old West earned run average of stagecoaches and buckboards . Clark was a mainstay of former American film and seem in more than 200 moving-picture show between 1915 and 1938 andLaw for Tombstoneacted as a meet swansong to Clark ’s acclaimed career .
9Victor Mature
My Darling Clementine (1946)
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My Darling Clementinewas directed byiconic Western filmmaker John Fordand have Victor Mature as the ill-famed Doc Holliday . A classic Western that explore the wind - up to the gunfight at the O.K. Corral , My Darling Clementinestarred Henry Ford as Holliday ’s associate and close booster Wyatt Earp . Mature was a major leading man in Hollywood during the 1940s and 1950s and led fantasy movies likeOne Million B.C.and celluloid noirs likeKiss of Death . MyDarling Clementinewas an crucial movie that endure as former President Harry Truman ’s favored film of all prison term ( viaEW . )
8James Griffith
Masterson of Kansas (1954)
Masterson of Kansanfocused on three Wild West gun coming together with James Griffith as Doc Holliday , Bruce Cowling as the lawman Wyatt Earp , and George Montgomery as the cowboy Bat Masterson . A classicWestern squad - up flick , Masterson of Kansassaw the ill-famed gunmen protecting a land exchangebetween an true ranger and an Indian chief from a hunched land baron . Griffith was a illustrious character actor who also play other veridical - spirit public figure of the Wild West such as Pat Garrett in TheLaw vs. Billy the Kidand John Wesley Hardin in an episode ofMaverickwith Clint Eastwood .
7Kirk Douglas
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957)
As one of the greatest stars of the classical Hollywood era , it ’s no surprisal that Kirk Douglas had also harness the role of Doc Holliday as in between classic parts in Stanley Kubrick’sPaths of GloryandSpartacushe also made time for a star role inGunfight at the O.K. Corral . conjoin by other major histrion such as Burt Lancaster as Wyatt Earp and Lee Van Cleef as Ed Bailey , Gunfight at the O.K. Corralwas wizard - constellate and made more impressive through strong counsel by John Sturges . An enjoyable westerly , Douglas shined in the meaty role as Holliday .
6Adam West
Lawman, Sugarfoot, and Colt .45 (1959)
Before he donned the case of the Caped Crusader and became Batman in the 1960s campy television serial publication , Adam West played the notorious gunman Doc Holliday on no less than three telecasting series in 1959 . First West was Doc onLawman , Episode 37 “ The Wayfarer ” , which was a Western serial about Marshal Dan Troop and his lieutenant Johnny McKay . Next , West showed up as Holliday on theSugarfootthird time of year premiere episode “ Trial of the Canary Kid . ” Finally , with a chance of always being typecast as Doc , West encounter Holliday onColt . 45Season 3 , Episode 3 “ The Devil ’s Godson . ”
5Martin Landau
Tales of Wells Fargo: Season 3, Episode 34 “Doc Holiday” (1959)
Martin Landau was cognize for roles in Alfred Hitchcock’sNorth by Northwest , television series likeMission : unimaginable , and later in his career an hail functioning as Bela Lugosi in Tim Burton’sEd Wood . Among all these extol roles , Landau also played Doc Holliday in theTales of Well Fargotelevision serial publication in 1959 . An gratifying instalment about a stage holdup that Jim Hardie ’s wife Amy believed Doc staged , Doc ’s episode ofTales of Wells Fargowas a fictional westerly closing that used to legacy of Holliday ’s life in a 30 - minute farce which showcased Landau ’s star powerfulness at the time .
4Willie Nelson
Stagecoach (1986)
The country medicine supergroup The Highwaymen transferred their skills to the world of moving-picture show for the made - for - television filmStagecoach , which asterisk Willie Nelson as Doc Holiday . With a underpin cast of other rural area medicine stars Kris Kristofferson as Ringo Kid , Johnny Cash as Marshal Curly Wilcox , and Waylon Jennings as Hatfield , Stagecoachwas a star - studded remake that sadly could not live up to the original 1939 edition ofStagecoach , which was a westerly classic . Interestingly , the real crook Doc Holliday was added to this remakeas the original instead featured the fictional character of Doc Boone .
3Val Kilmer
Tombstone (1993)
Perhaps the most well - known portrayal of Doc Holliday was by Val Kilmer in the cult classic Western movieTombstone . Kilmer starred opposite Kurt Russell as Wyatt Earp , and utterly captured the hard - drinking dentist in a performanceRoger Ebertcalled “ the authoritative saloon cowboy of our meter . ”Kilmer steal every setting he was in with memorable one - linersand helped cement the repute ofTombstoneas one of the most underrated Western moving-picture show ever . WhileTombstonewas a modest winner when it was released in 1993 , Kilmer ’s take on Holliday received universal acclaim and stood as one ofKilmer ’s very best performances .
“ The definitive saloon cowboy of our meter . ”
2Dennis Quaid
Wyatt Earp (1994)
After the impressive spectacle ofTombstone , the epic biographic WesternWyatt Earpwas released just six month later and disappointingly it paled in comparability . With Dennis Quaid as Doc Holliday and Kevin Costner as Wyatt Earp , despite the stunning product values ofWyatt Earpit was overlong , andQuaid ’s functioning lack the unpredictable snack of Val Kilmer in the same rolejust month before . regrettably , despite the grand ambition ofWyatt Earpit dealt with an often - retold narrative and miss the alone position to make the story of Earp and Holiday compelling enough for a more than three - 60 minutes - long motion picture .
1Tim Rozon
Wynonna Earp (2016 – 2021)
The westerly horror seriesWynonna Earpprovided a unique take on the legacy of Doc Holliday , as the big - granddaughter of Wyatt Earp bump Doc still living in the mod - day after he was maledict with immortality by the Stone Witch . Tim Rozon gave a fiercely committed carrying out as Doc , the immortal gun fighting by Wynonna ’s side in the Syfy telecasting series based on comic books by Beau Smith . An interesting take on the legend of Holliday , the supernatural element ofWynonna Earpallowed the series to deviate from the historicalDoc Hollidayand play with the character in new and exciting way .
Sources : EW , Roger Ebert
