Willis B. Bouchey
Bio: Authoritative, sandy-haired character actor Willis Bouchey abandoned a busy Broadway career in 1951 to try his luck in films. Bouchey's striking resemblance to Dwight D. Eisenhower enabled him to play roles calling for quick decisiveness and unquestioned leadership; he even showed up as the President of the United States in 1952's Red Planet Mars, one year before… More Bio: Authoritative, sandy-haired character actor Willis Bouchey abandoned a busy Broadway career in 1951 to try his luck in films. Bouchey's striking resemblance to Dwight D. Eisenhower enabled him to play roles calling for quick decisiveness and unquestioned leadership; he even showed up as the President of the United States in 1952's Red Planet Mars, one year before the "real" Ike ascended to that office. The actor's many judge, executive, military, and town-marshal characterizations could also convey weakness and vacillation, but for the most part there was no question who was in charge when Bouchey was on the scene. A loyal and steadfast member of the John Ford stock company, Willis Bouchey was seen in such Ford productions as The Long Gray Line (1955), The Last Hurrah (1958), Sergeant Rutledge (1960), Two Rode Together (1961), The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962), and Cheyenne Autumn (1962). ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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Filmography
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Support Your Local Gunfighter (1971)
- McLaglen
- 64%
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Dirty Dingus Magee (1970)
- Ira Teasdale
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Young Billy Young (1969)
- Doc Cushman
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The Love God? (1969)
- Judge Claypool
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Support Your Local Sheriff (1969)
- Thomas Devery
- 64%
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Willis B. Bouchey Videos
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence
1 minutes 2 seconds
The Horse Soldiers
3 minutes 39 seconds
Support Your Local Sheriff
1 minutes 13 seconds
Cheyenne Autumn
1 minutes 56 seconds
Panic In Year Zero
2 minutes 23 seconds
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