Whatever Happened to The Cast of "Lonesome Dove"? Part 1 (Jerry Skinner Documentary)

so in 1985 writer and author larry mcmurtry wrote the pulitzer prize winning western novel lonesome dove there was plans to make a movie with john wayne jimmy stewart and henry fonda as its stars the film was never made after john ford advised wayne against it however in 1989 the novel was made into a four-part mini-series for television and the original broadcast of lonesome dove was on cbs for four nights from february the 5th through february the 8th lonesome dub was directed by simon winger his first job was to find the right actors for the two major characters captain woodrow f calm and captain augustus gus mcrae two famous retired texas rangers who were co-owners of the hat creek cattle company and livery euporum in lonesome dove texas located on the banks of the rio grande the character captain woodrow call was described as largely a silent leader of men who believed in discipline duty and honor the author described woodrow call as being stoic it's been said that charles bronson was offered a roll of woodrow but declined james garner also offered a leading role but said that he was unable for health reasons to set a horse for 16 weeks tommy lee jones who ended up playing captain call was first scheduled to play augustus mcrae and robert duvall was scheduled to play woodrow call until deval who was a bigger star at the time read the script and decided that he would make a better augustus mcrae now it was a wise decision for both actors lonesome dub was tommy lee jones's first western but he was a natural from his texas roots he is now after his role as woodrow a member of the texas cowboy hall of fame tommy was able to perform all his own stunts as captain cole because he grew up as an eighth generation texan that loved horses tommy lee jones was born on september the 15th 1946 in seba texas about 150 miles northwest of austin where he still owns a ranch tommy and his third wife don laura whom he met on the set of the good old boys in 1996 while she was working as a photographer on the film they married on the 19th of march 2001 and made their home at 330 elizabeth road terrell hills it's a subdivision of san antonio tommy's parents was clyde c jones and lucille scott jones clyde worked the oil fields as an oil rigger and lucille owned a beauty shop was a teacher and later worked for the mental health and retardation department clyde moved his family to midland the heart of the oil business when tommy was still a youngster tommy started grade school in midland and he will go on to attend robert e lee high school the same school that laurel welch attended who will become the future first lady laura bush while attending lehigh tommy received a scholarship to a prestigious prep high school for boys in dallas saint mark's school of texas while at saint mark's his dad took a job overseas in libya to work the oil fields tommy stayed in school at saint mark's where he earned a football scholarship this time to harvard university at harvard he played on the 1968 winning football team as offensive guard he'll earn a b.a degree in english literature and graduate come lata in 1969. while attending harvard he will become roommates and friends with the future vice president of the united states al gore in 2000 tommy gave the nominating speech at the democratic national convention for al gore's presidential run at 6 1 and 200 pounds he was still too slight of frame to make it in the national football league he decided to go to new york city and try acting now tommy had performed in a number of school productions at harvard so with the help of actress jane alexander he was able to find an agent and a part in a broadway play a patriot for me starring maximilian shell it will run for 49 performances before closing after that things move fast for jones he landed a small but significant part in the movie love story that starred aly mcgraw and ryan o'neal tommy played hank ryan o'neal's harvard roommate he was perfect for the part as he had just graduated from harvard the filming on location at harvard caused so much damage to the campus they stopped allowing movies to be made on university grounds now the next year tommy lee played dr mark tollard on the tv soap opera one life to live while performing on the soap tommy met and become friends with fellow actor tom barringer jones will be on one life to live from 1971 until 1975. now here he is in a wedding scene with actress lee warwick without ever taking a professional acting class while working on one life to live tommy will meet and marry actress kathleen kate lardner on 31 december 1971 they'll remain in new york until 1975 when tommy leaves one life to live and he and kate will head for california he will gain several parts on tv shows such as charlie's angels in 1976. also in 1976 jones will appear with yvette mimew in a crime thriller jackson county jail the next year he will become movie mogul and philanthropy howard hughes in the amazing howard hughes for television the studio had first asked warren beatty but they was unable to make a deal with him the next year on the 9th of february 1978 after six years of marriage tommy lee and kate lardner divorced two years after his divorce from kate tommy will star in cole miner's daughter in 1980 the life story of country music singer loretta lynn [ __ ] spacek will play the part of loretta and jones will play her husband doolittle for which jones will receive a golden globe nomination when tommy was asked what did doolittle think of him playing his part tommy said he didn't think i looked good enough the story circulated that doolittle didn't like tommy lee at first but after tommy rented a jeep got drunk drove through the front yard caulked by the cops and beat up do little acting after that of course it didn't happen but everyone believed that tommy was actually capable of it next it'll be black roads with sally fields about a prostitute and a drifter finding themselves bound together trying to survive while traveling through the rural south during filming tommy met kimberly clowley who was serving as an extra on the film kimberly lac jones was from texas her dad had actually been at one time the mayor of san anton tommy married kimberly clowley on may the 30th 1981. one year and five months later the joneses will have a son austin leonard jones on 9 november 1982 at the age of 4 in 1986 austin will be at his first film playing the son of his dead in a true life story of russian spy yuri nasinko who defected to the west at the height of the cold war and in the movie scene 2 double image austin will go on to become an actor and composer three years after double image in 1989 tommy lee jones will play captain woodrow f call in lonesome dove what some believe to be the best epic western miniseries on television two years after lonesome dove tommy and kimberly will have a daughter victoria kafka jones born september the 3rd 1991 in san antonio she'll become an excellent actress playing in several of her dad's movies four years after lonesome dove tommy will go on to receive four nominations for the academy award and he will receive the oscar for best supporting actor for his part as u.s marshal samuel gerard in the fugitive along with a golden globe tommy is an avid polo player playing on a championship team now the actor was once knocked unconscious and spent the night in a houston hospital after his horse stumbled in 1995 jones first met don laurel while making the good old boys she was serving as an assistant camera person tommy will write as well as star and direct this drama western adventure also starting with [ __ ] spacek and matt damon on the 23rd of march 1996 kimberly clawley and tommy lee jones will divorce after two kids and 15 years of marriage five years after his divorce from kimberly tommy will marry dawn laura on the 9th of march 2001 in a private ceremony in texas in the following years jones will star in several outstanding movies such as us marshall men in black batman the horseman space cowboys the missing and several others his star is on the hollywood walk of fame located at 6925 hollywood boulevard tommy lee jones is still acting and going strong with better things to come [Music] the author of lonesome dove described the character of captain augustus gus mcrae has been a lazy chrismatic rake with a fondness for alcohol gambling and [ __ ] he is nonetheless a brave and competent fighter when required robert duvall said he read the book lonesome dove within 10 days and said his ex-wife told him you must play augustus mcrae and don't let him talk you into playing anybody else duvall said his agent also handled james garner and the studio wanted garner for gus mcrae he said he told his agent now if you can get garner to switch and play captain call then i will play mcrae his agent called and said james has declined his role for medical conditions he is unable to sit on a horse for all those weeks robert seldom duvall was born on january the 5th 1931 in the navy town of san diego california duvall always said he grew up as a navy brat his parents was william howard duvall and mildred virginia hart his dad william was a navy officer that started his career at the naval academy in annapolis maryland and retired as a rear admiral as a navy officer his family moved often robert's mother mildred was an amateur actress and navy wife robert had one older brother william and one younger brother john they will both later try their hand at acting they will appear as singers in the 1983 film written and directed by robert angelo my love older brother william also taught music at the university of wisconsin for several years and john became an attorney robert or bob as he was called attended severn school in siverna park maryland seaburn was established in 1914 as a preparatory school for the united states naval academy grades 1 through 12. after graduating from high school duvall enrolled in principal college in elsi illinois in 1953 he will graduate with a bachelor of arts degree on august the 9th that same year robert will be drafted into the army he had been groomed to follow in his dad's footsteps as a naval officer but robert had fell in love with acting while in college while he was stationed at camp gordon he acted in plays such as room service after two years when his enlistment was up private first class duvall headed to new york to try acting he enrolled in the neighborhood playhouse school of theater in 1955 on the gi bill he roomed with other classmates such as dustin hoffman and gene hackman he supported himself by working the register at macy's driving a truck and six months sword and mayo at a manhattan post office robert's acting coach sanford merzner helped him get a part in a play the midnight collar by horton foote he will continue performing in place for the next few years in 1956 he'll get an unaccredited role as a military policeman in the movie somebody up there likes me that stars paul newman about the life of heavyweight boxing champion rocky graciano duvall will actually begin his film career in 1962 when screenwriter horton foote remembered him from the play midnight caller and recommended him for the part of a mentally disturbed character beau radley in the movie to kill a mockingbird that starred gregory peck in march of 1962 while filming to kill a mockingbird robert met barbara benjamin she was a dancer on the jacket gleason show and an actress on several tv shows it'll be two years later on december the 31st 1964 that robert and barbara will marry barbara had two daughters susan and nancy from a previous marriage in 1969 duvall will play outlaw ned pepper in true crit with john wayne glenn campbell and kim darby who can forget the scene where marshall rooster cogburn john wayne says to ned pepper's gang i mean to cue you in one minute ned or see you hang in fort smith at judge parker's convenience which will it be then pepper responds i call that bold talk for a one-eyed fat man then the marshal says fill your hands you son of a [ __ ] now within a year in 1970 robert will become the first major frank burns in the movie mash two years later in 1972 robert duvall will be in a major movie with a major part as tom hagan lawyer for the mob in the godfather he'll receive his first oscar nomination in 1974 he'll continue his part as tom hagan and godfather part two one year after godfather part two in 1975 robert and barbara benjamin divorced after almost 11 years of marriage four years later after his divorce from barbara duvall will star in two major movies first it'll be apocalypse now with marlon brando who played colonel walter e kurtz whom the brass thought had gone rogue and completely insane fighting his own war in vietnam and cambodia marlon showed up on the set without ever reading the script he was overweight so much that they had to film him in shadows martin sheen played captain benjamin willard who was sent by command to find and eliminate colonel kirks sheen had a nervous breakdown and a heart attack while filming apocalypse now robert duvall played lieutenant colonel bill kilgore commander of a helicopter calvary group one of his most recognized lines as lieutenant colonel kilgore was i love the smell of mapalm in the morning duvall will get his second nomination for an oscar for his portrayal of lieutenant colonel kilgore also in 1979 robert will star in the great cintini with bly danner playing the wife of lieutenant colonel wilbur bull meacham a fighter pilot known by his fellow marines as the great santini in the book meacham flew a f-8 crusader while in the movie he flies a f-4 phantom duvall plays a hard-nosed marine that treats his family like new recruits on the 22nd of august 1982 robert duvall marries actress gail mclaughlin youngs at boothbay harbor maine gail said she first met robert or bobby in 1977 when he was in a broadway play with her brother john savage american buffalo she fell in love with him and they finally got together in january 1981. at the time gail was 26 and robert was 50. she said at that time bobby was interested in making a movie about a little gypsy boy named angelo evans the movie dealt with the secret gypsy clans living in new york city robert wrote and produced the movie angelo my love with gail as associate producer duvall used his own money and had to take a break during film and angelo to do db cooper in order to make enough money to finish angelo my love duvall's two brothers william and john will appear in the movie as opera singers gail said duvall stayed in touch with angelo after the film she said that angelo can't read or write but he loves himself in the movies gail described bobby as being a troubled soul driven by his need for perfection it must have paid off for him because one year after mary and gayle duvall will win the oscar for best actor in tinder mercies with tess harper about a drunk broken down country singer getting a new wife and reaching out to his long-lost daughter which gives him inspiration to renew his career some say it was devol's best performance the next year on february the 14th 1984 robert will lose his 80 year old dad admiral william howard duvall within a year on march 11 1985 he will also lose his 80 year old mother mildred and on december 30th 1986 robert duvall and gail young will divorce after three years of marriage it's been said she wanted to go back into acting and he thought that she should stay home and be a wife while still married to gail young she read a book in 1985 lonesome dove and told her husband bobby if that ever becomes a movie you play augustus mcrae don't let them talk you into play in any other part he took her advice and said that he was grateful duvall said lonesome dove just goes on and on everybody wants to talk to me about lonesome dove from albuquerque canada to texas to argentina duvall received a nomination for his role in lonesome dove and many think that he should have received the academy award robert said the award is political it's a popularity contest now after finishing lonesome dove he said i can retire now i've finally done something that i can be proud of it may be my favorite role lonesome dove on may the first 1991 he'll marry sharon brophy a professional dance instructor they'll stay married four years until 1996. during their marriage robert will learn to love the dance especially the tango after that he'll star in several movies such as starlin where he plays joseph starlin and wins an emmy nomination and golden globe and then it'll be the apostle after a life spent out of control a preacher from louisiana leaves everything and goes to texas and starts preaching on the radio next it'll be open range with kevin kosner where a former gunslinger is forced to take up arms again when threatened by outlaws during filming duvall accidentally falls off his horse and fractures several ribs although he's an excellent horseman in 1996 he goes to argentina to make the man who captured ackman again he'll win an emmy nomination while in buenos aires he will patronize tango clubs even hiring tango instructors to come back to his farm in rancho virginia he considers argentina his second home and the tango his first love that is until he met 24 year old luciano pedruz in 1997 while in buenos aires looking for a flower shop that had closed he decided to go instead to a nearby bakery where he met luciana who had been prompted to ask him to come to a store opening that sold tango accessories she gave him her phone number and to her surprise he called her the next morning inviting her to go to dance at a local tango club they both loved the tango and in 2002 they teamed up in a movie assassination tango most of the movie was shot in buenos aires about an assassin that was sent to argentina to assassinate a general and falls in love with a tango and a beautiful woman in 2004 on october the 6th 32 year old luciana prodrews married 75 year old robert seldom duvall age makes no difference to the devos no one can do the dates of love the tango like the devolves they are still making movies together like the wild horse in 2015 where a detective opens a cold case and finds a boy was murdered and suspected a local rancher robert duvall stars on a hollywood walk of fame located at 6801 hollywood boulevard he has one oscar seven nominations seven gold and globe nominations and four winners he has no rumors or controversies associated with his career another member of the hat creek cattle company was joshua dietz a black scout and tracker from the texas rangers during the early days with captains carl and mcrae the character of joshua dietz was taken from the real-life african-american cowboy bo sackart after the civil war icard had moved from mississippi to texas and became a tracker and scout on cattle drives and became charles goodnight's de facto banker trusted on several occasions to carry thousands of dollars in cash until it could be deposited the actor danny glover was perfect for the part of deets glover had worked and fought his entire life for the rights of minorities it was easy to see he had a personal connection with the character it was also helpful that glover was one of the better known actors thanks in part to the movie lethal weapon where he played an easygoing quiet police detective saddled with an unstable partner mel gibson danny laverne glover was born the 22nd of july 1946 in san francisco california his parents james henry and carrie hundley glover both worked for the postal service they were also active and arduous supporters of the naacp danny said his dead was a world war ii veteran and he was raised in a loving home he said i could see the love in my parents eyes danny was the oldest of three brothers martin reginald and rodney he also had one younger sister connie while growing up danny was disabled with epilepsy often having seizures and he'll continue until he reaches the age of 35. to make things even more complicated he struggled with dyslexia danny will attend webster elementary and roosevelt middle school in san francisco at age 11 he will arise early before school and carry a paper route during the summers he will spend time with his grandparents in lewisville georgia he spoke of his grandfather as being the salt of the earth with good solid judgment danny will attend george washington high school and graduate in 1964. he'll then enter san francisco state university his desire was to become an economist to pay his way in college glover worked as a hospital dishwasher and custodian while at san francisco state he'll meet his future wife asac bomani he thought her so beautiful that he had to meet her so he waited outside her english classroom for her to come out so he could talk to her and when she did he said hi and then walked away after college danny will eventually go to work for the city of berkeley he will also begin studying acting at the black actors workshop of the american conservatory's theater in 1975 while still working for the city danny glover and asak bomani married she will fully support his desire to become an actor the next year on the 5th of january 1976 they sacked by money and danny glover will have a daughter they named mendisa she'll grow up showing respect and love for her parents although she had little desire to work in front of the camera as her dad she's a businesswoman and has worked some in the film industry now in 1977 danny quit his job with the city of berkeley in order to spend full time studying acting with jean skelton at the skeleton actors lab it'll be two years later before glover will land his first film appearances in escape from alcatraz starring clint eastwood danny will play as one of the several guards at the age of 31. in 1983 danny will lose his beloved mother carrie in an automobile wreck in new mexico while driving her family to georgia with her son rodney and two grandkids danny said that his daddy was lost after her death it'll be 2001 before he will pass away at the age of 82 from kidney disease it'll be 1984 before danny glover will have his breakout role as mose with fields playing a widowed woman in the 1930s with two small children struggling to survive on a small farm in 1985 danny will star with whoopi goldberg and oprah winfrey in the color purple about black women growing up in the early 1900s exploring their hardships also in 1985 glover will play supporting roles in two more movies witness with harrison ford and silvarado starring kevin klein in 1987 danny will team up with mel gibson in lethal weapon they play two los angeles police detectives when detective martin riggs mel gibson's wife dies he has to partner with an older detective roger murtay danny glover riggs becomes restless and suicidal but the two managed to break up a drug ring in 1989 glover will be in demand starring in lethal weapon 2 again with mel gibson also that same year danny will become joshua dietz in one of the best western miniseries on tv lonesome dove the death scene of glover's character joshua dietz according to statistics affected viewers so much it was only second to the death scene of captain augustus mcrae the next year after lonesome dove glover will star in predator 2 fighting aliens in the streets of los angeles that same year in 1990 danny and asak will purchase this house located at 737 buena vista avenue west san francisco and in 1992 again glover will star with mel gibson and lethal weapon 3 and in 1989 it'll be lethal weapon 4. on the 4th of august 1999 danny will file for divorce from his wife of 25 years a sackbo money on grounds of irreconcilable differences the divorce became final in 2000 she'll keep the mansion at 737 buena vista danny will continue his acting and directing career he'll continue his political activism and even be arrested several times when he sees a cause that needs his help in 2003 glover traveled to brazil to attend the world social forum where he met a brazilian educator and humanitarian elaine cavallaro who focused her work on issues of race and education nine years after danny's divorce he will marry elaine cavallaro 2009. while danny continues his acting career his wife elaine teaches a graduate class at stanford [Music] while on the cattle drive of lonesome dove who can forget the prostitute that augustus mcrae referred to as lori darling lori wood was raped and tortured by the outlaw blue duck leaving her traumatized gus mcrae comes to her rescue and becomes her protector and lover lori was believe it or not respected by the cowboys who considered her to be a [ __ ] with a good heart lori wood was played by actress diane lane actress diane collin lane was born january the 22nd 1965 in new york city her parents were burton eugene lane and colleen farrington lane her dad was a manhattan acting coach and run an actor's workshop he was also a one-time cab driver and taught humanities at a city college her mother colleen was a nightclub singer a model actress and centerfold miss october 1957 it's been said that elaine's parents separated 13 days after she was born colleen took diane to mexico to get the divorce it's believed that they stayed there until her mother moved back to georgia and remarried at the age of six her dad took custody and she went to live with him they lived in different residential hotels throughout the city it's been said she worked on stage the first time at the age of six through her involvement with the ellen stewart's la mama experimental theater she was picked for a part in madea that will be the beginning of many to follow her schooling was mostly distant learning or homeschooling through correspondence courses she would sometimes ride with her daddy in his cab that he used to make money when acting was slow at the age of 12 in 1977 diane got a part in a play the cherry orchard with meryl streep however with her unstable family life the theater become her surrogate family diane was pretty much on her own except for her stage family in 1978 at the age of 13 she was in a joseph papp broadway play the runaway at the same time director george roy hill wanted her for the film a little romance with theonis bernard and lawrence olivier on august 13 1979 at the age of 14 she'll be featured in time magazine entitled hollywood whiz kids the next year in 1980 she was told by elaine ford modeling agency that her neck was too short to be a model but evidently it was just right to be a movie star also in 1980 at the age of 15 diane declared her independence from her dead and went with fellow actor christopher aiken to los angeles not long after she was back staying with friends in new york and paying rent she enrolled at hunter college high school where she had been taking regular correspondence courses not long after her mother seized her and took her back to georgia where she started her junior year at savannah christian repertory school her dad soon filed suit on her behalf and she ended up back in new york with him she didn't speak to her mother for three years she will later make up with her mother and admit that her reckless behavior as a youngster comes from having too much independence too young in 1981 she was star with christopher aiken the same actor that she had run off to l.a with in child bride of short creek also that year she played genie little britches with amanda plummer as annie in cattle annie and little bridges in 1983 francis ford coppola cast her in two youth movies rumble fish and the outsiders in 1984 diane will be in the cotton club co-starring richard gere the film was a financial flop however during the promotion of the film in paris she met frenchman actor and producer christopher lambert they'll have a short romance only to reunite two years later at the age of 19 after the feminine of cotton club unhappy with the way her films and career was going tired of the criticism she left the movies for three years in 1987 she returned to the screen in lady beware doing a sexy stripper routine that became the highlight of the film and it helped establish her own screen image next year in 1988 she'll reunite with christopher lambert when they star in priceless beauty within two weeks they will be back together romantically and marry shortly after in october of 1988. in 1989 diane will appear in the epic western miniseries lonesome dove she'll be nominated for an emmy for her portrayal of lori wood the good-hearted prostitute lonesome dove will introduce diane to an even much larger audience and she'll become an even more demand after that although she was a noted star before lonesome dove and she will have major roles throughout her career such as her oscar nomination for her performance in unfaithful in 2002. in 2003 people magazine had her as one of the most beautiful people in the world on september the 5th 1993 diane and christopher lambert will have a daughter eleanor jasmine lambert like her parents eleanor will become an actress the next year in 1994 eleanor's parents diane and christopher will divorce it'll be 10 years before diane will marry again on the 15th of august 2004 she'll marry josh brolin they'll separate a year later but won't divorce until 2013. diane lane is still a very talented and beautiful actress with movies and possible award-winning roles are head but as for me she remains lori darling so you

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Published: Fri Feb 19 2021