Was Doc Holliday An Outlaw
- Was Doc Holliday An Outlaw Cast
- Was Doc Holliday An Outlaw Movie
- Doc Holliday In Tombstone
- How Did Doc Holliday Meet Wyatt Earp
Camping under the starry sky as coyotes howl, ragtime music spilling out the doors of a saloon, tense shootouts on dusty town roads — these are all things most people would associate with westerns. Although the genre isn't as prevalent as it once was, there's a certain, undeniable appeal to stories set in the open expanse of the Wild West. Indeed, new westerns pop up every now and again, though they have a tendency to put some sort of spin on things to keep the genre fresh.
Doc Holliday was a gambler, vagabond, gentleman, and gunfighter. A friend to Wyatt Earp, he was deputized in Tombstone, Arizona before the famous gunfight at the O.K. Doc Holliday’s father, Henry B. Holliday was a trained pharmacist who served in several wars, including the Cherokee Indian War, the Mexican-American War, and as a Major. Josie Earp and “Big Nose” Kate Harony also claimed it was Doc. However, Karen Holliday Tanner, a relative of Doc’s, wrote an article on the subject of Doc Holliday photographs in the “Quarterly of the National Association for Outlaw and Lawman History” several years ago. Here are Doc Holliday's 15 best lines from the movie. Updated on December 12th, 2020 by Mark Birrell: Val Kilmer's performance as the legendary Doc Holliday is so iconic that almost every line that he says feels like an all-time great and so many of them stick with fans long after the credits roll. We couldn't keep this list to just 10 quotes.
Wynonna Earp is the perfect example. Based on the comic book series of the same name by Beau Smith, it follows the life of the titular great-great-granddaughter of Wyatt Earp, the lawman and gunslinger of O.K. Corral fame. Wynonna's family legacy has come back to haunt her — literally, in the form of resurrected outlaws her great-great-grandfather originally put down. Her mission: put them down again, with the help of Wyatt's revolver, 'Peacemaker.'
Of course, a lone woman and her gun aren't going to be enough to win the day. That's why, after joining the Black Badge Division, Wynonna works with the likes of Doc Holliday — the same dentist-turned-gunslinger who once fought alongside her ancestor, alive and well. If the actor who portrays the immortal cowboy, Tim Rozon, seems familiar, here's where you may have seen him before.
Tim Rozon rose to fame with Instant Star
Though he'd already been acting for a few years, most notably appearing in A&E's retelling of The Great Gatsby, it wasn't until 2004 that Rozon truly drew attention with his role in teen drama Instant Star. The popular show stars Alexz Johnson as Jude Harrison, a young woman who won a singing competition and pushes her music career forward. Of course, life is never black and white (especially not on teen dramas), and she is constantly faced with decisions that pit her love of music against her relationships.
Rozon plays Tom 'Tommy' Quincy, a heartthrob who plays a huge part in much of the show's complicated relationship drama. Why so complicated? Because Tommy just so happens to be the producer at the record label Jude signed on with, and because there are other guys vying for her attention, and because he has a thing for her older sister Sadie (Laura Vandervoort), and because — yeah. Again, it's complicated, and Rozon plays off those complications extremely well.
Tim Rozon paddled up Schitt's Creek
For every rags to riches story, there's a riches to rags tale like Schitt's Creek. It begins when the prominent and wealthy Rose family has the rug pulled out from underneath them, losing both their video rental store (because Netflix wasn't always a thing, kids) and the fortune that came with it. Left with no choice but to set sail and start over, the Roses move to the titular Schitt's Creek, a small town that patriarch Johnny (Eugene Levy) purchased some years before. There, they meet the Schitts, who run everything from the motel the Roses are staying at to the town council.
Was Doc Holliday An Outlaw Cast
Mutt (Rozon) is something of an exception to the rule. The long-estranged son of Mayor Roland Schitt (Chris Elliott) and his wife Jocelyn (Jennifer Robertson), he doesn't do anything particularly special around town. His most noteworthy attributes are his good looks and extremely quiet demeanor — the former of which is largely appreciated by the women of Schitt's Creek, the latter of which is not. Alexis Rose (Annie Murphy) falls for the trap nonetheless, only to find how fruitless it is having a conversation with a brick wall, no matter how well the bricks are laid. Rozon's grounded performance is a standout on a show rife with comedy.
Was Doc Holliday An Outlaw Movie
Tim Rozon's had many recurring and guest roles
Doc Holliday In Tombstone
Rozon is generally more of a small screen actor, and over the years he's amassed an impressive number of recurring and guest roles on popular shows and television films — and not without recognition. Indeed, in 2011, he won a Gemini Award (which was essentially Canada's Emmy equivalent until it was discontinued) for Best Performance by an Actor in a Guest Role Dramatic Series for his one-episode role as Alexander Carson on Flashpoint. Not long after, he was nominated for a Canadian Screen Award (which sprung from the Gemini Awards and the Genie Awards to basically become Canada's Oscars) for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Dramatic Program or Mini-Series for playing Alex Caine in Befriend and Betray.
Awards aside, Rozon has appeared on several other Syfy shows besides Wynonna Earp, including the supernatural drama Lost Girl as a Druid named Massimo, then horror dramedy Being Human as the husband of a werewolf, and the unfortunately short-lived Vagrant Queen as roaming space scavenger Isacc Stelling. The actor may have a knack for genre fiction, but he's also found work on police procedurals like Against the Wall and sports dramas like 15/Love.
In the opening scenes of the movie “Tombstone,” Wyatt Earp asks his brother Virgil if he happened to see anything of Doc Holliday while he was in Prescott on his way to Tombstone. Virgil replies, “Yeah. He had a streak when we left, him and Kate.” The scene soon cuts away to show Holliday sitting at cards in a saloon, with a monumental painting of a nude woman on the wall behind him and his elegantly dressed Hungarian mistress, Kate Elder, at his side. On the green baize table in front of him are the scattered paraphernalia of poker: paperboards, poker chips and silver coins, a gold pocket watch. And across the table, his anger seething, sits gambler Ed Bailey who is clearly losing this hand.
“Why, Ed Bailey,” says Doc in his best gentlemanly Southern drawl while he gives a tap to the pearl-handled pistol in his pocket, “are we cross?”
“Them guns don’t scare me,” replies Ed Bailey darkly. “‘Cause without them guns you ain’t nothin’ but a skinny lunger.”
“Ed, what an ugly thing to say. I abhor ugliness. Does this mean we’re not friends anymore? You know, Ed, if I thought you weren’t my friend, I just don’t think I could bear it.” And to show his cordial intent, Doc pulls out his pistols and lays them down on the table with the coins and the poker chips. “There. Now we can be friends again.”
Ed Bailey knifing scene from the movie “Gunfight at the OK Corral”
But the words only enrage Ed Bailey, who lunges across the table at Doc – and gets a knife slid into his side by the smiling doctor while Kate pulls a derringer to cover their retreat. It’s one of the classic scenes from the legend of Doc Holliday: the knifing of Ed Bailey in a Fort Griffin, Texas, saloon – only this time set in the Arizona Territory capital of Prescott. The change of venue was just a convenience for the sake of the film, letting the audience know two important things in this opening scene of Doc Holliday: he was a cold-blooded killer and he passed through Prescott on his way to Tombstone. And as long as those two things are true, does it really matter where the knifing happened?
What matters is that the knifing of Ed Bailey likely didn’t happen anywhere – not in Fort Griffin, Texas, nor in Prescott, Arizona, nor any of the other towns Holliday visited in his Western travels. In fact, the story of the Ed Bailey knifing was never even told during Holliday’s lifetime. The first appearance of that story comes nine years after Doc Holliday’s death, in an 1896 article in the San Francisco Enquirer. The article claims to be an interview with Wyatt Earp, who was in San Francisco at the time, and tells a gory tale about Doc slicing up Ed Bailey and leaving him for dead. Problem is, the story as told is so flowery and wildly descriptive that it’s hard to believe it came from the famously laconic and spare-on-words Wyatt Earp. And it may have been this very article that Wyatt was referencing years later, when he said:
“Of all the nonsensical guff which has been written around my life, there has been none more inaccurate or farfetched than that which has dealt with Doc Holliday. After Holliday died, I gave a San Francisco newspaper reporter a short sketch of his life. Apparently the reporter was not satisfied. The sketch appeared in print with a lot of things added that never existed outside the reporter’s imagination…”
Was the Ed Bailey knifing one of those imaginary incidents? As far as researchers can determine, poor Ed Bailey himself never existed, as his name appears nowhere in historical record. And how did Doc Holliday manage to kill a man who didn’t exist?
“Wyatt Earp: Frontier Marshal”: Some truth, lots of legend
But although the Ed Bailey story is likely just the imaginings of a reporter looking for a good story, when author Stuart Lake included it in his 1931 historical novel, Wyatt Earp: Frontier Marshal, the story became legend. Now it’s one of the pillars of the Doc Holliday myth, and even though the pillars are sunk into very shallow ground the incident is used to show how Holliday had turned from a gentleman to a killer. It’s a convenient example – but not real history.
The problem with legends is that if we believe they’re true, we stop looking for the truth. And the truth of Doc Holliday’s life is even more intriguing than the legend. As his cousin Mattie said, “He was a much different man than the one of Western legend.” The real Doc Holliday is waiting to be found, but to find him we have to look beyond the legends – and the ghost of Ed Bailey.
Fun Links:
“Tombstone” Movie Trailer
“Tombstone” The Knifing of Ed Bailey
Prescott’s Whiskey Row
Fort Griffin, Texas
Wyatt Earp, Frontier Marshal
How Did Doc Holliday Meet Wyatt Earp
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