Bob Folkerson

Acting

Known For & Full Filmography20 Titles

#1The Virginian

Drama Series - 1962, 16 episodes as Party Guest (uncredited)

6.5 / 10
WesternDrama

The Shiloh Ranch in Wyoming Territory of the 1890s is owned in sequence by Judge Henry Garth, the Grainger brothers, and Colonel Alan MacKenzie. It is the setting for a variety of stories, many more based on character and relationships than the usual western.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#2Rawhide

Drama Series - 1959, 16 episodes as Townsman (uncredited)

7.2 / 10
WesternDrama

The tale of trail boss Gil Favor and his trusty foreman Rowdy Yates as they drives cattle across the old west. Along the way they meet up with adventure and drama.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#3The Graduate

Movie - 1967, 2h 15m as Bus Passenger (uncredited)

7.6 / 10
DramaRomanceComedy

A disillusioned college graduate finds himself torn between his older lover and her daughter.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#4The Sting

Movie - 1973, 2h 15m as Gambler (uncredited)

8.0 / 10
ComedyCrimeDrama

A novice con man teams up with an acknowledged master to avenge the murder of a mutual friend by pulling off the ultimate big con and swindling a fortune from a big-time mobster.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#5Blazing Saddles

Movie - 1974, 2h 15m as Townsman (uncredited)

7.2 / 10
WesternComedy

A town—where everyone seems to be named Johnson—stands in the way of the railroad. In order to grab their land, robber baron Hedley Lamarr sends his henchmen to make life in the town unbearable. After the sheriff is killed, the town demands a new sheriff from the Governor, so Hedley convinces him to send the town the first black sheriff in the west.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#6Run for Cover

Movie - 1955, 2h 15m as Hughes (uncredited)

6.8 / 10
WesternDrama

An ex-convict drifter and his flawed young partner are made sheriff and deputy of a Western town.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#7Friendly Persuasion

Movie - 1956, 2h 15m as Southern Renegade (uncredited)

6.6 / 10
DramaWar

The story of a family of Quakers in Indiana in 1862. Their religious sect is strongly opposed to violence and war. It's not easy for them to meet the rules of their religion in everyday life but when Southern troops pass the area they are in real trouble. Should they fight, despite their peaceful attitude?

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#8The Rare Breed

Movie - 1966, 2h 15m as Townsman (uncredited)

6.2 / 10
Western

When her husband dies en route to America, Martha Price and her daughter Hilary are left to carry out his dream: the introduction of Hereford cattle into the American West. They enlist Sam "Bulldog" Burnett in their efforts to transport their lone bull, a Hereford named Vindicator, to a breeder in Texas, but the trail is fraught with danger and even Burnett doubts the survival potential of this "rare breed" of cattle.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#9Cheyenne Autumn

Movie - 1964, 2h 15m as Townsman (uncredited)

6.7 / 10
Western

A reluctant cavalry Captain must track a defiant tribe of migrating Cheyenne.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#10Flaming Star

Movie - 1960, 2h 15m as Posseman (uncredited)

6.5 / 10
Western

Pacer Burton, a young man of mixed Kiowa and white heritage, is caught between two worlds as conflict erupts between Native Americans and white settlers in Texas.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#11Support Your Local Gunfighter

Movie - 1971, 2h 15m as Townsman (uncredited)

6.6 / 10
ComedyWestern

A con artist arrives in a mining town controlled by two competing companies. Both companies think he's a famous gunfighter and try to hire him to drive the other out of town.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#12The Lusty Men

Movie - 1952, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

6.7 / 10
DramaWestern

Retired rodeo champion Jeff McCloud agrees to mentor novice rodeo contestant Wes Merritt against the wishes of Merritt's wife who fears the dangers of this rough sport.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#13Forty Guns

Movie - 1957, 2h 15m as Gunman (uncredited)

6.6 / 10
WesternDrama

An authoritarian rancher rules an Arizona county with her private posse of hired guns. When a new Marshal arrives to set things straight, the cattle queen finds herself falling for the avowedly non-violent lawman. Both have itchy-fingered brothers, a female gunman enters the picture, and things go desperately wrong.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#14The Plainsman

Movie - 1966, 2h 15m as Poker Player (uncredited)

5.6 / 10
Western

Calamity Jane tries to help Buffalo Bill Cody and Wild Bill Hickock stop an Indian war.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#15Fort Worth

Movie - 1951, 2h 15m as Townsman (uncredited)

7.1 / 10
Western

Ex-gunfighter Ned Britt returns to Fort Worth after the civil war to help run a newspaper which is against ambitious men and their schemes for control.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#16Best of the Badmen

Movie - 1951, 2h 15m as Townsman (uncredited)

6.5 / 10
Western

After the North defeats the South, Union Maj. Jeff Clanton heads to Missouri to provide the Confederacy's Quantrill's Raiders a chance to claim allegiance to the Union, thereby clearing their wanted status. But standing in Clanton's way are the corrupt lawmen Joad and Fowler, who would rather keep the men outlaws to collect the reward on their heads. After Joad and Fowler frame Clanton for murder, he manages to escape, becoming an outlaw himself.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#17Thunder Over the Plains

Movie - 1953, 2h 15m as Trooper (uncredited)

5.6 / 10
Western

Set in 1869, after the Civil War, Texas had not yet been readmitted to the Union and carpetbaggers, hiding behind the legal protection of the Union Army of occupation, had taken over the state. Federal Captain Porter, a Texan, has to carry out orders against his own people. He brings in the rebel leader Ben Westman whom he knows is innocent of a murder that he is accused of. In trying to prove his innocence, Porter himself becomes a wanted man.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#18Shut My Big Mouth

Movie - 1942, 2h 15m as Boy

8.3 / 10
WesternComedyAdventure

A shy horticulturist becomes involved with a local criminal in the old west.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#19Apache Ambush

Movie - 1955, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

6.3 / 10
Western

Two former enemies find themselves together on a cattle drive and fighting marauding Apaches and Mexican bandits.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details
#20Mule Train

Movie - 1950, 2h 15m as Townsman (uncredited)

6.0 / 10
Western

A prospector discovers natural cement and suggests it should be used for a new dam. But this is the last thing the badmen of Trail End want, as they have a monopoly of the wagons needed to haul rocks to the site. A pretty sheriff notwithstanding, it's a job for a singing marshal.

Loading cast carousel...
View Reviews & Details