The Alamo (1960 film) The Alamo (1960 film) The Alamo is a 1960 American historical epic war film about the 1836 Battle of the Alamo produced and directed by John Wayne and starring Wayne as Davy Crockett. The picture also stars Richard Widmark as Jim Bowie and Laurence Harvey as William B. Travis, and the supporting cast features Frankie Avalon, Patrick Wayne, Linda Cristal, Joan O'Brien, Chill Wills, Joseph Calleia, Ken Curtis, Ruben Padilla as Santa Anna, and guest star Richard Boone as Sam Houston. The motion picture was photographed in 70 mm Todd-AO by William H. Clothier and released by United Artists. The
Denver Pyle cast as Big Red in the 1959 episode "Woman in the River" of the ABC/Warner Bros. detective series "Bourbon Street Beat", starring Andrew Duggan and Richard Long. He made several appearances as Briscoe Darling, Jr., on "The Andy Griffith Show". Pyle was cast in a number of Western movies by John Ford, including "The Horse Soldiers" with William Holden and "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance". He played a Tennessee soldier (called Thimblerig) in John Wayne's "The Alamo" (1960). He portrayed Sam Houston in several episodes of CBS's "The Adventures of Jim Bowie". He guest-starred as a law enforcement officer