Who played the Sheriff John T Chance in the 1959 film Rio Bravo?
Rio Bravo (film) Old Tucson Studios outside Tucson, Arizona, in Technicolor. In 2014, "Rio Bravo" was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry. In the town of Rio Bravo, Texas, sheriff's deputy Dude (Dean Martin), who has acquired the contemptuous nickname "Borrachón" (, Spanish for "big drunk"), enters a saloon but cannot afford a drink. Joe Burdette (Claude Akins), brother of rancher Nathan Burdette, tosses a silver dollar into a spittoon. Presidio County, Texas, Sheriff John T. Chance (John Wayne) appears and kicks the spittoon away, looking at Dude with
Rio Bravo (film) by the Nelson Riddle Orchestra, sings a specially composed song, "Rio Bravo", written by Tiomkin with lyrics by Paul Francis Webster. Nelson later paid homage to both the film and his character, Colorado, by including the song "Restless Kid" on his 1959 LP, "Ricky Sings Again". Members of the Western Writers of America chose "My Rifle, My Pony, and Me" as one of the Top 100 Western songs of all time. A brief clip from "Rio Bravo" was among the archive footage later incorporated into the opening sequence of Wayne's last film, "The Shootist," to illustrate the backstory of Wayne's