Wes is the main antagonist of the 1980 movie, Urban Cowboy. He was played by veteran actor Scott Glenn who played Roger in Training Day, John "Axe" Adcox in Backdraft, and J.P. Stiles in Tall Tale.
Bud likes to ride the mechanical bull at Gilley's. Released convict and rodeo bullrider Wes Hightower (Scott Glenn) impresses Sissy with his skills. He teaches her after Bud forbids her to ride. It's hard to like Bud especially at the beginning.
Urban Cowboy is a 1980 American romantic Western film directed by James Bridges. The plot concerns the love-hate relationship between Buford Ewing "Bud" Davis (John Travolta) and Sissy (Debra Winger).
Career. Glenn spent eight years in Los Angeles, California, acting in small roles in films and doing TV stints, including a TV movie Gargoyles. In 1978, Glenn left Los Angeles with his family for Ketchum, Idaho, and worked as a barman, huntsman, and mountain ranger, occasionally acting in Seattle stage productions.
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How did Urban Cowboy end?
The fight causes Wes to drop his gun, and the stolen money falls from his jacket. Bud overpowers Wes and after punching him several times, pins him down on the floor. Gilley's staff, having discovered the robbery, apprehend Wes. Bud and Sissy, reconciled, go home together.
Attractive actress who has played Sadat's wife and Gloria Swanson in the TV miniseries' "Sadat" (1983) and "The Kennedys of Massachusetts" (1990) respectively. Smith's feature career began auspiciously with the role of John Travolta's rich girlfriend in "Urban Cowboy" (1980).
Did John Travolta really ride the bull in Urban Cowboy?
John Travolta had a mechanical bull installed in his house two months before production began. He became so good that he was allowed to dismiss the stunt double and do the takes himself.
He knew Urban Cowboy could impact the way people dressed, ate, danced, listened. John Travolta played Bud: Urban Cowboy was three-dimensional. You could watch it, and then you could go experience it. You could buy a cowboy hat, get on a mechanical bull, go country dancing.
Urban Cowboy is the story of how a mechanical bull can make or break a relationship. It follows the on-again-off-again romance between Bud—who had just moved to Houston in search of work—and Sissy, who meet and fall in love at a honky tonk called Gilley's.
After moving to Pasadena, Texas, country boy Bud Davis (John Travolta) starts hanging around a bar called Gilley's, where he falls in love with Sissy (Debra Winger), a cowgirl who believes the sexes are equal.
Deza Malone is the young girl that Bud Caldwell meets in Hooverville, whom he shares his first kiss with. She is a very good listener and helps Bud open up about his mother.
Though she is dead when the story opens, having passed away when her son Bud was six years old, Momma is very much alive in Bud's thoughts and in his memories. Throughout the entire story, he carries her inside of him and inside of his suitcase everywhere he goes.
Herman E. Calloway is the grandfather of Bud Caldwell and the estranged father of Bud's mother, Angela Janet Caldwell. Herman is the band leader of the Dusky Devastators of the Depression/Nubian Knights. He has a volatile relationship with most people in the story, especially his late daughter and long-lost grandson.
He said she was sick for a week, then died quickly. It sounds like she had a serious illness & no medical care. She must have been poor, since a black woman in the 1920s-1930s would have very limited opportunities, especially since we later learn that she left home when she was around 16 years old.
Bud lost his mother (Momma) when he was just six years old, and he never knew his father. At the beginning of the story, he is staying at the Home (an orphanage) when he gets placed with a family - the Amoses.
The majority of the scenes from Urban Cowboy were shot in Houston, Texas, which provided a unique backdrop for the film. The city's expansive skyline of downtown buildings juxtaposed with the lush countryside of nearby ranches gave a stunningly beautiful contrast that could be seen throughout the movie.
NEW YORK (AP) — Country star Mickey Gilley, whose namesake Texas honky-tonk inspired the 1980 film “Urban Cowboy” and a nationwide wave of Western-themed nightspots, has died. He was 86. Gilley died Saturday in Branson, Missouri, where he helped run the Mickey Gilley Grand Shanghai Theatre.
Michelle Pfeiffer auditioned for the part of Sissy before it went to Debra Winger, becoming her first starring role. Patsy Swayze, actor Patrick Swayze's mother, taught Travolta how to dance the Texas two-step for the movie.
