The Magnificent Seven
The Magnificent Seven is one of those classic movies that never fades as time passes, hard to believe that the film was released way back in 1960.
Directed by John Sturges and a reworking of the 1954 movie Seven Samurai the movie brought together a great cast in what has become one of the greatest Westerns of all time.
But what did the success of this movie have on the careers of those that starred in it? Well FemaleFirst took a look at life after The Magnificent Seven.
Yul Brynner
Lead man Yul Brynner had launched his career in 1956 with immediate success. By the time The Magnificent Seven was released he had already won a Best Actor Oscar for his 1956 role in The King and I.
He followed this up with roles in The Ten Commandments and Anastasia before moving onto The Magnificent Seven.
While the role of Chris Adams didn't launch the career of the popular actor it remains amongst his most famous. After The Magnificent seven he went on to star with Marlon Brando in Morituri and Katharine Hepburn in The Madwoman of Chaillot.
Steve McQueen
In comparison Steve McQueen was still a relative newcomer to the acting industry having only made his breakthrough in 1959 in Never So Few, which was also directed by Sturges.
But it proved to be the actor's first big hit which led to him leaving his television series Wanted: Dead of Alive.
From this point McQueen's career soared as he became cinema's Mr Cool with roles such as The Great Escape in 1963, his first big movie lead.
He received an Oscar nomination in 1966 for The Sand Pebbles, this was to be his only Oscar nomination, before going on to star in Bullit.
Charles Bronson
Up until 1960 Charles Bronson had worked predominately in television and had not yet made a name for himself.
Although he had made a handful of screen appearances in the early fifties with the likes of Pat and Mike and House of Wax his role in The Magnificent Seven was to be his breakthrough performance.
Bronson followed McQueen into The Great Escape as a claustrophobic Polish prisoner of war, a film that was also directed by John Sturges, before moving back into television.
By the early sixties that actor was Emmy nominated for his role in Memory in White. He mixed his TV and movie role from here on in as he appeared in The Travels of Jamie McPheeters for ABC and then The Dirty Dozen.
Robert Vaughn
By the time Robert Vaughn appeared in The Magnificent Seven he had only one other major film credit of note and that was The Young Philadelphians the previous year, however he was Oscar nominated for his performance.
Throughout the sixties Vaughn found fame in television series The Man From U.N.C.L.E as Napoleon Solo alongside David McCallum.
Vaughn reunited with Steve McQueen for Bullit, in which he played a politician and The Towering Inferno. His other big movie role came in 1983 when he starred in Superman III.
He is the only member of the gun slinging Magnificent Seven still living, villain Eli Wallach is still alive.
James Coburn
In a career that spanned forty five years James Coburn made almost seventy films his debut coming in 1959 in Ride Lonesome.
Like Steve McQueen and Charles Bronson The Magnificent Seven played a huge part in boosting the young actor's career.
He went on to also appear in The Great Escape before moving onto Charade in 1963 with Cary grant and Audrey Hepburn. Major Dundee was also a successful movie for the actor.
He returned to the Western movie once again in 1971 when he starred in Sergio Leone's A Fistful of Dynamite.
After forty years in the business Coburn finally got in hands on an Oscar in 1998, a Best Supporting Actor Oscar, for his performance in Affliction.
Horst Buchholz
Born in Germany Horst Buchholz established his career in the theatre before moving into German film in the early fifties, winning Best Actor at the Cannes Film Festival in Himmel ohne Sterne.
By 1959 he was making a move into foreign films and The Magnificent Seven remains his biggest and best known role.
Throughout the sixties he worked constantly appeared in the likes of One, Two, Three, The Empty Canvas and Nine Hours to Rama.
Brad Dexter
After trying out amateur boxing and completing his military service Brad Dexter took up acting with The Magnificent Seven being his most famous role.
However in a career that spanned forty years he worked alongside the likes of Frank Sinatra in None But the Brave and Von Ryan's Express, as well as saving Sinatra from drowning, as well as working on the likes of Last Train From Gun Hill and Kings of the Sun.
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