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Boots Southerland
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Boots Southerland (born Marlin Southerland, c. 1955, raised on a ranch in Manzanola, Colorado) is an American actor, stunt performer, and wrangler of 34 years in the film industry. He served in the U.S. Navy as a Flight Deck Aircraft Director on the USS Hancock (1964–1967, Vietnam) before moving to New Mexico in 1970, where he trained horses for stunt work — falling, rearing, and stagecoach driving — which led to his entry into the New Mexico film industry as a horse wrangler, stunt performer, and actor. He continues to work in all three capacities. His most notable film credits include a "managerial" victim in No Country for Old Men (2007, directed by the Coen Brothers, with Tommy Lee Jon…
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Boots Southerland (born Marlin Southerland, c. 1955, raised on a ranch in Manzanola, Colorado) is an American actor, stunt performer, and wrangler of 34 years in the film industry. He served in the U.S. Navy as a Flight Deck Aircraft Director on the USS Hancock (1964–1967, Vietnam) before moving to New Mexico in 1970, where he trained horses for stunt work — falling, rearing, and stagecoach driving — which led to his entry into the New Mexico film industry as a horse wrangler, stunt performer, and actor. He continues to work in all three capacities. His most notable film credits include a "managerial" victim in No Country for Old Men (2007, directed by the Coen Brothers, with Tommy Lee Jones), Marshal Fred White in Wyatt Earp (1994, with Kevin Costner), a Warden in Terminator Salvation (2009), US Marshal Keith in Sicario (2015), Marshall in Jane Got a Gun (2015, with Nicole Kidman and Jake Gyllenhaal), Outlaw (Buffalo Hunter) in Hostiles (2017, with Christian Bale), Sheriff in Those Who Wish Me Dead (2021, directed by Taylor Sheridan, with Angelina Jolie), and Sol in Dead Man's Hand (2023). On television he is best known as Wade Morrow in Yellowstone (2018–2020, 6 episodes, Paramount Network), with earlier credits in Lonesome Dove (1989, as Sergeant), Walker, Texas Ranger (1997–1999), The Magnificent Seven (1998), Preacher (2016), and Into the West (2005). He also did stunt work on The Hunger Games (2012) and served as a driver on Hell or High Water (2016) and Legion (2010).
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Boots Southerland's Filmography
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Those Who Wish Me Dead
as Sheriff
The Dead of Night
as Ronnie
Woman Walks Ahead
as Cab Driver NY
Hostiles
as Outlaw (Buffalo Hunter)
Just Getting Started
as Tow Truck Driver
Justice
as Bartender
The Lost Pueblo
as St. Isidore
Jane Got a Gun
as Marshall
Sicario
as US Marshal Keith
Don't Blink
as Sherrif
After the Fall
as Pawn Broker
This Must Be the Place
as Truck Driver (as Boots Sutherland)
Doc West II : Triggerman
as Nathan Mitchell
Doc West
as Nathan Mitchell
Terminator Salvation
as Warden
No Country for Old Men
as "Managerial" Victim
Have Dreams, Will Travel
as Truck Driver #2
Seraphim Falls
as Big Henchman
North Country
as Guy #2
Suspect Zero
as Vic
Blind Horizon
as Tom Brandt
Deep Toad
as Big Bob
Angels Don't Sleep Here
as Bartender
The One
as ER Security Guard
The Journeyman
as Doc
The Staircase
as Deputy Carlson
The Newton Boys
as Wagon Driver
The Ride
as Beer Tent Cowboy
Wild Bill
as Crook-Eye Clark
Buffalo Girls
as Sergeant
New Eden
as Bik
Troublemakers
as Sam Stone
The Desperate Trail
as Scar Face Leader
Wyatt Earp
as Marshal Fred White
The Getaway
as Cab Driver
No Poster
Brotherhood of the Gun
as Deke (uncredited)
Lucky Luke
as Drunken Cowboy