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== In popular culture == Holliday was nationally known during his life as a gambler and gunman. The shootout at the O.K. Corral is one of the most famous frontier stories in the American West and numerous [[Western (genre)|Western]] TV shows and movies have been made about it. Holliday is usually a prominent part of the story.<ref name=tanner/><ref>[http://www.skyways.org/orgs/fordco/docholliday.html Skyways.org] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120112162656/http://www.skyways.org/orgs/fordco/docholliday.html |date=January 12, 2012 }}, John Henry Holliday arrives in Dodge City from ''Doc Holliday: A Family Portrait'', by Karen Holliday Tanner, 1998</ref> === Documentary === * ''In Search of Doc Holliday'' (2016) === In film and television === {{Cite section|date=March 2021}} Actors who have portrayed Holliday include: * [[Harvey Clark (actor)|Harvey Clark]] in ''[[Law for Tombstone]]'' (1937) * [[Cesar Romero]] in ''[[Frontier Marshal (1939 film)|Frontier Marshal]]'' (1939) * [[Kent Taylor]] in ''[[Tombstone, the Town Too Tough to Die]]'' (1942) * [[Walter Huston]] in ''[[The Outlaw]]'' (1943) * [[Victor Mature]] in ''[[My Darling Clementine]]'' directed by [[John Ford]], with [[Henry Fonda]] as Wyatt Earp (1946) * [[Harry Bartell]] in the 13th episode of the [[CBS radio]] program ''[[Gunsmoke (radio)|Gunsmoke]]'' (July 19, 1952) * Kim Spalding in the [[Television syndication|syndicated]] television series ''[[Stories of the Century]]'' (1954) * [[James Griffith]] in ''[[Masterson of Kansas]]'' (1954) * [[Barry Atwater]] in "The Gunfight at the O.K. Corral", an episode of the CBS TV series ''[[You Are There (series)|You Are There]]'', November 6, 1955 * [[Kirk Douglas]] in ''[[Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (film)|Gunfight at the O.K. Corral]]'' (1957) with [[Burt Lancaster]] as Wyatt Earp * [[Douglas Fowley]] in ''[[The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp]]'' with [[Hugh O'Brian]] as Wyatt Earp (1955β1961) * [[Myron Healey]] in ten episodes of ''The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp''. * [[Adam West]] in separate 1959 episodes of ''[[Lawman (TV series)|Lawman]],'' ''[[Sugarfoot]]'' (episode: "Trial of the Canary Kid"), and ''[[Colt .45 (TV series)|Colt .45]]'' * [[Gerald Mohr]] and [[Peter Breck]] each played Holliday in the ABC/WB series ''[[Maverick (TV series)|Maverick]]'' (1957β62) starring [[James Garner]] and [[Jack Kelly (actor)|Jack Kelly]] * [[Christopher Dark]] in an episode of the [[NBC]] series ''[[Bonanza]]'' (1963) * [[Martin Landau]] in the episode "Doc Holliday" of the TV series ''[[Tales of Wells Fargo]]'' (1959) * [[Robert Lansing (actor)|Robert Lansing]] in ''[[The Tall Man (TV series)|The Tall Man]]'' episode "Rovin' Gambler" (1961) * Anthony Jacobs in the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' episode "[[The Gunfighters (Doctor Who)|The Gunfighters]]" (1966) * [[Warren Stevens]] in the episode "Doc Holliday's Gold Bars" of the [[Television syndication|syndicated]] Western series, ''[[Death Valley Days]]'' (1966)<ref>{{IMDb title|tt0556598|Doc Holliday's Gold Bars}}</ref> * [[Jason Robards]] in ''[[Hour of the Gun]]'', [[James Garner]] played Wyatt Earp (1967) * [[Jack Kelly (actor)|Jack Kelly]] in ''[[The High Chaparral]]'' (1967), episode "The Doctor from Dodge" * [[Sam Gilman]] in the ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series|Star Trek]]'' episode "[[Spectre of the Gun (TOS episode)|Spectre of the Gun]]" (1968) * [[Stacy Keach]] in ''[[Doc (film)|Doc]]'' (1971) * Bill Fletcher in two episodes of the TV series ''[[Alias Smith and Jones]]'': "Which Way to the OK Corral?" (1971) and "The Ten Days That Shook Kid Curry" (1972) * [[John McLiam]] in ''[[Bret Maverick]]'' (1981) * [[Jeffrey DeMunn]] in ''[[I Married Wyatt Earp (TV movie)|I Married Wyatt Earp]]'' (1983) * [[Willie Nelson]] in ''[[Stagecoach (1986 film)|Stagecoach]]'' (1986)<ref>{{IMDb title|tt0092003|Stagecoach}}</ref> * [[Val Kilmer]] in ''[[Tombstone (film)|Tombstone]]'' (1993) * [[Dennis Quaid]] in ''[[Wyatt Earp (film)|Wyatt Earp]]'' (1994) * [[Randy Quaid]] in ''[[Purgatory (1999 film)|Purgatory]]'' (1999) * [[Wilson Bethel]] in ''[[Wyatt Earp's Revenge]]'' (2012) * [[Ryan Kennedy]] in ''[[Hannah's Law]]'' (2012) * [[William McNamara]] in ''Doc Holliday's Revenge'' (2014) * Shane O'Loughlin in ''[[Legends and Lies: The Real West]]'' on the [[Fox News Channel]] series that explores famous figures from the American West * [[Tim Rozon]] in ''[[Wynonna Earp (TV series)|Wynonna Earp]]'' (2016β2021) <ref>{{IMDb title|tt4878326|Wynonna Earp}}</ref> * Edgar Fox in ''[[The American West]]'' (2016) * Eric Schumacher in ''[[Tombstone Rashomon]]'' (2017) * [[Jeremy Renner]] in Untitled Doc Holliday Biopic (TBA) based on [[Mary Doria Russell]]'s books<ref>{{cite web|last1=Hipes|first1=Patrick|title=Jeremy Renner To Play Doc Holliday In New Biopic|url=https://deadline.com/2017/05/jeremy-renner-doc-holliday-new-movie-1202080758/|website=Deadline|date=May 2017 |access-date=May 1, 2017|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170502214653/http://deadline.com/2017/05/jeremy-renner-doc-holliday-new-movie-1202080758/|archive-date=May 2, 2017}}</ref> === In fiction === <!-- notable works only --> * ''Epitaph: a Novel of the O.K. Corral'' by [[Mary Doria Russell]], 2015 {{ISBN|978-0062198761}} * ''A Wicked Little Town: Book One of The Doc Holliday Series'' by Elena Sandidge, 2013 {{ISBN|978-0992807009}} * ''Southern Son: The Saga of Doc Holliday'' by Victoria Wilcox, 2013 {{ISBN|978-1908483553}} * ''Holliday'', Nate Bowden and Doug Dabbs, 2012 {{ISBN|978-1934964651}} * ''Doc: A Novel'' by [[Mary Doria Russell]], 2011 {{ISBN|978-1400068043}} * ''Merkabah Rider: The Mensch With No Name'' by Edward M. Erdelac, a novel in the [[Weird West]] genre, 2010, {{ISBN|978-1615721900}} * ''The Buntline Special'' by [[Mike Resnick]], 2010, {{ISBN|978-1616142490}} * ''Territory'' by [[Emma Bull]], 2007 {{ISBN|978-0812548365}} * ''O.K. Corral'', a [[Lucky Luke]] comic by artist [[Morris (comics)|Morris]] & writers Eric Adam and Xavier Fauche 1997 * ''The Last Ride of German Freddie'' by [[Walter Jon Williams]], a novella in ''Worlds that Weren't'', 2005, {{ISBN|978-1101212639}} * ''The Langoliers'' by [[Stephen King]], a novella in ''Four Past Midnight'', 1990, {{ISBN|978-0670835386}} * ''Bucking the Tiger: A Novel'' by Bruce Olds, 2002 {{ISBN|978-0312420246}} * ''The Fourth Horseman'' by Randy Lee Eickhoff, 1998 {{ISBN|0312853017}} * ''[[Deadlands]]'' a tabletop role-playing game produced by [[Pinnacle Entertainment Group]] in ''Law Dogs'', 1996, {{ISBN|978-1889546261}} * ''Wild Times'' by [[Brian Garfield]], 1978 {{ISBN|978-0671243746}} * ''The Last Kind Words Saloon'' by [[Larry McMurtry]], 2014 {{ISBN|978-0871407863}} * ''At Grave's End'' by [[Jeaniene Frost]], 2008 {{ISBN|978-0061583070}} === In song === * "Linwood", written and performed by Jon Chandler on ''The Grand Dame of the Rockies β Songs of the Hotel Colorado and the Roaring Fork Valley''; winner of the 2009 [[Western Writers of America]] [[Spur Award]] for Best Song.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://westernwriters.org/winners/ |date=2020 |title=Winners β 2009 β Best Western Song |work=[[Western Writers of America]] |access-date=February 18, 2021 |url-status=live |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20210204024706/https://westernwriters.org/winners/ |archivedate=February 4, 2021}}</ref> * Danish metal band [[Volbeat]] performs the song "[[Doc Holliday (song)|Doc Holliday]]" on their album ''[[Outlaw Gentlemen & Shady Ladies]]''.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Volbeat |title=Volbeat {{!}} Music {{!}} Outlaw Gentlemen & Shady Ladies |url=https://www.volbeat.dk/en/music/outlaw-gentlemen-shady-ladies-15--12-.html |access-date=2024-01-22 |website=Volbeat |language=en}}</ref> * Swedish power metal band [[Civil War (band)|Civil War]] performs the song "Tombstone" about the gunfight at OK Corral on their album ''The Last Full Measure''.<ref>{{cite web |title=Civil War Premiere Music Video For Track 'Tombstone' |url=https://metaladdicts.com/site/civil-war-premiere-music-video-for-track-tombstone/ |website=Metal Addicts |date=November 5, 2016 |access-date=2020-05-25}}</ref> * Country music legend [[Johnny Cash]] references Doc Holliday on his album [[Sings the Ballads of the True West]] with the song ''Narration #1'' directly referencing him and the following song ''The Ballad of Boot Hill'' referencing some of the events that took place in [[Tombstone, Arizona]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Johnny Cash |title=Johnny Cash {{!}} Music {{!}} Johnny Cash Sings The Ballads Of The True West |url=https://www.johnnycash.com/music/sings-ballads-true-west/ |access-date=2025-02-23 |website=Johnny Cash|language=en}}</ref>
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