Cultural Depictions of George Armstrong Custer - Films

Films

• Custer's Last Fight (a.k.a. Custer's Last Raid) (1912) - with Francis Ford as Custer.
• Colonel Custard's Last Stand (1914) - with Lloyd Hamilton as Colonel Custer.
• Britton of the Seventh (1916) - with Ned Finley as Custer.
• Bob Hampton of Placer (1921) - with T. D. Crittenden as Custer.
• Wide Open Spaces (a.k.a. Wild Bill Hiccup) (1924) - with Al Forbes as Custer.
• The Flaming Frontier (1926) - with Dustin Farnum as Custer.
• General Custer at Little Big Horn (a.k.a. Custer of Big Horn) (1926) - with John Beck as Custer .
• The Last Frontier (1932) - with William Desmond as Custer.
• The World Change (1933) - with Clay Clement as Custer.
• Custer's Last Stand (1936) - with Frank McGlynn as Custer.
• The Plainsman (1936) - with John Miljan as Custer.
• Wyoming (1940) - with Paul Kelly as Custer.
• Santa Fe Trail (1940) - with Ronald Reagan as Custer.
• Badlands of Dakota (1941) - with Addison Richards as Custer.
• They Died with Their Boots On (1941) - with Errol Flynn as Custer.
• Warpath (1951) - with James Millican as Custer.
• Bugles in the Afternoon (1952) - with Sheb Wooley as Custer.
• Sitting Bull (1954) - with Douglas Kennedy as Custer.
• Tonka (a.k.a. A Horse Named Comanche) (1958) - with Britt Lomond as Custer.
• The Great Sioux Massacre (1965) - with Philip Carey as Custer. The film depicts Custer as a bastion of tolerance whose efforts to secure fair treatment for the Indians leads to several confrontations with corrupt government officials.
• The Plainsman (1966) - with Leslie Nielsen as Custer.
• Custer of the West (1967) - Robert Shaw depicts Custer as an Indian sympathizer, having disagreements with his superiors about fighting the Indians, but duty-bound as an officer of the U.S. Cavalry to enforce orders given to him.
• The Legend of Custer (1968) - with Wayne Maunder as Custer.
• Little Big Man (1970) - The film depicts Custer, played by Richard Mulligan, as a ruthless megalomaniac who massacres Indians in this revisionist Western.
• Don't Touch the White Woman (1974) - with Marcello Mastroianni depicting Custer as vain.
• The Court-Martial of George Armstrong Custer (1977) - with James Olson as Custer.
• Crazy Horse and Custer: The Untold Story (1990) - with Wayne Maunder as Custer.
• Son of the Morning Star (1991) - with Gary Cole as Custer.
• Class of '61 (1993) - with Josh Lucas as Custer.
• Crazy Horse (1996) - with Peter Horton as Custer.
• Stolen Women: Captured Hearts (1997) - with William Shockley as Custer.