Marlboro Man - in Popular Culture

In Popular Culture

The Marlboro Man was portrayed by Don Johnson in the 1991 film Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man. Although the name "Marlboro Man" was used, like several other products that shared the same name as one of the characters, the company did not sponsor or endorse the film itself.

In My Name Is Earl, Earl is referred to as Marlboro Man at a fast food restaurant, where he is working to make up for an item on his list, by his boss, played by Jon Favreau, in season 1 episode 12, "O Karma, Where Art Thou?".

Sam Elliot plays a cancer stricken former Marlboro Man in Thank You for Smoking.

In Tony Kushner's play Angels in America, the character Prior despairs of his former lover's current boyfriend, Joe, and Joe's handsome, masculine appearance, declaring "He's the Marlboro Man, he made me feel beyond Nelly..."

In the Seinfeld episode "The Abstinence", Cosmo Kramer sues a tobacco company but settles out of court, his settlement being the placement of his face as that of the Marlboro Man's on a billboard in Times Square.

In the Coen brothers' 1996 movie "Fargo", a witness relates that the character played by Peter Stormare resembles the Marlboro man, but she might just be saying that "because he smoked a lot of Marlboros".

The band Alabama refers to the Marlboro Man in their song "Cheap Seats", "We sit below the Marlboro man, above the right field wall."

The band Harvey Danger refer to the Marlboro Man in their song "Sad Sweetheart of the Rodeo", "The Marlboro Man died of cancer and he wasn't a rocket scientist when he was healthy."

In the Paula Cole song "Where Have All the Cowboys Gone?", the last line of the song says "Where is my Marlboro Man? Where is his shiny gun?" Jason aldean has a line in his song "Dirt Road Anthem", that mentions the Marlboro Man. "King in the can and the Marlboro Man, Jack 'n Jim were a few good men."

In The Good Wife, Diane Lockhart (Christine Baranski) refers to ballistics expert Kurt McVeigh (Guest star Gary Cole) as the Marlboro Man when she first meets him, due to his cowboy appearance and manners. "I think I have just been visited by the Marlboro Man..." in season 1 episode 15, "Bang".

In The Long Goodbye, the character of Philip Marlowe, played by Elliott Gould, is referred to as the Marlboro Man for his near constant chain smoking by alcoholic novelist Roger Wade, played by Sterling Hayden.