He Was the Rifleman, Now Chuck Connors' Secrets Come to Light 

We sure did and need to keep watching these movies and forget about making NEW one's. We had the BEST education back then. The kids these days hardly get any that they really need. Can they even cook or sew?

👎👎👎🐒🐒🐒 I watched the same shows & all I learned was that poor writing could be fostered off as serious entertainment to a less than well-educated audience.

I feel the same way

Did your Dad French Kiss you and undress you for bed . Haha 😂

i'm so sick of bullshit like this. You learned that black and gay people are invisible, that Native Americans were the bad guys and didn't deserve to be dignified, that Mexicans were not only your enemy but also your maid and your crop picker, that all problems could be solved with a gun and that women were quite as good as men and were only in existence because they could incubate children. When you say "family values" it's a meaningless statement . There are many types of families and they all value housing and food and medicine yet people who say "family values' want nothing to do with the process of ensuring the stablity and availablitiy of these things for their felllow humans. You don't care that your OWN government murdred and destroyed families in Central America and Viet Nam . I could go on.

Maybe was is the key word. He’s not an admirable person to me since the truth has come out!!!!’ Sorry Chuck, ya done it to yourself!

@@Geno2846 How do you know this is true? You DON'T!!!

​@@Geno2846he was a madman

A friend of mine once told me that Connors was a bully that used to like to beat up on people, because he was big. That was his take. I don't know for sure, but I don't think my friend was lying. So I'm not so sure about your role model assessment.

That's cuz bullies like bullies!

Yup, I'm 76 now too! ☺

I don’t care about his personal life as it is none of my business. He played this part great and th show was entertainment. He was successful as an actor and not a bad athlete. He was lucky enough to get a role that earned him a great living. Today’s actors have many of the same issues and most fall way below his cheating on his wife. It is very difficult for an athletic star to not be chased by women that are also beautiful. It looks tome the most of Hollywood actors and actresses hate morals of a rabbit in heat and many develop horrible habits with illegal activities much worse that just being unfaithful to a wife or husband. When you are playing someone else for a living you are being dis honest with yourself and your own life. If you are good enough to convince an audience you are someone and something else it has to take a toll on your self in real. Switching that artist on then off back to the real world is much more difficult than most might realize. Many actors find it impossible. I remember Elizabeth Taylor when I was young as being beautiful and the roles she played almost drove her insane because of the life style she had to do to be great. Her personal life was destroyed because of the roles and the influence of being a target by every man in the world. The handsome men had similar issues when any beautiful woman steps in an offers Hershel as a trophy for the case in the shelf. It might be fun for the moment but it challenges personal safety and it is always a lie that make you much worse for the few moments of pleasure. It is not worth the millions in revenue or in personal loss. Cheating is a bad idea and it breaks up homes and children’s lives too.

Hi Karen, I’m a MeTV and Rifleman fan too. I’m tuned in to the show every day I can. 😊

@@everettwhite9874 Yeah, me too, Everett. I've seen most episodes many times by now!

Karen shut the tv off and get a damn JOB.

It's on 24/7 on Filmrise

As far as western themed TV shows go, The Rifleman was among the best of them.

I'm 79...same comment. Never misses it. I was in L😊O😊V😊E.

Was a little to gay to watch. Lol

He was one of the greats and it's shame his homosexuality had to be kept a secret.

I could say the same thing about Donald Trump. @@Aortadetroit

@@desertsky does the Jim Nabors/Rock Hudson marriage bother you as well?

I don't even know what that means or WTF it has to Donald Drumpf. @@desertsky

Fame tends to turn nature on its' head. Most men have to do the work in pursuing women. Once you're famous, the women make it more work NOT to be with them. That doesn't excuse the behavior, but I do think it makes it far more understandable. ESPECIALLY in the early going, when the situation is new to a man. Very few men react well to suddenly having throngs of gorgeous women all over them.

+steveperry1344 : Interesting, Steve! My wife's uncle Doyle Lade from Nebraska pitched for the Cubs when Connors was on their team. He and Connors used to double-date with gals and yeah, somewhere around the house here we have a pic or two of them out with their dates.

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I beg your pardon? He did what to WHOM?

Amen to that no one is perfect.

I ate lunch w/him at the same table at Hollywood High School.

It's a shame how Johnny Crawford met his end. May he rest in peace.

Amen to that, my friend @@KelikakuCoutin Now it seems I'm coming down with his illness too, because of arteriosclerosis.

That’s the problem.. making a man out to be a god. That’s idolatry

He had relationships with other men, he was a fruitloop!

I'm 77 & I remember Combat, RIfleman, Have Gun will Travel, Gunsmoke, Maverick were ALL my favorites of which some were usually on a Saturday afternoon

MINE TOO!

I am 79 and still watch the rifleman every day

Yes, I used to watch that show. It was so frustrating to see how that character was cheated out of his legacy. Maybe that's why it didn't last more than two seasons. It kind of broke my heart when it was canceled. I wanted to see the character get redeemed. I learned a lot about the Civil War from that show.

Surely can say that again, SO true! LO❤E Chuck Conners in Rifleman, 0le’ Yeller, other Western Films, plus was SO tall and strikingly handsome 😉 🙏🕊️🛐R.I.P. CHUCK CONNERS {Thanks Chuck for yrs of enjoyment watching your gifted talents, I still watch Rifleman and other films}🙏God Bless🙏

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I got one for Christmas when I was 7. It shot roll caps.

I used to shoot my toy rifle at the tv show before he could shoot.

With the rifleman a gun was always the last resort not always the first

I had a toy rifle by the same company, that shot roll caps. Christmas present when I was 7 years old. 💧

it's funny when i look back how many toy guns i had, cowboy six shooters and rifles and army rifles and machine guns but i have no interest in guns now. the only time i shot a real gun was when i was in the military.@@davidpatrickcox3004

We don't know what went on in his life,why he drank,he isn't the only actor to drink too much. Some commit suicide or did drugs.

@@joelmoody1569 just giving the public what i experienced and the way he made me feel, personally. like or hate it, makes no difference to me.

Don't forget. These are real people. Their job is acting. Don't worship actors. Don't worship people. Most people who drink turn ugly after awhile. They do stupid stuff. They act stupid. They hurt themselves and they hurt others.

@@johnr.6029 no kidding, thank you, captain obvious. why do people say thing like this?

Do you French Kiss your sons ? Haha 😂

@EarlJohnson-wm4bb dude you are a mess. Perhaps you do but that's your issue. Not everyone is like you.

My mom double dated with him when he was playing baseball

Exactly. And get a real person to narrate your videos. This AI (Artificial Intelligence) is NOT INTELIGENT as it cannot pronounce even the simplest of words. So much for Technology.

Correct, he was the owner of Ole Yeller

@@BrahT-dh4qn: The AI robot needs to be reprogrammed to pronounce "prowess" correctly instead of "prow-ESS." And the film industry was "burgeoning" in the 1950s? The industry was "burgeoning" in the late-1910s, not the 1950s. Connors owed his television-western career to Dale Robertson, who gave him a significant role in an early episode of "Tales of Wells Fargo" and featured him in three other episodes.

@@jimdrake3436 I caught that too. LMAO

Amen to A1 stupidity and Spiritual danger. Sauron on computer

Sleeze bags today??? Their ALL sleeze bags if they have anything to do with Hollywood . It’s ALL satanic if the “system” promotes it. I don’t judge the “actor” by his “role” but by his/her lifestyle. O’Connors lifestyle did not image the role he played therefore rendering him a hypocrite.

He was my type of personality to this day even the political

He cheated on his wife? I do that all the time? Is it wrong?

And the pronunciation got worse and worse as it went along. Sheeesh....

It has to be a computer translation from eastern European or some similar language. I wish I knew there are several youtube shows that have the same strange translation if you pay attention. It does not make the show bad just want to know Listen again

just line up the current stars... the depravity current hollywood does is well beyond any scope of reality to things that they had in the past. infidelity? at least he was cheating with adult women. current stars (especially female stars) go after underaged children and dogs... aka, 'dog pilled' western and westernized women. the depravity knows no ends today.

Fess Parker deserved better But Chuck Connors was great too but get it straight

You are spot on it’s none of our business. Old man now but when I was a child growing up in the 50s in Britain we thanked the lord for American 🇺🇸 TV programs because we had nothing on this level. Connors will always be remembered for what he brought to us,and will always be remembered.❤

That's one show the rifle man I still watch as reruns today.

great comment

Sinners only know how to sin! No ice water for Chuck the bully! He chose to throw it away!

At 66 I can still sing the "branded song"

@@KeithJohn-qd6pr Stranded on the toilet bowl, What do you do when you're stranded, And you can't reach the roll. You must take it like a man, And wipe the $hit with your bare hand, To Prove you're a man. Wherever you go for the rest of your life, You must always, Carry a roll.

I loved Branded

​@@leftylou6070😅😅😅 brilliant 👏 👌, I'm going to use that as my wedding vows!

So just because your husband says something we’re supposed to believe it ?