Really Tough Guys

[Rapier]

In Pulp Fiction

Vincent Vega sarcastically refers to Butch the boxer as "Palooka"

[nanwynnfan]

If this thread deals with "really tough guys" from the movies, then I would nominate Mike Mazurki, hands down.

1. Mike Mazurki graduated with highest honors from Manhattan College [1930] in New York. It was said that his scholastic record was the highest in Manhattan's history for at least a generation or two after his graduation.

2. Mazurki was a champion classical wrestler and during WW II bond drives raise over $2 million dollars participating in classical wrestling appearances on behalf of the War effort.

3. Mazurki enjoyed a very long Hollywood career as a character actor, usually playing "goons." He had quite a few notable roles, as "Moose" Malloy in the movie rendition of Raymond Chandler's "Murder, My Sweet" in which Dick Powell played the Philip Marlowe character. "They call me Moose, on accounta I'm large."

He was also featured in "Some Like It Hot."

Between 1934-1990 Mazurki racked up > 140 film credits.

In real life, Mazurki was a kindly man, but he was, at the core, really tough and of gifted mind - a pretty impressive combination.

[baidaho]

If it just tough guys, I nominate -

Chuck Liddell
Yoterry

[Rapier]

Originally Posted by baidaho

If it just tough guys, I nominate -

Chuck Liddell
Yoterry

Don't forget Chuck Sr.

Mr. Action Movie
and
one of the first full contact karate guys

[skrable]

Charles Durning.

The received the lifetime achievement award from the Screen Actors Guild this year. Here's a bit of his non-acting bio:

Widowed when Durning was 12, his mother worked as a laundress at the U.S. Military Academy in nearby West Point.

As a teenage usher in a burlesque house, Durning was hired to replace a drunken “second banana” on stage, then hoofed his way through upstate New York as half of ballroom dancing act for 11 years.

Durning’s early career was punctuated by stints as an elevator operator, Western Union delivery boy, cab driver, bartender, night watchman, boxer and construction worker.

His heroic yet horrifying experiences during World War II loomed large in shaping his 20s. He was in the first wave to land on Omaha Beach during the D-Day Normandy invasion on June 6, 1944, killing seven German gunners and suffering serious machine gun wounds to his right leg and shrapnel wounds over his body in that bloody battle.

Later, he was stabbed eight times with a bayonet by a young German soldier, whom he killed with a rock in hand-to-hand combat.

Taken prisoner during the Battle of the Bulge, he was one of a few survivors of the infamous attack on American POWs at Malmedy, Belgium, and was the sole survivor of 40 men who took out a German machine gun nest. For his valor he was honored with three Purple Hearts and a Silver Star.

[pfiggy]

Richard Simmons allegedly slapped a man who made a sarcastic remark about one of his videos.

[heyterry]

I'm not a tough guy!

[baidaho]

Just joking with you.

[Simp]

Terry kicked my a$$ last week.

[Grandstander]

In 1804, a band of 1000 Navaho indians laid siege to a southern Rockies Spanish settlement called Cebolleta. The siege lasted two weeks until Spanish soldiers finally arrived to drive away the attackers. During the fight, a corn farmer named Domingo Baca got into a hand to hand struggle with an Indian and wound up being disemboweled by the foe's lance. Baca strapped a pillow around his belly with a belt and got right back into the fight. That night, when the fighting had dulled, Baca removed the pillow, his guts partly spilling out before horrified onlookers who immediately began to pray for this obvious dead man. Baca shoved his guts back inside his belly, called for a needle and sinew (thread made from deer fiber tissue) and calmy sewed his stomach shut. He recovered in time to rejoin the fight before the relievers arrived.

Just my opinion, but I think Baca was even tougher than Richard Simmons.

[bigheadache]

Anyone named Sunday Cow has to be tough.

[SugarBaby]

Originally Posted by skrable

Charles Durning.

The received the lifetime achievement award from the Screen Actors Guild this year. Here's a bit of his non-acting bio:

Widowed when Durning was 12, his mother worked as a laundress at the U.S. Military Academy in nearby West Point.

As a teenage usher in a burlesque house, Durning was hired to replace a drunken “second banana” on stage, then hoofed his way through upstate New York as half of ballroom dancing act for 11 years.

Durning’s early career was punctuated by stints as an elevator operator, Western Union delivery boy, cab driver, bartender, night watchman, boxer and construction worker.

His heroic yet horrifying experiences during World War II loomed large in shaping his 20s. He was in the first wave to land on Omaha Beach during the D-Day Normandy invasion on June 6, 1944, killing seven German gunners and suffering serious machine gun wounds to his right leg and shrapnel wounds over his body in that bloody battle.

Later, he was stabbed eight times with a bayonet by a young German soldier, whom he killed with a rock in hand-to-hand combat.

Taken prisoner during the Battle of the Bulge, he was one of a few survivors of the infamous attack on American POWs at Malmedy, Belgium, and was the sole survivor of 40 men who took out a German machine gun nest. For his valor he was honored with three Purple Hearts and a Silver Star.

Wow! I've always loved him. Especially as Pappy O'Daniel in "O'Brother Where Art Thou". "Moral fibah??! Wah ah invented moral fibah while you was still messin' your drawars!"

"We ain't one at a timin' it boys, we's mass communicatin'!"

[SugarBaby]

Hillary's a really tough guy.

[Rapier]

Originally Posted by pfiggy

Richard Simmons allegedly slapped a man who made a sarcastic remark about one of his videos.

Nothing like a belly laugh!!!

[apicalbodscan]

Originally Posted by pfiggy

Richard Simmons allegedly slapped a man who made a sarcastic remark about one of his videos.

How does one slap someone when they are face down?