Kurt Russells 10 Best NonTarantino Roles (According To IMDb)

Kurt Russell’s 10 Best Non-Tarantino Roles (According To IMDb)

Kurt Russell remains one of Quentin Tarantino’s favorite actors, but these are his best roles outside of the Tarantino-verse and ranked by IMDb.

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Kurt Russell remains one of Quentin Tarantino’s favorite actors, appearing in his last three movies — Death Proof, The Hateful Eight, and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. It is not a surprise that Tarantino works with Russell, as the director has always held a special place in his heart for actors who appeared in cult classics from his days as a video store clerk.

Russell got his start as a child actor in the ‘60s and worked with a who’s who of Hollywood directors. He appeared in cult favorites from directors like John Carpenter and Mike Nichols to blockbusters by names like Roland Emmerich and Ron Howard.

10 Stargate (1994) – 7.1

In 1994, Kurt Russell signed on for one of the two lead roles in the science fiction action thriller Stargate. Roland Emmerich directed the movie, in which an Egyptologist (James Spader) discovers a Stargate, a wormhole leading to another location in space. Russell stars as Jack O’Neil, an Air Force Special Ops officer enlisted to travel with him through the Stargate. The movie was a massive success and spawned the television series Stargate SG-1.

9 Furious 7 (2015) – 7.1

Kurt Russell joined the Fast & Furious saga in 2015 with the seventh installment, titled Furious 7. Russell played Mr. Nobody, a government agent who leads a secret special ops team. In Furious 7, Mr. Nobody approaches Dom to get his help in tracking down an object known as God’s Eye, and in exchange, he will lead the team to hunt down Deckard Shaw. Russell reprised his role in The Fate of the Furious and F9.

8 Silkwood (1983) – 7.2

Kurt Russell appeared in Silkwood in 1983, a biographical film about the life of Karen Silkwood. The woman was a whistle-blower and labor union activist who was investigating Kerr-McGee Corporation when she died in an auto collision. Meryl Streep starred as Silkwood and Kurt Russell co-starred as Drew Stephens, Silkwood’s boyfriend in the movie. Silkwood received critical acclaim, picking up five Oscar nominations, including Best Director for Mike Nichols and Best Actress for Streep.

7 Escape From New York (1981) – 7.2

Kurt Russell’s most iconic role was from his 1981 movie Escape from New York by director John Carpenter. Russell starred in the movie as Snake Plissken, a former soldier and federal prisoner in a post-apocalyptic future. When the President of the United States ends up trapped in the maximum security prison city of Manhattan, the government sends Snake in to save him.

Plissken was back in 1996 for the sequel Escaper from L.A., where Los Angeles was a prison society where government sent those deemed immoral. The U.S. once again uses Snake for a dangerous mission.

6 The Fox and the Hound (1981) – 7.3

Kurt Russell voiced one of the lead roles in Disney’s iconic 1981 animated movie The Fox and the Hound. In the movie, Russell voices a hound dog named Copper while Mickey Rooney voiced a red fox named Tod. The two animals become close friends when they were young, but the movie then moves to the future where Copper is now a hunting dog and his master is targeting Tod for his latest hunt. The Fox and the Hound is a tale of friendship and how even natural enemies can develop a relationship that will last a lifetime.

5 Big Trouble in Little China (1986) – 7.3

In 1986, Kurt Russell joined forces with John Carpenter again for another movie that ended up as a cult classic. In Big Trouble in Little China, Russell starred as Jack Burton, a truck driver who helps rescue a woman from bandits in San Francisco’s China Town. They then end up in the underworld and face a sorcerer who wants to use the woman to help release a curse. Big Trouble in Little China was a commercial failure, but it ended up becoming successful once it hit the home video market in the ’80s.

4 Miracle (2004) – 7.5

In 2004, Kurt Russell took on the role of hockey coach Herb Brooks in the inspirational sports movie Miracle. This movie was based on the true story of the United States hockey team in the 1980 Winter Olympics. Brooks coached the underdog team to the famous Miracle on Ice.

Russell took the character from his time as a college hockey coach to his role as the man who led the United States into the Olympics. The team overcame all odds and eventually upset the powerful Soviet Union before also beating Finland and winning the gold medal.

3 Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017) – 7.6

Kurt Russell gained an entire new generation of fans thanks to two franchises. The first was his role in Furious 7, but even bigger was his role as the principal bad guy in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2. In that movie, Russell played Ego, the Living Planet, who also was the father of Peter Quill, the hero known as Star-Lord. Russell’s Ego was one of the most powerful villains introduced in the Marvel Cinematic Universe to date.

2 Tombstone (1993) – 7.8

In 1993, Kurt Russell starred as the legendary lawman Wyatt Earp in the western action movie Tombstone. The movie focused on the rising danger in the two of Tombstone between the Earp family, who became marshals in their new town, and the Cowboys, led by Curly Bill. The cast was impressive. Val Kilmer starred as Doc Holliday while Sam Elliott and Bill Paxton took on the roles of Earp’s brothers, Virgil and Morgan. Powers Boothe starred as Curly Bill while Michael Biehn took on the role as his right-hand man Johnny Ringo.

1 The Thing (1982) – 8.1

In 1982, Kurt Russell starred in the John Carpenter movie The Thing. This movie remade the classic sci-fi film The Thing From Another World, adapted from the John W. Campbell Jr. novella Who Goes There? Russell is part of a team stationed at a research base in the Antarctica. When an alien infiltrates the base and proves it can take on the exact form of anyone it sees, the team does not know who to trust and the alien kills them one by one.

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