While not associated with being a badass in movies, Charles Durning deserves mention in the "real life" category. I suspect he would demure and just say he was doing what many others around him did.
Also, from the same greatest generation, Ernest Borgnine. Played some bad dudes in his movie career and was one of many in the classic The Wild Bunch.
Another of The Wild Bunch gang was William Holden. A different kind of bad ass in Stalag 17.
I really like Sam Elliot in the Quick and the Dead. Not the one with Sharon Stone and Gene Hackman. The one that HBO made a while back. Liked Tom Selleck in Quigley Down Under. Especially at the end when he says, "I said I didn't have much use for hand guns, I never said I didn't know how to use one." John Wayne of course. Angel and the Badman is a favorite. Don't care much for his non western ones with the exception of The Quiet Man.
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