Colt Detective Special

The Colt Detective special has appeared in the following movies, television series, and video games used by the following actors:

Colt Detective Special 1st Gen - .38 Special

Colt Detective Special 3rd Gen - .38 Special

Movies

• Public Enemies (2009)

• a mob hitman in The Godfather

• Russell Crowe as Detective Bud White and Guy Pearce as Lt. Ed Exley in L.A. Confidential

• Sondra Locke in Sudden Impact

• John Ericson as "Pretty Boy" Floyd in Pretty Boy Floyd (1960)

• Sean Connery as James Bond in You Only Live Twice

• Pierce Brosnan as Julian Noble in The Matador

• Andy Garcia as Stone in The Untouchables

• Robert De Niro as David "Noodles" Aaronson, James Woods as Max Bercovicz, William Forsythe as Philip "Cockeye" Stein, and Richard Bright as "Chicken Joe" in Once Upon A Time In America

• James Cagney as Eddie Bartlett in The Roaring Twenties

• Judge Reinhold as Detective Billy Rosewood in Beverly Hills Cop

• Gene Hackman as Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle in The French Connection

• Warren Beatty as Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel in Bugsy

• Marcia Gay Harden in Miller's Crossing

• NYPD Detectives in The Usual Suspects

• Michael Douglas as NYPD Detective Sergeant Nick Conklin in Black Rain

• An unlucky woman and Lawrence Tierney as Joe Cabot in Reservoir Dogs

• Brad Pitt as Jerry Welbach and J.K. Simmons as Ted Slocum in The Mexican

• San Francisco detectives in Bullitt

• A Bullet For Joey (1955)

• Bataan (1943) (Mocked Up as Colt 1911 pistol)

• Richard Roundtree as P.I. John Shaft in SHAFT (1971)

• Bruce Willis uses one as a "Spare rod" as Detective Hartigan in Sin City

• Used by Robert Forster as Max Cherry and later borrowed by Pam Grier as Jackie Brown in Jackie Brown (1997)

• Bob Peterson as Pretty Boy Foyd in The FBI Story (1959)

• William Phipps as Baby Face Nelson in The FBI Story (1959)

• The Hat Box Mystery (1947)

• Humphrey Bogart as Philip Marlowe in The Big Sleep (1946)

• John Ridgely as Eddie Mars in The Big Sleep (1946)

• Elia Kazan as Googi Zucco in City for Conquest (1940)

• Ben Welden as Cobb in City for Conquest (1940)

• Prison Guards in Each Dawn I Die (1939)

• Prisoner in Each Dawn I Die (1939)

• Edward G. Robinson as Johnny Blake in Bullets or Ballots (1936)

• Vince Barnett as Studio Officer Gulliver in The Death Kiss (1932)

• John Wray as Detective Lieutenant Sheehan in The Death Kiss (1932)

• Wade Boteler as Sergeant Owen Hilliker in The Death Kiss (1932)

• Edward Van Sloan as Tom Avery in The Death Kiss (1932)

Television

• Charlie's Angels (TV)

• NYPD Detectives including Harvey Keitel as Det. Gene Hunt in Life on Mars

• Jack Webb as Sgt. Joe Friday in Dragnet

Video Games

• Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven