Colt Python

The Colt Python is used by the following actors in the following movies, television series, and anime:

Please check the Talk Page for other variants.

Colt Python with 6" Barrel - .357 Magnum

Colt Python with 4" Barrel and factory wood grips - .357 Magnum

Colt Combat Python 3" in Royal Blue finish - .357 Magnum

Colt Python Snub Nose with 2.5" barrel - .357 Magnum

Colt Python Stainless Steel variant with 6" Barrel - .357 Magnum

Colt Python Stainless Steel variant with 4" Barrel and Colt marked Rubber combat grips - .357 Magnum

Colt Python Stainless Steel variant with 2.5 inch barrel and Pachmayr grips - .357 Magnum

Colt Python with 6" Barrel and nickel finish - .357 Magnum

Specifications

(1955–2004)

• Type: Revolver

• Caliber(s): .357 Magnum, .38 Special

• Weight: 1.08 lbs (1.1 kg) to 1.36 lbs (1.4 kg)

• Length: in ( mm)

• Barrel length(s): 2.5-inch (6.4 cm), 3-inch (7.6 cm), 4-inch (10 cm), 6-inch (15 cm) and 8-inch (20 cm)

• Capacity: 6-round cylinder

• Fire Modes: SA/DA

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Film

• Glenn Plummer as Pernell in Menace II Society 1993

• Jean-Paul Belmondo as Commissaire Stanislas Borowitz in Cop or Hood (Flic Ou Voyou) (1979)

• Ed O'Neill as Det. Sellitto in The Bone Collector (1999)

• Oliver Platt as Special Agent Ed Benitez in Married to the Mob (1988)

• Scotland, PA. (2001)

• Al Lettieri as Frank Renda in Mr. Majestyk (1974)

• Anthony Edwards as Harry Washello, Robert DoQui as Fred and Mare Winningham as Julie in Miracle Mile (1988)

• Walter Matthau as Charley Varrick in Charley Varrick (1973)

• Jan-Michael Vincent as Steve in The Mechanic (1972)

• Take the Money and Run (1969)

• Prime Cut (1972)

• Samuel L. Jackson as Det. Highsmith in The Other Guys (2010)

• Isaac Hayes as Mack 'Truck' Turner in Truck Turner (1974)

• Laurence Fishburne as Furious in Boyz N The Hood (1991)

• Richard Tyson as Crisp in Kindergarten Cop (1990)

• Yves Montand as Inspector Ferrot in Police Python 357. (1976)

• Maximum Risk

• Burt Reynolds as Sgt. Tom Sharky in Sharky's Machine.

• David Della Rocco as Roc in The Boondock Saints (Snubnosed version with nickel plated finish)

• Laurence Fishburne and Cuba Gooding Jr in Boyz n the Hood

• Ángel Salazar as Chi Chi in Scarface

• Isaac Hayes as Mack "Truck" Turner in Truck Turner

• A hospital security guard in Blade

• Dawn of the Dead (1978)

• David Soul as S.F.P.D. Officer John Davis, Tim Matheson as S.F.P.D. Phil Sweet, Kip Niven as S.F.P.D. "Red" Astrachan, Robert Urich as S.F.P.D. Michael Grimes in Magnum Force (1973)

• Ted Levine as Jame "Buffalo Bill" Gumb in The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

• Gangster in McQ

• John Wayne as Detective Lon McQ in McQ

• Owen Wilson as Kenneth "Hutch" Hutchinson in Starsky & Hutch (2004)

• Chow Yun-Fat as Ken Lee, Ti Lung as Sung Tse Ho, and Kenneth Tsang as Ken in A Better Tomorrow II

• Tyne Daly as Detective Kate Moore in The Enforcer

• Denzel Washington as Frank Lucas in American Gangster

• Deborah Kara Unger as Mrs. Lynn Porter in Payback

• Al Lettieri in The Getaway (1972)

• Don Johnson as Jerry Beck in Dead Bang

• Michael Douglas as N.Y.P.D. Detective Sgt. Nick Conklin in Black Rain

• Police Academy 2

• James Brolin as Sheriff Wade Parent in The Car

• Porky's

• Michael Madsen in The Getaway (1994)

• Freddy Rodriguez as Wray, Tom Savini as Deputy Tolo and Michael Biehn as Sheriff Hague in Planet Terror (Stainless 4" Model)

• Joe Don Baker as Sheriff Buford Pusser in Walking Tall

• Dean Jones as Dr. Herman Varnick in Beethoven

• Gunman in Tango & Cash

• Robert Blake as Officer "Big John" Wintergreen in Electra Glide in Blue (1973)

• Minneapolis P.D. officer in Jingle All the Way

• Ed Lauter as Carnahan in King Kong

• A robber in Strange Days

• Bill Cosby as Mother in Mother Juggs & Speed

• Kevin Bacon as Nick Hume in Death Sentence

• Louis Gossett Jr. as Brig. General Charles "Chappy" Sinclair in Iron Eagle II

• Tom Hanks as Detective Pep Streebeck in Dragnet

• Michael Gross as William Matix in In the Line of Duty: The FBI Murders

• Daniel Baldwin as Arthur in Nothing But Trouble (Snubnosed version with nickel plated finish)

• State Trooper in Nothing But Trouble

• Christopher Doyle as Strack's henchman in Darkman

• Righteous Kill

• John Candy as Sheriff Bud Boomer in Canadian Bacon (1995)

• Kevin J. O'Connor as Roy Boy in Canadian Bacon (1995)

• Bodyguard in Wolfen

• Mickey Rourke, Sam Riley and Alexander Skarsgård in 13 (2010)

• City Hunter

Television

• Dennis Farina as Lt. Mike Torello in Crime Story (1986-1988)

• Pruitt Taylor Vince as Otis in The Walking Dead (2010 - ?)

• Andrew Lincoln as Rick Grimes in The Walking Dead (2010 - ?)

• David Soul as Kenneth "Hutch" Hutchinson in Starsky and Hutch (TV Series)

• James B. Sikking as Lt Howard Hunter in Hill Street Blues

• Found at a crime scene in an episode of Castle

• Avery Brooks as Hawk in Spenser: For Hire

• Fred Dryer as Det. Sgt. Rick Hunter in Hunter

• Phillip Glenister as DCI Gene Hunt in Ashes to Ashes (6" barrel, stainless finish and custom grips)

• Michele Placido as Commissario Corrado Cattani in La Piovra (2.5" barrel version)

• The Professionals

• Alarm für Cobra 11 - Die Autobahnpolizei

• Alan Tudyk as Wash Hoburn in Firefly (6" barrel and stainless finish)

• NCIS

• Caprica

• A stainless 4" model is used by Aleks Paunovic as "The Duke" in Sanctuary (Episode: Penance)

• Dave Chappelle and Mos Def in Chappelle's Show

• Jaime Pressly as Joy in My Name is Earl

• Skeet Ulrich as Jake Green in Jericho

Video Games

• 7.62 High Calibre

• Bloody Good Time (as "Revolver")

• Half-Life (With laser sight)

• Half-Life 2 (As the .357 Magnum)

• Half-Life 2: Episode One (As the .357 Magnum)

• Half-Life 2: Episode Two (As the .357 Magnum)

• Lethal Enforcers

• Hitman 2: Silent Assassin

• Grand Theft Auto: Vice City

• Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories

• Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories (as the "Equalizer")

• Resident Evil/Biohazard

• Resident Evil (2002)

• Team Fortress 2 (as the Spy's "Revolver")

• Perfect Dark (as the "DY357 Magnum")

• The Suffering: Ties That Bind

• S.W.A.T. 4

• Freedom Fighters

• Alan Wake

• Call of Duty: Black Ops

Anime

Title	Character	Note	Date
Riding Bean	A bad guy		1989
New Dominion Tank Police	Charles Brenten	Heavily customized	1993
Gunsmith Cats			1995-1996
Gungrave			2003-2004
Cat Planet Cuties			2010

Blank Firing Replicas

Bruni Magnum

Bruni Magnum, nickel variant - 9mm/.380 blanks

Film

• Benoît Poelvoorde as Ben in Man Bites Dog (1992)

See Also

• Colt's Manufacturing Company - A list of all firearms manufactured by Colt.