Colt 1851 Navy

The Colt 1851 Navy and variants can be seen in the following films, television series, video games, and anime used by the following actors:

Colt 1851 Navy - .36 caliber.

Colt 1851 Navy London Model - .36 caliber. The "London" model uses iron instead of brass components for the back strap and trigger guard.

Colt 1851 Navy Percussion

Specifications

(1851 - 1873)

• Type: Revolver

• Caliber(s): .36 Caliber

• Weight: 2.6 lbs (1.2 kg)

• Length: 14 in (35.6 cm)

• Barrel length(s): 7.5 in (19.1 cm)

• Capacity: 6-round cylinder

• Fire Modes: Single-Action

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Film

Title	Actor	Character	Notation	Date
Capt. Grant's Family (Deti kapitana Granta)	Nikolai Vitovtov	Edward Glenarvan		1936
		highwayman
The Paris Commune (Zori Parizha)	Dmitri Dorlyak	Eugene Gorrot		1936
		Communards
How the West Was Won	Gregory Peck	Cleve Van Valen		1962
	Russ Tamblyn	"The Reb"
Old Shatterhand	Guy Madison	Capt. Bradley		1964
	Gustavo Rojo	Corp. Bush
	Lex Barker	Old Shatterhand
	Ralf Wolter	Sam Hawkens
		US Cavalry officers
The Yellow One	Dieter Borsche	Sir David Lindsay		1964
Treasure of the Aztecs		Mexican soldiers and bandits		1965
Pyramid of the Sun God		Bandits		1965
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly	Eli Wallach	Tuco	with lanyard loop, used in non-firing scenes	1966
Face to Face (Faccia a faccia)	Tomas Milian	Solomon 'Beauregard' Bennet		1967
	Gian Maria Volonté	Professor Brett Fletcher
Trail of the Falcon	Gojko Mitic	Farsighted Falcon		1968
		Various characters
Little Big Man	Dustin Hoffman	Jack Crabb		1970
The Light at the Edge of the World	Yul Brynner	Jonathan Kongre		1971
The Headless Horseman	Oleg Vidov	Maurice Gerald		1973
	Aarne Üksküla	Cassius Calhoun
	Enrique Santiesteban	Miguel Diaz
	Aleksandr Milokostyj	Henry Poindexter
	Rolando Dias Reyes	US Army Major
		soldiers
My Name Is Nobody	Henry Fonda	Jack Beauregard		1973
	Terence Hill	Nobody
Apaches (Apachen)		Johnson's henchmen and Mexicans		1973
Ulzana	Wilfried Zander	The coachman		1974
The White Buffalo	Will Sampson	Chief Crazy Horse		1977
	Charles Bronson	Wild Bill Hickok
Dawn of the Dead	Ken Foree	Peter	Possibly Uberti replicas	1978
For a Cop's Hide (Pour la peau d'un flic)			Decoration in Choucas' office	1981
Arabella - Pirate's Daughter (Arabella, mereröövli tütar)	Lembit Peterson	Captain Taaniel Tina	"London" model	1983
Hell Comes to Frogtown	Julius LeFlore	Squidlips		1988
Glory	Matthew Broderick	Col. Shaw		1989
	Cary Elwes	Major Forbes
	Cliff De Young	Col. Montgomery
Romper Stomper	James McKenna	Bubs		1992
Gettysburg	C. Thomas Howell	Thomas Chamberlain		1993
	Various actors	Union Officers
	Various actors	Confederate Officers
The Canary Connection (Kanárská spojka)	Jirí Krytinár	Dwarf bodyguard		1994
	Petronela Vancíková	Teresa
The Night Before Christmas	Terence Hill	Travis	1851 Navy and Pietta Colt 1851 Navy Sheriff's replica	1994
American Beauty			Seen in Franks gun case, Nickel-plated and fitted with Ivory grips	1999
Gangs of New York	David Hemmings	Mr. Schermerhorns	dual-wielded	2002
Ned Kelly	Heath Ledger	Ned Kelly		2003
The Fall	Lee Pace	Masked Bandit		2006
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford	Paul Schneider	Dick Liddil		2007
Hot Fuzz	Jim Broadbent	Inspector Frank Butterman	Engraved gold cylinders with ivory grips	2007
Watching the Detectives	Cillian Murphy	Neil		2007
Lucky Luke	Daniel Prévost	Pat Poker		2009
	Melvil Poupaud	Jesse James	12" barrel
	André Oumansky	The President	12" barrel
		Thugs
Jonah Hex	Josh Brolin	Jonah Hex		2010
True Grit	Jeff Bridges	Deputy Marshal Reuben J. "Rooster" Cogburn	dual-wielded	2010
Rurouni Kenshin Part I: Origins	Teruyuki Kagawa	Kanryuu Takeda		2012
		Henchmen
Casa de mi Padre			Seen in a beer commercial	2012
Killing Lincoln	Mark Halpern	George Atzerodt		2013
	Jesse Johnson	John Wilkes Booth
The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared	Robert Gustafsson	Allan Karlsson		2013
Rurouni Kenshin: Kyoto Inferno				2014
The Homesman	Tommy Lee Jones	George Briggs		2014
Forsaken	Michael Wincott	Dave Turner		2015
	Dylan Smith	Little Ned
Hickok	Luke Hemsworth	Wild Bill Hickok	dual-wielded; aged ivory grips	2017
	Kaiwi Lyman	John Wesley Hardin	dual-wielded; nickel-plated with ivory grips
The Sisters Brothers	John C. Reilly	Eli Sisters		2018
	Joaquin Phoenix	Charlie Sisters
	Jake Gyllenhaal	John Morris
	Richard Brake	Rex
The Ninth	Jonathan Salway	James Reed		2019
John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum	Keanu Reeves	John Wick		2019
True History of the Kelly Gang	George MacKay	Ned Kelly		2019
	Louis Hewison	Steve Hart
	Gavin Robson	A stagecoach driver
	Earl Cave	Dan Kelly	Sheriff's Model
News of the World	Thomas Francis Murphy	Merritt Farley		2020
	Clay James	Almay's henchman
	Cash Lilley	Almay's henchman
		Farley's henchmen
Old Henry		Ketchum's henchmen	Including one with brass frame	2021

Television

Show Title	Actor	Character	Note / Episode	Air Date
Reilly: Ace of Spies	John Rhys-Davies	Tanyatos		1984
North and South	John Stockwell	Lt. Billy Hazard	Both original Cap and ball and Cartridge replicas	1985
	William Ostrander	Forbes LaMotte
	David Carradine	Justin LaMotte
	Lewis Smith	Charles Main
	Georg Stanford Brown	Garrison Grady
	David Weaver	Preston Smith
North and South: Book II	James Read	Brigadier General George Hazard		1986
	Lewis Smith	Capt. Charles Main
	Whip Hubley	Lt. Stephen Kent
	Patrick Dollaghan	Maj. Joshua Dupree
	Wayne Newton	Capt. Thomas Turner
	James Houghton	Lt. Ambrose Pell
	Gary Grubbs	Lt. Jimmy Pickles
	Tony Frank	Salem Jones	Cartridge replica
	Philip Casnoff	Elkanah Bent
	Lee Horsley	Rafe Beaudeen	Nickel "Sheriff's Model"
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes	(uncredited)	Young John Turner	(S01E04)	1991
		Bushrangers and guards
Stargate: Atlantis	Ron Selmour	Jannick	"Identity" (S05E18)	2008
	Todd Thomson	Bordal
Supernatural - Season 6	Matthew John Armstrong	Elias Finch	"Frontierland" (S06E18)	2011
	Dean Wray	Sheriff
	Gordon Michael Woolvett	Sheriffs' Deputy
	Stephen Bradley Jones	Possessed cowboy
	Jim Shield	Possessed cowboy
	Jensen Ackles	Dean Winchester	.44 caliber reproduction with pearl grips / "Frontierland" (S06E18)
	Jared Padalecki	Sam Winchester
1864	Johannes Lassen	Wilhelm Dinesen	Various Soldiers all used the revolver	2014
	Jens Sætter-Lassen	Peter Jensen
Demons (Besy)	Evgeni Tkachuk	Ivan Shatov	Denix non-firing replica	2014
1864		Danish soldiers		2014
The Son - Season 1		Texas Rangers		2017
Clash of Futures		A dance teacher	Ep. 04 "Revolution"	2018
Around the World in 80 Days	Ibrahim Koma	Passepartout	Ep. 07	2021
	Gary Beadle	Bass Reeves
		Outlaws

Anime

Film/Television Title	Character	Notation	Date
Gun Frontier	Harlock		2002
Kino's Journey: The Beautiful World	Kino	"Navy London" variant	2003
Samurai Champloo	Mukuro	Anachronistic	2004-2005
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure	Dead man	S2E14, "Justice, Part 1"	2014
Appare-Ranman!	Richard Riesman		2020

Animation

Film/TV Show	Actor	Character	Note	Date
Rango		Town's folk		2011

Video Game

Title	Appears As	Note	Release Date
Resident Evil 4		On a painting in a castle	2005
Hot Dogs, Horseshoes & Hand Grenades			2016
Escape from Tarkov		Unusable; seen on "Pistolety i Revolvery" magazine	2016
Red Dead Redemption II	Navy Revolver	Added in Moonshiners update	2018

Colt 1851 (Cartridge Conversion)

Colt 1851 Navy with a cartridge conversion. This is a reproduction of the gun used by Clint Eastwood in The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly and imported by Cimmaron Arms.

Colt 1851 Navy with a cartridge conversion. This is a reproduction of the gun used by Eli Wallach in The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly and imported by Cimmaron Arms.

Only distinguishing trait is a loading gate so that the weapon can fire metallic cartridges. In films, these guns are commonly placed in anachronistic time periods such as the Civil War, due to the safer method of firing cartridge blanks instead of cap and ball blank shot.

Film

Title	Actor	Character	Notation	Date
Red Mountain	Alan Ladd	Brett Sherwood		1951
	Arthur Kennedy	Lane Waldron
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly	Clint Eastwood	Blondie	with silver snake grips	1966
	Eli Wallach	Tuco	with lanyard loop
	Lee Van Cleef	Angel Eyes	with lanyard loop
Texas Across the River	Alain Delon	Andrea		1966
	Joey Bishop	Kronk
White Wolves (Weisse Wölfe)	Helmut Schreiber	Sam Blake		1969
	Fred Delmare	Peter Hille
	Karl Zugowski	Andy Sleek
		Bandits
Chato's Land	Charles Bronson	Chato	Possibly Uberti replicas	1972
	Jack Palance	Capt. Quincey Whitmore
	James Whitmore	Joshua Everette
	Simon Oakland	Jubal Hooker
	Ralph Waite	Elias Hooker
	Richard Basehart	Nye Buell
	Victor French	Martin Hall
	William Watson	Harvey Lansing
	Roddy McMillan	Gavin Malechie
	Lee Patterson	George Dunn
	Raul Castro	Mexican scout
Sing, Cowboy, Sing		A bandit		1981
Dances With Wolves	Kevin Costner	Lt. John J. Dunbar		1990
	Maury Chaykin	Major Farmbrough
		Union officers
Purgatory	Sam Shepard	Sheriff Forrest / Wild Bill Hickock	Dual wields, Pietta replicas	1999
In a Valley of Violence	James Ransone	Deputy Gilly Martin		2016
	Larry Fessenden	Deputy Roy
	Toby Huss	Deputy Harris

Television

Title	Actor	Character	Note	Date
Book of Boba Fett, The		Cad Bane	Modified to resemble the LL-30 Blaster Pistol	2021

Video Game

Game Title	Appears as	Note	Release Date
Call of Juarez: Gunslinger	"Ranger"		2013
Fistful of Frags	"Colt Navy"		2014
Dying Light	"Ranger"		2015

Colt 1851 Navy (Richards-Mason Conversion)

Colt 1851 Navy with Richards-Mason cartridge conversion - .38 Long Colt.

The Colt 1851 Navy with a Richards-Mason cartridge conversion made to look like a POS used by Russell Crowe in the film The Quick and the Dead (1995).

When cartridges became popular in the 1870s, percussion revolvers became dated. To fix this, a cartridge conversion method was created by Charles B. Richards and William Mason, employees of Colt at the time. The conversion proved popular and allowed gunslingers to keep their favorite guns, but now easier and faster to reload.

Film

Title	Actor	Character	Notation	Date
Red Mountain	John Ireland	Gen. William Quantrill		1951
	Dan White	Jim Braden
	Francis McDonald	Marshal Roberts
Wyatt Earp	Kevin Costner	Wyatt Earp		1994
	Martin Kove	Ed Ross
Wild Bill	Jeff Bridges	James Butler "Wild Bill" Hickok		1995
The Quick and the Dead	Leonardo DiCaprio	The Kid		1995
	Russell Crowe	Cort
	Raynor Scheine	Ratsy
3:10 to Yuma	Christian Bale	Dan Evans		2007
	Logan Lerman	William Evans
True History of the Kelly Gang	Earl Cave	Dan Kelly	Two different, with 5.5" and 4 3/4" barrels	2019

Video Games

Game Title	Appears as	Mods	Notation	Release Date
Hot Dogs, Horseshoes & Hand Grenades	"C1851 Conversion"			2016

Colt 1851 "U.S. Marshal"

Colt 1851 "U.S. Marshal".

A pocket model of the 1851 with cylinder grooves. Cerimonial modern models have nickel engraved finishes and sometimes ivory grips.

Film

Title	Actor	Character	Notation	Date
Quigley Down Under	Tony Bonner	Dobkin	fitted with Ivory grips	1990
Lucky Luke		thugs		2009

See Also

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