My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys

Overview

H.D. Dalton is a champion rodeo rider whose career is ruined after being gored by a bull. He returns home to discover things have drastically changed -- the family farm has been abandoned, his old girlfriend Jolie is a now a widowed mother, and his sister Cheryl has put his father in a nursing home.

Directed by Stuart Rosenberg

Top cast

Scott Glenn

H.D. Dalton

Kate Capshaw

Jolie

Ben Johnson

Jesse Dalton

Tess Harper

Cheryl

Gary Busey

Clint Hornby

Balthazar Getty

Jud

Clarence Williams III

Deputy Sheriff Virgil

Mickey Rooney

Junion

C

Cynthia Mackey

Ambulance Attendant

B

Bill Clymer

Rodeo Announcer (voice)

B

Benjamin Rosenberg

Gas Station Attendant

Megan Parlen

Becky

J

Jim Robnett

Guard at Bank

J

Jennifer Johnson

Secretary

Jan Hoag

Nurse

Dub Taylor

Gimme Cap

H

Harold Suggs

Red Man

W

Will Hussung

Galluses

Dennis Fimple

Straw Hat

Clu Gulager

Dark Glasses

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