6 Best I. Stanford Jolley Movies

By Vlad Zakh · September 7, 2026

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I. Stanford Jolley was a tireless Hollywood character actor who appeared in over two hundred films and was often a villain in westerns and serials from the 1930s through the 1960s. The Proud Ones collides an ageing sheriff’s past with a crooked casino operator, The Iron Sheriff faces a crisis of conscience over a robbery-murder, The Romance of Rosy Ridge courts a Missouri farmer’s daughter after the Civil War, and The Macahans heads west with a brother’s family. Murder in the Big House and The Young Guns round out the list.

The Proud Ones (1956) 01

The Proud Ones (1956)

TMDB ★ 6.5

I. Stanford Jolley appears in this western about an ageing sheriff whose troubled past collides with a crooked casino operator threatening to upend his frontier cattle town.

Directed by Robert D. Webb · 1h 34m · Rated NR

Where to watch

Rent or buy: Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home

The Iron Sheriff (1957) 02

The Iron Sheriff (1957)

TMDB ★ 6.6

I. Stanford Jolley features in this western about a frontier sheriff who faces a crisis of conscience when the trail of a robbery-murder leads directly to his own son.

Directed by Sidney Salkow · 1h 13m · Rated NR

Where to watch

Stream: ScreenPix Apple TV channel, ScreenPix Amazon Channel

The Romance of Rosy Ridge (1947) 03

The Romance of Rosy Ridge (1947)

TMDB ★ 6.7

I. Stanford Jolley appears in this drama about a mysterious Civil War veteran who courts a Missouri farmer's daughter amid tense postwar unrest.

Directed by Roy Rowland · 1h 45m · Rated NR

Where to watch

Rent or buy: Amazon Video, Apple TV Store

The Macahans (1976) 04

The Macahans (1976)

TMDB ★ 6.7

I. Stanford Jolley appears in this television pilot about a pioneering westerner who helps his brother's family move west, only for the outbreak of the Civil War to upend their journey.

Directed by Bernard McEveety · 2h 30m

Murder in the Big House (1942) 05

Murder in the Big House (1942)

TMDB ★ 6.8

I. Stanford Jolley appears in this crime drama about a reporter who grows suspicious after a Death Row prisoner is killed under mysterious circumstances just before his execution.

Directed by B. Reeves Eason · 0h 59m · Rated NR

The Young Guns (1956) 06

The Young Guns (1956)

TMDB ★ 7.2

I. Stanford Jolley features in this western about the bullied, orphaned son of a notorious gunslinger who flees his town and falls in with a gang of youthful outlaws.

Directed by Albert Band · 1h 24m · Rated NR

Where to watch

Stream: HBO Max Amazon Channel · Rent or buy: Amazon Video, Apple TV Store

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Vlad Zakh

Vlad Zakh

Founder, Movieix

Founder of Movieix. He started the site because most recommendation pages felt like noise. Here, lists are sorted by who's in the film, where it's from and what mood you're in tonight.