Dern was a louse in "Hang 'em High" and lots of other oaters. Popped up in similar roles in old TV westerns too. Couple of our cable channels here run TV westerns from back in the 1960s. Gunsmoke is on every night on one channel.
He was interviewed in some TV series about westerns that I watched last year and joked that Wayne told him something along the lines of how hated he'd be, after people watched The Cowboys and saw him shoot Wayne in the back..
