James Dean Shirtless Smoking Hot Cowboy. For some reason, whenever movie cowboys are mentioned, one actor that come to mind is James Dean. For the longest time, we always thought he played the role of a cowboy in one of his movies.
However, during a Zoom meeting where we casually described James Dean as a cowboy, our friend Deena — who knows her classic movies more than anyone we know — mentioned that the actor never actually played a cowboy. We’re not the only one in the group who was surprised by her claim so we went ahead and did some googling. We discovered that she is right and that, true enough, James Dean never was a movie cowboy.