My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys (1991)

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.

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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

J

James Terry McIlvain

Pool Player #1

Robert Knott

Pool Player #2

D

David Honeycutt Hamilton

Band Singer

Theresa Bell

Guest at Barbeque

Rex Linn

Guest at Barbeque

S

Sarah Bratton

Girl at Fruit Stand

C

Clem McSpadden

Bullmania Announcer

D

Don Endsley

Bullmania Announcer

R

Richard A. Buswell

Rodeo Fan (uncredited)

P

Payton Dunham

Photographer

Brandon E. Jackson

Rodeo Fan (uncredited)

B

Bryan Payne II

Rodeo Arena Personnel (uncredited)

K

Kevin Rushing

Sheriff at the Rodeo (uncredited)

Gary Sievers

Rodeo Fan (uncredited)

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