1. – Jack Nicholson, Easy Rider, 1969. Director Dennis Hopper saw George Hanson as his Texas buddy and ex-football player Sturit. Or, the similar sounding actor-director Jack Starrett. Or, Rip Torn. Or, Bruce Dern. In fact, anyone but Nicholson, then more known as a scenarist and producer. (Jack wore a football helmet on the back of Peter Fonda’s Harley Davidson Hydraglide bike).
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