Boots Southerland

Acting

Boots Southerland (born Marlin Southerland, c. 1955, raised on a ranch in Manzanola, Colorado) is an American actor, stunt performer, and wrangler of 34 years in the film industry. He served in the U.S. Navy as a Flight Deck Aircraft Director on the USS Hancock (1964–1967, Vietnam) before moving to New Mexico in 1970, where he trained horses for stunt work — falling, rearing, and stagecoach driving — which led to his entry into the New Mexico film industry as a horse wrangler, stunt performer, and actor. He continues to work in all three capacities. His most notable film credits include a "managerial" victim in No Country for Old Men (2007, directed by the Coen Brothers, with Tommy Lee Jones), Marshal Fred White in Wyatt Earp (1994, with Kevin Costner), a Warden in Terminator Salvation (2009), US Marshal Keith in Sicario (2015), Marshall in Jane Got a Gun (2015, with Nicole Kidman and…