There's respect, admiration and a little reverence in the actor's voice when he talks about Joel and Ethan Coen, the renowned filmmakers who cast him as the outlaw Lucky Ned Pepper in "True Grit ...

Rooster Cogburn describes Ned Pepper. True Grit sees Rooster describe Ned to Jeremy Slate’s Emmett Quincy, which further brings the character’s wit and charm to the forefront.

Ned Pepper Duvall, who played the outlaw Ned Pepper, is still going strong at 94 and remains one of the most respected actors of his generation. While True Grit gave him a solid villainous role ...

Apart from the goatee, Barry Pepper has the suit and haircut of a G-man. He's miles from the trail dust and rotting teeth of Lucky Ned Pepper (no relation), whom he portrays in the Coen brothers ...

Barry Pepper only shows up about two thirds of the way through "True Grit," and he manages to steal the Coens' adaptation of Charles Portis' novel away from the Oscar winner and movie star as ...

Then again, True Grit’s dialogue, much of it drawn from Charles Portis’s 1968 novel, is a language all its own, ... Ned Pepper (Barry Pepper): Do you think one on four is a dogfall?

St. Louis Park natives Joel and Ethan Coen said they wanted to remake the classic western "True Grit" in part to rectify an injustice to the novel on which it's based. Their film, which opens ...

Whatever your memories of John Wayne's True Grit (if you have memories of it at all), they probably outsize the film's actual virtues. Though the Duke walked away with a Best Actor Oscar, the 1969 ...