Casper Van Dien and Sean Astin also star in the western drama opening this weekend in theatrical and digital release.
Jeff Fahey is back in the saddle and doing bad, bad things.
The veteran actor who faced off against Kevin Costner in two shoot-‘em-ups directed by Lawrence Kasdan, Silverado (1985) and Wyatt Earp (1994), and more recently terrorized an entire town in the C&I Movie Award-winning Badland (2019), is playing another black-hatted rogue in the latest western directed by Brian Skiba (Dead Man’s Hand), Guns of Redemption.
The big difference this time is, the black hat he’s wearing is festooned with a gaudy feather.
Now available in limited theatrical release and on digital platforms, Guns of Redemption finds Fahey cast as the villainous General Bork, the murderous operator of a traveling bordello in the post-Civil War west. He’s always on the lookout for fresh “talent,” and continues to forcibly recruit unwilling employees until he runs into Luke (Casper Van Dien), a mysterious man with a violent past who’s looking for at shot at, well, redemption.
A native of Olean, New York, Fahey boasts an extensive and impressive list of film and television credits, ranging from Psycho III (1986) to Lost (2008-10), The Lawnmower Man (1992) to Horizon: An American Saga — Chapter 1 (2024), Machete (2010) to Texas Rising (2015). He has worked alongside — and, he gratefully acknowledges, learned a lot from — such luminaries as Gene Hackman (Split Decisions,1988) and Clint Eastwood (White Hunter, Black Heart, 1990). More recently, he appeared as a character named William “King of Hearts” Bridges opposite C&I reader favorite Jeremy Gauna as another character with a colorful moniker, Jokers Wild, in the 2023 streaming western Birthright Outlaw.
But wait, there’s more: Fahey also has pursued a career on stage, co-starring with Albert Finney in the 1986 West End premiere of Lyle Kessler’s Orphans, and later appearing prominently in a 2013 London revival of Reginald Rose’s Twelve Angry Men and a 2017 UK tour of Gore Vidal’s The Best Man. And his musical career has taken him everywhere from co-starring in Demi Lovato’s action-packed 2015 music video for “Confident” to co-writing songs for The Gray House, the upcoming Civil War era miniseries executive produced by Kevin Costner and Morgan Freeman.
Jeff Fahey recently visited the C&I Studio to talk about Guns of Redemption and other highlights of his career.
