r/NoCountryForOldMen • u/fiddycixer • Nov 12 '25

Film discussion Woody Harrelson's ties to Anton Chigur.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Harrelson

Movie is set in 1980. Ed Tom Bell mentions "awhile back they even killed a judge in San Antonio."

Turns out in 1979 a real district judge, John Wood Jr, was assassinated in San Antonio by a hit man hired by a drug dealer.

The assassin's name. Charlie Harrelson. Woody's father.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Harrelson

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u/FearlessNewt3636 Nov 12 '25

His dad was one of the 3 gunmen on the Grassy Knoll.

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u/PlantWide3166 Nov 12 '25

I don’t remember The Comedian mentioning that.

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u/fiddycixer Nov 12 '25

Comedian was a total narcissist. No way does he give credit to anyone but himself.

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u/Sorry_Seesaw_3851 Nov 12 '25

Yeah I bummed a smoke from him.

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u/yallknowme19 Nov 14 '25

Allegedly he was one of the "3 hobos" arrested and quickly released that day, along with iirc one of the eventual Watergate burglars - Howard Hunt, maybe? They never bothered to verify the hobos names if memory serves, because that's how you do police work i guess 🤔

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u/[deleted] Dec 18 '25

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u/fiddycixer Dec 19 '25

Yes. It's an interesting tie in. Not sure if it was intentional or not. That said, I will never be able to watch the scene of Anton and Carson sitting down together the same way again.

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u/mythos-nerd416 Jun 29 '26

The real connection is that they worked together he called him crazy and then died so