With regards to westerns, John Wayne comes in first, Randolph Scott 2nd.
Who’s 3rd? Audie Murphy? Rod Cameron? Rory Calhoun?
Actually, I think some of the old-time silent-era guys should rank pretty highly, as many of them had jobs as actual working cowboys in their youth, and/or became famed rodeo performers before entering films... Hoot Gibson, Jack Hoxie, Tom Mix, and such.
“...We’ll send them all we’ve got,
John Wayne and Randolph Scott;
Remember those exciting fighting scenes?....”