Johnny Ringo was a gunfighter and outlaw. He had been acquainted with Kate Fisher before she became involved with Doc Holliday. He spent two years tracking them both, eventually tracing them to Tombstone in October 1881. He was promptly hired by Pa Clanton to help his sons kill Holliday, replacing Seth Harper, who had been killed by Holliday. He eventually found Kate and believed her when she said Holliday had left for New Mexico with another woman, the First Doctor's companion Dodo Chaplet.
In Tombstone, he killed Charlie, the bartender of the Last Chance Saloon. During the gunfight at the O.K. Corral, he grabbed Dodo and threatened to kill her, but when he tried to kill Holliday, he was shot and killed instead. (TV: The Gunfighters)
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- Historically, Johnny Ringo was not involved in the Clanton/Holliday feud.
- Among the actors considered to play Ringo in The Gunfighters were Patrick Troughton, John Carson, William Dexter, Philip Madoc and John Slater. (TCH 7)