Colt Model 1903/1908

This Colt semi-automatic hammerless pistol was produced between 1903 and 1945. It served with the US Military as an officer's sidearm and was also commonly used by criminals. It was chambered in .32 ACP.

The same design was offered in .380 ACP as the Colt Model 1908 Pocket Hammerless pistol (not to be confused with the ultra-compact Colt Model 1908 Vest Pocket Pistol)

Colt Model 1903 Pocket Hammerless Pistol Blued - .32 ACP

Colt Model 1903 Pocket Hammerless Pistol Nickel with pearl grips - .32 ACP

Colt 1903 Hammerless with Colt Wood Grips - .32 ACP

Colt 1903/1908

Specifications

(1903 – 1945)

• Type: Pistol

• Caliber: .32 ACP (M1903), .380 ACP (M1908)

• Weight: 1.5 lbs (0.68 kg)

• Length: 7 in (18 cm)

• Barrel length(s): 4 in (10 cm)

• Capacity: 8 rounds (M1903), 7 rounds (M1908)

• Fire Modes: Semi-Auto

The Colt Model 1903 and variants can be seen in the following films, television series, video games, and anime used by the following actors:

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Film

Title	Actor	Character	Notes	Date
The Unbeliever	Raymond McKee	Philip Landicutt		1918
Shoulder Arms	Charlie Chaplin	Charlie		1918
	Syd Chaplin	The sergeant
The Pay-Off	Lowell Sherman	Gene Fenmore		1930
	Hugh Trevor	Rocky
The Maltese Falcon	Dwight Frye	Wilmer Cook		1931
	Ricardo Cortez	Sam Spade
	J. Farrell MacDonald	Det. Sgt. Tom Polhouse
Mystery Liner	Boothe Howard	Capt. Downey		1934
The Black Cat	Bela Lugosi	Dr. Vitus Werdegast		1934
	David Manners	Peter Alison
	Egon Brecher	The Majordomo
The General Died at Dawn	Gary Cooper	O'Hara	Nickel plated with pearl grips	1936
	Madeleine Carroll	Judy Perrie
	J.M. Kerrigan	Leach
	Dudley Digges	Mr. Wu	Blued
Satan Met a Lady	Warren William	Ted Shane		1936
West of Shanghai	Ricardo Cortez	Gordon Creed		1937
Silver Blaze	Ralph Truman	Bert Prince		1937
	John Turnbull	Inspector Lestrade
		A police detective
Bulldog Drummond's Revenge	John Barrymore	Col. J.A. Nielson		1937
	Reginald Denny	Algy Longworth
	E.E. Clive	'Tenny' Tennison
	John Howard	Capt. 'Bulldog' Drummond
Bulldog Drummond Escapes	Heather Angel	Phyllis Clavering		1937
	Reginald Denny	Algy Longworth
	Porter Hall	Norman Merridew
	Walter Kingsford	Professor Stanton
	Ray Milland	Capt. 'Bulldog' Drummond
Bulldog Drummond in Africa	Reginald Denny	Algy Longworth		1938
	E.E. Clive	"Tenny" Tennison
	John Howard	Capt. 'Bulldog' Drummond
	J. Carrol Naish	Richard Lane
	Anthony Quinn	Fordine
A Slight Case of Murder			Seen in the pile of weapon	1938
Algiers	Gino Corrado	Detective		1938
	Johnny Downs	Pierrot
	Stanley Fields	Carlos
Torture Ship	Lyle Talbot	Lt. Bob Bennett		1939
	Russell Hopton	Harry 'The Carver' Bogard
	Eddie Holden	Ole Olson
	Wheeler Oakman	John Ritter
	Stanley Blystone	Briggs
Foreign Correspondent	Charles Wagenheim	The assassin	Nickel plated with black Colt grips	1940
	Martin Kosleck	Tramp
	(uncredited)	A female accomplice
Saboteur		Tobin's man		1942
Lady Gangster		A gangster		1942
Casablanca	Humphrey Bogart	Rick Blaine		1942
This Gun for Hire	Alan Ladd	Philip Raven	Model 1903, blued and nickel plated	1942
	Marc Lawrence	Tommy	Model 1903, nickel plated
The Big Sleep	Humphrey Bogart	Philip Marlowe		1946
	Louis Jean Heydt	Joe Brody
The Other One (La otra)	Dolores del Rio	María Méndez as Magdalena		1946
The Blue Dahlia	William Bendix	Buzz		1946
	Alan Ladd	Johnny Morrison
Calcutta	Alan Ladd	Neale Gordon	Model 1908	1946
	Paul Singh	Mul Raj Malik
Desert Fury	John Hodiak	Eddie Bendix		1947
	Wendell Corey	Johnny Ryan
Dead Reckoning	Lizabeth Scott	'Dusty' Chandler		1947
Parole, Inc.	Noel Cravat	Blackie Olson		1948
Key Largo	Humphrey Bogart	Frank McCloud		1948
	Harry Lewis	Edward 'Toots' Bass
	Edward G. Robinson	Johnny Rocco
D.O.A.	Neville Brand	Chester		1949
Trapped	James Todd	Jack Sylvester		1949
Appointment with Danger	Alan Ladd	Al Goddard		1950
	Paul Lees	Gene Gunner
His Kind of Woman	Robert Mitchum	Dan Milner		1951
Macao	Robert Mitchum	Nick Cochran		1952
	William Bendix	Lawrence C. Trumble
Suddenly	Frank Sinatra	John Baron		1954
	Nancy Gates	Ellen Benson
Dames Don't Care! (Les femmes s'en balancent)	Eddie Constantine	Lemmy Caution		1954
	François Perrot	Langdon Burdell
		Thugs
	Jacques Castelot	Granworth Aymes	Nickel plated
Grisbi (Touchez pas au grisbi)	Michel Jourdan	Marco		1954
The Desperate Hours	Humphrey Bogart	Glenn Griffin		1955
When a Woman Meddles (Quand la femme s'en mêle)	Alain Delon	Jo		1957
	Jean Servais	Henri Godot
	Edwige Feuillère	Maine
	Bernard Blier	Félix Seguin
Blue Arrow (Golubaya strela)			Seen among saboteurs' guns	1958
The Mask of the Gorilla (Le Gorille vous salue bien)	Jean-Roger Caussimon	Léon		1958
	Robert Berri	Combinat
Riff Raff Girls (Du rififi chez les femmes)	Robert Hossein	Marcel Point-Bleu		1959
	Roger Hanin	Le Bug
	Pierre Blanchar	"The Pirate"
The Hideous Sun Demon	Peter Similuk	George Messorio		1959
Shoot the Pianist (Tirez sur le pianiste)	Albert Rémy	Chico Saroyan		1960
	Charles Aznavour	Edouard Saroyan
	Jean-Jacques Aslanian	Richard Saroyan
	Claude Mansard	Momo
Kid Galahad	Jeff Morris	Ralphie		1962
	Charles Bronson	Lew Nyack
	Richard Devon	Marvin
Code Name: Tiger (Le Tigre aime la chair fraîche)		Turkish policemen		1964
The Spy who Came in from the Cold	Peter van Eyck	Hans-Dieter Mundt		1965
Casanova '70	Michèle Mercier	Noelle		1965
Tokyo Drifter	Eiji Go	Tanaka	replica	1966
		Otsuka's gangster
Poppies Are Also Flowers	E.G. Marshall	Coley Jones		1966
	Angie Dickinson	Linda Benson
The Devil's Brigade	Carroll O'Connor	Major General Maxwell Hunter		1968
The Cycle Savages	Melody Patterson	Lea	nickel finish, pearl grips	1969
	Maray Ayres	Sandy
Patton	George C. Scott	Gen. George S. Patton Jr.		1970
Dames Don't Care (Slecnám nic nevadí)	Ludek Munzar	Lemmy Caution		1970
	Jana Hlavácová	Pauletta Benito
The Grissom Gang	Tony Musante	Eddie Hagan		1971
The Omega Man	Rosalind Cash	Lisa		1971
State of Siege (État de Siège)		Guerrillas		1972
Shaft's Big Score!	Joe Santos	Pascal		1972
The Getaway	Ali MacGraw	Carol McCoy		1972
Super Fly	Ron O'Neal	Youngblood Priest		1972
	Nate Adams	Dealer
	Charles McGregor	Fat Freddie
Hickey & Boggs	Carmencristina Moreno	Mary Ann	nickel plated	1972
Trouble Man	Paul Winfield	Chalky Price		1972
Coffy	Robert DoQui	King George	nickel plated	1973
Capone	Ben Marino	Frank Gusenberg		1975
Family Plot	Karen Black	Fran		1976
	William Devane	Arthur
Boomerang (Comme un boomerang)	Alain Delon	Jacques Batkin		1976
The Late Show	Eugene Roche	Ron Birdwell		1977
The Big Sleep	Joan Collins	Agnes Lozelle		1978
The Thirty Nine Steps	John Mills	Scudder	Model 1908	1978
	Robert Powell	Hannay
Any Which Way You Can		Gangster		1980
Taps	George C. Scott	General Harlan Bache	nickel-plated	1981
Arabella - Pirate's Daughter (Arabella, mereröövli tütar)			Seen on the table	1983
Sudden Impact		A robber		1983
Johnny Dangerously	Richard Dimitri	Roman Troy Moroni		1984
House of Games	Lindsay Crouse	Dr Margaret Ford		1987
Who Framed Roger Rabbit	Bob Hoskins	Eddie Valiant		1988
	Alan Tilvern	R. K. Maroon
Harlem Nights	Eddie Murphy	Quick		1989
The Two Jakes	Rubén Blades	Michael "Mickey Nice" Weisskopf	nickel-plated	1990
Miller's Crossing	Jon Polito	Johnny Caspar		1990
	Gabriel Byrne	Tom Reagan
Bugsy	Annette Bening	Virginia Hill		1991
The Rocketeer		Several of Valentine's thugs		1991
I Love Trouble	Saul Rubinek	Sam Smotherman		1994
Legends of the Fall	John Novak	James O'Banion		1994
Devil in a Blue Dress	Don Cheadle	Mouse Alexander		1995
	Denzel Washington	Ezekiel 'Easy' Rawlins
Mulholland Falls	Andrew McCarthy	Jimmy Fields		1996
Kansas City	Jennifer Jason Leigh	Blondie O'Hara		1997
	Miranda Richardson	Carolyn Stilton
L.A. Confidential	James Cromwell	Captain Dudley Smith		1997
Virus	Jamie Lee Curtis	Kit Foster		1999
2009: Lost Memories		An Jung-geun		2002
All the King's Men	Anthony Hopkins	Judge Irwin		2006
Assembly (Ji jie hao)		A Nacionalist officer		2007
Max Manus: Man of War	Aksel Hennie	Max Manus		2008
	Christian Rubeck	Kolbein Lauring
	Nicolai Cleve Broch	Gregers Gram	continuity error
Flame and Citron	Mads Mikkelsen	Jørgen 'Citron' Haagen Schmith		2008
Female agents	Maya Sansa	Maria Luzzato		2008
	Julie Depardieu	Jeanne Faussier
Public Enemies	Johnny Depp	John Dillinger		2009
Cold Steel (Bian di lang yan)	Tony Leung Ka Fai	Capt. Zhang Menzi		2011
	Mickey He	Xiao Wu
		Chinese resistance fighters
The Woman Knight of Mirror Lake	You-Nam Wong	Chen Boping		2011
		Imperial cavalry
Gangster Squad	Ryan Gosling	Sergeant Wooters		2012
Emperor	Shôhei Hino	Hideki Tojo		2013
Anthropoid	Jamie Dornan	Jan Kubiš		2016
	Cillian Murphy	Jozef Gabčík
	Anna Geislerová	Lenka Fafková
	Václav Neuzil	Josef Valčík
	Harry Lloyd	Adolf Opálka
	Mish Boyko	Jan Hrubý
		Czech resistence fighters
Live by Night	Ben Affleck	Joe Coughlin		2016
Murder on the Orient Express	Johnny Depp	Mr. Ratchett		2017
	Leslie Odom, Jr.	Dr. Arbuthnot
	Tom Bateman	Buoc
John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum	Ian McShane	Winston Scott	Nickel	2019
	Keanu Reeves	John Wick
The Shadow in My Eye	Alex Høgh Andersen	Frederik		2021
	Fanny Bornedal	Teresa
	Zbysek Humpolec	An HIPO officer
		HIPO-korpset officers
Golden Kamuy	Sergey Vlasov	A Russian merchant		2024
	Hiroshi Tamaki	Lieutenant Tsurumi

Television

Title	Actor	Character	Notes / Episode	Date
The Avengers			"Quick-Quick Slow Death" (S4E19)	1961-1969
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.	William Marshall	Prime Minister Sekue Ashumen	"The Vulcan Affair" (S01E01)	1964-1968
Mission: Impossible - Season 1	William Smithers	Frank Egan	"The Ransom" (S1E08)	1966
	William Smithers	Frank Egan	"The Ransom" (S1E08)
	Barbara Bain	Cinnamon Carter	"Fakeout" (S1E12)
	Greg Morris	Barney Collier	"The Diamond" (S1E19)	1967
	Martin Landau	Rollin Hand	"The Confession" (S1E22)
	Pat Hingle	R.J. McMillan	"The Confession" (S1E22)
	Tom Troupe	David Day	"Action!" (S1E23)
	Michael Pataki	Ed	"The Psychic" (S1E28)
Mission: Impossible - Season 2	Steve Franken	Akim Hadramut	"The Slave: Part 2" (S2E06)	1967
	Martin Landau	Rollin Hand
	Michael Shillo	Raf Tagoor	"The Money Machine" (S2E08)
	Paul Lambert	Al Morgan	"The Council: Part 2" (S2E12)
	Steve Ihnat	Col. Alex Stahl	"The Astrologer" (S2E13)
	Anthony Zerbe	David Redding	"The Photographer" (S2E15)
	Martin Landau	Rollin Hand	"A Game of Chess" (S2E17)	1968
	Frank Campanella	Eddie Burke	"The Counterfeiter" (S2E20)
	Alf Kjellin	Stefan Prohosh	"The Phoenix" (S2E23)
Mission: Impossible - Season 3	Joan Collins	Nicole Vedette	Rubber version / "Nicole" (S3E22)	1969
Mission: Impossible - Season 6	Peter Brown	Johnny Brown	"Blind" (S06E01)	1971-1972
Columbo	Ray Milland	Jarvis Goodland	"The Greenhouse Jungle" (S02E02)	1971
	Bob Dishy	Sgt. Frederic Wilson	"The Greenhouse Jungle" (S02E02)
	Peter Falk	Lt. Columbo	Nickel with pearl grips/ "Make Me a Perfect Murder" (S07E03)	1978
	Trish Van Devere	Kay Freestone	Nickel with pearl grips/ "Make Me a Perfect Murder" (S07E03)
	Laurence Luckinbill	Mark McAndrews	Nickel with pearl grips/ "Make Me a Perfect Murder" (S07E03)
Father Brown	John Phillips	Brander Merton	"The Arrow of Heaven" (Ep.12)	1974
Star Trek: The Next Generation	Harvey Jason	Felix Leech	"The Big Goodbye"	1987 - 1994
Nestor Burma - Season 1	Nicolas Silberg	Charles Viennot	"Les Cadavres de la plaine Monceau" (S1E2)	1991
Nestor Burma - Season 1	Claude Brosset	Zavatter	"Les Cadavres de la plaine Monceau" (S1E2)	1991
The X-Files - Season 8		Gangbanger	"Surekill" (S8E08)	2001
Firefly	Nathan Fillion	Malcolm Reynolds	Nickel/ "Out of Gas" (S1E08)	2002
Boss (2009 TV)	Yuki Amami	Osawa Eriko		2009
Boardwalk Empire	Michael Pitt	Jimmy Darmody		2010 - 2014
Boardwalk Empire	Jack Huston	Richard Harrow	"Two Imposters" (S03E11)	2012
Supernatural			"Time After Time" (S07E12)	2012
NCIS			"Recovery" (S10E02)	2012
The Son - Season 1	David Wilson Barnes	Phineas McCullough	shoulder holster	2017
Bosch - Season 4	Monti Sharp	"KTK"	"The Wine of Youth" (S04E6)	2018
L.A.'s Finest		liquor store robber		2019
Babylon Berlin - Season 4	Mark Ivanir	Abe Gold		2022
Fallout - Season 1	Walton Goggins	Cooper Howard	seen on movie poster; "The Beginning" (S1E08)	2024

Video Games

Title	Appears as	Mods	Notes	Date
Hot Dogs, Horseshoes & Hand Grenades			Cartoonishly stylized, available as a "Sosiggun"	2016
Battlefield 1	"1903 Hammerless"			2016
Heroes & Generals				2016
Screaming Steel: 1914-1918	"1903 Hammerless"		Added in the 2021 "Endgame Update"	2018
In Sound Mind	"Pistol"			2021

Anime

Title	Character	Notes	Date
Desert Punk	Taiko Koizumi		2004
RIN ~Daughters of Mnemosyne~	The assassin		2008
The Strange Case Files of Ryoko Yakushiji	Ryoko Yakushiji	Nickel-plated	2008
	Junichiro Izumida	Blued finished
Case Closed - Season 18		Ep. "Two Days with the Culprit (Second Day)"; seen in Satoshi Kanda's arsenal	2009 - 2010
Cat Planet Cuties		Ep. 04	2010
Golden Kamuy - Season 1	Lieutenant Tsurumi	Ep. "Complication"	2018

FN Browning 1903

FN Browning Model 1903 - 9x20mm Browning Long

FN Browning M1903 with shoulder stock holster - 9x20mm Browning Long

The European counterpart to the Colt 1903, it is longer and chambered in 9x20mm Long for military sales. Used by the Ottoman Empire during WW1, and ordered for Russian police around the same time, fitted with shoulder stocks.

Specifications

(1903 – 1927)

• Type: Pistol

• Caliber: 9x20mm Browning Long

• Weight: 32.8 oz (930 g) unloaded

• Length: 8.07 in (205 mm)

• Barrel length(s): 5 in (127 mm)

• Capacity: 7 rounds, 10 rounds (variant with shoulder stock holster)

• Fire Modes: Semi-Auto

The FN Browning 1903 and variants can be seen in the following films, television series, video games, and anime used by the following actors:

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Film

Title	Actor	Character	Notes	Date
The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks	Porfiri Podobed	Mr. John S. West		1924
	Andrei Gorchilin	Militsioner
Fighting Film Collection No. 1 (Boyevoy kinosbornik No. 1)	Pyotr Repnin	Adolf Hitler	In holster	1941
Elusive Jan (Neulovimyy Yan)	Evgeniy Samoylov	Jan Smudek		1942
	Kote Daushvili	A Gestapo agents
Fighting Film Collection No. 8 (Boyevoy kinosbornik No. 8)	Ivan Novoseltsev	Hotić		1942
Golden Path (Oqros biliki)	Pyotr Mosrskoy	Militsioner		1945
		A German
Razzia (Razzia sur la chnouf)	Jean Gabin	Henri Ferré		1955
The Probation (Ispytatelnyy Srok)	Vyacheslav Nevinnyy	Sergey Zaytsev		1960
	Boris Novikov	Vorobeychik
	Oleg Tabakov	Aleksandr Yegorov
Topkapi		Turkish police		1964
The Majordomo (Le majordome)		A police detective		1965
The Second Wind (Le Deuxième Souffle)		Hitmen		1966
Bonnot's Gang (La bande à Bonnot)	Bruno Cremer	Jules Bonnot		1968
	François Dyrek	Édouard Carouy
About Friends-Comrades (O druzyakh-tovarishchakh)	Oleg Efremov	Stanislav Kovalskiy		1970
Horror Express	Julio Peña	Inspector Mirov	With custom grips	1972
	Telly Savalas	Capt. Kazan
Trouble Man	Robert Hooks	Mr. T		1972
		Henchman
American Ninja 3: Blood Hunt	Mike Huff	Dr. Holger		1989
Dick Tracy	Warren Beatty	Dick Tracy		1990
The City of Lost Children	Dominique Bettenfeld	Bogdan		1995
Pan's Labyrinth	César Vea	Serrano		2006
	Sergi López	Captain Vidal
		Spanish Maquis
Max Manus: Man of War	Aksel Hennie	Max Manus		2008
	Jakob Oftebro	Lars Emil Erichsen
The 39 Steps	Rupert Penry-Jones	Richard Hannay		2008
	Peter Stark	Engel

Television

Title	Actor	Character	Notes / Episode	Date
The Sinful People of Prague	Rudolf Macharovský	Josef Pírko	"Černé rukavice"	1968-70
Demon of the Revolution (Demon revolyutsii)		A revolutionary soldier	Seen in documentary footage	2017
Hunting the Devil (Okhota na dyavola)	Artyom Tkachenko	Phil Kilby		2017
	Sergey Bezrukov	Max Livius
	Andrey Kurnosov	French DST operative

Video Games

Title	Appears as	Mods	Notes	Date
Red Dead Redemption	"High Power Pistol"			2010
World of Guns: Gun Disassembly	"FN Model 1903"			2014
Battlefield 1	"Mle. 1903"			2016
	"Mle. 1903 Extended"	With shoulder stock holster
Battlefield V			Unusable	2018

Anime

Title	Character	Notes	Date
The Mystic Archives of Dantalian	suitor	with ornate engravings and a squared-off trigger guard	2011

See Also

• Colt's Manufacturing Company - A list of all firearms manufactured by Colt.