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Colt New Service
The Colt New Service is an American double-action revolver produced for government contracts and civilian sales between 1898 and 1944. It came in a plethora of popular calibers available during its lengthy production run and was also available in a number of finishes and barrel lengths. The revolver was most commonly chambered in a variety of .45 caliber rounds, including ACP and Colt. It served American forces through both World Wars and accompanied many police officers in their duties throughout the first half of the twentieth century.
They were built in .45 Colt, .45 ACP, .44-40, .44 Russian, .38-40, .38 Special, .455 Webley, .41 Colt and, eventually, .357 Magnum. The most numerous model was that in .455 Webley for issue to the British military in World War I. The US Army also used the New Service in .45 Colt as the M1909, adopted temporarily to replace the failed series of .38 Long Colt revolvers used since 1889, until the semi-automatic M1911 pistol, then under testing, was ready for service. A variant chambered in .45 ACP using half-moon clips, the M1917, would be introduced during World War I to supplement short supplies of M1911s. Over 151,000 were delivered - the largest variant in New Service production of approximately 356,000.

Specifications
(1898–1946)
- Type: Revolver
- Caliber(s): .45 Colt, .455 Webley/Ely,.476 Ely,.45 ACP, .44-40, .44 Special, .44 Russian .38-40, .357 Magnum, .38 Spl, others
- Weight: Various
- Length: Various
- Barrel length(s):(Factory standard with lengths over and under available by special order) 4",4.5".5",5.5",6".7.5"
- Capacity: 6-round cylinder
- Fire Modes: SA/DA
The Colt New Service and variants can be seen in the following films, television series, video games, and anime used by the following actors:
Film
Title | Actor | Character | Note | Date |
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Back to God's Country | Nell Shipman | Dolores LeBeau | 1919 | |
The Gold Rush | Tom Murray | Black Larsen | 1925 | |
Bounty hunters | ||||
Pardon Us | Prisoners | 1931 | ||
Heroes for Sale | railroad detective | 1933 | ||
The Man Who Knew Too Much | 1934 | |||
Satan Met a Lady | Maynard Holmes | Kenneth | 1936 | |
Jesse James | Henry Fonda | Frank James | Anachronistic; with 5" barrel and wooden grips | 1939 |
Went the Day Well? | David Farrar | Lieutenant Jung a.k.a. Lieutenant Maxwell | 1942 | |
Johnnie Schofield | Joe Garbett | |||
Valerie Taylor | Nora Ashton | |||
British Army/Home Guard Soldiers | ||||
German Paratroopers | ||||
The Pearl of Death | Basil Rathbone | Sherlock Holmes | 1944 | |
Somewhere in France | Various characters | 1942 | ||
Air Force | Japanese officers | 1943 | ||
The Fighting Seabees | Japanese officers | 1944 | ||
Dillinger | Lawrence Tierney | John Dillinger | 1945 | |
Marc Lawrence | Doc Madison | |||
The Big Sleep | Trevor Bardette | Art Huck | 1946 | |
Raw Deal (1948) | Curt Conway | Spider | 1948 | |
The Paleface | Thug | 1948 | ||
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre | Bandits | 1949 | ||
White Heat | Jarrett Gang member | 1949 | ||
Across the Pacific | Richard Loo | First Officer Miyuma | 1951 | |
Sydney Greenstreet | Doctor Lorenz | |||
Son of Paleface | Roy Rogers | Roy Barton | With a stock and rifle's barrel | 1952 |
The Nuremberg Express | Miroslav Homola | Agent Nowak | 1954 | |
Hell Below Zero | Stanley Baker | Erik Bland | 1954 | |
Ivan Craig | Larsen | |||
Alan Ladd | Duncan Craig | |||
Apache | Burt Lancaster | Messai | Anachronistic; continuity error; With 5" barrel, wooden grips and lanyard loop ring | 1954 |
The Treasure of Pancho Villa | Gilbert Roland | Juan Castro | With 5" barrel, wooden grips and lanyard loop ring | 1955 |
Rory Calhoun | Tom Bryan | |||
Joseph Calleia | Pable Morales | |||
Shelley Winters | Ruth Harris | |||
Santiago | Alan Ladd | Caleb "Cash" Adams | Mocked-up as Single Action Army | 1956 |
Paul Fix | Trasker | |||
Lloyd Nolan | Clay Pike | |||
Frank DeKova | Jingo | |||
Clegg Hoyt | Dutch | |||
The Proud Ones | Uncredited | Barrett's henchman | Anachronistic; with 5" barrel and lanyard loop ring | 1956 |
Bandido! | Gilbert Roland | Colonel José Escobar | With 5" barrel | 1956 |
Rodolfo Acosta | Sebastian | |||
They Came to Cordura | Carlos Romero | Arreaga | With 5" barrel and custom stag-horn wooden grips | 1959 |
Pretty Boy Floyd | John Ericson | Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd | 1960 | |
The Comancheros | John Wayne | Jake Cutter | Anachronistic; seen only in saddle holster; with blued finish and ivory grips | 1961 |
Lonely Are the Brave | Walter Matthau | Sheriff Morey Johnson | 1962 | |
Murieta! | Jeffrey Hunter | Joaquín Murrieta | Probably a Spanish replica; with 7.5" barrel and hard rubber grips | 1965 |
Arthur Kennedy | Captain Love | |||
Several deputies and bandits | ||||
Viva Maria! | Carlos López Moctezuma | Ródriguez | 1965 | |
Mexican soldiers | ||||
Mexican rebels | ||||
The Heroes of Telemark | Kirk Douglas | Dr. Rolf Pedersen | 1965 | |
The Professionals | Jack Palance | Jesus Raza | 1966 | |
Robert Ryan | Hans Ehrengard | |||
Bonnie and Clyde | Faye Dunaway | Bonnie Parker | 1967 | |
Warren Beatty | Clyde Barrow | |||
Denver Pyle | Frank Hamer | |||
Gene Hackman | Buck Barrow | |||
Welcome to Hard Times | Aldo Ray | The Man from Bodie | Anachronistic; with 5" barrel, wooden grips and mock-up ejector rod | 1967 |
Five Card Stud | Dean Martin | Van Morgan | Anachronistic; with 5" barrel, wooden grips and mock-up ejector rod | 1968 |
Robert Mitchum | Reverend Jonathan Rudd | |||
Firecreek | James Stewart | Sheriff Johnny Cobb | Anachronistic; with 5" barrel, wooden grips and mock-up ejector rod | 1968 |
Villa Rides | Robert Mitchum | Lee Arnold | Seen only in holster; with 5" barrel, ivory grips and lanyard loop ring | 1968 |
Villista | With 5" barrel, ivory grips and lanyard loop ring | |||
100 Rifles | Jim Brown | Lyedecker | 1969 | |
The Wild Bunch | Albert Dekker | Pat Harrigan | 1969 | |
You Can't Win 'Em All | Charles Bronson | Josh Corey | 1970 | |
The Cheyenne Social Club | Shirley Jones | Jenny | Anachronistic; With 5" barrel, wooden grips and mock-up ejector rod | 1970 |
El Topo | Julian de Meriche | The priest | 1970 | |
Robert John | El Topo's Son | |||
Valerie Jodorowsky | A townswoman | |||
José Luis Gonzales de León | A townsman | |||
Don't Turn the Other Cheek! | Franco Nero | Dmitri Vassilovich Orlowsky | With 7.5" barrel, hard rubber, lanyard loop ring and mock-up ejector rod | 1971 |
Lynn Redgrave | Mary O'Donell | |||
Eduardo Fajardo | General Huerta | Seen only in holster; with 7.5" barrel, hard rubber, lanyard loop ring and mock-up ejector rod | ||
The Wrath of God | de la Plata's man | With 5" barrel and wooden grips | 1972 | |
Ulzana's Raid | Burt Lancaster | McIntosh | Anachronistic; continuity error; with 5" barrel and wooden grips | 1972 |
Manhunt in Milan (La mala ordina) | Woody Strode | Frank Webster | 1972 | |
Dirty Money | Bank teller | 1972 | ||
Prime Cut | Gregory Walcott | Weenie | 1972 | |
The Man from Acapulco (Le Magnifique) | Jean-Paul Belmondo | Bob Saint-Clair | Suppressed | 1973 |
Jacqueline Bisset | Tatiana | |||
Dillinger | Harry Dean Stanton | Homer Van Meter | 1973 | |
Warren Oates | John Dillinger | |||
The Sting | Joe Tornatore | Black Gloved Gunman | 1973 | |
Black Caesar | assassin | 1973 | ||
Big Bad Mama | Tom Skerritt | Fred Dillard | M1909 | 1974 |
Susan Sennett | Billie Jean | M1917 | ||
Bite The Bullet | Gene Hackman | Sam Clayton | 1975 | |
The Wind and the Lion | Steve Kanaly | U.S. Marine Corp Capt. Jerome | 1975 | |
The Last Hard Men | Jorge Rivero | Cesar Menendez | 1976 | |
Charlton Heston | Sam Burgade | |||
Michael Parks | Sheriff Noel Nye | |||
Thalmus Rasulala | George Weed | |||
Christopher Mitchum | Hal Brickman | |||
The Muthers | John Montgomery | "Turko" | 1976 | |
Silver Streak | Clifton James | Sheriff Oliver Chauncey | 1976 | |
Richard Pryor | Grover T. Muldoon | |||
Gene Wilder | George Caldwell | |||
The White Buffalo | Charles Bronson | Wild Bill Hickok | Mocked-up as Single Action Army with stag horn grips | 1977 |
Death on the Nile | Mia Farrow | Jacqueline de Bellefort | 1978 | |
The Hunter | Ben Johnson | Sheriff Strong | nickel plated, stag grips | 1980 |
Airplane! | 1980 | |||
Caboblanco | Fernando Rey | Police Captain Terredo | 1980 | |
Under Fire | Nicaraguan Rebels | 1983 | ||
Lone Wolf McQuade | Gun runner | 1983 | ||
Against All Odds | Alex Karras | Hank Sully | 1984 | |
Rachel Ward | Jessie Wyler | |||
Death Hunt | Andrew Stevens | RCMP Constable Adams | 1981 | |
Lee Marvin | RCMP Sergeant Millen | |||
Johnny Dangerously | Joe Piscopo | Danny Vermin | With custom long barrel, as ".88 Magnum revolver" | 1984 |
Yes, Madam! (Huang jia shi jie) | Robber | 1985 | ||
Death Wish 3 | Gang Members | 1985 | ||
Near Dark | Tony Pierce | Highway Youth | 1987 | |
The Untouchables | Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers | 1987 | ||
The Blue Iguana | Flea | Floyd | 1988 | |
Mississippi Burning | Brad Dourif | Deputy Clinton Pell | Bone carved grip | 1988 |
Batman | Jack Nicholson | Jack Napier/The Joker | 1989 | |
Harlem Nights | Danny Aiello | Det. Cantone | 1989 | |
Miller's Crossing | Albert Finney | Leo O'Bannon | 1990 | |
Gabriel Byrne | Tom Reagan | |||
El Diablo (1990) | Louis Gossett Jr. | Thomas Van Leek | With wooden grips and mock-up long barrel with forend With 5" barrel, wooden grips and mock-up ejector rod |
1990 |
Let Him Have It | Paul Reynolds | Chris Craig | .455 British Service with short barrel | 1991 |
Beyond the Law | Brian Law | Young Dan Saxton | 1992 | |
Of Mice and Men | Gary Sinise | George | 1992 | |
Richard Riehle | Carlson | |||
Deep Cover | Glynn Turman | Russell Stevens Sr. | 1992 | |
Hoffa | Robert Prosky | Billy Flynn | 1992 | |
Eight Hundred Leagues Down the Amazon | E.E. Bell | Fragoso | 1993 | |
Red Rock West | Timothy Carhart | Deputy Matt Greytack | 1993 | |
Arizona Dream | Johnny Depp | Axel Blackmar | 1993 | |
Lili Taylor | Grace Stalker | |||
Vampire in Brooklyn | Eddie Murphy | Guido | 1995 | |
Batman Forever | David U. Hodges | Shooter | 1995 | |
Devil in a Blue Dress | Tom Sizemore | Dewitt Albright | 1995 | |
The Quest | Louis Mandylor | Riggi | 1996 | |
Emilio Migliozzi | Riggi's henchman | |||
Last Man Standing | Multiple characters | 1996 | ||
Anaconda | Danny Trejo | 1997 | ||
Serpent's Path | Show Aikawa | Naomi Niijima | 1998 | |
Teruyuki Kagawa | Tatsuo Miyashita | |||
Yûrei Yanagi | Hiyama | |||
Dollar for the Dead | Simón Andreu | Akers | Anachronistic; with 5" barrel and wooden grips | 1998 |
Emilio Estevez | Cowboy/Man with No Name | |||
The Mummy (1999) | Kevin J. O'Connor | Beni Gabor | 1999 | |
Corey Johnson | Mr. Daniels | Dual-wielded | ||
Omid Djalili | Warden Gad Hassan | |||
The Wind That Shakes The Barley | IRA | 2006 | ||
Public Enemies | Sioux Falls vigilante | 2009 | ||
Jesse Stone: No Remorse | Thug | 2010 | ||
Robbery Suspect | ||||
J. Edgar | F.B.I. agents | 2011 | ||
Old Henry | Richard Speight, Jr. | Duggan | Ivory grips | 2021 |
Dead for a Dollar (2022) | Christoph Waltz | Max Borlund | With 7.5" barrel and wooden grips | 2022 |
Television
Show Title | Actor | Character | Note / Episode | Air Date |
---|---|---|---|---|
Gilligan's Island (TV Series) | Russell Johnson | The Professor | "The Sound of Quacking" (S1E7) | 1964 |
Dragnet | "The Shooting Board" (S2E21) | 1967 - 1970 | ||
M*A*S*H | Loretta Swit | Maj. Margaret Houlihan | "The Gun" (S04E13) | 1975 |
Larry Linville | Maj. Frank Burns | |||
Fantômas | Jacques Dufilho | Inspecteur Juve | Ep.3 | 1980 |
The Greatest American Hero | Red West | Cliff | 1981 - 1983 | |
Reilly: Ace of Spies | Celia Gregory | Nadia Massino | 1983 | |
Lonesome Dove | Bandito | 1989 | ||
Gilligan's Island (TV Series) | Alan Hale Jr. | The Skipper | pilot episode (filmed in 1963) | 1992 |
Rough Riders | William Katt | Edward Marshall | 1997 | |
The X-Files - Season 7 | Eric Nenninger | Jared Chirp | "Signs and Wonders" (S7E09) | 2000 |
Band of Brothers | Matthew Leitch | Floyd "Tab" Talbert | 2001 | |
Firefly | Matthew Ferreira | Nathaniel Grange | "Safe" (S01E05) | 2002 |
Mail Call | R. Lee Ermey | Himself | 2002 - 2009 | |
Foyle's War - Season 2 | Laurence Fox | Simon Walker | "War Games" (S2E03) | 2003 |
Foyle's War - Season 3 | Nigel Terry | Hugh Jackson | "They Fought in the Fields" (S3E03) | 2004 |
Ghost Whisperer | David Eigenberg | Hank Dale | "The Crossing" (S1E02) | 2005 |
The Unit | Various characters | 2006 - 2009 | ||
Meteor | criminal | 2009 | ||
Boardwalk Empire | Gangsters | 2010 - | ||
The Pacific | Joseph Mazzello | Eugene Sledge | 2010 | |
Falling Skies - Season 1 | Drew Roy | Hal Mason | "The Armory" (S1E02) | 2011 - |
Revolution - Season 1 | "Chained Heat" (S1E02) | 2012 | ||
Longmire - Season 1 | Robert Taylor | Walt Longmire | "A Damn Shame" (S1E03), mocked up as Single Action Army | 2012 |
SAS Rogue Heroes - Season 1 | Jack O'Connell | Paddy Mayne | Likely the British .455 Webley variant | 2022 |
César Dombe | Augustin Jordan |
Video Games
Game Title | Appears as | Notation | Release Date |
---|---|---|---|
Fallout: New Vegas | "Police Pistol" | Added in Dead Money DLC, .357 Magnum version | 2012 |
Enlisted | "Colt New Service" | .45 ACP version | 2021 |
Beyond The Wire | "Colt New Service" | 2022 |
See Also
- Colt's Manufacturing Company - A list of all firearms manufactured by Colt.