Star Model B

The Star Model B pistol as been seen used by the following actors in the following movies, television, anime, and videogames.

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Star Model B Pistol, blued finish - 9mm. This is a screen used Star Model B from the 1987 film The Untouchables.

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Star Model B Pistol with a custom bright nickel plated finish and pearl grips - 9mm. This is a screen used Star Model B from the film Pulp Fiction.

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Blued Star Model B - 9mm pistol from the movie The Untouchables (1987). This one is a screen used and fired handgun in the movie and was used by Kevin Costner on screen.

This Spanish Pistol, known overseas as the Star Modelo B, appears in many Hollywood movies as a substitute for the Govt. Model 1911, since it fired the hotter and more reliable 9mm blanks. Also in the older days of cinema, armorers had trouble getting .45 ACP blanks to cycle in pistols, so 9mm was substituted whenever possible. With newer powders and blank conversion techniques, most problems with the .45 ACP pistols have been solved.

The Spanish Star Model B can be seen in:

Films

Title	Actor	Character	Note	Date
The Sand Pebbles	Richard Crenna	Lt. Collins	Used instead M1911	1966
The Sand Pebbles	.	Petty officer	Used instead M1911	1966
The Wild Bunch	William Holden	Pike Bishop	Used instead M1911	1969
The Wild Bunch	Ernest Borgnine	Dutch Engstrom	Used instead M1911	1969
The Wild Bunch	Warren Oates	Lyle Gorch	Used instead M1911	1969
The Wild Bunch	Jaime Sanchez	Angel	Used instead M1911	1969
The Omega Man	Lincoln Kilpatrick	Zachary	.	1971
The Getaway	Steve McQueen	Carter 'Doc' McCoy	Used instead M1911	1972
Dillinger	Ben Johnson	Melvin Purvis	Nickel plated. Used instead Colt Super Automatic	1973
Dillinger	Warren Oates	John Dillinger	Used instead M1911	1973
Dillinger	Harry Dean Stanton	Homer Van Meter	Used instead M1911	1973
Dillinger	Steve Kanaly	"Pretty Boy" Floyd	Used instead M1911	1973
Dillinger	Geoffrey Lewis	Harry Pierpont	Used instead M1911	1973
Dillinger	John Martino	Eddie	Used instead M1911	1973
Dillinger	Roy Jenson	FBI agent Cowley	Used instead M1911	1973
McQ	William Bryant	Stan Boyle	Suppressed	1974
Friday Foster	Pam Grier	Friday	Used instead M1911	1975
Friday Foster	Yaphet Kotto	Colt Hawkins	Used instead M1911	1975
The Killer Elite	.	Hitman disguised as a police officer	.	1975
Silver Streak	Ray Walston	Edgar Whiney	.	1976
Coma	Lance LeGault	Vince	Suppressed	1978
The Untouchables	Kevin Costner	Eliott Ness	Used instead M1911	1987
The Untouchables	Vito D'Ambrosio	Bowtie Driver	Used instead M1911	1987
The Untouchables	Billy Drago	Frank Nitti	Nickel plated. Used instead M1911	1987
The Living Daylights	.	A Czech soldier	Used instead TT-33	1987
The Punisher	Bryan Marshall	Dino Moretti	.	1989
The Punisher	Louis Gossett Jr.	Jake Berkowitz	.	1989
Pulp Fiction	Samuel L. Jackson	Jules	Nickel plated	1994
Death Wish V: The Face of Death	.	Corrupt detective	.	1994
There Be Dragons	Rodrigo Santoro	Oriol		2011

Television

Show Title / Episode	Actor	Character	Notation	Air Date
M*A*S*H	Alan Alda	Hawkeye Pierce	Used instead M1911	1972-1983
M*A*S*H	Larry Linville	Frank Burns	Used instead M1911	1972-1983
M*A*S*H	Harry Morgan	Bartford Hamilton Steele and Sherman Potter	Used instead M1911	1972-1983