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Smith & Wesson Model 15
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The Smith & Wesson Model 15 "Combat Masterpiece" was in common use with police and private security officers from the 1950s to the 80s. The four inch barrel configuration was manufactured throughout its production history (1949-1999).
At various times it was also available with a two inch barrel (1964-1988), six inch barrel (1986-1992) and the eight and three eighths inch barrel (1986-1988). The last two longer barrel lengths were issued after Smith and Wesson ceased production of the Model 14 "Target Masterpiece" in 1982.
The Model 15, and later the stainless version, the Model 67, was issued to officers of the LAPD for many years. It was, at the same time, a standard issue to pilots in the United States Air Force as well as the Air Force Security Police. The Air Force would continue to use it for dog training, due to the lack of a blank adapter for the M9, and only began phasing them out in March of 2019 when the M17 and M18 (which had drop in blank fire kits) entered service.
It was a counterpart of the Smith & Wesson Model 10 with adjustable sights and a "target" action. It is also the "duty" version of the Smith & Wesson Model 14 "Target Masterpiece". The biggest difference between the Model 15 and Model 14 was the Model 15 had a four inch barrel and the Baughman quick draw front sight while the Model 14 was initially only available with a six inch barrel and the Patridge front sight. The Patridge was not conducive to a "snag-free" quick draw while the Baughman was.
Chambered in .38 Special only, it has only approximately 50% power of the modern .357 Magnums. This gun is also the ancestor of the Smith & Wesson Model 19 "Combat Magnum".
The Smith & Wesson Model 15 Combat Masterpiece Revolver was a K-Frame revolver chambered for .38 Special. The Model 16 was a target model chambered for .32 S&W Long (and is not a common revolver). The Model 17 Target Masterpiece was a .22LR Model based on the same frame but for most of its production was made only with a six inch barrel. The Model 18 Combat Masterpiece (.22 LR) is a duplicate of the Model 15 with a four inch barrel.
Specifications
(1949 - 1999)
- Type: Revolver
- Caliber(s): .38 Special
- Weight: 2.13 lbs (0.96 kg)
- Length: 9.13 in (23.2 cm) (4 in barrel)
- Barrel length(s): 2 in (5.1 cm), 4 in (10.2 cm), 6 in (15.3 cm)
- Capacity: 6-round Cylinder
- Fire Modes: SA/DA
The Smith & Wesson Model 15 and variants can be seen in the following films, television series, video games, and anime used by the following actors:
Smith & Wesson Model 15
Film
| Title | Actor | Character | Note | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The New Centurions | Scott Wilson | Officer Plebesly | 1972 | |
| Stacy Keach | Officer Fehler | |||
| Mean Streets | Robert De Niro | Johnny Boy | 1973 | |
| Walking Tall | Joe Don Baker | Buford Pusser | 1973 | |
| The Dove | Joseph Bottoms | Robin Lee Graham | 1974 | |
| Newman's Law | George Peppard | Vince Newman | 1974 | |
| Newman's Law | Victor Campos | Pete Jimenez | 1974 | |
| Newman's Law | Louis Zorich | Falcone | 1974 | |
| Shriek of the Mutilated | Jimmy Silva | Policeman | 1974 | |
| Mr. Majestyk | Taylor Lacher | Gene Lundy | 1974 | |
| Bucktown | Gene Simms | Josh | 1975 | |
| Jaws | Roy Scheider | Chief Brody | 1975 | |
| Dirty Hands (Les innocents aux mains sales) | Paolo Giusti | Jeff Marle | 1975 | |
| Romy Schneider | Julie Wormser | |||
| Framed | John Larch | Lt. Tad Bundy | 1975 | |
| Brock Peters | Sgt. Sam Perry | |||
| Roy Jenson | Deputy Haskins | |||
| Paul Mantee | Frank | |||
| Police officers | ||||
| Assault on Precinct 13 | James Jeter | Precinct Captain | 1976 | |
| Two-Minute Warning | Charlton Heston | Capt. Peter Holly | 1976 | |
| Larry Manetti | LAPD SWAT Officer Pratt | |||
| LAPD officers | ||||
| Halloween | Donald Pleasence | Dr. Sam Loomis | Target Grips | 1978 |
| Rolling Thunder | thug | 1977 | ||
| Jaws 2 | Roy Scheider | Chief Brody | 1978 | |
| Flatfoot in Africa | A hitman | Suppressed | 1978 | |
| Hopscotch | FBI agent | 1980 | ||
| Halloween II | Donald Pleasence | Dr. Sam Loomis | 1981 | |
| Sharky's Machine | Atlanta City Police Patrolman | 1981 | ||
| Fighting Back | Vigilantes in news footage | 1982 | ||
| The Star Chamber | Police officers | 1983 | ||
| Deadly Circuit (Mortelle randonnée) | Bank security guard | 1983 | ||
| Blue Thunder | James Read | Los Angeles police officer | 1983 | |
| The Prize of Peril (Le Prix du danger) | Jean-Claude Dreyfus | Bertrand | 1983 | |
| Jean-Pierre Bagot | Alexandre | |||
| Steve Kalfa | Édouard | |||
| Zlata Numanagic | Jacqueline | |||
| Julien Bukowski | Arnaud | |||
| The Terminator | Arnold Schwarzenegger | Terminator | Nickel-plated | 1984 |
| LAPD officers | ||||
| My New Partner (Les ripoux) | A police detective | 1984 | ||
| Against All Odds | security guard | 1984 | ||
| Red Dawn | Powers Boothe | Lt. Colonel Tanner | 1984 | |
| Death Wish 3 | Civilian | 1985 | ||
| Into the Night | Iranian gunman | 1985 | ||
| To Live and Die in L.A. | John Turturro | Carl Cody | 1985 | |
| William Petersen | USSS Agent Richard Chance | |||
| Jack Hoar | Jack | |||
| John Pankow | Vukovich | |||
| Airport Police officer | ||||
| Pray for Death | Norman Burton | Lt. Anderson | 1985 | |
| Police officers and criminals | ||||
| Cobra | Police officers, a security guard | 1986 | ||
| Iron Eagle | USAF Security Police | 1986 | ||
| Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home | Police officers | 1986 | ||
| 52 Pick-Up | John Glover | Alan Raimy | 1986 | |
| Tough Guys | Nathan Davis | Jimmy Ellis | 1986 | |
| LAPD officers, Sheriff deputies, Border Patrol agents | ||||
| Armed and Dangerous | John Candy | Frank Dooley | 1986 | |
| Eugene Levy | Norman Kane | |||
| Kenneth McMillan | Capt. O'Connell | |||
| Meg Ryan | Maggie Cavanaugh | |||
| Larry Hankin | Kokolovitch | |||
| Tommy "Tiny" Lister | Bruno | |||
| Security guards and LAPD officers | ||||
| Lethal Weapon | LAPD officers | 1987 | ||
| Near Dark | Tim Thomerson | Loy | 1987 | |
| The Monster Squad | Ryan Lambert | Rudy | Loaded with silver bullet | 1987 |
| Bryan Kestner | Rookie cop | |||
| Police officers | ||||
| Beverly Hills Cop 2 | Brigitte Nielsen | Karla Fry | 1987 | |
| Security guard | ||||
| Dean Stockwell | Charles Kane | |||
| Extreme Prejudice | Dan Tullis Jr. | Sgt. Luther Fry | 1987 | |
| Bank guard | ||||
| Best Seller | Shooter at gun range | 1987 | ||
| Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2 | Eric Freeman | Ricky Caldwell | 1987 | |
| A police officer | ||||
| The Presidio | Jenette Goldstein | Patti Jean Lynch | 1988 | |
| Die Hard | Reginald VelJohnson | Sgt. Al Powell | 1988 | |
| Dead Heat | L.A.P.D. patrolman | 1988 | ||
| Colors | R.D. Call | Baines | 1988 | |
| The Blue Iguana | masked gunman | 1988 | ||
| China O'Brien | Cynthia Rothrock | China O'Brien | 1988 | |
| Patrick Adamson | Marty Lickner | |||
| Licence To Kill | Seaplane pilot | 1989 | ||
| Batman | Jack Nicholson | Joker | 15-3, with custom 21" telescoping barrel | 1989 |
| Wild at Heart (1990) | Neil Summers | Police officer | 1990 | |
| Downtown | Anthony Edwards | Officer Kearney | 1990 | |
| Bullet in the Head | Waise Lee | Little Wing | 1990 | |
| Tony Leung Chiu Wai | Ah Bee | |||
| Jacky Cheung | Fai | |||
| Fire Birds | Nicolas Cage | CWO Jake Preston | 1990 | |
| Sean Young | CWO Billy Lee Guthrie | |||
| Bryan Kestner | CWO Calvin Breaker | |||
| Dale Dye | Col. A.K. McNeil | |||
| Scott Williamson | CWO Scott Buzz | |||
| V.I. Warshawski | Kathleen Turner | V.I. Warshawski | 1991 | |
| Samurai Cop | Various extras | 1991 | ||
| Ricochet | Denzel Washington | Officer Nicholas Styles | 1991 | |
| Passenger 57 | robber | 1992 | ||
| A Perfect World | Kevin Costner | Butch Haynes | 1993 | |
| Keith Szarabajka | Terry | |||
| Cop and a Half | Burt Reynolds | Det. Nick McKenna | With pearl grips | 1993 |
| Loaded Weapon 1 | Larry Wilcox | Larry | 1993 | |
| The Shawshank Redemption | Seen in a pawn shop display | 1994 | ||
| Natural Born Killers | Police officer | 1994 | ||
| Open Fire | Paulo Tocha | A psycho | 1994 | |
| Nick of Time | Christopher Walken | Mr. Smith | 1995 | |
| Village of the Damned | CHP officers | 1995 | ||
| Rumble in the Bronx | NYPD officer | 1995 | ||
| Eraser | James Cromwell | William Donohue | 1995 | |
| Se7en | Morgan Freeman | Det. Lt. William Somerset | 1995 | |
| Casino | Mob assassins | 1995 | ||
| The Way to Dusty Death | A guard in Vincennes' estate | 1995 | ||
| Heaven's Prisoners | Vondie Curtis-Hall | DEA agent Minos P. Dautrieve | snub nose | 1996 |
| L.A. Confidential | James Cromwell | Cpt. Dudley Smith | Combat Masterpiece | 1997 |
| Conspiracy Theory | Security guard | 1997 | ||
| The Game | Michael Douglas | Nicholas Van Orton | 1997 | |
| American History X | Employee | 1998 | ||
| Evolution | Woman | 2001 | ||
| Monster's Ball | Heath Ledger | Sonny Grotowski | 2001 | |
| Spider-Man | Mugger | 2002 | ||
| Cash Truck | Albert Dupontel | Alexandre Demarre | 2004 | |
| Watchmen | N.Y.P.D. officers | 2009 | ||
| Survival of the Dead | Julian Richings | James O'Flynn | 2010 | |
| Seven Psychopaths | Tom Waits | Zachariah Rigby | 2012 | |
| Brendan Sexton III | Young Zachariah Rigby | |||
| Phantom Killer | ||||
| 100 Bloody Acres | Angus Sampson | Lindsay | 2012 | |
| Jamie Kristian | Wes | |||
| World War Z | Ernesto Cantu | Tommy's father | 2013 | |
| Fabrizio Zacharee Guido | Tommy | |||
| V/H/S/2 | L.C. Holt | Kyle | 2013 | |
| We Still Kill the Old Way | Street gang member | 2014 | ||
| The Bad Batch | Suki Waterhouse | Arlen | 2016 | |
| Halloween Kills | Thomas Mann | Deputy Hawkins | 1978 flashbacks | 2021 |
Television
| Title | Actor | Character | Note / Episode | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hawaii Five-O (1968) | Multiple characters over the show's twelve years | 1968-1980 | ||
| Hawaii Five-O (1968) - Season 1 | Yaphet Kotto | Lance Corporal John T. Auston | "King of the Hill" (S1E14) | 1968-1969 |
| Adam-12 | William Boyett | Sgt. MacDonald | 1971-1975 | |
| Adam-12 | Martin Milner | Officer Pete Malloy | Seasons 4 through 7 | 1971-1975 |
| Adam-12 | Kent McCord | Officer Jim Reed | Seasons 4 through 7 | 1971-1975 |
| Hawaii Five-O | uniformed police officers | 1979 - 1980 | ||
| Columbo | Peter Falk | Lt. Columbo | "Fade in to Murder" (S06E01) | 1976 |
| William Shatner | Ward Fowler | "Fade in to Murder" (S06E01) | ||
| Part of the murder mechanism | "Columbo Goes to College" (S10E01) | 1990 | ||
| The Dukes of Hazzard | James Best | Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane | (ivory grips) | 1979-1985 |
| The Dukes of Hazzard | Sonny Shroyer | Deputy Enos Strate | 1979-1985 | |
| Hill Street Blues | James B. Sikking | Sgt. Howard Hunter (EAT Sgt) | "Hill Street Station" (Pilot/S1E01) | 1981 |
| Hill Street Blues | Charles Haid | Officer Andy Renko | 1981 - 1987 | |
| Magnum P.I. | Tom Selleck | Magnum | "Did You See the Sunrise, Pt.2" (S3E02) | 1982 |
| T.J. Hooker | William Shatner | Sgt. Hooker | "The Protectors" (S1E01) | 1982 |
| T.J. Hooker | Adrian Zmed | Officer Romano | "The Protectors" (S1E01) | 1982 |
| Dempsey and Makepeace | Hitman on boat | "Wheelman" (S02E02) | 1985 | |
| Dempsey and Makepeace | Eric Deacon | Paul Davis | "Set a Thief" (S02E07) | 1985 |
| Dempsey and Makepeace | Gary Shail | Eddie | "Set a Thief" (S02E10) | 1985 |
| Bergerac | David Kershaw | DC Ben Lomas | "In Love and War" (S08E06) | 1990 |
| Bergerac | Police constables | "My Friend Charlie" (S09E05) | 1991 | |
| The Stand | Patrick Kilpatrick | Ray Booth | 1994 | |
| Homicide: Life on the Street | Lee Tergesen | Officer Thormann | 1995 | |
| Babylon 5 | Jerry Doyle | Michael Garibaldi | "Grey 17 is Missing" (S03E19) | 1996 |
| Jeff Conway | Zack Allan | "Grey 17 is Missing" (S03E19) | ||
| The Stand | Rob Lowe | Nick Andros | 2004 | |
| The X-Files - Season 4 | Tucker Smallwood | Sheriff Andy Taylor | "Home" (S4E02) | 1996 |
| Firefly | Melinda Clarke | Nandi | "Heart of Gold" (S1E13) | 2003 |
| Firefly | Tracy Ryan | Petaline | "Heart of Gold" (S1E13) | 2003 |
| Amphibian Man. Sea Devil (Chelovek-amfibiya. Morskoy dyavol) | Levan Uchaneishvili | Pedro Zurita | 2004 | |
| Psych | Mercedes Ruehl | Detective Goochberg | 2006-???? | |
| Jericho | David Meunier | Russel | 2006 - 2008 | |
| The Kill Point | Adam Kroloff | Henry | 2007 | |
| The Kill Point | Frank Grillo | Albert "Mr. Pig" Roman | 2007 | |
| The Beast | . | Bodyguard | . | 2009 |
| Parks and Recreation | Nick Offerman | Ron Swanson | gold plated, engraved, ivory grips, "Sister City" (S2E05) | 2009 |
| Community | Donald Glover | Troy Barnes | "Critical Film Studies" (S2E19) | 2010 |
| Detroit 1-8-7 | Shaun Majumder | Det. Vikram Mahajan | "Blackout" (S1E18) | 2011 |
| Murder in the First | SFPD officer | "Family Matters" (S1E09) | 2014 | |
| The Last Ship - Season 2 | Militia | "Alone and Unafraid" S2E07 | 2015 | |
| True Detective | Multiple characters | 2019 | ||
| Endeavour | Regan Garcia | Mark Lunn | Probably .22 caliber Model 18-4; "Scherzo" (S08E02) | 2021 |
| Wayne Carter | Ifan Roberts |
Video Games
| Title | As | Mods | Notes | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NCIS: The Video Game | ".38 Pistol" | not usable | 2011 | |
| Dead Island | "Revolver" | 2011 |
Smith & Wesson Model 15 Snub
Film
| Title | Actor | Character | Notation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ho! | Jean-Paul Belmondo | François Holin | 1968 | |
| Ho! | Stéphane Fey | Schwartz-younger | 1968 | |
| The Sicilian Clan (Le clan des Siciliens) | Alain Delon | Roger Sartet | 1969 | |
| Dirty Money | Alain Delon | Commissaire Edouard Coleman | 1972 | |
| Dirty Money | Catherine Deneuve | Cathy | 1972 | |
| Killer (Le Tueur) | Fabio Testi | Georges Gassot | 1972 | |
| The Laughing Policeman | Walter Matthau | S.F.P.D. Detective Sergeant Jake Martin | 1973 | |
| The Laughing Policeman | Bruce Dern | S.F.P.D. Detective Leo Larsen | 1973 | |
| Raw Deal | Steve Holt | FBI Special Agent Blair Shannon | 1986 | |
| Raw Deal | Joe Regalbuto | Marvin Baxter | 1986 | |
| Raw Deal | Ed Lauter | Baker | 1986 | |
| Outrageous Fortune | Shelley Long | Lauren Ames | suppressed | 1987 |
| Outrageous Fortune | Bette Midler | Sandy Brozinsky | suppressed | 1987 |
| Outrageous Fortune | Johnny Sanchez | Puerto Rican Kid | suppressed | 1987 |
| The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! | Ricardo Montalban | Vincent Ludwig | 1988 | |
| Homicide | Joe Mantegna | Det. Bobby Gold | 1991 | |
| Donato and Daughter | Charles Bronson | Sgt. Mike Donato | 1993 | |
| Heaven's Prisoners | Vondie Curtis-Hall | DEA Agent Minos P. Dautrieve | 1996 | |
| Blow | Undercover agents | 2001 | ||
| We Were Soldiers | Greg Kinnear | Maj. Bruce "Snake Shit" Crandall | 2002 |
Television
| Title | Actor | Character | Notation/Episode | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fabio Montale | Alain Delon | Fabio Montale | 2002 | |
| Fabio Montale | Mathilda May | Hélène Pessayre | 2002 | |
| NCIS: Los Angeles | Jeffrey Pierce | Navy Commander Neil Corby | "Past Lives" (S1E12) ; Combat Masterpiece Nickel | 2010 |
| Julie Lescaut | Ferdinand Milon | Clément Bonnet | "Les risques du métier" (S21E05) | 2011 |
See Also
- Smith & Wesson - A list of all firearms manufactured by Smith & Wesson.
- Smith & Wesson Model 19 - .357 Magnum version of the Smith & Wesson Model 15.
- Smith & Wesson Model 67 - Stainless Steel version of the Smith & Wesson Model 15.