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The First Actor To Play Rambo Onscreen (Not Sylvester Stallone)
Rambo is one of Sylvester Stallone's most popular characters, but he wasn't the first actor to play John Rambo onscreen. Rambo first appeared in the 1972 novel First Blood, with the Vietnam veteran launching a personal war on a small town. Author David Morrell's book was both an intense, fast-paced thriller and an anti-war novel. The book's depiction of John Rambo is also much darker than the eventual movie, with the character having no issue with killing his pursuers; in the book's closing chapters, he's also executed by his former mentor.