• Folliard was portrayed in the 1942 film
Apache Trail by
William Lundigan. • In the 1954 film
The Law vs. Billy the Kid O'Folliard was played by actor George Berkeley. • Folliard was also portrayed in the 1958 film
The Left Handed Gun by
James Best alongside
Paul Newman's portrayal of
Billy The Kid. •
Christopher Mitchum portrays Folliard in
Chisum as a Tunstall cowboy who is friends with Billy the Kid (
Geoffrey Deuel). Folliard is a witness, but not an accomplice, to Billy's murder of Tunstall's killers and doesn't fully join Billy until the final act, due to disgust about the large reward that Tunstall's enemies place on Billy's head. Tom survives the Battle of Lincoln, but, unlike in real life, he and Charlie Bowdre decline Billy's offers to accompany him in his subsequent endeavors. • Folliard appeared in
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973), played by screenwriter
Rudy Wurlitzer. • Folliard was portrayed in the 1990 film
Young Guns II by
Balthazar Getty as a 14-year-old "tenderfoot" orphan from Pennsylvania who begs his way into Billy the Kid's gang. This was inaccurate, as Folliard was a Texan, never left the southwest and was in his late teens when he joined the Regulators. • Folliard was not depicted in the original
Young Guns film, although in real life he had been present for the majority of the events depicted in the movie and had been one of Billy the Kid's best friends since the two first met. • Folliard is portrayed by Pepe Johnson in the ongoing (2022-) television series
Billy the Kid (TV series) created by
Michael Hirst, first appearing in Season 2. ==References==