50 Fun Facts About 1923

Who created the Yellowstone prequel 1923?

Sheridan also created 1883 and co-created Yellowstone itself.

On which streaming service did 1923 premiere?

Paramount said the debut was the service's biggest ever.

Which actress plays Cara Dutton, matriarch of the family?

Mirren won Critics' Choice Super and Satellite awards for the role.

Who plays Jacob Dutton, patriarch of the ranch?

Ford accepted the role before a script existed.

1923 is a direct sequel to which earlier series?

It is the third television series in the Yellowstone franchise.

Which character narrates the series?

Isabel May reprised the voice role she played on screen in 1883.

Who plays Spencer Dutton?

Sklenar went on to star in It Ends with Us and The Housemaid.

In which month and year did the second and final season premiere?

The finale aired on April 6, 2025.

How many episodes does the whole series have?

Two seasons of eight episodes each, as originally designed.

Under what title was the series originally announced?

The rename to 1923 came in June 2022, four months after the order.

Spencer Dutton is tracking big game in which colony when the series opens?

Scenes were filmed in Kenya, Tanzania, South Africa and Malta.

Banner Creighton, the Duttons' adversary, is a sheepherder of what nationality?

Jerome Flynn, Bronn from Game of Thrones, plays him.

Which character does Dalton play?

Whitfield is a wealthy tycoon used to getting what he wants.

Julia Schlaepfer plays which upper-class Briton who meets Spencer in Africa?

Schlaepfer was previously Alice Charles in The Politician.

Teonna Rainwater belongs to which Native nation?

She is taken from her family and placed in a government-funded boarding school.

Who plays Teonna Rainwater?

Nieves earned award nominations for the breakthrough performance.

Who plays Jack Dutton, the family's dedicated young rancher?

Jack is John Dutton Sr.'s only child and Jacob's great-nephew.

What job does Zane Davis hold at the Dutton ranch?

Brian Geraghty plays the fiercely loyal Zane.

Jennifer Ehle's Sister Mary is a nun of what nationality?

Sister Mary clashes repeatedly with Teonna at the boarding school.

Father Renaud, the boarding-school headmaster, is of what nationality?

Sebastian Roché plays the narcissistic priest.

Which Montana city stood in for Bozeman during filming?

Pre-production began there in July 2022.

Scenes aboard the liner RMS Majestic were shot on which real ship?

The Queen Mary is a floating hotel docked in Long Beach, California.

Season two filming began in July 2024 near which Texas city?

Production then moved to Butte for October and November.

What delayed the filming of season two?

Both the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes pushed filming into 2024.

In which 1986 film had Mirren and Ford previously co-starred?

That Peter Weir film was released 36 years before they were cast in 1923.

The series was predicted to cost how much per episode?

Sheridan called 1883 the most expensive first season ever and 1923 much more expensive.

How many viewers did the studio claim for the debut episode?

The number combined linear and streaming telecasts.

What Rotten Tomatoes score does season two hold?

Season one sits at 88% on the same site.

Which prize did Mirren win for playing Cara Dutton?

She won a Satellite Award for the role too.

Richardson and Hodgson won which award for the show's cinematography?

Ben Richardson was also nominated for his direction.

In 2002, Ford had said he worked how often?

He took 1923 partly because the pandemic had slowed his schedule.

Sheridan said he poured about how many bottles of wine into Ford to get a yes?

He then did the same with Mirren, saying: 'Have a glass of wine.'

Which delayed film's commitments did Ford cite for having worked less than he wished?

The fifth Indiana Jones film finally arrived in 2023.

Ford accepted 1923 before a script existed, just as he did for which comedy?

Shrinking earned him two Primetime Emmy nominations.

Which actor guest-starred as John Dutton Sr. in season one?

Audie Rick had played John as a child in 1883.

Peter Stormare's tugboat captain Lucca is based in which port?

Lucca is terminally ill when Spencer meets him.

Sal Maceo runs a bootlegging operation out of which city?

Gilles Marini plays the gangster, cousin of the sailor Luca.

Marshal Mamie Fossett is based in which Oklahoma town?

Jennifer Carpenter plays the marshal seeking justice for Comanche villagers.

Spencer is hired to kill a man-eating hyena in which territory?

Charles Hardin, a railroad supervisor, does the hiring.

Who plays the elderly Spencer Dutton in a 1969 flashforward?

Charlie Stover had played young Spencer in Yellowstone flashbacks.

Flashbacks of young Spencer appeared in which season of Yellowstone?

The flashbacks were set in 1893, thirty years before this series.

Why are Zane and Alice Davis's children kept secret?

Joy Osmanski plays Alice, née Chow.

Sheridan said nobody had had his creative freedom since which executive ran the studio?

Evans ran Paramount during its Godfather and Chinatown era.

What was Sklenar's birth surname?

He adopted his mother's surname when he moved to California to act.

Julia Schlaepfer spent 12 years dancing with which Seattle company?

She grew up in the Seattle suburbs of Woodinville and Bellevue.

Which main cast member played James Bond in the 1980s?

Dalton starred in The Living Daylights and Licence to Kill.

Jerome Flynn is best known as Bronn in which series?

He also had UK number one singles as half of Robson & Jerome.

Which 1995 UK number one did Jerome Flynn record as half of Robson & Jerome?

It was the best-selling UK single of 1995.

Which 1883 actor plays James Dutton, Jacob's younger brother?

Country singer Faith Hill, his real-life wife, played Margaret.

Having no children, Jacob and Cara raised which two boys as their own?

They are the sons of Jacob's brother James and his wife Margaret.