Yellowstone enthusiasts were left seething after the series' second-to-last episode, which featured an extended cameo from the show's creator, Taylor Sheridan ... had opted to hog the limelight ...

Years before Taylor Sheridan cast himself as Travis ... Kurt Sutter's series, which mixed "Hamlet" with hogs, cast Sheridan as strait-laced Deputy Chief David Hale, a regular thorn in the side ...

While Willem Dafoe first portrayed Clark in the Jack Ryan film The Hunt For Red October ... in the origin story Without Remorse, which Taylor Sheridan adapted from Clancy’s novel of the same ...