In movies, Corbett also starred with John Wayne in the 1970 film Chisum, as sheriff Pat Garrett, opposite Wayne's role as Lincoln County rancher John Chisum.
In 1866-67, Chisum formed a partnership with cattlemen Charles Goodnight and Oliver Loving to assemble and drive herds of cattle for sale to the Army in Fort Sumner and Santa Fe, New Mexico, to provide cattle to miners in Colorado as well as provide cattle to the Bell Ranch.
The war was fictionalized in several Hollywood films, including The Left Handed Gun in 1958, John Wayne's Chisum in 1970, and the 1988 film Young Guns.
The narrative includes his relationship with John and Sallie Chisum, his formation of a gang with Tom O'Folliard and Charlie Bowdre, his standoff with Garrett in Stinking Springs, his arrest and escape from Lincoln, New Mexico, his escape and the ensuing murder of James Bell and Robert Ollinger, and finally his death at the hands of Garrett.
During the January 2007 speaker's race between Craddick and Jim Pitts of Waxahachie, Chisum led the effort to re-elect the Speaker.