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Personal Info

Gender

Male

Birthday

1919-06-28 (105 years old)

Place of Birth

Kingsburg, California, USA

Slim Pickens

Biography:

Louis Burton Lindley Jr. (June 29, 1919 – December 8, 1983), known professionally as Slim Pickens, was an American actor and rodeo performer. Starting off in the rodeo, Pickens transitioned to acting and appeared in dozens of movies and TV shows. For much of his career Pickens played mainly cowboy roles. he is perhaps best remembered today for his comic roles in Dr. Strangelove (1964), Blazing Saddles (1972) and 1941 (1979), and his villainous turn in One-Eyed Jacks (1961).

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Known For

Acting

2004

2001

Back in the Saddle as Self (archive footage)

1996

The Making of '1941' as Self (archive footage)

1993

La Classe américaine as 'Deep Throat' (archive footage)

1990

As Aventuras do General Custer as California Joe Milner

1982

Pink Motel as Roy
Filthy Rich as Big Guy Beck

1981

The Howling as Sam Newfield
Nashville Grab as Ross Common
This House Possessed as Arthur Keene

1980

Tom Horn as Sam Creedmore
Honeysuckle Rose as Garland
Swan Song as George

1979

1941 as Hollis P. Wood
Undercover with the KKK as Yancey Hicks
The Black Hole as B.O.B. (voice) (uncredited)
The Sacketts as Jack Bigelow

1978

The Swarm as Jud Hawkins

1977

Mr. Billion as Duane Hawkins
The Shadow of Chikara as Virgil Cane
The White Buffalo as Abel Pickney
The Love Boat as Luke Scofield

1976

Hawmps! as Naman Tucker

1975

White Line Fever as Duane Haller
Poor Pretty Eddie as Sheriff Orville
The Apple Dumpling Gang as Frank Stillwell
Babe as Colonel M.J. McCombs
Rancho Deluxe as Henry Beige
Switch as Bruno Restig

1974

Blazing Saddles as Taggart
Bootleggers as Grandpa Pruitt
Twice in a Lifetime as Pete Lazich
The Gun and the Pulpit as Billy One-Eye

1973

Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid as Sheriff Colin Baker

1972

The Getaway as Cowboy
J.C. as Grady Caldwell
The Honkers as Clete
Rolling Man as Chuck
The Cowboys as Anse

1971

Hitched as Sam / Bart Dawson
The Day They Hanged Kid Curry as Sheriff Whittaker

1970

The Ballad of Cable Hogue as Ben Fairchild
Operation Snafu as General Maxwell
The Deserter as Sgt. Tattinger
The Mary Tyler Moore Show as Wild Jack Monroe
Night Gallery as Sheriff Ned Harlow

1969

The Desperate Mission as Three-Finger Jack

1968

Never a Dull Moment as Cowboy Schaeffer
Skidoo as Switchboard Operator
The Legend of Custer as California Joe Milner

1967

Will Penny as Ike Wallerstein
The Flim-Flam Man as Jarvis Bates

1966

Stagecoach as Buck, Stagecoach Driver
An Eye for an Eye as Ike Slant

1965

Major Dundee as Wiley
The Glory Guys as Sgt. James Gregory
In Harm's Way as C.P.O. Culpepper
Up from the Beach as Artillery Colonel
Run for Your Life as Sheriff Hoag
The Legend of Jesse James as Sheriff Homer Brinks

1964

Bristle Face as Newt Pribble
Daniel Boone as Simon Harman
Daniel Boone as Cletus Mott

1963

Savage Sam as Willy Crup
The Fugitive as Corbin

1962

1961

One-Eyed Jacks as Deputy Lon Dedrick
A Thunder of Drums as Trooper Erschick
The Americans as Johnson

1960

Chartroose Caboose as Pete Harmon
Outlaws as Slim
The Westerner as Oscar Hudson

1959

Escort West as Corporal Wheeler
Rawhide as Sheriff McKay
Riverboat as Trapper (uncredited)
Riverboat as Porter Slagle
Bonanza as Sheriff Renard
Bonanza as Sheriff Gant
Bonanza as Big Jim Leyton

1958

Tonka as Ace
The Sheepman as Marshal

1957

Gunsight Ridge as Hank Moss
The Saga of Andy Burnett as Old Bill Williams
Sugarfoot as Shorty
Maverick as Roscoe
Sugarfoot as Harry

1956

When Gangland Strikes as Slim Pickett
Stranger at My Door as Ben Silas
Gun Brothers as Moose MacLain
Cow Dog as Himself - Commentator
Cow Dog as Cowhand

1955

Santa Fe Passage as Sam Beekman
Gunsmoke as Bucko
Gunsmoke as Pony Beal
Gunsmoke as Colley
Gunsmoke as Charlie Utter

1954

The Outcast as Boone Polson

1953

Old Overland Trail as Slim Pickens
Red River Shore as Deputy Slim Pickens

1952

The Story of Will Rogers as Dusty Donovan
Colorado Sundown as Joshua 'Slim' Pickens / Ma Pickens
South Pacific Trail as Slim Pickens
Thunderbirds as Pvt. Wes Shelby
Death Valley Days as Wall Kennedy

1950

Rocky Mountain as Plank (CSA)

1946

Smoky as Rodeo Cowboy (uncredited)

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Crew

1958

The Big Country as Stunts