Slim Pickens

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1919-06-28 (64 years old)

Deathday

1983-12-08

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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Slim Pickens, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Acting

1967

Will Penny

as Ike Wallerstein

1963

Savage Sam

as Willy Crup

1974

Blazing Saddles

as Taggart

1972

The Getaway

as Cowboy

1980

Tom Horn

as Sam Creedmore

1979

1941

as Hollis P. Wood

1981

The Howling

as Sam Newfield

1980

1970

1976

Hawmps!

as Naman Tucker

1968

Never a Dull Moment

as Cowboy Schaeffer

1968

Skidoo

as Switchboard Operator

1971

1965

Major Dundee

as Wiley

1975

White Line Fever

as Duane Haller

1958

Tonka

as Ace

1956

1965

The Glory Guys

as Sgt. James Gregory

1977

Mr. Billion

as Duane Hawkins

1965

In Harm's Way

as C.P.O. Culpepper

1975

Poor Pretty Eddie

as Sheriff Orville

1977

The Shadow of Chikara

as Virgil Cane

1977

The White Buffalo

as Abel Pickney

1966

Stagecoach

as Buck, Stagecoach Driver

1959

Escort West

as Corporal Wheeler

1950

Rocky Mountain

as Plank (CSA)

1978

The Swarm

as Jud Hawkins

1961

One-Eyed Jacks

as Deputy Lon Dedrick

1975

The Apple Dumpling Gang

as Frank Stillwell

2001

Back in the Saddle

as Self (archive footage)

1956

When Gangland Strikes

as Slim Pickett

1972

J.C.

as Grady Caldwell

1955

Santa Fe Passage

as Sam Beekman

1961

A Thunder of Drums

as Trooper Erschick

1972

The Honkers

as Clete

1953

1952

The Story of Will Rogers

as Dusty Donovan

1981

Nashville Grab

as Ross Common

1952

Colorado Sundown

as Joshua 'Slim' Pickens / Ma Pickens

1956

1974

Bootleggers

as Grandpa Pruitt

1973

1975

Babe

as Colonel M.J. McCombs

1957

Gunsight Ridge

as Hank Moss

1956

Gun Brothers

as Moose MacLain

1996

The Making of '1941'

as Self (archive footage)

1954

1953

Old Overland Trail

as Slim Pickens

1969

1980

Swan Song

as George

1971

Hitched

as Sam / Bart Dawson

1972

Rolling Man

as Chuck

1953

1972

1946

Smoky

as Rodeo Cowboy (uncredited)

1981

This House Possessed

as Arthur Keene

1970

Operation Snafu

as General Maxwell

1952

South Pacific Trail

as Slim Pickens

1953

Red River Shore

as Deputy Slim Pickens

1974

Twice in a Lifetime

as Pete Lazich

1960

Chartroose Caboose

as Pete Harmon

1982

1957

The Saga of Andy Burnett

as Old Bill Williams

1966

An Eye for an Eye

as Ike Slant

1975

Rancho Deluxe

as Henry Beige

1956

Cow Dog

as Himself - Commentator

1956

Cow Dog

as Cowhand

1967

The Flim-Flam Man

as Jarvis Bates

1967

1976

1973

Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid

as Sheriff Colin Baker

1979

1967

1974

The Gun and the Pulpit

as Billy One-Eye

1958

The Sheepman

as Marshal

1969

The Desperate Mission

as Three-Finger Jack

1954

The Outcast

as Boone Polson

1974

1970

The Deserter

as Sgt. Tattinger

1974

1979

The Black Hole

as B.O.B. (voice) (uncredited)

1968

The Legend of Custer

as California Joe Milner

1952

Thunderbirds

as Pvt. Wes Shelby

1964

Bristle Face

as Newt Pribble

1993

La Classe américaine

as 'Deep Throat' (archive footage)

1972

1965

Up from the Beach

as Artillery Colonel

1976

1971

The Day They Hanged Kid Curry

as Sheriff Whittaker

1990

As Aventuras do General Custer

as California Joe Milner

Production

1958

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