Slim Pickens

Born: 1919-06-29 in Kingsburg, California, USA

Died: 1983-12-08

Known For: Acting

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.

Filmography

2004

Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade as Self (archive footage)

2001

Back in the Saddle as Self (archive footage)

1994

100 Years at the Movies as Self (archive footage)

1993

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

1990

Crazy Horse and Custer: The Untold Story as California Joe Milner

1982

Filthy Rich as Big Guy Beck
Pink Motel as Roy

1981

The Howling as Sam Newfield
The Nashville Palace
Nashville Grab as Ross Common
Christmas Mountain: The Story Of A Cowboy Angel as Murf
This House Possessed as Arthur Keene
Charlie and the Great Balloon Chase as Ben Khlover

1980

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

1979

1941 as Hollis P. Wood
The Sacketts as Jack Bigelow
The Black Hole as B.O.B. (voice) (uncredited)
Beyond the Poseidon Adventure as Tex
Undercover with the KKK as Yancey Hicks
When the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion as Self
Spirit of the Wind as Obie
The Sweet Creek County War

1978

Vega$
The Swarm as Jud Hawkins
Smokey and the Good Time Outlaws as Sheriff Ledy

1977

The Love Boat as Luke Scofield
Grizzly Adams as Fine Hope
The White Buffalo as Abel Pickney
Mr. Billion as Duane Hawkins
The Shadow of Chikara as Virgil Cane
Babe as Colonel M.J. McCombs

1976

Banjo Hackett: Roamin' Free as Lijah Tuttle
Pony Express Rider as Bob Jay
Hawmps! as Naman Tucker

1975

Baretta
Switch as Bruno Restig
Rancho Deluxe as Henry Beige
The Apple Dumpling Gang as Frank Stillwell
Poor Pretty Eddie as Sheriff Orville
White Line Fever as Duane Haller

1974

Blazing Saddles as Taggart
Ginger in the Morning as Sheriff
The Gun and the Pulpit as Billy One-Eye
Bootleggers as Grandpa Pruitt
The Legend of Earl Durand as Phil Chumley
Twice in a Lifetime as Pete Lazich
Runaway on the Rogue River as Bucky Steele
Stub, the Best Cow Dog in the West as Windy Bill

1973

Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid as Sheriff Colin Baker
Hitched as Sam / Bart Dawson

1972

The Getaway as Cowboy
The Cowboys as Anse
Kung Fu as Bart Fisher
The Honkers as Clete
Rolling Man as Chuck
The Flim Flam Man as Jarvis Bates
Outdoor Rambling as Self
J.C. as Grady Caldwell

1971

McMillan & Wife
Alias Smith and Jones
The Day They Hanged Kid Curry as Sheriff Whittaker
The Devil and Miss Sarah as Stoney
Who Killed the Mysterious Mr. Foster? as Kilpatrick
The Wild Season as Lucky

1970

The Mary Tyler Moore Show as Wild Jack Monroe
The Partridge Family as Will Fowler
The Ballad of Cable Hogue as Ben Fairchild
The Deserter as Sgt. Tattinger
Operation Snafu as General Maxwell

1969

80 Steps to Jonah as Scott
The Desperate Mission as Three-Finger Jack

1968

Hawaii Five-O as Sam
The Outcasts
Never a Dull Moment as Cowboy Schaeffer
Skidoo as Switchboard Operator
The Legend of Custer as California Joe Milner

1967

Mannix
Ironside
Cimarron Strip as Malachi Grimes
Custer
Will Penny as Ike Wallerstein
The Flim-Flam Man as Jarvis Bates
Rough Night in Jericho as Yarbrough
Hard Breed to Kill as Sloper

1966

That Girl
Stagecoach as Buck, Stagecoach Driver
An Eye for an Eye as Ike Slant
The Magnificent Stranger as Sheriff
The Young Rounders

1965

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

1964

Daniel Boone as Simon Harman
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. as Clint Spinner
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb as Major "King" Kong
Profiles in Courage as Rogers
Bristle Face as Newt Pribble

1963

The Fugitive as Corbin
Savage Sam as Willy Crup

1959

Bonanza as Sheriff Renard
Rawhide as Sheriff McKay
Riverboat as Trapper (uncredited)
The Swamp Fox
Escort West as Corporal Wheeler

1958

The Big Country ... (Stunts)
The Sheepman as Marshal
Tonka as Ace

1957

Maverick as Roscoe
Sugarfoot as Shorty
Gunsight Ridge as Hank Moss

1956

The Great Locomotive Chase as Pete Bracken
Gun Brothers as Moose MacLain
When Gangland Strikes as Slim Pickett
Stranger at My Door as Ben Silas
Cow Dog as Himself - Commentator

1955

Cheyenne
Gunsmoke as Bucko
Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Bradshaw
Buffalo Bill Jr.
The Last Command as Abe
Santa Fe Passage as Sam Beekman

1954

Lassie
Annie Oakley as Sundown - Henchman
The Wonderful World of Disney as Bucky Steele
The Outcast as Boone Polson
The Boy from Oklahoma as Shorty
Phantom Stallion as Slim

1953

The Sun Shines Bright as Sterling
Old Overland Trail as Slim Pickens
Down Laredo Way as Slim
Iron Mountain Trail as Slim
Red River Shore as Slim Pickens
Shadows of Tombstone as Slim

1952

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

1950

Rocky Mountain as Plank (CSA)

1946

Smoky as Rodeo Cowboy (uncredited)