Slim Pickens

Slim Pickens

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Birthday: 
29 June 1919, Kingsburg, California, USA
Birth Name: 
Louis Burton Lindley Jr.
Height: 
188 cm
Slim Pickens spent the early part of his career as a real cowboy and the latter part playing cowboys, and he is best remembered for a single "cowboy" image: that of bomber pilot Maj. "King" Kong waving his cowboy hat rodeo-style as he rides a nuclear bomb onto its target in the great black comedy Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learne... Show more »
Slim Pickens spent the early part of his career as a real cowboy and the latter part playing cowboys, and he is best remembered for a single "cowboy" image: that of bomber pilot Maj. "King" Kong waving his cowboy hat rodeo-style as he rides a nuclear bomb onto its target in the great black comedy Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964). Born in Kingsburg, near Fresno in California's Central Valley, he spent much of his boyhood in nearby Hanford, where he began rodeoing at the age of 12. Over the next two decades he toured the country on the rodeo circuit, becoming a highly-paid and well-respected rodeo clown, a job that entailed enormous danger. In 1950, at the age of 31, Slim married Margaret Elizabeth Harmon and that same year he was given a role in a western, Rocky Mountain (1950). He quickly found a niche in both comic and villainous roles in that genre. With his hoarse voice and pronounced western twang, he was not always easy to cast outside the genre, but when he was, as in "Dr. Strangelove", the results were often memorable. He died in 1983 after a long and courageous battle against a brain tumor. He was survived by his wife Margaret and children. Show less «

Slim Pickens's FILMOGRAPHY

Filmworker

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These Amazing Shadows

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The Love Boat - Season 9

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The Love Boat - Season 8

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The Love Boat - Season 7

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The Love Boat - Season 6

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The Howling

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B.J. and the Bear - Season 3

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The Love Boat - Season 5

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Hawaii Five-0 - Season 11 (1968)

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Tom Horn

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The Love Boat - Season 4

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Honeysuckle Rose

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How the West Was Won - Season 3

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The Sacketts - Season 1

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Hawaii Five-0 - Season 12 (1968)

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B.J. and the Bear - Season 1

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B.J. and the Bear - Season 2

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The Love Boat - Season 3

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The Black Hole

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1941

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Beyond The Poseidon Adventure

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How the West Was Won - Season 2

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Slim Pickens'S roles

Sam Newfield
Sam Newfield
Frank Stillwell
Frank Stillwell
Taggart
Taggart
Dewey 'Tex' Hopkins
Dewey 'Tex' Hopkins
Cowboy
Cowboy
Clint Spinner
Clint Spinner
Maj. T.J. 'King' Kong
Maj. T.J. 'King' Kong