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Slim Pickens
Slim Pickens, or Louis Burton Lindley Jr. as he was born, was an American actor and rodeo performer. He started his career in the rodeo but later moved on to acting, and he appeared in numerous movies and TV shows. Many of the characters he portrayed leaned into his rodeo background, such as his cowboy roles. His performances in Dr. Strangelove, Blazing Saddles, 1941, and his antagonist role in One-Eyed Jacks with Marlon Brando, are remembered fondly.
Born in Kingsburg, California, and an excellent horse rider from his early years, his passion took him away from a life of dairy farming. He ventured into rodeo, even though his father initially did not approve, and assumed the name Slim Pickens, after a phrase used by a doubtful rodeo manager predicting his slim chances of earning prize money. Besides rodeo and acting, he also spent some time in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II, where a misunderstanding regarding his profession led him to work at a Midwestern radio station instead of the rodeo. His career milestones include his work in the Western Rocky Mountain (1950), which starred Errol Flynn, and a variety of Westerns often portraying villains and comedic sidekicks. His unique physical presence and the authenticity he brought to horseback scenes from his rodeo background are memorable. His extensive contribution to the Western film genre garnered him honors and inductions into several halls of fame.
Biography, Career & Filmography
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Given Name: Louis Burton Lindley Jr.
Born: Kingsburg, California, U.S.
Citizenship: American
Birthday: June 29, 1919
Occupations: Actor, rodeo performer
Years Active: 1946–1983
Children: 3
Spouses: Margaret Harmon Lindley
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Movies Featuring Slim Pickens
The White Buffalo
The Apple Dumpling Gang
The Black Hole
The Getaway
The Swarm
Beyond the Poseidon Adventure
Hawmps!
Sam Peckinpah’s West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
Tom Horn
Honeysuckle Rose
Christmas Mountain: The Story Of A Cowboy Angel
This House Possessed
Pink Motel
Will Penny
The Honkers
Major Dundee
Skidoo
The Shadow of Chikara
Rocky Mountain
Mr. Billion
Pony Express Rider
Rough Night in Jericho
The Making of ‘1941’
Rancho Deluxe
The Outcast
The Devil and Miss Sarah
Tonka
Escort West
Operation Snafu
An Eye for an Eye
The Story of Will Rogers
Poor Pretty Eddie
Smokey and the Good Time Outlaws
The Sun Shines Bright
Gun Brothers
White Line Fever
The Boy from Oklahoma
The Deserter
Gunsight Ridge
Ginger in the Morning
Colorado Sundown
One-Eyed Jacks
J.C.
The Desperate Mission
Up from the Beach
The Last Musketeer
The Ballad of Cable Hogue
Santa Fe Passage
The Glory Guys
Savage Sam
Cow Dog
La Classe américaine
Stranger at My Door
The Sheepman
In Harm’s Way
Never a Dull Moment
The Gun and the Pulpit
Stagecoach
Smoky
80 Steps to Jonah
The Sacketts
Babe
A Thunder of Drums
Career Timeline
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1975
The Apple Dumpling Gang
Rancho Deluxe
Henry Beige
Poor Pretty Eddie
Sheriff Orville
White Line Fever
Duane Haller
Babe
Colonel M.J. McCombs
1970
Operation Snafu
General Maxwell
The Deserter
Sgt. Tattinger
The Ballad of Cable Hogue
Ben Fairchild
1965
Major Dundee
Wiley
Up from the Beach
Artillery Colonel
The Glory Guys
Sgt. James Gregory
In Harm’s Way
C.P.O. Culpepper
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