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Slim Pickens

Slim Pickens

Actor · 1919–1983 · Kingsburg, California, USA

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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.

Acted in 156

1990s

  1. 1993

    La Classe américaine

    'Deep Throat' (archive footage)

  2. 1990

    Crazy Horse and Custer: The Untold Story

    California Joe Milner

1980s

  1. 1982

    Pink Motel

    Roy

  2. Filthy Rich

    Big Guy Beck · 3 episodes

  3. 1981

    The Nashville Palace

    TV

  4. Nashville Grab

    Ross Common

  5. This House Possessed

    Arthur Keene

  6. Christmas Mountain: The Story Of A Cowboy Angel

    Murf

  7. 1980

    Honeysuckle Rose

    Garland

  8. Swan Song

    George

1970s

  1. 1979
  2. Undercover with the KKK

    Yancey Hicks

  3. The Sacketts

    Jack Bigelow · 2 episodes

  4. The Sweet Creek County War

    Movie

  5. Spirit of the Wind

    Obie

  6. 1978

    Smokey and the Good Time Outlaws

    Sheriff Ledy

  7. 1977
  8. Babe

    Colonel M.J. McCombs

  9. Mr. Billion

    Duane Hawkins

  10. 1976

    Pony Express Rider

    Bob Jay

  11. Hawmps!

    Naman Tucker

  12. Banjo Hackett: Roamin' Free

    Lijah Tuttle

  13. 1975
  14. Poor Pretty Eddie

    Sheriff Orville

  15. 1974

    Stub, the Best Cow Dog in the West

    Windy Bill

  16. Runaway on the Rogue River

    Bucky Steele

  17. The Legend of Earl Durand

    Phil Chumley

  18. Twice in a Lifetime

    Pete Lazich

  19. Ginger in the Morning

    Sheriff

  20. 1973
  21. Hitched

    Sam / Bart Dawson

  22. 1972
  23. Kung Fu

    Bart Fisher · 1 episode

  24. Rolling Man

    Chuck

  25. The Honkers

    Clete

  26. J.C.

    Grady Caldwell

  27. The Flim Flam Man

    Jarvis Bates

  28. 1971

    The Devil and Miss Sarah

    Stoney

  29. The Day They Hanged Kid Curry

    Sheriff Whittaker

  30. Who Killed the Mysterious Mr. Foster?

    Kilpatrick

  31. The Wild Season

    Lucky

  32. 1970
  33. Operation Snafu

    General Maxwell

1960s

  1. 1969

    80 Steps to Jonah

    Scott

  2. The Desperate Mission

    Three-Finger Jack

  3. 1968

    Skidoo

    Switchboard Operator

  4. Never a Dull Moment

    Cowboy Schaeffer

  5. The Legend of Custer

    California Joe Milner

  6. 1967
  7. Custer

    California Joe Milner · 17 episodes

  8. The Flim-Flam Man

    Jarvis Bates

  9. Rough Night in Jericho

    Yarbrough

  10. Hard Breed to Kill

    Sloper

  11. 1966
  12. The Magnificent Stranger

    Sheriff

  13. An Eye for an Eye

    Ike Slant

  14. The Young Rounders

    Movie

  15. 1965
  16. Up from the Beach

    Artillery Colonel

  17. 1964
  18. Bristle Face

    Newt Pribble

  19. 1963
  20. Savage Sam

    Willy Crup

  21. 1962

    Stampede at Bitter Creek

    Buck

  22. Our Man Higgins

    TV

  23. The Wide Country

    TV

  24. 1961

    A Thunder of Drums

    Trooper Erschick

  25. 1960

    Chartroose Caboose

    Pete Harmon

  26. Coronado 9

    TV

  27. Stump Run

    Movie

1950s

  1. 1959

    The Swamp Fox

    TV

  2. Escort West

    Corporal Wheeler

  3. 1958

    Tonka

    Ace

  4. The Sheepman

    Marshal

  5. 1957
  6. Gunsight Ridge

    Hank Moss

  7. 1956

    Gun Brothers

    Moose MacLain

  8. The Great Locomotive Chase

    Pete Bracken

  9. Stranger at My Door

    Ben Silas

  10. When Gangland Strikes

    Slim Pickett

  11. 1955
  12. Santa Fe Passage

    Sam Beekman

  13. Buffalo Bill Jr.

    TV

  14. 1954
  15. The Outcast

    Boone Polson

  16. The Boy from Oklahoma

    Shorty

  17. Phantom Stallion

    Slim

  18. 1953

    Red River Shore

    Slim Pickens

  19. Shadows of Tombstone

    Slim

  20. Down Laredo Way

    Slim

  21. Iron Mountain Trail

    Slim

  22. Old Overland Trail

    Slim Pickens

  23. 1952

    Thunderbirds

    Pvt. Wes Shelby

  24. South Pacific Trail

    Slim Pickens

  25. Death Valley Days

    Wall Kennedy · 1 episode

  26. Old Oklahoma Plains

    Slim

  27. The Story of Will Rogers

    Dusty Donovan

  28. Border Saddlemates

    Slim

  29. The Last Musketeer

    Slim

  30. Colorado Sundown

    Joshua 'Slim' Pickens / Ma Pickens

  31. 1950

1940s

  1. 1946

    Smoky

    Rodeo Cowboy (uncredited)

Other crew 1

Appearances5

2000s

  1. 2004

    Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade

    Self (archive footage)

  2. 2001

    Back in the Saddle

    Self (archive footage)

1970s

  1. 1979

    When the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion

    Self

No release date

  1. Monarch of the Mountains

    Narrator