Slim Pickens

ActorCrew Jun 29 (died age 64) Kingsburg, California, USA 1946–2004 (58 year career)

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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 fr…

Known For

Film

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

Major "King" Kong

Film

Blazing Saddles

Taggart

Film

The Getaway

Cowboy

Film

The Big Country

Stunts

Film

The Howling

Sam Newfield

Film

Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid

Sheriff Colin Baker

Film

La Classe américaine

'Deep Throat' (archive footage)

Film

The Cowboys

Anse

Filmography

Acting (166)

Movies (112)

Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade

2004

as Self (archive footage)

7.8

Back in the Saddle

2001

as Self (archive footage)

6.0

La Classe américaine

1993

as 'Deep Throat' (archive footage)

7.6

Crazy Horse and Custer: The Untold Story

1990

as California Joe Milner

Pink Motel

as Roy

The Howling

as Sam Newfield

Christmas Mountain: The Story Of A Cowboy Angel

1981

as Murf

8.7

Nashville Grab

1981

as Ross Common

This House Possessed

1981

as Arthur Keene

5.7

Charlie and the Great Balloon Chase

1981

as Ben Khlover

Swan Song

1980

as George

Tom Horn

as Sam Creedmore

Honeysuckle Rose

as Garland

1941

as Hollis P. Wood

The Black Hole

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

5.8

Beyond the Poseidon Adventure

1979

as Tex

5.1

Undercover with the KKK

1979

as Yancey Hicks

3.2

The Sweet Creek County War

Spirit of the Wind

as Obie

When the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion

1979

as Self

The Swarm

1978

as Jud Hawkins

5.0

Smokey and the Good Time Outlaws

1978

as Sheriff Ledy

The White Buffalo

1977

as Abel Pickney

5.9

Babe

1977

as Colonel M.J. McCombs

5.5

Mr. Billion

1977

as Duane Hawkins

5.5

The Shadow of Chikara

as Virgil Cane

Hawmps!

as Naman Tucker

Pony Express Rider

as Bob Jay

Banjo Hackett: Roamin' Free

1976

as Lijah Tuttle

White Line Fever

1975

as Duane Haller

6.0

The Apple Dumpling Gang

as Frank Stillwell

Poor Pretty Eddie

as Sheriff Orville

Rancho Deluxe

as Henry Beige

Blazing Saddles

as Taggart

Twice in a Lifetime

as Pete Lazich

Ginger in the Morning

1974

as Sheriff

4.4

Stub, the Best Cow Dog in the West

1974

as Windy Bill

Bootleggers

1974

as Grandpa Pruitt

5.0

The Legend of Earl Durand

1974

as Phil Chumley

5.0

The Gun and the Pulpit

1974

as Billy One-Eye

5.9

Runaway on the Rogue River

1974

as Bucky Steele

Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid

1973

as Sheriff Colin Baker

Hitched

as Sam / Bart Dawson

The Cowboys

as Anse

The Getaway

as Cowboy

The Honkers

as Clete

Rolling Man

as Chuck

J.C.

as Grady Caldwell

Outdoor Rambling

as Self

The Flim Flam Man

1972

as Jarvis Bates

The Day They Hanged Kid Curry

1971

as Sheriff Whittaker

The Devil and Miss Sarah

as Stoney

The Wild Season

as Lucky

Who Killed the Mysterious Mr. Foster?

1971

as Kilpatrick

8.0

The Ballad of Cable Hogue

as Ben Fairchild

The Deserter

as Sgt. Tattinger

Operation Snafu

as General Maxwell

The Desperate Mission

as Three-Finger Jack

80 Steps to Jonah

as Scott

The Legend of Custer

as California Joe Milner

5.0

Skidoo

1968

as Switchboard Operator

Never a Dull Moment

as Cowboy Schaeffer

The Flim-Flam Man

as Jarvis Bates

Will Penny

as Ike Wallerstein

Rough Night in Jericho

as Yarbrough

Hard Breed to Kill

as Sloper

Stagecoach

as Buck, Stagecoach Driver

6.0

The Magnificent Stranger

as Sheriff

The Young Rounders

An Eye for an Eye

as Ike Slant

In Harm's Way

as C.P.O. Culpepper

Major Dundee

as Wiley

The Glory Guys

as Sgt. James Gregory

6.5

Up from the Beach

1965

as Artillery Colonel

8.0

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

1964

as Major "King" Kong

8.1

Bristle Face

1964

as Newt Pribble

Savage Sam

1963

as Willy Crup

5.1

Stampede at Bitter Creek

1962

as Buck

One-Eyed Jacks

1961

as Deputy Lon Dedrick

A Thunder of Drums

as Trooper Erschick

Chartroose Caboose

as Pete Harmon

Stump Run

Escort West

as Corporal Wheeler

Tonka

as Ace

The Sheepman

as Marshal

Gunsight Ridge

as Hank Moss

When Gangland Strikes

1956

as Slim Pickett

Gun Brothers

as Moose MacLain

Stranger at My Door

as Ben Silas

The Great Locomotive Chase

1956

as Pete Bracken

6.3

Cow Dog

1956

as Cowhand

The Last Command

as Abe

Santa Fe Passage

as Sam Beekman

The Outcast

as Boone Polson

Phantom Stallion

as Slim

The Boy from Oklahoma

as Shorty

Red River Shore

as Slim Pickens

The Sun Shines Bright

1953

as Sterling

6.4

Down Laredo Way

1953

as Slim

Iron Mountain Trail

as Slim

Old Overland Trail

as Slim Pickens

Shadows of Tombstone

as Slim

The Last Musketeer

as Slim

South Pacific Trail

1952

as Slim Pickens

Thunderbirds

1952

as Pvt. Wes Shelby

5.7

Colorado Sundown

1952

as Joshua 'Slim' Pickens / Ma Pickens

Border Saddlemates

as Slim

Old Oklahoma Plains

as Slim

The Story of Will Rogers

as Dusty Donovan

Rocky Mountain

as Plank (CSA)

Smoky

as Rodeo Cowboy (uncredited)

5.2

Monarch of the Mountains

as Narrator

Television (54)

Filthy Rich

as Big Guy Beck

The Nashville Palace

The Sacketts

as Jack Bigelow

Vega$

The Love Boat

as Luke Scofield

Grizzly Adams

as Fine Hope

Baretta

Switch

as Bruno Restig

Kung Fu

as Bart Fisher

McMillan & Wife

Alias Smith and Jones

1971

7.0

The Mary Tyler Moore Show

1970

as Wild Jack Monroe

7.6

Night Gallery

1970

as Sheriff Ned Harlow

The Partridge Family

as Will Fowler

Hawaii Five-O

as Sam

The Outcasts

Ironside

Mannix

Cimarron Strip

as Malachi Grimes

Custer

That Girl

Run for Your Life

as Sheriff Hoag

The Legend of Jesse James

1965

as Sheriff Homer Brinks

4.8

Daniel Boone

1964

as Simon Harman

7.0

The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

as Clint Spinner

Profiles in Courage

as Rogers

The Fugitive

as Corbin

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

1962

as Self

7.4

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

as Clem Carter

The Virginian

as Slim

Our Man Higgins

The Wide Country

The Wonderful World of Disney

The Americans

as Johnson

Route 66

The Tall Man

Outlaws

as Slim

Surfside 6

Coronado 9

The Westerner

as Oscar Hudson

Bonanza

as Big Jim Leyton

Rawhide

as Sheriff McKay

Riverboat

as Trapper (uncredited)

The Swamp Fox

Maverick

as Roscoe

Sugarfoot

as Shorty

Cheyenne

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

as Bradshaw

Gunsmoke

as Bucko

Buffalo Bill Jr.

Lassie

Annie Oakley

as Sundown - Henchman

5.2

The Wonderful World of Disney

as Bucky Steele

Death Valley Days

as Wall Kennedy

Crew (1)

Movies (1)

The Big Country

1958

Stunts

7.6