Slim Pickens
Birthdate: Jun 29, 1919
Birthplace: Kingsburg, California, USA
Died: Dec 8, 1983
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.
Known For
The Getaway
(1972)
1941
(1979)
Slim Pickens Movies
actor
Previous (72)
- 1990 | Crazy Horse and Custer: The Untold Story
- 1982 | Monarch of the Mountainsas Narrator
- 1982 | Pink Motelas Roy
- 1981 | Christmas Mountainas Murf
- 1981 | The Howlingas Sam Newfield
- 1980 | Tom Hornas Sheriff Sam Creedmore
- 1980 | Honeysuckle Roseas Garland Ramsey
- 1979 | Beyond the Poseidon Adventureas Tex
- 1979 | Spirit of the Windas Obie - the store owner
- 1979 | The Sweet Creek County Waras Jitters Pippen
- 1978 | Smokey and the Good Time Outlawsas Sheriff Ledy
- 1978 | The Swarmas Jud Hawkins
- 1977 | Mr. Billionas Duane Hawkins
- 1977 | The Shadow of Chikaraas Virgil Cane
- 1977 | The White Buffaloas Abel Pickney
- 1976 | Hawmps!as Sergeant Naman Tucker
- 1976 | Pony Express Rideras Bob Jay
- 1975 | Poor Pretty Eddieas Sheriff Orville
- 1975 | White Line Feveras Duane Haller
- 1975 | The Apple Dumpling Gangas Frank Stillwell
- 1975 | Rancho Deluxeas Henry Beige
- 1974 | Bootleggersas Grandpa Pruitt
- 1974 | Ginger in the Morningas Sheriff
- 1974 | The Legend of Earl Durandas Phil Chumley
- 1974 |
Blazing Saddles
asTaggart
In order to ruin a western town and steal their land, a corrupt politician appoints a black sheriff, who promptly becomes his most formidable adversary.
- 1972 | J.C.as Grady Caldwell
- 1972 | Outdoor Rambling
- 1972 | The Honkersas Clete
- 1972 | The Getawayas Cowboy
- 1971 | The Wild Seasonas Lucky
- 1971 | The Young Rounders
- 1970 | The Ballad of Cable Hogueas Ben Fairchild
- 1970 | The Devil's Backboneas Tattinger - American Scout
- 1969 | 80 Steps to Jonahas Scott
- 1968 | Never a Dull Momentas Cowboy Schaeffer
- 1968 | The Legend of Custer
- 1968 |
Skidoo
asThe Switchboard Operator
Skidoo
A retired gangster must return to work when mob boss God kidnaps his daughter Darlene to force him into killing rival Blue Chips Packard.
- 1967 | Rough Night in Jerichoas Yarbrough
- 1967 | The Flim-Flam Manas Jarvis Bates
- 1967 | Un tipo dificil de mataras Chief of the bandits
- 1967 | Will Pennyas Ike Walterstein
- 1966 | An Eye for an Eyeas Ike Slant
- 1966 | Stagecoachas Buck - Stagecoach Driver
- 1965 | The Glory Guysas Sgt. James Gregory
- 1964 |
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
asMaj. 'King' Kong
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
An unhinged American general orders a bombing attack on the Soviet Union, triggering a path to nuclear holocaust that a war room full of politicians and generals frantically tries to stop.
- 1963 | Savage Samas Willy Crup
- 1961 | One-Eyed Jacksas Deputy Lon Dedrick
- 1960 | Chartroose Cabooseas Pete Harmon
- 1960 | The Horse with the Flying Tailas Cowboy
- 1959 | Escort Westas Cpl. Wheeler
- 1959 | Stump Runas Babe Gaskin
- 1958 | The Sheepmanas Marshal
- 1957 | Gunsight Ridgeas Hank Moss
- 1956 | Gun Brothersas Moose MacLain
- 1956 | Stranger at My Dooras Ben Silas
- 1956 | When Gangland Strikesas Slim Pickett
- 1955 | Santa Fe Passageas Sam Beekman
- 1954 | Phantom Stallionas Slim Pickens
- 1954 | The Boy from Oklahomaas Shorty
- 1954 | The Outcastas Boone Polsen
- 1953 | Down Laredo Wayas Slim Pickens
- 1953 | Iron Mountain Trailas Slim Pickens
- 1953 | Old Overland Trailas Slim Pickens
- 1953 | Red River Shoreas Deputy Slim Pickens
- 1953 | Shadows of Tombstoneas Slim Pickens
- 1952 | Border Saddlematesas Slim Pickens
- 1952 | Colorado Sundownas Joshua Slim Pickens
- 1952 | Old Oklahoma Plainsas Slim Pickens
- 1952 | South Pacific Trailas Slim Pickens
- 1952 | The Last Musketeeras Slim Pickens
- 1952 | The Story of Will Rogersas Dusty Donovan
- 1950 | Rocky Mountainas Plank
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