Slim Pickens

from Kingsburg, California, USA

Artwork for Blazing SaddlesImage of Slim Pickens

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).

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Timeline

2004Aged 85

  • Poster for Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade

    Self (archive footage)

2001Aged 82

  • Poster for Back in the Saddle

    Self (archive footage)

1993Aged 74

  • Poster for La Classe américaine

    'Deep Throat' (archive footage)

1990Aged 71

  • Poster for Crazy Horse and Custer: The Untold Story

    California Joe Milner

1982Aged 63

  • Poster for Pink Motel

    Roy

1981Aged 62

1980Aged 61

  • Poster for Swan Song

    George

  • Poster for Tom Horn

    Sam Creedmore

  • Poster for Honeysuckle Rose

    Garland

1979Aged 60

  • Poster for Spirit of the Wind

    Obie

  • Poster for The Sweet Creek County War

    (Unknown)

  • Poster for Beyond the Poseidon Adventure

    Tex

  • Poster for When the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion

    Self

  • Poster for Undercover with the KKK

    Yancey Hicks

  • Poster for 1941

    Hollis P. Wood

  • Poster for The Black Hole

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

1978Aged 59

  • Poster for The Swarm

    Jud Hawkins

  • Poster for Smokey and the Good Time Outlaws

    Sheriff Ledy

1977Aged 58

  • Poster for Mr. Billion

    Duane Hawkins

  • Poster for The White Buffalo

    Abel Pickney

  • Poster for Babe

    Colonel M.J. McCombs

  • Poster for The Shadow of Chikara

    Virgil Cane

1976Aged 57

  • Poster for Banjo Hackett: Roamin' Free

    Lijah Tuttle

  • Poster for Hawmps!

    Naman Tucker

  • Poster for Pony Express Rider

    Bob Jay

1975Aged 56

  • Poster for Rancho Deluxe

    Henry Beige

  • Poster for Poor Pretty Eddie

    Sheriff Orville

  • Poster for The Apple Dumpling Gang

    Frank Stillwell

  • Poster for White Line Fever

    Duane Haller

1974Aged 55

  • Poster for Blazing Saddles

    Taggart

  • Poster for Ginger in the Morning

    Sheriff

  • Poster for Twice in a Lifetime

    Pete Lazich

  • Poster for The Gun and the Pulpit

    Billy One-Eye

  • Poster for Bootleggers

    Grandpa Pruitt

  • Poster for The Legend of Earl Durand

    Phil Chumley

  • Poster for Runaway on the Rogue River

    Bucky Steele

  • Poster for Stub, the Best Cow Dog in the West

    Windy Bill

1973Aged 54

  • Poster for Hitched

    Sam / Bart Dawson

  • Poster for Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid

    Sheriff Colin Baker

1972Aged 53

1971Aged 52

  • Poster for The Wild Season

    Lucky

  • Poster for Who Killed the Mysterious Mr. Foster?

    Kilpatrick

  • Poster for The Day They Hanged Kid Curry

    Sheriff Whittaker

  • Poster for The Devil and Miss Sarah

    Stoney

1970Aged 51

  • Poster for Operation Snafu

    General Maxwell

  • Poster for The Ballad of Cable Hogue

    Ben Fairchild

  • Poster for The Deserter

    Sgt. Tattinger

1969Aged 50

  • Poster for The Desperate Mission

    Three-Finger Jack

  • Poster for 80 Steps to Jonah

    Scott

1968Aged 49

  • Poster for The Legend of Custer

    California Joe Milner

  • Poster for Never a Dull Moment

    Cowboy Schaeffer

  • Poster for Skidoo

    Switchboard Operator

1967Aged 48

  • Poster for Hard Breed to Kill

    Sloper

  • Poster for Rough Night in Jericho

    Yarbrough

  • Poster for The Flim-Flam Man

    Jarvis Bates

  • Poster for Will Penny

    Ike Wallerstein

1966Aged 47

  • Poster for The Young Rounders

    (Unknown)

  • Poster for Stagecoach

    Buck, Stagecoach Driver

  • Poster for An Eye for an Eye

    Ike Slant

  • Poster for The Magnificent Stranger

    Sheriff

1965Aged 46

  • Poster for Major Dundee

    Wiley

  • Poster for In Harm's Way

    C.P.O. Culpepper

  • Poster for Up from the Beach

    Artillery Colonel

  • Poster for The Glory Guys

    Sgt. James Gregory

1964Aged 45

  • Poster for Bristle Face

    Newt Pribble

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

    Major "King" Kong

1963Aged 44

  • Poster for Savage Sam

    Willy Crup

1962Aged 43

  • Poster for Stampede at Bitter Creek

    Buck

1961Aged 42

  • Poster for One-Eyed Jacks

    Deputy Lon Dedrick

  • Poster for A Thunder of Drums

    Trooper Erschick

1960Aged 41

  • Poster for Stump Run

    (Unknown)

  • Poster for Chartroose Caboose

    Pete Harmon

1959Aged 40

  • Poster for Escort West

    Corporal Wheeler

1958Aged 39

  • Poster for The Sheepman

    Marshal

  • Poster for Tonka

    Ace

  • Poster for The Big Country

    Stunts

1957Aged 38

  • Poster for Gunsight Ridge

    Hank Moss

1956Aged 37

  • Poster for When Gangland Strikes

    Slim Pickett

  • Poster for Stranger at My Door

    Ben Silas

  • Poster for The Great Locomotive Chase

    Pete Bracken

  • Poster for Gun Brothers

    Moose MacLain

  • Cow Dog

    Himself - Commentator

1955Aged 36

  • Poster for Santa Fe Passage

    Sam Beekman

  • Poster for The Last Command

    Abe

1954Aged 35

  • Poster for Phantom Stallion

    Slim

  • Poster for The Boy from Oklahoma

    Shorty

  • Poster for The Outcast

    Boone Polson

1953Aged 34

  • Poster for Old Overland Trail

    Slim Pickens

  • Poster for The Sun Shines Bright

    Sterling

  • Poster for Iron Mountain Trail

    Slim

  • Poster for Down Laredo Way

    Slim

  • Poster for Shadows of Tombstone

    Slim

  • Poster for Red River Shore

    Slim Pickens

1952Aged 33

  • Poster for Colorado Sundown

    Joshua 'Slim' Pickens / Ma Pickens

  • Poster for The Last Musketeer

    Slim

  • Poster for Border Saddlemates

    Slim

  • Poster for The Story of Will Rogers

    Dusty Donovan

  • Poster for Old Oklahoma Plains

    Slim

  • Poster for South Pacific Trail

    Slim Pickens

  • Poster for Thunderbirds

    Pvt. Wes Shelby

1950Aged 31

  • Poster for Rocky Mountain

    Plank (CSA)

1946Aged 27

  • Poster for Smoky

    Rodeo Cowboy (uncredited)

Year unknown

  • Poster for Monarch of the Mountains

    Narrator

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