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Slim Pickens
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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.
Notable films
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The Howling
Appears in a KinoChain journey
The Swarm
Appears in a KinoChain journey
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
As Major "King" Kong
Blazing Saddles
As Taggart
The Sacketts
As Jack Bigelow
The Black Hole
As B.O.B. (voice) (uncredited)
1941
As Hollis P. Wood
One-Eyed Jacks
As Deputy Lon Dedrick
Chains
KinoChain journeys
Public chains that pass through their films — or name them as a bridge.
When Nature Turns
Exploring the deep to the desert, and the skies to the suburbs, animals have long been cinema's most primal villains. This chain traces the evolution of the cre...
8 films
The Moon Is a Bloody Mirror
A Halloween journey through the werewolf film, from suburban Canadian adolescence to 18th-century France, tracking what the beast has always known about becomin...
8 films
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The Howling
1981 · Sam Newfield
Tom Horn
1980 · Sam Creedmore
The Black Hole
1979 · B.O.B. (voice) (uncredited)
1941
1979 · Hollis P. Wood
The Sacketts
1979 · Jack Bigelow
The Swarm
1978 · Jud Hawkins
White Line Fever
1975 · Duane Haller
Blazing Saddles
1974 · Taggart
The Cowboys
1972 · Anse
Major Dundee
1965 · Wiley
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
1964 · Major "King" Kong
One-Eyed Jacks
1961 · Deputy Lon Dedrick
Stranger at My Door
1956 · Ben Silas