Slim Pickens
Acting • Born 1919-06-29 – Died 1983-12-08
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.
Filmography
175 credits
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Movie • 1964
Major "King" Kong
Will Penny
Movie • 1967
Ike Wallerstein
Savage Sam
Movie • 1963
Willy Crup
Blazing Saddles
Movie • 1974
Taggart
The Getaway
Movie • 1972
Cowboy
Tom Horn
Movie • 1980
Sam Creedmore
1941
Movie • 1979
Hollis P. Wood
The Howling
Movie • 1981
Sam Newfield
Honeysuckle Rose
Movie • 1980
Garland
The Ballad of Cable Hogue
Movie • 1970
Ben Fairchild
Hawmps!
Movie • 1976
Naman Tucker
Beyond the Poseidon Adventure
Movie • 1979
Tex
Never a Dull Moment
Movie • 1968
Cowboy Schaeffer
Skidoo
Movie • 1968
Switchboard Operator
The Wild Season
Movie • 1971
Lucky
The Magnificent Stranger
Movie • 1966
Sheriff
Major Dundee
Movie • 1965
Wiley
White Line Fever
Movie • 1975
Duane Haller
Tonka
Movie • 1958
Ace
The Great Locomotive Chase
Movie • 1956
Pete Bracken
The Glory Guys
Movie • 1965
Sgt. James Gregory
Mr. Billion
Movie • 1977
Duane Hawkins
In Harm's Way
Movie • 1965
C.P.O. Culpepper
Poor Pretty Eddie
Movie • 1975
Sheriff Orville
The Shadow of Chikara
Movie • 1977
Virgil Cane
The White Buffalo
Movie • 1977
Abel Pickney
Stagecoach
Movie • 1966
Buck, Stagecoach Driver
Escort West
Movie • 1959
Corporal Wheeler
Rocky Mountain
Movie • 1950
Plank (CSA)
The Swarm
Movie • 1978
Jud Hawkins
One-Eyed Jacks
Movie • 1961
Deputy Lon Dedrick
The Apple Dumpling Gang
Movie • 1975
Frank Stillwell
Back in the Saddle
Movie • 2001
Self (archive footage)
When Gangland Strikes
Movie • 1956
Slim Pickett
J.C.
Movie • 1972
Grady Caldwell
When the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion
Movie • 1979
Self
Santa Fe Passage
Movie • 1955
Sam Beekman
A Thunder of Drums
Movie • 1961
Trooper Erschick
The Honkers
Movie • 1972
Clete
The Sun Shines Bright
Movie • 1953
Sterling
The Story of Will Rogers
Movie • 1952
Dusty Donovan
Nashville Grab
Movie • 1981
Ross Common
Colorado Sundown
Movie • 1952
Joshua 'Slim' Pickens / Ma Pickens
Stranger at My Door
Movie • 1956
Ben Silas
Bootleggers
Movie • 1974
Grandpa Pruitt
Ginger in the Morning
Movie • 1974
Sheriff
Babe
Movie • 1977
Colonel M.J. McCombs
Gunsight Ridge
Movie • 1957
Hank Moss
Gun Brothers
Movie • 1956
Moose MacLain
Iron Mountain Trail
Movie • 1953
Slim
Phantom Stallion
Movie • 1954
Slim
Shadows of Tombstone
Movie • 1953
Slim
Old Overland Trail
Movie • 1953
Slim Pickens
The Boy from Oklahoma
Movie • 1954
Shorty
80 Steps to Jonah
Movie • 1969
Scott
Border Saddlemates
Movie • 1952
Slim
Swan Song
Movie • 1980
George
Hitched
Movie • 1973
Sam / Bart Dawson
The Devil and Miss Sarah
Movie • 1971
Stoney
Rolling Man
Movie • 1972
Chuck
Down Laredo Way
Movie • 1953
Slim
The Last Musketeer
Movie • 1952
Slim
Outdoor Rambling
Movie • 1972
Self
Smoky
Movie • 1946
Rodeo Cowboy (uncredited)
This House Possessed
Movie • 1981
Arthur Keene
Operation Snafu
Movie • 1970
General Maxwell
South Pacific Trail
Movie • 1952
Slim Pickens
Red River Shore
Movie • 1953
Slim Pickens
Twice in a Lifetime
Movie • 1974
Pete Lazich
Chartroose Caboose
Movie • 1960
Pete Harmon
Pink Motel
Movie • 1982
Roy
An Eye for an Eye
Movie • 1966
Ike Slant
Rancho Deluxe
Movie • 1975
Henry Beige
Cow Dog
Movie • 1956
Cowhand
Cow Dog
Movie • 1956
Himself - Commentator
The Flim-Flam Man
Movie • 1967
Jarvis Bates
Rough Night in Jericho
Movie • 1967
Yarbrough
Monarch of the Mountains
Movie
Narrator
Pony Express Rider
Movie • 1976
Bob Jay
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
Movie • 1973
Sheriff Colin Baker
Stump Run
Movie • 1960
Undercover with the KKK
Movie • 1979
Yancey Hicks
Hard Breed to Kill
Movie • 1967
Sloper
The Gun and the Pulpit
Movie • 1974
Billy One-Eye
The Last Command
Movie • 1955
Abe
The Sheepman
Movie • 1958
Marshal
The Desperate Mission
Movie • 1969
Three-Finger Jack
Old Oklahoma Plains
Movie • 1952
Slim
The Outcast
Movie • 1954
Boone Polson
Christmas Mountain: The Story Of A Cowboy Angel
Movie • 1981
Murf
Runaway on the Rogue River
Movie • 1974
Bucky Steele
The Deserter
Movie • 1970
Sgt. Tattinger
The Young Rounders
Movie • 1966
The Legend of Earl Durand
Movie • 1974
Phil Chumley
The Black Hole
Movie • 1979
B.O.B. (voice) (uncredited)
The Legend of Custer
Movie • 1968
California Joe Milner
Thunderbirds
Movie • 1952
Pvt. Wes Shelby
Spirit of the Wind
Movie • 1979
Obie
Smokey and the Good Time Outlaws
Movie • 1978
Sheriff Ledy
Charlie and the Great Balloon Chase
Movie • 1981
Ben Khlover
The Sweet Creek County War
Movie • 1979
Bristle Face
Movie • 1964
Newt Pribble
Who Killed the Mysterious Mr. Foster?
Movie • 1971
Kilpatrick
La Classe américaine
Movie • 1993
'Deep Throat' (archive footage)
The Cowboys
Movie • 1972
Anse
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
Movie • 2004
Self (archive footage)
Up from the Beach
Movie • 1965
Artillery Colonel
Banjo Hackett: Roamin' Free
Movie • 1976
Lijah Tuttle
Stub, the Best Cow Dog in the West
Movie • 1974
Windy Bill
The Day They Hanged Kid Curry
Movie • 1971
Sheriff Whittaker
Crazy Horse and Custer: The Untold Story
Movie • 1990
California Joe Milner
The Flim Flam Man
Movie • 1972
Jarvis Bates
Stampede at Bitter Creek
Movie • 1962
Buck
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
TV • 1964
Clint Spinner
Cheyenne
TV • 1955
Kung Fu
TV • 1972
Bart Fisher
The Love Boat
TV • 1977
Luke Scofield
Hawaii Five-O
TV • 1968
Sam
That Girl
TV • 1966
Route 66
TV • 1960
Baretta
TV • 1975
Alias Smith and Jones
TV • 1971
Surfside 6
TV • 1960
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
TV • 1970
Wild Jack Monroe
Gunsmoke
TV • 1955
Bucko
Lassie
TV • 1954
The Wide Country
TV • 1962
Filthy Rich
TV • 1982
Big Guy Beck
Ironside
TV • 1967
The Tall Man
TV • 1960
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
TV • 1955
Bradshaw
Our Man Higgins
TV • 1962
Outlaws
TV • 1960
Slim
McMillan & Wife
TV • 1971
Rawhide
TV • 1959
Sheriff McKay
Vega$
TV • 1978
Run for Your Life
TV • 1965
Sheriff Hoag
The Outcasts
TV • 1968
Daniel Boone
TV • 1964
Simon Harman
The Fugitive
TV • 1963
Corbin
Switch
TV • 1975
Bruno Restig
The Virginian
TV • 1962
Slim
Profiles in Courage
TV • 1964
Rogers
Sugarfoot
TV • 1957
Shorty
Riverboat
TV • 1959
Trapper (uncredited)
Buffalo Bill Jr.
TV • 1955
The Sacketts
TV • 1979
Jack Bigelow
The Wonderful World of Disney
TV • 1961
The Legend of Jesse James
TV • 1965
Sheriff Homer Brinks
The Swamp Fox
TV • 1959
Custer
TV • 1967
The Westerner
TV • 1960
Oscar Hudson
Coronado 9
TV • 1960
The Nashville Palace
TV • 1981
The Americans
TV • 1961
Johnson
Mannix
TV • 1967
Maverick
TV • 1957
Roscoe
Riverboat
TV • 1959
Porter Slagle
Sugarfoot
TV • 1957
Harry
The Virginian
TV • 1962
Hogy
Gunsmoke
TV • 1955
Pony Beal
Gunsmoke
TV • 1955
Colley
Gunsmoke
TV • 1955
Charlie Utter
Bonanza
TV • 1959
Sheriff Renard
Daniel Boone
TV • 1964
Cletus Mott
Bonanza
TV • 1959
Sheriff Gant
Bonanza
TV • 1959
Big Jim Leyton
Death Valley Days
TV • 1952
Wall Kennedy
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
TV • 1962
Clem Carter
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
TV • 1962
Self
Grizzly Adams
TV • 1977
Fine Hope
Cimarron Strip
TV • 1967
Malachi Grimes
Annie Oakley
TV • 1954
Sundown - Henchman
The Wonderful World of Disney
TV • 1954
Bucky Steele
The Partridge Family
TV • 1970
Will Fowler