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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Known For
Acting History
2004
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade as Self (archive footage)
2001Back in the Saddle as Self (archive footage)
1993La Classe américaine as 'Deep Throat' (archive footage)
1990Crazy Horse and Custer: The Untold Story as California Joe Milner
1982Pink Motel as Roy
1982Filthy Rich as Big Guy Beck
1981The Nashville Palace
1981Nashville Grab as Ross Common
1981Charlie and the Great Balloon Chase as Ben Khlover
1981This House Possessed as Arthur Keene
1981The Howling as Sam Newfield
1981Christmas Mountain: The Story Of A Cowboy Angel as Murf
1980Honeysuckle Rose as Garland
1980Tom Horn as Sam Creedmore
1980Swan Song as George
1979The Black Hole as B.O.B. (voice) (uncredited)
19791941 as Hollis P. Wood
1979Undercover with the KKK as Yancey Hicks
1979When the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion as Self
1979Beyond the Poseidon Adventure as Tex
1979The Sacketts as Jack Bigelow
1979The Sweet Creek County War
1979Spirit of the Wind as Obie
1978Smokey and the Good Time Outlaws as Sheriff Ledy
1978Vega$
1978The Swarm as Jud Hawkins
1977The Love Boat as Luke Scofield
1977The Shadow of Chikara as Virgil Cane
1977Babe as Colonel M.J. McCombs
1977The White Buffalo as Abel Pickney
1977Mr. Billion as Duane Hawkins
1977Grizzly Adams as Fine Hope
1976Pony Express Rider as Bob Jay
1976Hawmps! as Naman Tucker
1976Banjo Hackett: Roamin' Free as Lijah Tuttle
1975Switch as Bruno Restig
1975White Line Fever as Duane Haller
1975The Apple Dumpling Gang as Frank Stillwell
1975Poor Pretty Eddie as Sheriff Orville
1975Rancho Deluxe as Henry Beige
1975Baretta
1974Stub, the Best Cow Dog in the West as Windy Bill
1974Runaway on the Rogue River as Bucky Steele
1974The Legend of Earl Durand as Phil Chumley
1974Bootleggers as Grandpa Pruitt
1974The Gun and the Pulpit as Billy One-Eye
1974Twice in a Lifetime as Pete Lazich
1974Ginger in the Morning as Sheriff
1974Blazing Saddles as Taggart
1973Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid as Sheriff Colin Baker
1973Hitched as Sam / Bart Dawson
1972The Getaway as Cowboy
1972Kung Fu as Bart Fisher
1972Rolling Man as Chuck
1972Outdoor Rambling as Self
1972The Honkers as Clete
1972J.C. as Grady Caldwell
1972The Cowboys as Anse
1971The Devil and Miss Sarah as Stoney
1971McMillan & Wife
1971The Day They Hanged Kid Curry as Sheriff Whittaker
1971Who Killed the Mysterious Mr. Foster? as Kilpatrick
1971Alias Smith and Jones
1971The Wild Season as Lucky
1970The Deserter as Sgt. Tattinger
1970The Partridge Family as Will Fowler
1970The Mary Tyler Moore Show as Wild Jack Monroe
1970The Ballad of Cable Hogue as Ben Fairchild
1970Operation Snafu as General Maxwell
196980 Steps to Jonah as Scott
1969The Desperate Mission as Three-Finger Jack
1968Skidoo as Switchboard Operator
1968The Outcasts
1968Hawaii Five-O as Sam
1968Never a Dull Moment as Cowboy Schaeffer
1968The Legend of Custer as California Joe Milner
1967Will Penny as Ike Wallerstein
1967Mannix
1967Cimarron Strip as Malachi Grimes
1967Custer
1967The Flim-Flam Man as Jarvis Bates
1967Rough Night in Jericho as Yarbrough
1967Ironside
1967Hard Breed to Kill as Sloper
1966That Girl
1966The Magnificent Stranger as Sheriff
1966An Eye for an Eye as Ike Slant
1966Stagecoach as Buck, Stagecoach Driver
1966The Young Rounders
1965Run for Your Life as Sheriff Hoag
1965The Legend of Jesse James as Sheriff Homer Brinks
1965The Glory Guys as Sgt. James Gregory
1965Up from the Beach as Artillery Colonel
1965In Harm's Way as C.P.O. Culpepper
1965Major Dundee as Wiley
1964Profiles in Courage as Rogers
1964Daniel Boone as Simon Harman
1964Daniel Boone as Cletus Mott
1964The Man from U.N.C.L.E. as Clint Spinner
1964Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb as Major "King" Kong
1964Bristle Face as Newt Pribble
1963The Fugitive as Corbin
1963Savage Sam as Willy Crup
1962Our Man Higgins
1962The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self
1962The Alfred Hitchcock Hour as Clem Carter
1962The Wide Country
1962The Virginian as Slim
1962The Virginian as Hogy
1961A Thunder of Drums as Trooper Erschick
1961The Wonderful World of Disney
1961One-Eyed Jacks as Deputy Lon Dedrick
1961The Americans as Johnson
1960Chartroose Caboose as Pete Harmon
1960Route 66
1960Surfside 6
1960The Westerner as Oscar Hudson
1960Outlaws as Slim
1960The Tall Man
1960Coronado 9
1960Stump Run
1959The Swamp Fox
1959Riverboat as Trapper (uncredited)
1959Riverboat as Porter Slagle
1959Bonanza as Sheriff Renard
1959Bonanza as Sheriff Gant
1959Bonanza as Big Jim Leyton
1959Escort West as Corporal Wheeler
1959Rawhide as Sheriff McKay
1958Tonka as Ace
1958The Sheepman as Marshal
1957Maverick as Roscoe
1957Sugarfoot as Shorty
1957Sugarfoot as Harry
1957Gunsight Ridge as Hank Moss
1956Cow Dog as Himself - Commentator
1956Cow Dog as Cowhand
1956Gun Brothers as Moose MacLain
1956The Great Locomotive Chase as Pete Bracken
1956Stranger at My Door as Ben Silas
1956When Gangland Strikes as Slim Pickett
1955Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Bradshaw
1955Cheyenne
1955Gunsmoke as Bucko
1955Gunsmoke as Pony Beal
1955Gunsmoke as Colley
1955Gunsmoke as Charlie Utter
1955The Last Command as Abe
1955Santa Fe Passage as Sam Beekman
1955Buffalo Bill Jr.
1954The Wonderful World of Disney as Bucky Steele
1954Lassie
1954The Outcast as Boone Polson
1954The Boy from Oklahoma as Shorty
1954Phantom Stallion as Slim
1954Annie Oakley as Sundown - Henchman
1953Red River Shore as Slim Pickens
1953Shadows of Tombstone as Slim
1953Down Laredo Way as Slim
1953Iron Mountain Trail as Slim
1953The Sun Shines Bright as Sterling
1953Old Overland Trail as Slim Pickens
1952Thunderbirds as Pvt. Wes Shelby
1952South Pacific Trail as Slim Pickens
1952Death Valley Days as Wall Kennedy
1952Old Oklahoma Plains as Slim
1952The Story of Will Rogers as Dusty Donovan
1952Border Saddlemates as Slim
1952The Last Musketeer as Slim
1952Colorado Sundown as Joshua 'Slim' Pickens / Ma Pickens
1950Rocky Mountain as Plank (CSA)
1946Smoky as Rodeo Cowboy (uncredited)
—Monarch of the Mountains as Narrator