Slim Pickens
Slim Pickens was born on Jun 29, 1919 in USA. Slim Pickens's big-screen debut came with Smoky directed by Louis King in 1946, strarring Rodeo Cowboy (uncredited). Slim Pickens is known for The Sacketts directed by Robert Totten, Sam Elliott stars as Tell Sackett and Tom Selleck as Orrin Sackett. The most recent award Slim Pickens achieved is Golden Boot Awards. The upcoming new movie Slim Pickens plays is The Howling which will be released on Apr 10, 1981.
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. Folamour ou : Comment j'ai appris à ne plus m'en faire et à aimer la bombe ! (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, La révolte des dieux rouges (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.
Birthday
Jun 29, 1919Place of Birth
Kingsburg, California, USA
Known For
Awards
1 wins & 0 nominations
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