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Dec 10, 1983 · Slim Pickens, a onetime rodeo star turned cowboy actor, died Thursday night at a convalescent hospital in Modesto, Calif. He was 64 years old.
Dec 9, 1983 · Slim Pickens, famous cowboy actor, is dead following a long bout with pneumonia, a friend of the family has confirmed. Pickens, 64, died in a Modesto hospital, said Clare Huffaker. He said Pickens' daughter called him with the news that her father died on Thursday.
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Louis Burton Lindley Jr. (June 29, 1919 – December 8, 1983), better known by his stage name 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.
May 30, 2017 · Marlon Brando directs Slim Pickens on the set of 1961’s One-Eyed Jacks. The best acting you’ll ever see from Slim is this Western; his own daughter couldn’t glimpse her father in that ornery character!
Dec 7, 2008 · Dec. 10: Slim Pickens, the cowboy actor, died in a Modesto hospital on Dec. 8. He was 64. In August 1982, neurosurgeons at UCSF had removed a tumor from his brain. Pickens, who owned a ranch...
Slim Pickens. Actor: Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. 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 ...
May 4, 2021 · Slim Pickens had a variety of talents, from rodeo clown and bullfighter to acting in feature films and television. He also served in World War II and was assigned to an Army radio station in...
