Clint Walker
Among the most well known screen cowboys from the golden age of Western cinema, Clint Walker was born Norman Eugene Walker in Hartford, Illinois in 1927. Growing up during the Great Depression meant moving from town to town with his family as they looked for work, and Walker soon took up the enterprise himself, leaving school to work in a factory and then on a riverboat, later signing with the Merchant Marines at age 17. It was after Walker had served his term and was working as a security guard at a Las Vegas casino that a friend suggested he try his hand at acting. One of his friends in the industry gave him the chance to meet Cecil B. DeMille practically as soon as he arrived in Hollywood, and lucky for the young actor, the great director took a liking to him. Walker's first credited on-screen role was in the blockbuster "The Ten Commandments" (1956) under the stage name Jeff Norman. Almost as quickly, he had the opportunity to audition for a new Western TV series called "Cheyenne" (ABC, 1955-1962). He won the title role, and settled on the name Clint Walker. He would go on to portray Cheyenne the wandering adventurer from 1955 to 1962, and later found similar success in movies. Walker would co-star in Westerns like "The Dirty Dozen" (1967) and "Pancho Villa" (1972), and even made a cameo appearance as Cheyenne in an installment in Kenny Rogers' popular series of TV movies, 1991's "The Gambler Returns: Luck of the Draw" (NBC, 1991). Walker's final role came seven years later, when he provided the voice of Nick Nitro for the movie "Small Soldiers" (1998). Clint Walker died in 2018. He was 90 years old.
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Clint Walker
Filmography
Movies
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Serpent Warriors | Morgan Bates (Character) | - | 1986 |
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Mysterious Island of Beautiful Women | Wendell (Character) | - | 1979 |
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Deadly Harvest | Grant Franklin (Character) | - | 1977 |
17% |
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The White Buffalo | Whistling Jack Kileen (Character) | - | 1977 |
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Snowbeast | Sheriff Paraday (Character) | - | 1977 |
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Baker's Hawk | Dan Baker (Character) | - | 1976 |
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Scream of the Wolf | Byron Douglas (Character) | - | 1974 |
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Killdozer | Lloyd Kelly (Character) | - | 1974 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Hunter | Byron Douglas (Character) | - | 1973 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hardcase | Jack Rutherford (Character) | - | 1972 |
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Pancho Villa | Scotty (Character) | - | 1972 |
No Score Yet |
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The Bounty Man | Kinkaid (Character) | - | 1972 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | El Desafío de Pancho Villa | Unknown (Character) | - | 1972 |
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Yuma | Marshal Dave Harmon (Character) | - | 1971 |
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The Great Bank Robbery | Ranger Ben Quick (Character) | - | 1969 |
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More Dead Than Alive | Cain (Character) | - | 1969 |
No Score Yet |
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Sam Whiskey | O. W. Bandy (Character) | - | 1969 |
82% |
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The Dirty Dozen | Samson Posey (Character) | - | 1967 |
No Score Yet |
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The Night of the Grizzly | Jim Cole (Character) | - | 1966 |
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Maya | Hugh Bowen (Character) | - | 1966 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Portrait of an Unknown Man | David Wolfe (Character) | - | 1966 |
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None but the Brave | Capt. Dennis Bourke (Character) | - | 1965 |
60% |
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Send Me No Flowers | Bert (Character) | - | 1964 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Gold of the Seven Saints | Jim Rainbolt (Character) | - | 1961 |
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Yellowstone Kelly | Luther `'Yellowstone'` Kelly (Character) | - | 1959 |
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Fort Dobbs | Gar Davis (Character) | - | 1958 |
TV
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Centennial | Joe Bean (Character) | 1978-1979 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Lucy Show | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1965-1966 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | 77 Sunset Strip | Cal Jasper (Guest Star) | 1963 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Jack Benny Program: The Lost Episodes | Guest | 1963 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Cheyenne | Unknown (Character) | 1955-1962 |