Slim Pickens
Favorite Hollywood cowboy of the 1950s through the 70s; perhaps best known as the B-52 pilot who, at the end of Stanley Kubrick's "Dr. Strangelove" (1964), "rides" a hydrogen bomb to destruction, Slim Pickens was a hoarse-voiced veteran of the rodeo circuit -- in fact he was said to have gotten his name when a sidebuster looked at him and said, "Slim pickins -- that's all you'll get in this rodeo." He was 13 when he joined the rodeo and he spent years as a rodeo clown and performer before he migrated to Hollywood in 1950. Pickens made his feature film debut in 1950 in an Errol Flynn western at Warner Bros., "Rocky Mountain." He was serious about entertaining and a "pro," to be sure, but the audience took to his joie de vivre. John Ford saw it and cast Pickens in "The Sun Shines Bright" (1953), which Ford later said was his favorite film. He played dozens of sidekicks, scouts, and sometimes varmints chewing and spitting tobacco (or worse) in films of the 50s and 60s, among them "Old Overland Trail" (1953), "The Boy From Oklahoma" (1954), "Major Dundee" (1965) and the remake of "Stagecoach" (1966). Mel Brooks chose him to play Taggart, the prickly third lead of "Blazing Saddles" (1974). Whether a comically vicious outlaw in "The Apple Dumpling Gang" (1975), or Tex, the calculating survivor of "Beyond the Poseidon Adventure" (1979), Pickens was an engaging, charismatic performer.
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Slim Pickens
Filmography
Movies
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Pink Motel | Roy (Character) | - | 1983 |
74% |
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The Howling | Sam Newfield (Character) | - | 1981 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Charlie and the Great Balloon Chase | Ben Khlover (Character) | - | 1981 |
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This House Possessed | Arthur Keene (Character) | - | 1981 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Story of a Cowboy Angel | Unknown (Character) | - | 1980 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Christmas Mountain | Murf (Character) | - | 1980 |
71% |
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Tom Horn | Sheriff Sam Creedmore (Character) | - | 1980 |
60% |
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Honeysuckle Rose | Garland Ramsey (Character) | - | 1980 |
0% |
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Beyond the Poseidon Adventure | Dewey "Tex" Hopkins (Character) | - | 1979 |
39% |
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1941 | Hollis P. Wood (Character) | - | 1979 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Spirit of the Wind | Obie (Character) | - | 1979 |
9% |
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The Swarm | Jud Hawkins (Character) | - | 1978 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | J.D. and the Salt Flat Kid | Sheriff Ledy (Character) | - | 1978 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Smokey and the Good Time Outlaws | Sheriff Ledy (Character) | - | 1978 |
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Wishbone Cutter | Virgil Cane (Character) | - | 1977 |
17% |
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The White Buffalo | Abel Pickney (Character) | - | 1977 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Pony Express Rider | Bob Jay (Character) | - | 1976 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Banjo Hackett | Lijah Tuttle (Character) | - | 1976 |
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Hawmps! | Naman Tucker (Character) | - | 1976 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Babe | Colonel M.J. McCombs (Character) | - | 1975 |
29% |
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White Line Fever | Duane Haller (Character) | - | 1975 |
56% |
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The Apple Dumpling Gang | Frank Stillwell (Character) | - | 1975 |
73% |
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Rancho Deluxe | Henry Beige (Character) | - | 1975 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Bootleggers | Grandpa Pruitt (Character) | - | 1974 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Gun and the Pulpit | Billy One-Eye (Character) | - | 1974 |
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Ginger in the Morning | Sheriff (Character) | - | 1974 |
89% |
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Blazing Saddles | Taggart (Character) | - | 1974 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Legend of Earl Durand | Phil Chumley (Character) | - | 1974 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Twice in a Lifetime | Pete Lazich (Character) | - | 1974 |
59% |
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Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid | Sheriff Colin Baker (Character) | - | 1973 |
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Poor Pretty Eddie | Sheriff Orville (Character) | - | 1973 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Heartbreak Motel | Sheriff Orville (Character) | - | 1973 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Black Vengeance | Sheriff Orville (Character) | - | 1973 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hitched | Sam (Character) | - | 1973 |
83% |
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The Getaway | Cowboy (Character) | - | 1972 |
75% |
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The Cowboys | Anse (Character) | - | 1972 |
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Rolling Man | Chuck (Character) | - | 1972 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Honkers | Clete (Character) | - | 1972 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Desperate Mission | Three-Finger Jack (Character) | - | 1971 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Deserter | Tattinger (Character) | - | 1971 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Day They Hanged Kid Curry | Sheriff Whittaker (Character) | - | 1971 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | J.C. | Grady Caldwell (Character) | - | 1971 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Devil and Miss Sarah | Stoney (Character) | - | 1971 |
94% |
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The Ballad of Cable Hogue | Ben Fairchild (Character) | - | 1970 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | 80 Steps to Jonah | Scott (Character) | - | 1969 |
93% |
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Will Penny | Ike Walterstein (Character) | - | 1968 |
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Never a Dull Moment | Cowboy Schaeffer (Character) | - | 1968 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Legend of Custer | California Joe Milner (Character) | - | 1968 |
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Rough Night in Jericho | Yarbrough (Character) | - | 1967 |
75% |
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The Flim Flam Man | Jarvis Bates (Character) | - | 1967 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Fool's Gold | Unknown (Character) | - | 1967 |
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Stagecoach | Buck, Stage Driver (Character) | - | 1966 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | An Eye for an Eye | Ike Slant (Character) | - | 1966 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hard Breed to Kill | Unknown (Character) | - | 1965 |
60% |
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The Glory Guys | Sgt. James Gregory (Character) | - | 1965 |
97% |
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Major Dundee | Wiley (Character) | $14.9K | 1965 |
37% |
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In Harm's Way | C.P.O. Culpepper (Character) | - | 1965 |
98% |
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Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb | Major T. J. "King" Kong (Character) | - | 1964 |
50% |
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Savage Sam | Willy Crup (Character) | - | 1963 |
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A Thunder of Drums | Trooper Erschick (Character) | - | 1961 |
65% |
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One-Eyed Jacks | Deputy Lon Dedrick (Character) | - | 1961 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Chartroose Caboose | Pete Harmon (Character) | - | 1960 |
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Escort West | Corporal Wheeler (Character) | - | 1959 |
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Tonka | Ace (Character) | - | 1958 |
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The Sheepman | Marshal (Character) | - | 1958 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Stranger at My Door | Ben Silas (Character) | - | 1956 |
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The Great Locomotive Chase | Pete Bracken (Character) | - | 1956 |
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The Last Command | Abe (Character) | - | 1955 |
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Santa Fe Passage | Sam Beekman (Character) | - | 1955 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Boy From Oklahoma | Shorty (Character) | - | 1954 |
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The Outcast | Boone Polsen (Character) | - | 1954 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Red River Shore | Deputy (Character) | - | 1953 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Shadows of Tombstone | Slim (Character) | - | 1953 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Iron Mountain Trail | Self | - | 1953 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Phantom Stallion | Slim (Character) | - | 1953 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Down Laredo Way | Slim (Character) | - | 1953 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Colorado Sundown |
Joshua "Slim" Pickens/ |
- | 1952 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Old Oklahoma Plains | Slim (Character) | - | 1952 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Old Overland Trail | Slim (Character) | - | 1952 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Border Saddlemates | Slim (Character) | - | 1952 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | South Pacific Trail | Slim Pickens (Character) | - | 1952 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Last Musketeer | Slim (Character) | - | 1951 |
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Rocky Mountain | Plank (Character) | - | 1950 |
TV
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Filthy Rich | Unknown (Character) | 1982 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | B.J. and the Bear | Unknown (Character) | 1979 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1979 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Sacketts | Jack Bigelow (Character) | 1979 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | How the West Was Won | Tap Henry (Guest Star) | 1978 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams | Fine Hope (Guest Star) | 1977 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | McMillan and Wife | William Halstead (Guest Star) | 1976 |
No Score Yet | 100% | Kung Fu | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1974 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Alias Smith and Jones | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1971-1972 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Partridge Family | Will Fowler (Guest Star) | 1972 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Gunsmoke | Colley (Guest Star) | 1964 1966 1970 1972 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Mary Tyler Moore Show | Wild Jack Monroe (Guest Star) | 1971 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Name of the Game | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1970 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Bonanza | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1963-1964 1968 1970 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | That Girl | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1969 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mannix | Mike Ray (Guest Star) | 1969 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Gentle Ben | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1968 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Cimarron Strip | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1968 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Custer | California Joe Milner (Character) | 1967 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Daniel Boone | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1966 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Rawhide | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1964 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Virginian | Hogy (Guest Star) | 1964 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Fugitive | Corbin (Guest Star) | 1964 |
100% | No Score Yet | The Man From U.N.C.L.E. | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1964 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Alfred Hitchcock Hour | Unknown (Character) | 1964 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Wagon Train | Rafe Jeffers (Guest Star) | 1958 1962 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Tall Man | Starr (Guest Star) | 1962 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Route 66 | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1962 |
No Score Yet | 87% | Alfred Hitchcock Presents | Bradshaw (Character) | 1961 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Surfside 6 | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1961 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Westerner | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1960 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Sugarfoot | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1958 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Lassie | Eddie (Guest Star) | 1957 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Jeff's Collie | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1957 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Circus Boy | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1956 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Lone Ranger | Joe Boley (Guest Star) | 1956 |