Creator / Slim Pickens

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. Appropriately, for much of his career Pickens played mainly cowboy roles. He is perhaps best remembered today for his comic roles in Dr. Strangelove (where he inaugurated the Riding the Bomb trope), Blazing Saddles, and 1941, and his villainous turn in One-Eyed Jacks.

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Works:

Films

• 1941
• The Apple Dumpling Gang
• Blazing Saddles
• The Cowboys
• The Deserter
• Dr. Strangelove
• An Eye for an Eye (1966)
• The Howling
• Major Dundee
• One-Eyed Jacks
• Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid
• Poor Pretty Eddie
• The Shadow of Chikara
• Stagecoach
• The Swarm (1978)

Television

• Hee Haw
• The Swamp Fox

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