Clint Walker
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| Born | Norman Eugene Walker May 30, 1927 Hartford, Illinois, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | actor |
Clint Walker born May 30, 1927, in Hartford, Illinois, U.S., is an American actor.
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Career [change]
Clint Walker began his career playing role Tarzan in Jungle Gents (1954), then played the role of Sardinian, in the classical biblical movie The Ten Commandments (1956).
Clint made several western movies on the big screen Fort Dobbs (1958), and Yellowstone Kelly (1959), directed by Gordon Douglas, Gold of the Seven Saints (1961), with Roger Moore, More Dead Than Alive (1969) with Vincent Price, Sam Whiskey (1969) with Burt Reynolds. And the western starring with Charles Bronson, The White Buffalo (1977).
He also starred in television Westerns Yuma (1971) and The Bounty Man (1972).
Among his best works is the war movie The Dirty Dozen (1967), with Lee Marvin, He plays one of the dozen prisoners, who are elected by Marvin for a suicide mission. Walker also worked with Frank Sinatra in war movie, None But the Brave (1965), directed by Frank Sinatra.
Cheyenne [change]
In 1955 he was hired to star in the ABC TV series Cheyenne, which plays an adventurer Cheyenne Bodie cowboy after the Civil War, through the region westward against bandits, cattle rustlers and Indian rebels
It was a western series of more success in 1950s and early 60s on American television. Clint Walker starring Cheyenne, to over 108 episodes aired between 1955 and 1963
Filmography [change]
| Year | Títle | Role | Notes |
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| 1954 | Jungle Gents | Tarzan | |
| 1955/1963 | Cheyenne | Cheyenne Body | TV series |
| 1956 | The Ten Commandments | Sardinian | |
| 1957 | The Travellers | Cheyenne Body | |
| 1958 | Fort Dobbs | Gar Davis | |
| 1959 | Yellowstone Kelly | Luther 'Yellowstone' Kelly | |
| 1961 | Gold of the Seven Saints | Jim Rainbolt | |
| 1964 | Send Me No Flowers | Bert | |
| 1965 | None But the Brave | Capt. Dennis Bourke | |
| 1966 | The Night of the Grizzly | Jim Cole | |
| 1966 | Maya | Hugh Bowen | |
| 1967 | The Dirty Dozen | Samson Posey | |
| 1969 | More Dead Than Alive | Cain | |
| 1969 | Sam Whiskey | O. W. Bandy | |
| 1969 | The Great Bank Robbery | Ranger Ben Quick | |
| 1971 | Yuma | Marshal Dave Harmon | TV flm |
| 1972 | Hardcase | Jack Rutherford | TV film |
| 1972 | Pancho Villa | Scotty | |
| 1972 | The Bounty Man | Kinkaid | TV film |
| 1974 | Scream of the Wolf | Byron Douglas | TV film |
| 1974 | Killdozer | Lloyd Kelly | TV film |
| 1974 | Kodiak | Kodiak | TV series |
| 1976 | Baker's Hawk | Dan Baker | |
| 1977 | Snowbeast | Sheriff Paraday | TV film |
| 1977 | The White Buffalo | Whistling Jack Kileen | |
| 1977 | Deadly Harvest | Grant Franklin | |
| 1978 | Centennial | Joe Bean | TV mini-series |
| 1979 | Mysterious Island of Beautiful Women | Wendell | TV film |
| 1983 | Hysterical | Sheriff | |
| 1985 | The Serpent Warriors | Morgan Bates | |
| 1985 | All American Cowboy | TV movie documentary | |
| 1991 | The Gambler Returns: The Luck of the Draw | Cheyenne | TV film |
| 1995 | Kung Fu: The Legend Continues | Cheyenne Bodie | TV series episode: Gunfighters |
| 1998 | Small Soldiers | Nick Nitro (voice) |
References [change]
50 Years of the Television Western by Ronald Jackson,Doug Abbott
Other websites [change]
- Clint Walker at the Internet Movie Database
- Official website
- "Clint Walker: Top Gun of Warner's TV" by Herb Fagen (1999 interview) @ Classic Images magazine, issue # 212, p. 12
- "Belleville had its share of fame: Nice guy Clint Walker became Hollywood hunk" by Jaime Ingle - News-Democrat (Wednesday, June 18, 2008)
- "Cowboy actor inspires local Western writer" - From the Idaho State Journal - December 2003
- "Actor Clint Walker to be Inducted into National Cowboy Museum's Hall of Great Western Performers" - March 3, 2004 - National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum
