Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
6/29/1919
Place of Birth
Kingsburg, California, USA
Also Known As
Louis Burton Lindley, Jr.اسلیم پیکنز
Slim Pickens
Biography
Louis Burton Lindley Jr. (June 29, 1919 – December 8, 1983), known professionally as 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. For much of his career Pickens played mainly cowboy roles. he is perhaps best remembered today for his comic roles in Dr. Strangelove (1964), Blazing Saddles (1972) and 1941 (1979), and his villainous turn in One-Eyed Jacks (1961).
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Known For
Honeysuckle Rose
as Garland
The Cowboys
as Anse
Blazing Saddles
as Taggart
The Sheepman
as Marshal
Tom Horn
as Sam Creedmore
Rancho Deluxe
as Henry Beige
Major Dundee
as Wiley
The Swarm
as Jud Hawkins
Skidoo
as Switchboard Operator
The Getaway
as Cowboy
The White Buffalo
as Abel Pickney
Smoky
as Rodeo Cowboy (uncredited)
Mr. Billion
as Duane Hawkins
Stagecoach
as Buck, Stagecoach Driver
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
as Self (archive footage)
Operation Snafu
as General Maxwell
The Desperate Mission
as Three-Finger Jack
The Boy from Oklahoma
as Shorty
Gun Brothers
as Moose MacLain
The Deserter
as Sgt. Tattinger
Career Timeline
1981
1979
The Black Hole
as B.O.B. (voice) (uncredited)
1941
as Hollis P. Wood
Undercover with the KKK
as Yancey Hicks
When the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion
as Self
Beyond the Poseidon Adventure
as Tex
The Sacketts
as Jack Bigelow
The Sweet Creek County War
Role unknown
Spirit of the Wind
as Obie
1978
1977
1976
1975
1974
Stub, the Best Cow Dog in the West
as Windy Bill
Runaway on the Rogue River
as Bucky Steele
The Legend of Earl Durand
as Phil Chumley
Bootleggers
as Grandpa Pruitt
The Gun and the Pulpit
as Billy One-Eye
Twice in a Lifetime
as Pete Lazich
Ginger in the Morning
as Sheriff
Blazing Saddles
as Taggart
1972
1971
1970
1968
1967
1966
1965
1964
1962
1961
1960
1959
1956
1955
1954
1953
1952
Thunderbirds
as Pvt. Wes Shelby
South Pacific Trail
as Slim Pickens
Death Valley Days
as Wall Kennedy
Old Oklahoma Plains
as Slim
The Story of Will Rogers
as Dusty Donovan
Border Saddlemates
as Slim
The Last Musketeer
as Slim
Colorado Sundown
as Joshua 'Slim' Pickens / Ma Pickens