Slim Pickens
Mon Jul 10 2000 at 23:22:15
Louis Bert Lindley was born in Kingsburg, CA, June 29, 1919. He became a real cowboy, as young as the age of 12. He wound up playing the role of the clown in the rodeos. That s a very dangerous job, as I guess you know. You get in one of those barrels, and, well, you know those folks in California . . . He got an idea to become an actor, and one of the fellows he was working with said something to the effect, Well, you might as well try it. It s nothing but
slim pickins around here. So he became Slim Pickens at the age of 31 and worked in many of the Western TV shows in the 50 s. He also worked in Hollywood and was in dozens of movies as a character actor. Who could ever forget that face? And that drawl, like a human bloodhound.
Sam Peckinpah saved the legacy of the American Western in the ’60s as film critics were wanting to declare the genre cinematically dead in the wake of all the amazing titles arriving from Europe as part of the Spaghetti Western wave. At this point, Hollywood studios were more than satisfied making dozens of cowboy shows for television since it was economically more viable.
Gunsmoke, Bonanza, Rawhide and others were keeping people at home when they wanted action on the wild frontier. Peckinpah had found a home making westerns for TV as a writer and director. He even created
The Westerner series starring Brian Keith (
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