Cast & creator
Slim Pickens
Best known for The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, Bonanza, Bonanza
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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Slim Pickens, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Also known as: Louis Burton Lindley, Jr., اسلیم پیکنز
114
film credits
62
television credits
175
1946–2004 · acting roles
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Across film & television
Filmography (176)
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The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self
1962
Bonanza
Sheriff Renard
1959Bonanza
Sheriff Gant
1959Bonanza
Big Jim Leyton
1959
The Love Boat
Luke Scofield
1977
Hawaii Five-O
Sam
1969
The Fugitive
Corbin
1963
Maverick
Roscoe
1957
Mannix
1967
Ironside
1967
Lassie
1954
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Clem Carter
1962
The Virginian
Slim
1962The Virginian
Hogy
1962
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
Wild Jack Monroe
1970
Daniel Boone
Simon Harman
1964Daniel Boone
Cletus Mott
1964
Rawhide
Sheriff McKay
1959
Cheyenne
1955
Route 66
Jud
1960
Gunsmoke
Bucko
1955Gunsmoke
Pony Beal
1955Gunsmoke
Colley
1955Gunsmoke
Charlie Utter
1955
Run for Your Life
Sheriff Hoag
1965
That Girl
1966
Baretta
1975
The Partridge Family
Will Fowler
1970
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Clint Spinner
1964
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Bradshaw
1955
Switch
Bruno Restig
1975
Surfside 6
1960
Vega$
1978
Sugarfoot
Shorty
1957Sugarfoot
Harry
1957
Alias Smith and Jones
1971
Outlaws
Slim
1960
McMillan & Wife
1971
The Tall Man
1960
Annie Oakley
Sundown
1954
Riverboat
Trapper (uncredited)
1959Riverboat
Porter Slagle
1959
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Major "King" Kong
1964
Cimarron Strip
Malachi Grimes
1967
The Wonderful World of Disney
Bucky Steele
1954
The Legend of Jesse James
Sheriff Homer Brinks
1965Profiles in Courage
Rogers
1964
The Outcasts
1968
Coronado 9
1960
Grizzly Adams
Fine Hope
1977
The Americans
Johnson
1961
Custer
1967
Buffalo Bill Jr.
1955
Blazing Saddles
Taggart
1974
The Wonderful World of Disney
1961
Filthy Rich
Big Guy Beck
1982
The Sacketts
Jack Bigelow
1979
The Westerner
Oscar Hudson
1960
The Howling
Sam Newfield
1981
The Getaway
Cowboy
1972
The Black Hole
B.O.B. (voice) (uncredited)
1979
1941
Hollis P. Wood
1979
Death Valley Days
Wall Kennedy
1952
The Wide Country
1962
The Swamp Fox
1959
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
Sheriff Colin Baker
1973
The Big Country
Stunts
1958
In Harm's Way
C.P.O. Culpepper
1965
One-Eyed Jacks
Deputy Lon Dedrick
1961
Major Dundee
Wiley
1965
The Ballad of Cable Hogue
Ben Fairchild
1970
The Cowboys
Anse
1972
Our Man Higgins
1962
The White Buffalo
Abel Pickney
1977
The Apple Dumpling Gang
Frank Stillwell
1975
Will Penny
Ike Wallerstein
1967
Beyond the Poseidon Adventure
Tex
1979
Stagecoach
Buck, Stagecoach Driver
1966
The Swarm
Jud Hawkins
1978
Never a Dull Moment
Cowboy Schaeffer
1968
A Thunder of Drums
Trooper Erschick
1961
Rough Night in Jericho
Yarbrough
1967
Mr. Billion
Duane Hawkins
1977
Savage Sam
Willy Crup
1963
The Glory Guys
Sgt. James Gregory
1965
The Last Command
Abe
1955
The Flim-Flam Man
Jarvis Bates
1967
The Sun Shines Bright
Sterling
1953
The Nashville Palace
1981
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
Self (archive footage)
2004
The Gun and the Pulpit
Billy One-Eye
1974
The Sheepman
Marshal
1958
Poor Pretty Eddie
Sheriff Orville
1975
La Classe américaine
'Deep Throat' (archive footage)
1993
The Deserter
Sgt. Tattinger
1970
The Boy from Oklahoma
Shorty
1954
The Story of Will Rogers
Dusty Donovan
1952
Undercover with the KKK
Yancey Hicks
1979
80 Steps to Jonah
Scott
1969
Gunsight Ridge
Hank Moss
1957
The Great Locomotive Chase
Pete Bracken
1956
Tom Horn
Sam Creedmore
1980
Skidoo
Switchboard Operator
1968
Up from the Beach
Artillery Colonel
1965
Banjo Hackett: Roamin' Free
Lijah Tuttle
1976
Kung Fu
Bart Fisher
1972
Border Saddlemates
Slim
1952
The Devil and Miss Sarah
Stoney
1971
The Day They Hanged Kid Curry
Sheriff Whittaker
1971
Stranger at My Door
Ben Silas
1956
White Line Fever
Duane Haller
1975
Back in the Saddle
Self (archive footage)
2001
Who Killed the Mysterious Mr. Foster?
Kilpatrick
1971
Rancho Deluxe
Henry Beige
1975
The Legend of Earl Durand
Phil Chumley
1974
The Honkers
Clete
1972
Smokey and the Good Time Outlaws
Sheriff Ledy
1978
This House Possessed
Arthur Keene
1981
Stampede at Bitter Creek
Buck
1962
The Desperate Mission
Three-Finger Jack
1969
The Outcast
Boone Polson
1954
Christmas Mountain: The Story Of A Cowboy Angel
Murf
1981
Ginger in the Morning
Sheriff
1974
An Eye for an Eye
Ike Slant
1966
The Sweet Creek County War
1979
Rocky Mountain
Plank (CSA)
1950
Thunderbirds
Pvt. Wes Shelby
1952
When the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion
Self
1979
Bristle Face
Newt Pribble
1964
The Shadow of Chikara
Virgil Cane
1977
The Legend of Custer
California Joe Milner
1968
Pony Express Rider
Bob Jay
1976
The Flim Flam Man
Jarvis Bates
1972
Runaway on the Rogue River
Bucky Steele
1974
Santa Fe Passage
Sam Beekman
1955Charlie and the Great Balloon Chase
Ben Khlover
1981
Twice in a Lifetime
Pete Lazich
1974
Stump Run
1960
Chartroose Caboose
Pete Harmon
1960
Honeysuckle Rose
Garland
1980
Stub, the Best Cow Dog in the West
Windy Bill
1974
Babe
Colonel M.J. McCombs
1977
Hard Breed to Kill
Sloper
1967
The Magnificent Stranger
Sheriff
1966
Old Oklahoma Plains
Slim
1952
Spirit of the Wind
Obie
1979
Rolling Man
Chuck
1972
Old Overland Trail
Slim Pickens
1953
Bootleggers
Grandpa Pruitt
1974
Hawmps!
Naman Tucker
1976Outdoor Rambling
Self
1972
Iron Mountain Trail
Slim
1953
Tonka
Ace
1958
Escort West
Corporal Wheeler
1959
Crazy Horse and Custer: The Untold Story
California Joe Milner
1990
Swan Song
George
1980
Down Laredo Way
Slim
1953
Hitched
Sam / Bart Dawson
1973
Colorado Sundown
Joshua 'Slim' Pickens / Ma Pickens
1952
Smoky
Rodeo Cowboy (uncredited)
1946
Nashville Grab
Ross Common
1981
The Young Rounders
1966
Shadows of Tombstone
Slim
1953
When Gangland Strikes
Slim Pickett
1956
Operation Snafu
General Maxwell
1970
Gun Brothers
Moose MacLain
1956
Monarch of the Mountains
Narrator
Red River Shore
Slim Pickens
1953
J.C.
Grady Caldwell
1972
South Pacific Trail
Slim Pickens
1952
The Last Musketeer
Slim
1952
The Wild Season
Lucky
1971
Pink Motel
Roy
1982
Phantom Stallion
Slim
1954Cow Dog
Himself - Commentator
1956Cow Dog
Cowhand
1956