Clint Walker
Norman Eugene "Clint" Walker (born May 30, 1927 in Hartford , Illinois , † May 21, 2018 in Grass Valley , California ) was an American actor who became famous in the 1950s for the television series Cheyenne .
Life
Walker was born during the Great Depression; unemployment forced his family to move from town to town. He left school at the age of 16 to work in a factory and on the river boats in the area. At the age of 17 he joined the American merchant navy . He then worked on the Brownwood oil fields in Texas . Via Long Beach he came to Las Vegas , where he worked as a deputy sheriff at the Hotel Sands .
He then went to Hollywood , where he met Cecil B. DeMille , who offered him a role in his latest film The Ten Commandments . He then played the title role in the television series Cheyenne , which ran for eight years. She was one of the earliest TV western series and established Walker as one of the biggest new TV stars.
After the series ended, he made films such as The Wages of the Brave and The Dirty Dozen and recorded an album of songs for Warner Bros. Records . In May 1971 he had an accident in Mammoth Mountain in which a ski pole pierced him. Two months later he shot the film Viva Pancho Villa in Spain with Telly Savalas . In the 1980s and 90s he stood again for the series Love Boat and in The best player far and wide: His highest commitment in front of the camera, worked in an episode of Kung Fu and worked as a voice actor for the production of Small Soldiers .
Clint Walker has a daughter and was married to Susan Callavari for the third time in 1997. He died in May 2018 at the age of 90.
Filmography (selection)
Movies
- 1954: Jungle Gents
- 1956: The Ten Commandments (The Ten Commandments)
- 1957: The Travelers
- 1958: To Fort Dobbs at the pace of hell (Fort Dobbs)
- 1958: I'm Cheyenne (Born Bad)
- 1959: Cheyenne has no mercy (Johnny Bravo)
- 1959: He was called Kelly (Yellowstone Kelly)
- 1960: The Gold of the Seven Mountains (Gold of the Seven Saints)
- 1963: The Scout of the Black Mountains (Gold, Glory and Custer)
- 1964: Send Me No Flowers (Send Me No Flowers)
- 1965: None but the Brave (None But The Brave)
- 1965: Night of the Grizzly
- 1966: Danger in the Valley of the Tigers (Maya)
- 1967: The Dirty Dozen (The Dirty Dozen)
- 1968: Killer Cain (More Dead Than Alive)
- 1968: Reverend does his greatest thing (The Great Bank Robbery)
- 1969: Sam Whiskey
- 1970: Yuma
- 1972: Viva Pancho Villa (El desafío de Pancho Villa)
- 1972: Deadly Harvest
- 1972: The Bounty Man (TV movie)
- 1976: Baker's Hawk
- 1976: The White Buffalo (The White Buffalo)
- 1983: A Jump in the Bowl (Hysterical)
- 1986: Snake Inferno (Serpent Warriors)
- 1991: The best player far and wide: His highest stake ( The Gambler Returns: The Luck of the Draw , TV movie)
- 1998: Small Soldiers ( Small Soldiers , voice)
TV Shows
- 1955–1963: Cheyenne (108 episodes)
- 1960: Maverick (1 episode)
- 1963: 77 Sunset Strip (3 episodes)
- 1974: Kodiak (13 episodes)
- 1983: Love Boat (1 episode)
literature
- Gregor Hauser, Peter L. Stadlbaur: Prairie bandits: The gripping world of B-Westerns . Verlag Reinhard Marheinecke 2018, ISBN 978-3-932053-98-6 . P. 159f.
Web links
- Clint Walker homepage
- Clint Walker in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.briansdriveintheater.com/clintwalker.html
- ↑ The Guideposts Treasury of Hope. 1979, p. 105 ff.
- ↑ Clint Walker, Western Star Tall in the Saddle, Is Dead at 90 . In: The New York Times . May 22, 2018, ISSN 0362-4331 ( nytimes.com [accessed May 24, 2018]).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Walker, Clint |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Walker, Norman Eugene |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | US-American actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 30, 1927 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hartford , Illinois |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 21, 2018 |
| Place of death | Grass Valley (California) |