Norman Eugene "Clint" Walker (born May 30, 1927) is an American actor best known for his cowboy role as "Cheyenne Bodie" in the TV Western series, Cheyenne. Image File history File links Metadata No higher resolution available. ... is the 150th day of the year (151st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1927 (MCMXXVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Hartford is a village located in Madison County, Illinois, near the mouth of the Missouri River. ... Cheyenne was the first western television series created for Warner Brothers studios by Roy Huggins that featured Clint Walker as Cheyenne Bodie, a physically huge cowboy wandering the Old West. ... is the 150th day of the year (151st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1927 (MCMXXVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Actors in period costume sharing a joke whilst waiting between takes during location filming. ... Justus D. Barnes, from The Great Train Robbery The Western is one of the classic American literary and film genres. ... A television program is the content of television broadcasting. ... Cheyenne was the first western television series created for Warner Brothers studios by Roy Huggins that featured Clint Walker as Cheyenne Bodie, a physically huge cowboy wandering the Old West. ...

Walker was born in Hartford, Illinois. He left school to work at a factory and on a river boat, then joined the United States Merchant Marine at 17 during the tail end of World War II.^[1] After leaving the Merchant Marines, he worked at odd jobs in Brownwood, Texas, Long Beach, California, and Las Vegas, where he worked as a doorman at the Sands Hotel.^[1] Hartford is a village located in Madison County, Illinois, near the mouth of the Missouri River. ... Source: This article contains material from the CIA World Factbook which, as a US government publication, is in the public domain. ... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... Brownwood is a city located in Brown County, Texas. ... The references in this article would be clearer with a different and/or consistent style of citation, footnoting or external linking. ... For further information, see Las Vegas metropolitan area and Las Vegas Strip. ...

In Los Angeles, he was hired by Cecil B. DeMille to appear in The Ten Commandments. A friend in the film business helped get him a few bit parts that brought him to the attention of Warner Bros. who were in the process of developing a western style television series. Flag Seal Nickname: City of Angels Location Location within Los Angeles County in the state of California Coordinates , Government State County California Los Angeles County Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa (D) Geographical characteristics Area     City 1,290. ... Cecil Blount DeMille (August 12, 1881 – January 21, 1959) was one of the most successful filmmakers during the first half of the 20th century. ... The Ten Commandments is a 1956 motion picture dramatizing the Biblical story of Moses, an Egyptian prince-turned deliverer of the Hebrew slaves. ... Warner Bros. ... Justus D. Barnes, from The Great Train Robbery The Western is one of the classic American literary and film genres. ...

Walker's good looks and physique—he was one-quarter Cherokee descent, stood 6ft 6in (198 cm), with a 48in chest and a 32in waist.^[2] —landed him an audition and he won the lead role. Billed as "Clint" Walker, he was cast as Cheyenne Bodie, a cowboy hero set in the post American Civil War era. Although the series regularly capitalized on Walker's rugged frame with frequent bare-chested scenes, it was well written and acted; it proved hugely popular for eight seasons on the ABC television network. For other uses, see Cherokee (disambiguation). ... Combatants United States of America (Union) Confederate States of America (Confederacy) Commanders Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee Strength 2,200,000 1,064,000 Casualties 110,000 killed in action, 360,000 total dead, 275,200 wounded 93,000 killed in action, 258,000 total... The American Broadcasting Company ( oftenly known as ABC) operates television and radio networks in the United States and is also shown on basic cable in Canada. ...

Walker then played roles in several big screen films including a trio of westerns for Gordon Douglas: Fort Dobbs in 1958, Yellowstone Kelly in 1959, and Gold of the Seven Saints in 1961, as well as The Night of the Grizzly in 1966 and in 1967, the very successful war drama, The Dirty Dozen. Gordon Douglas could refer to one of the following: Gordon Douglas, ordained the first Western monk in Buddhism in 1899. ... Fort Dobbs is the first of three westerns, directed by Gordon Douglas, which starred Clint Walker. ... Gold of the Seven Saints is the film version of a 1957 Steve Frazee novel titled Desert Guns. ... The Night of the Grizzly is a 1966 Western adventure film starring Clint Walker, Martha Hyer, Keenan Wynn, and Nancy Kulp. ... The Dirty Dozen is a 1967 war film directed by Robert Aldrich from the novel by E.M. Nathanson. ...

During the 1970s he returned to television, starring in a number of made-for-TV western films as well as a short-lived series in 1974 called Kodiak. The 1970s decade refers to the years from 1970 to 1979. ... Kodiak was a short lived, half-hour adventure program that aired Friday evenings on ABC during the 1974-1975 television season. ...

21st century

Walker met western author Kirby Jonas through James Drury, a mutual friend. Jonas and Walker subsequently spent two years collaborating on a story idea suggested by Walker involving gold and the Yaqui, a partnership that led to the publication of the 2003 Western novel Yaqui Gold (ISBN 1891423088).^[2] James Child Drury (born 18 April 1934 in New York, New York) played the title role in the 90-minute weekly television series The Virginian from 1962 to 1971 After a series of bit parts and playing second-lead for Disney, Drury landed the part of a ranch hand on... The Yoeme or Yaqui are a border Native American people who live in the Sonoran Desert region, comprising part of the northern Mexican state of Sonora and the southwestern U.S. state of Arizona. ... See also: 2002 in literature, other events of 2003, 2004 in literature, list of years in literature. ... Cover of a book by Louis LAmour, one of Western fictions most prolific authors. ...

Honors

Walker has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1505 Vine Street, near its intersection with Sunset Boulevard (approximate coordinates: 34°05′53″N 118°19′36″W / 34.098084, -118.326643). A band plays on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. ... Vine Street is a thoroughfare in Westminster London. ... Sunset Boulevard (officially known as West Sunset Boulevard, except in Beverly Hills) is a street in the western part of Los Angeles County, California, that stretches from Figueroa Street in downtown Los Angeles to the Pacific Coast Highway at the Pacific Ocean in the Pacific Palisades. ...

In 2004, he was inducted into the Hall of Great Western Performers at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The Hall of Great Western Performers is a Hall of Fame at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States. ... Bronze Wrangler The National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum is a museum and art gallery, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, housing one of the largest collections of: Western, American cowboy, American rodeo, and American Indian; art, artifacts, and archival materials, in the world. ... Nickname: Location in Oklahoma County and the state of Oklahoma. ...

References

1. ^ ^{a b c} Walker's biography from his official website
2. ^ ^{a b} Cowboy actor inspires local Western writer, a December 2003 review transcribed from an Idaho State Journal article

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External links

• Clint Walker at the Internet Movie Database