Slim Pickens riding the bomb in the movie Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

Louis Bert Lindley, Jr. (June 29, 1919 – December 8, 1983), better known by the stage name Slim Pickens, was a cowboy and actor. Image File history File links Slim-pickens_riding-the-bomb. ... Image File history File links Slim-pickens_riding-the-bomb. ... For the hit 1987 single by Depeche Mode, see the album Music for the Masses Film poster for Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb is a 1964 satirical film directed by Stanley Kubrick. ... June 29 is the 180th day of the year (181st in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 185 days remaining. ... 1919 (MCMXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... December 8 is the 342nd day (343rd in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A stage name or a screen name is a pseudonym used by performers - such as actors, comedians, musicians and clowns. ... A cowboy (Spanish vaquero) tends cattle and horses on cattle ranches in North and South America. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ...

Pickens, who epitomized the profane, tough, sardonic cowboy, was born in Kingsburg, California. He was an excellent rider from age four and quit school to join the rodeo at age twelve. He was told that working in the rodeo would be "slim pickings", giving him his name, but he did very well, eventually rising to become a well known rodeo clown - one of the most dangerous jobs in show business. Kingsburg is a city located in Fresno County, California. ... Official language(s) English Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Area  - Total   - Width   - Length    - % water  - Latitude  - Longitude Ranked 3rd 158,302 sq mi  410,000 km² 250 miles  400 km 770 miles  1,240 km 4. ... Steer roping Rodeo is a traditional folk North American sport with influences from the history of Mexican vaqueros (cowboys) and American cowboys. ... A rodeo clown or bull fighter is a rodeo performer who works on bull riding contests. ... Show business is a vernacular term for the business of entertainment. ...

After twenty years on the rodeo circuit, his distinctive voice and drawl, his wide eyes and moon face, and his strong physical presence and grace gained him a role in the western Rocky Mountain (1950), starring Errol Flynn. He subsequently appeared in many westerns, playing both villains and comic sidekicks to the likes of Rex Allen. In the opening scene of An Eye for an Eye (1966), he shoots a baby in its crib. Justus D. Barnes, from The Great Train Robbery The Western is one of the classic American literary and film genres. ... 1950 (MCML) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... Errol Flynn as Robin Hood, one of his most famous roles Errol Leslie Thomson Flynn (June 20, 1909 – October 14, 1959) was an Australian film actor, most famous for his romantic swashbuckler roles. ... Don Quixote and Sancho Panza unsuccessfully confront windmills. ... Rex Allen (December 31, 1920--December 17, 1999) was an American actor, singer, and songwriter. ... 1966 (MCMLXVI) was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1966 calendar). ...

His most famous role was as B-52 pilot Major T. J. "King" Kong in Dr. Strangelove, which ended with Pickens riding an H-bomb down to global destruction. A B-52 in flight The Boeing B-52 Stratofortress is a long-range strategic bomber flown by the United States Air Force (USAF) since 1954, replacing the Convair B-36 and the Boeing B-47. ... For the hit 1987 single by Depeche Mode, see the album Music for the Masses Film poster for Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb is a 1964 satirical film directed by Stanley Kubrick. ...

In one scene, Pickens briefs the crew on their survival packs:

"In them you'll find one .45-caliber automatic, two boxes ammunition, four days' concentrated emergency rations, one drug issue containing antibiotics, morphine, vitamin pills, pep pills, sleeping pills, tranquilizer pills, one miniature combination Russian phrase book and Bible, one hundred dollars in rubles, one hundred dollars in gold, nine packs of chewing gum, one issue prophylactics, three lipsticks, three pair of nylon stockings ... Shoot, a fella could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas[*] with all that stuff."

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Another of his memorable roles was as Taggart, head of the gang of cowboy thugs in Mel Brooks' classic 1974 comedy Blazing Saddles: Mel Brooks on the talk show Parkinson. ... 1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (the link is to a full 1974 calendar). ... Blazing Saddles is a Warner Bros. ...

"What in the Wide Wide World of Sports is a-goin' on here, I hired you people to try to git a little track laid, not to jump around like a bunch of Kansas City faggots!"

The next year, Pickens was in another western, playing the evil limping bank robber in Walt Disney's The Apple Dumpling Gang The Apple Dumpling Gang is a 1975 Disney movie about a group of orphan children who strike gold during the California Gold Rush. ...

Pickens lent his voice to the 1938 children's radio show The Cinnamon bear, where he plays a singing cowboy. The Cinnamon Bear is an old time radio program that first aired from 1937 to 1943 (historians are unsure of the exact year). ...

Pickens appeared in dozens of films, including, Old Oklahoma Plains (1952), Down Laredo Way (1953), Major Dundee (1959) with Charlton Heston, One-Eyed Jacks (1961) with Marlon Brando, The Cowboys (1972) with John Wayne, Ginger in the Morning (1974) with Fred Ward and The Getaway with Steve McQueen. 1952 (MCMLII) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1953 (MCMLIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link is to a full 1953 calendar). ... Major Dundee was a 1965 Western film starring Charlton Heston and Richard Harris, and directed by Sam Peckinpah. ... 1959 (MCMLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Charlton Heston on the 1963 Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C Charlton Heston (born October 4, 1923) is an American film actor noted for heroic roles and his long involvement in political issues. ... One-Eyed Jacks, a western movie released in 1961, is the only film directed by Marlon Brando, who replaced the original director, Stanley Kubrick. ... 1961 (MCMLXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1961 calendar). ... Marlon Brando at the 1963 Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C Marlon Brando, Jr. ... The Cowboys is a 1972 western starring John Wayne and Bruce Dern. ... 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1972 calendar). ... U.S. John Wayne stamp from 2004 John Wayne (May 26, 1907 – June 11, 1979), popularly known as The Duke, was an American film actor whose career began in silent movies in the 1920s. ... Ginger in the Morning (1974) is a comedy movie with Fred Ward and Sissy Spacek. ... 1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (the link is to a full 1974 calendar). ... Ward in Miami Blues (1990) Frederick Ward (born December 30, 1942) is an American actor. ... The Getaway can refer to: The Getaway (1972 movie), a 1972 film starring Steve McQueen and Ali MacGraw The Getaway (1994 movie), a 1994 remake starring Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger The Getaway (novel), a novel by Jim Thompson. ... This article is about the actor Steve McQueen. ...

Pickens was offered the part of Dick Hallorann in Stanley Kubrick's 1980 adaptation of Stephen King's The Shining. He refused, saying that filming with Kubrick on Dr. Strangelove was too strenuous. He later relented, saying that he would appear in the film as long as Kubrick was contractually required to shoot Pickens's scenes in fewer than 100 takes a shot. Kubrick, notorious for shooting scenes hundreds and hundreds of times, refused, and cast Scatman Crothers as Hallorann instead. Stanley Kubrick (July 26, 1928 – March 7, 1999) was an American film director and producer who is widely considered to have been one of the most innovative, talented, and influential filmmakers of the late 20th century. ... Stephen King Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author best known for his enourmously popular horror novels. ... The Shining may mean: The Shining (novel), by Stephen King The Shining (film), Stanley Kubricks adaptation of the novel The Shining (mini-series), the ABC mini-series scripted by Stephen King The Shining (band), an English music group named after Kings novel This is a disambiguation page: a... For the hit 1987 single by Depeche Mode, see the album Music for the Masses Film poster for Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb is a 1964 satirical film directed by Stanley Kubrick. ... Scatman Crothers (born Benjamin Sherman Crothers, May 23, 1910 – November 22, 1986) was an American actor, singer, dancer and musician. ...

He also appeared many times on television, both in guest shots, and in regular roles in The Legend of Custer, Bonanza, B.J. and the Bear, and Filthy Rich (1982). He played the owner of station WJM, Wild Jack Monroe, on the Mary Tyler Moore Show. The Bonanza logo was superimposed upon a map of a wild west frontier area. ... B.J. and the Bear was a comedy/adventure television series which aired on NBC from 1979 to 1981. ... In 1982, two new acerbic, beautiful, love-to-hate-em characters invaded the television screen in Filthy Rich, a campy half-hour comedy series from Linda Bloodworth and Larry White Productions designed to parody Dallas and other prime-time soaps of the era. ... Mary Tyler Moore (born on December 29, 1936) is an American actress and comedian, perhaps best known for The Mary Tyler Moore Show, in which she starred as Mary Richards, a 30ish single woman who worked as a news producer at WJM-TV in Minneapolis. ...

In 1982, he was inducted into the Western Performers Hall of Fame at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. A year later, he died from a brain tumor at the age of 64. Pickens was living at the Evergreen nursing home in Modesto, California after his brain surgery and that was where he died. 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: Capital of the New Century Official website: http://www. ... A brain tumor is any intracranial mass created by an abnormal and uncontrolled growth of cells either normally found in the brain itself: neurons, glial cells (astrocytes, oligodendrocytes, ependymal cells), lymphatic tissue, blood vessels), in the cranial nerves (myelin producing Schwann cells), in the brain envelopes (meninges), skull, pituitary and...

His brother acted under the name Easy Pickens. His most notable appearance was as "Easy" in Sam Peckinpah's The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970). Louis Bert Lindley, Jr. ... Sam Peckinpah David Samuel Peckinpah (February 21, 1925 - December 28, 1984) was an American film director, known as Sam Peckinpah. ... The Ballad of Cable Hogue is a 1970 motion picture directed by Sam Peckinpah and starring Jason Robards, Stella Stevens and David Warner. ... 1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1970 calendar). ...

See also

• List of notable brain tumor patients

Film legend Elizabeth Taylor is a long term meningioma survivor. ...

External links

• Slim Pickens at The Internet Movie Database