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Clint Walker(1927-2018)

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Clint Walker
During WW2, a platoon of Marines crash-lands on a tiny Pacific island occupied by a small Japanese unit.
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None But the Brave (1965)
17 Videos
53 Photos
Clint Walker was born Norman Eugene Walker in Hartford, southwestern Illinois, to Gladys Huldah (Schwanda), a Czech immigrant, and Paul Arnold Walker, who was from Arkansas. Walker almost single-handedly started the western craze on TV in the 1950s as Cheyenne Bodie in Cheyenne (1955). Growing up in the Depression era meant taking work wherever you could get it, and Walker found himself working at such jobs as Mississippi River boatman, carnival roustabout and golf caddy. He quit high school at 16 and at age 17 joined the Merchant Marine. After the war he worked his way cross country, including working in the oil fields in Brownwood, Texas, and wound up in California, where he worked as an undercover agent for a private detective agency on the Long Beach waterfront. After a while he took a job as a security officer at the Sands Hotel in Las Vegas. It was there that he met quite a few Hollywood people who told him that his size, physique and good looks would serve him well in Hollywood and that he should go to Los Angeles and give it a try. He met actor Henry Wilcoxon, who introduced him to director Cecil B. DeMille, and Walker found himself playing the part of a Captain of the Guard in The Ten Commandments (1956). Someone from Warner Bros. saw the film, found out that Walker was under contract to producer Hal B. Wallis, bought up Walker's contract and gave him the lead in "Cheyenne". The series was a huge hit and spawned countless other western series, from Warners and other studios. However, Walker was dissatisfied with the way Warners was handling his career -- they would let other contract players make films, for example, but he wasn't allowed to -- and that triggered a dispute which ended up with him taking a walk from the show. He and Warners eventually settled their disagreements. When the show ended Walker began to get supporting parts in features, his biggest and most successful one being The Dirty Dozen (1967). He starred in the well-received The Night of the Grizzly (1966) and the not-so-well received None But the Brave (1965), a WWII film that was Frank Sinatra's one and only stab at directing. He also played the lead in Baker's Hawk (1976), and turned in a good performance as a villain in the TV movie Scream of the Wolf (1974). Lately he and several of his colleagues from "The Dirty Dozen" provided the voices for the animated film Small Soldiers (1998).
BornMay 30, 1927
DiedMay 21, 2018(90)
BornMay 30, 1927
DiedMay 21, 2018(90)
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Photos53

Tommy Sands and Clint Walker in None But the Brave (1965)
Roger Moore and Clint Walker in Gold of the Seven Saints (1961)
Roger Moore and Clint Walker in Gold of the Seven Saints (1961)
Roger Moore and Clint Walker in Gold of the Seven Saints (1961)
Roger Moore and Clint Walker in Gold of the Seven Saints (1961)
Clint Walker in Killdozer (1974)
Virginia Mayo and Clint Walker in Fort Dobbs (1958)
Kim Novak and Clint Walker in The Great Bank Robbery (1969)
Clint Walker in Cheyenne (1955)
Clint Walker
Edd Byrnes, John Russell, and Clint Walker in Yellowstone Kelly (1959)
Andra Martin and Clint Walker in Yellowstone Kelly (1959)

Known for

The Dirty Dozen (1967)
The Dirty Dozen
7.7
  • Samson Posey
  • 1967
Tommy Lee Jones, Ernest Borgnine, Jim Brown, George Kennedy, Frank Langella, and Clint Walker in Small Soldiers (1998)
Small Soldiers
6.2
  • Nick Nitro(voice)
  • 1998
Doris Day, Rock Hudson, and Tony Randall in Send Me No Flowers (1964)
Send Me No Flowers
6.9
  • Bert
  • 1964
Charlton Heston, Edward G. Robinson, Anne Baxter, Yul Brynner, John Carradine, Yvonne De Carlo, John Derek, and Vincent Price in The Ten Commandments (1956)
The Ten Commandments
7.9
  • Sardinian Captain
  • 1956

Credits

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Actor

  • Tommy Lee Jones, Ernest Borgnine, Jim Brown, George Kennedy, Frank Langella, and Clint Walker in Small Soldiers (1998)
    Small Soldiers
    • (voice)
  • Kung Fu: The Legend Continues (1993)
    Kung Fu: The Legend Continues
  • Rob Stewart in Tropical Heat (1991)
    Tropical Heat
  • The Gambler Returns: The Luck of the Draw (1991)
    The Gambler Returns: The Luck of the Draw
  • The Serpent Warriors (1987)
    The Serpent Warriors
  • Gene Autry, Chuck Connors, Johnny Crawford, Ken Curtis, James Drury, Leo Gordon, Merle Haggard, Benton Jennings, Waylon Jennings, Clint Walker, and Michael Goggans in The All American Cowboy (1985)
    The All American Cowboy
  • Fred Grandy, Bernie Kopell, Ted Lange, Gavin MacLeod, and Lauren Tewes in The Love Boat (1977)
    The Love Boat
  • Hysterical (1982)
    Hysterical
  • Mysterious Island of Beautiful Women (1979)
    Mysterious Island of Beautiful Women
  • Centennial (1978)
    Centennial
  • Deadly Harvest (1977)
    Deadly Harvest
  • Bo Svenson, Robert Logan, Yvette Mimieux, and Clint Walker in Snowbeast (1977)
    Snowbeast
  • Charles Bronson and Will Sampson in The White Buffalo (1977)
    The White Buffalo
  • Baker's Hawk (1976)
    Baker's Hawk
  • William Shatner in Kodiak (1974)
    Kodiak

Soundtrack

  • Martha Hyer and Clint Walker in The Night of the Grizzly (1966)
    The Night of the Grizzly
    • (uncredited)
  • Jack Benny in The Jack Benny Program (1950)
    The Jack Benny Program
    • (uncredited)
  • Clint Walker in Cheyenne (1955)
    Cheyenne
    • (uncredited)

Videos17

Official Trailer
Trailer 4:21
Official Trailer
Fort Dobbs
Trailer 2:44
Fort Dobbs
Cheyenne: Decision
Trailer 1:06
Cheyenne: Decision
Cheyenne: Star In The Dust
Trailer 1:05
Cheyenne: Star In The Dust
Cheyenne: The Storm Riders
Trailer 1:14
Cheyenne: The Storm Riders
Cheyenne: The Last Train West
Trailer 1:07
Cheyenne: The Last Train West
Cheyenne: Julesburg
Trailer 1:03
Cheyenne: Julesburg
Cheyenne: West Of The River
Trailer 1:07
Cheyenne: West Of The River
Cheyenne: Border Showdown
Trailer 1:04
Cheyenne: Border Showdown
Cheyenne: Fury At Rio Hondo
Trailer 1:05
Cheyenne: Fury At Rio Hondo
Cheyenne: Rendezvous At Red Rock
Trailer 1:06
Cheyenne: Rendezvous At Red Rock
Cheyenne: Quickstand
Trailer 1:06
Cheyenne: Quickstand

Personal details

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    • May 30, 1927
    • Hartford, Illinois, USA
    • May 21, 2018
    • Grass Valley, California, USA(congestive heart failure)
    • March 7, 1997 - May 21, 2018 (his death)
  • Other works
    Novel: "Yaqui Gold".
  • Publicity listings
    • 2 Interviews
    • 2 Articles
    • 1 Magazine Cover Photo

Did you know

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    In 1971, he was involved in a freak accident at Mammoth Mountain, CA, when the tip of a ski pole pierced his heart. He made an amazing recovery and was back at work filming in Spain two months later.
    • Heavy-set, athletic, with broad shoulders and a slim waist
    • Cheyenne
      (1955)
      $175 per week (first two seasons)

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