Clint Walker (born Norman Eugene Walker; May 30, 1927 – May 21, 2018) was an American actor.
Career
Clint Walker began his career playing role Tarzan in Jungle Gents (1954), then played the role of Sardinian, in the classical biblical movie The Ten Commandments (1956).
Clint made several western movies on the big screen Fort Dobbs (1958), and Yellowstone Kelly (1959), directed by Gordon Douglas, Gold of the Seven Saints (1961), with Roger Moore, More Dead Than Alive (1969) with Vincent Price, Sam Whiskey (1969) with Burt Reynolds. And the western starring with Charles Bronson, The White Buffalo (1977).
He also starred in television Westerns Yuma (1971) and The Bounty Man (1972).
Among his best works is the war movie The Dirty Dozen (1967), with Lee Marvin, He plays one of the dozen prisoners, who are elected by Marvin for a suicide mission. Walker also worked with Frank Sinatra in war movie, None But the Brave (1965), directed by Frank Sinatra.
Cheyenne
In 1955 he was hired to star in the ABC TV series Cheyenne, in which he played cowboy adventurer Cheyenne Bodie who, after the Civil War, roamed the Wild-West fighting bandits, cattle rustlers and Native American rebels. The series aired between 1955 and 1963 over more than 108 episodes. It was very successful, despite Clint's less-than-enthusiastic acceptance of the punishing demands of TV stardom.
Death
Walker died from congestive heart failure on May 21, 2018 in Grass Valley, California at the age of 90.
Filmography
References
Encyclopedy of Weird Westerns: Supernatural and Science Fiction Elements in, by Paul Green,Mike Hoffman 50 Years of the Television Western by Ronald Jackson,Doug Abbott
Other websites
Official website
"Clint Walker: Top Gun of Warner's TV" by Herb Fagen (1999 interview) @ Classic Images magazine, issue # 212, p. 12 "Belleville had its share of fame: Nice guy Clint Walker became Hollywood hunk" by Jaime Ingle - News-Democrat (Wednesday, June 18, 2008) "Cowboy actor inspires local Western writer" - From the Idaho State Journal - December 2003 "Actor Clint Walker to be Inducted into National Cowboy Museum's Hall of Great Western Performers" - March 3, 2004 - National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum