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Slim Pickens
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| Known for: | Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, Blazing Saddles, One-Eyed Jack |
| Birth name: | Louis Bert Lindley Jr. |
| Birthday: | 29 June 1919, Kingsburg, California, USA |
| Height: | 6' 3" (1.91 m) |
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Ever remembered as the Air Force major from Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964), it is therefore ironic that Pickens' nephew, Jim "Slim" Pickens, became a career officer in the US Navy.
Brother of Easy Pickens.
Well, there was this big, lanky, fourteen-year-old California ranch kid, and he went into the rodeo manager's office and said, "Mister, I want to sign up for the calf-roping but my paw says I ain't allowed to. So I can't use my right name." And the manager said, "Son, no matter what name you use, it'll be slim pickin's out there today." So the boy said, "That's as good a name as any, I reckon-put me down as Slim Pickin's." The manager spelled it "Pickens," and the boy won $400 that afternoon. (As told to Ed Zern)
Inducted into the Hall of Great Western Performers of the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in 1982.
Bareback bronc rider; saddle bronc rider; rodeo clown and bullfighter.
For his role as Major Kong in Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964), he had to travel to Shepperton Studios in England. Upon his arrival, it was discovered that he had never gotten a passport because he had never been outside the US before. His entrance was delayed while he had to go through the process of getting one before he was allowed to leave the airport.
Although he was known for his heavy Southern drawl, leading many to believe he was from Texas or Oklahoma, he was actually born not far from Fresno, California, and raised in California's San Joaquin Valley.
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