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Slim Pickens växte upp i San Joaquindalen i Kalifornien och började som tolvåring att rida rodeo. Det var då han fick sitt artistnamn. Trots sitt ursprung talade han med en grav sydstatsaccent vilket fick vissa att tro att Slim kom från Texas eller Oklahoma. Han var en "äkta" cowboy och fick senare spela många roller i westernfilmer .
Pickens was not told that the movie was a black comedy, and he was only given the script for scenes he was in to get him to play it "straight". Kubrick's biographer John Baxter explained, in the documentary Inside the Making of Dr. Strangelove: As it turns out, Slim Pickens had never left the United States.
Slim Pickens spent the early part of his career as a real cowboy and the latter part playing cowboys, and he is best remembered for a single "cowboy" image: that of bomber pilot Maj. "King" Kong waving his cowboy hat rodeo-style as he rides a nuclear bomb onto its target in the great black comedy Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964).
Slim Pickens He was also much on TV, beginning in 1956 with episodic work and on the Disney limited series "The Saga of Andy Burnett" (1957). Pickens was "the town character" on "The Outlaws" (NBC, 1961-1962), and returned to his rodeo roots with appearances on "The Wide Country" (NBC, 1962-1963).
Though he spoke most of his movie dialogue in a slow Western drawl, actor Slim Pickens was a pure-bred California boy. An expert rider from the age of four, Pickens was performing in rodeos at 12. Three years later, he quit school to become a full-time equestrian and bull wrangler, eventually becoming the highest-paid rodeo clown in show business.
Slim Pickens. Slim Pickens vuonna 1972. Louis Burton Lindley Jr. ( 29. kesäkuuta 1919 – 8. joulukuuta 1983 ), taiteilijanimeltään Slim Pickens, oli yhdysvaltalainen rodeoesiintyjä ja elokuva - ja televisio näyttelijä .
