Clint Walker

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 

+ Film Year Títle Role Notes 1954 Jungle Gents  Tarzan  1955/1963 Cheyenne    Cheyenne Body TV series 1956 The Ten Commandments    Sardinian     1957  The Travellers Cheyenne Body 1958 Fort Dobbs   Gar Davis 1959  Yellowstone Kelly  Luther 'Yellowstone' Kelly 1961  Gold of the Seven Saints  Jim Rainbolt  1964  Send Me No Flowers  Bert  1965 None But the Brave   Capt. Dennis Bourke   1966  The Night of the Grizzly    Jim Cole  1966 Maya    Hugh Bowen   1967 The Dirty Dozen    Samson Posey   1969  More Dead Than Alive    Cain  1969 Sam Whiskey  O. W. Bandy 1969  The Great Bank Robbery  Ranger Ben Quick  1971 Yuma  Marshal Dave Harmon   TV flm 1972 Hardcase  Jack Rutherford  TV film 1972 Pancho Villa  Scotty  1972 The Bounty Man   Kinkaid TV film 1974 Scream of the Wolf  Byron Douglas  TV film 1974 Killdozer  Lloyd Kelly  TV film 1974 Kodiak    Kodiak  TV series 1976 Baker's Hawk   Dan Baker   1977 Snowbeast   Sheriff Paraday  TV film 1977 The White Buffalo  Whistling Jack Kileen  1977 Deadly Harvest  Grant Franklin 1978  Centennial   Joe Bean  TV mini-series 1979 Mysterious Island of Beautiful Women   Wendell  TV film 1983 Hysterical   Sheriff   1985 The Serpent Warriors  Morgan Bates  1985 All American Cowboy    TV movie documentary1991 The Gambler Returns: The Luck of the Draw  Cheyenne  TV film 1995 Kung Fu: The Legend Continues   Cheyenne Bodie  TV series episode: Gunfighters 1998 Small Soldiers   Nick Nitro (voice) 

 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

Category:American television actors
Category:American movie actors
Category:Actors from Illinois
Category:Deaths from congestive heart failure
Category:1927 births
Category:2018 deaths