In 1960, he appeared with William Bendix and Doug McClure in the NBC Western series Overland Trail in the episode "Sour Annie", with fellow guest stars Mercedes McCambridge and Andrew Prine. He also played werewolf sheriff Sam Newfield in The Howling (1981). The ride was in operation from 1978 to 1984. The diving bell was a simulation ride that took passengers on a journey to the bottom of Lake Silver and back. In 1978, Pickens lent his voice to theme park Silver Dollar City as a character named Rube Dugan, for a ride called "Rube Dugan's Diving Bell". He had a small but memorable role in Steven Spielberg's 1941 (1979) in scenes with Toshiro Mifune and Christopher Lee during one scene, he enumerates the objects on his person, similarly to the way he does in the "Survival Kit Contents Check" scene in Dr. Strangelove (1964), Major Dundee (1965, with Charlton Heston), the remake of Stagecoach (1966 Pickens played the driver, portrayed in the 1939 film by Andy Devine), An Eye for an Eye (1966), Never a Dull Moment (1968), The Cowboys (1972, with John Wayne), The Getaway (1972, with Steve McQueen), Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973), Ginger in the Morning (1974, with Fred Ward), Blazing Saddles (1974), Poor Pretty Eddie, Rancho Deluxe (both 1975), Beyond the Poseidon Adventure (1979, with Michael Caine and Karl Malden), and Tom Horn (1980, also with McQueen). Pickens appeared in dozens of further films, including Old Oklahoma Plains (1952), Down Laredo Way (1953), Tonka (1959), One-Eyed Jacks (1961, with Marlon Brando), Dr.
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In a large number of films and TV shows, he wore his own hats and boots, and rode his own horses and mules. He did not need a stand-in for horseback scenes, and he was able to gallop his own Appaloosa horses across the desert, or drive a stagecoach pulled by a six-horse team. Hollywood made good use of Pickens' rodeo background.
He appeared in many more Westerns, playing both villains and comic sidekicks to actors such as Rex Allen. Film career Īfter nearly 20 years' rodeo work, Pickens's wide eyes, moon face, strong physical presence, and distinctive country drawl gained him a role in the Western Rocky Mountain (1950), which starred Errol Flynn. This was misread on a form as "radio", and he spent his entire enlistment at a radio station in the American Midwest. Reportedly when the recruiter asked him his profession, he responded "Rodeo". During World War II, he enlisted in the United States Army Air Forces. He joined the rodeo, billed as Slim Pickens, and eventually became a well-known rodeo clown. Lindley graduated from Hanford High School, Hanford, California, and was a member of the FFA ( Future Farmers of America). To prevent his father from discovering that he had competed, he entered his name as Slim Pickens, and won $400 that afternoon. little chance of any prize money) for him. His father found out and forbade this activity, but Lindley took no notice, went to compete in a rodeo, and was told by the doubtful rodeo manager that there would be " slim pickin's" (i.e. Known as "Burt" to his family and friends, he grew bored with dairy farming and began to make a few dollars by riding broncos and roping steers in his early teens. Young Lindley was an excellent horse rider from an early age. was born in Kingsburg, California, the son of Sally Mosher (née Turk) and Louis Bert Lindley Sr., a Texas-born dairy farmer.
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