Slim Pickens

Slim Pickens ( born June 29, 1919 in Kingsburg, California, † December 8, 1983 in Modesto, California; actually Louis Bert Lindley, Jr.) was an American film actor.

Life

Pickens was known in his numerous Western films. His signature role as Texas hero he played in Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. Kubrick was Pickens ( of the pilot of a B- 52 bomber plays ) allegedly hold a patriotic speech to the crew, or to have told him beforehand that it is the film is a satire.

Filmography

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