Norman Eugene "Clint" Walker was an American actor.
22 Facts About Clint Walker
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Clint Walker was born Norman Eugene Walker in Hartford, Illinois, on May 30,1927; the son of Gladys Huldah and Paul Arnold Walker.
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Clint Walker was employed as a sheet metal worker and a nightclub bouncer.
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Clint Walker became a client of Henry Willson, who renamed him "Jett Norman" and cast him to appear in a Bowery Boys film as a Tarzan-type character.
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Clint Walker's good looks and imposing physique helped him land an audition where he won the lead role in the TV series Cheyenne.
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Clint Walker guest starred on an episode of 77 Sunset Strip.
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Clint Walker had a role in Kraft Suspense Theatre.
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Clint Walker had his biggest feature film hit to date when he played the meek convict Samson Posey in the war drama The Dirty Dozen.
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Clint Walker returned to Westerns with More Dead Than Alive.
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Clint Walker had support roles in two comic Westerns, Sam Whiskey and The Great Bank Robbery.
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Clint Walker was one of many names in The Phynx and returned to TV with the leads in some television pilots that appeared as made for television movies on the ABC Movie of the Week, Yuma, Hardcase, and The Bounty Man.
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Clint Walker supported Telly Savalas in the biopic Pancho Villa and starred a short-lived series in 1974 called Kodiak, playing an Alaskan patrolman.
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Clint Walker starred in Baker's Hawk and had support parts in Snowbeast, and The White Buffalo.
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Clint Walker starred in the Canadian Deadly Harvest and had a small role in Centennial and Mysterious Island of Beautiful Women.
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Clint Walker met western author Kirby Jonas through James Drury, a mutual friend.
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Jonas and Clint Walker subsequently spent two years collaborating on a storyline by Clint Walker involving gold and the Yaqui.
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Clint Walker had three marriages, each of which lasted approximately twenty years.
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Clint Walker supported Barry Goldwater in the 1964 United States presidential election.
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In May 1971, Clint Walker narrowly escaped death in a skiing accident at Mammoth Mountain, California.
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Clint Walker was taken to a hospital and pronounced dead.
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Clint Walker has said about the accident that he had a near-death experience.
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Clint Walker died of congestive heart failure in Grass Valley, California, on May 21,2018, nine days before his 91st birthday.