We still have Rowdy Yates!
Posted on 05/22/2018 3:40:50 PM PDT by DFG
Clint Walker, a former merchant seaman and real-life deputy sheriff who roamed the West as a towering, solitary figure on “Cheyenne,” the first hourlong western on television, died on Monday in Grass Valley, Calif. He was 90.
His death, at a hospital, was confirmed by his daughter, Valerie Walker, who said the cause was congestive heart failure. Mr. Walker lived in Grass Valley, about 60 miles northeast of Sacramento.
Mr. Walker also appeared in the “The Dirty Dozen” and other movies, but he was best known for “Cheyenne,” seen on ABC from 1955 to 1963.
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Thanks, Clint, for making my childhood as great as it was during the heyday of TV westerns. Yours was one of the best.
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Brings back memories of watching his shows with my dad.
It’s been a long time since I saw the movie but I enjoyed it.
Walker was in a lot of movies I liked.
And Posey in The Dirty Dozen...
RIP Clint Walker.
I think he used to turn up on Mark Levin's show back in the day too. A conservative.
He played in a 1970’s monster flick called Snowbeast and another crazy 70’s flick called Kill Dozer about a bulldozer affected by something from outer space causing it killing construction workers on a site. Both top notch drive in flicks.
H&I?
He looks just like the original comic book Superman and would have made a great one if he was cast in the 60s.
Me too. In the books, Jack reacher is an NFL-linebacker sized man. So when it comes to make the movie they cast.... TomCruise?!
I think he was in a short-lived TV series back in the seventies called Kodiak.
It was at the same time of two other series, Kojak
and Kolchak.
Marko
James Drury from “The Virginian” is still around.
We still have Rowdy Yates!
I always confused him with Fess Parker.
He was born in the tiny southwestern Illinois oil refinery town of Hartford, where Lewis and Clark spent the winter before heading up the Missouri.
RIP
“Come on Posey, just stab me”...
The DIRTY Dozen, Walker was cool.
On Saturday afternoons, I used to iron my father’s uniforms while he cleaned his guns and we watched old Western shows on the “U” channel.
In May 1971, Walker narrowly escaped death in a skiing accident at Mammoth Mountain, California. In a fall from a ski lift, Walker was pierced through the heart with a ski pole. He was taken to a hospital and pronounced dead. However, a doctor detected faint signs of life and rushed Walker to surgery, where his damaged heart was repaired. Within two months, Walker was working again.
Wow. His heart held out for almost another 50 years.
He was in one of my favorite movies
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071717/fullcredits?ref_=tt_cl_sm#cast
Great theme song medley Cheyenne — Bronco — Sugarfoot, when the three shows shared a time spot.
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