He briefly left the show over a contract dispute but returned after his deal was renegotiated. Cheyenne racked up episodes and ran from In , Walker was almost killed when he fell off a ski lift and was pierced through the heart with one of his ski poles.
He was taken to a hospital and pronounced dead then a doctor discovered that Walker was still alive. The medical staff rushed Walker into surgery and fixed his damaged heart.
Within two months, lucky Clint Walker was back to work! In , he came out of retirement to be a voice actor along with some of his colleagues from The Dirty Dozen including Ernest Borgnine, Jim Brown, and George Kennedy on the animated film Small Soldiers. Married three times Vera Garver, , with a daughter named Valerie , Giselle Hennessy , and Susan Cavallari , Clint Walker had a long, full, and lucky life.
This depression-era baby, worker of odd jobs, Hollywood Legend and cowboy with a heart, died on May 21, …just nine days before his 91 st birthday. Luckily, fans everywhere can continue to enjoy good natured, handsome, and tough Clint Walker in the TV show Cheyenne and in his movies for years to come. Back To Blog. Cavalry in a raid against the tribe. Walker then starred as Big Jim Cole in the adventure movie The Night of the Grizzly , which he said was his favorite film to do.
The big man hit his stride with The Dirty Dozen , which starred Lee Marvin as a hardscrabble officer stuck with the dirty duty of penetrating a German fortress, accompanied by 12 condemned soldiers who have nothing to lose.
Walker played Samson Posey, who had been convicted of murder. In his best scene, Marvin goads Walker into flashing his temper, attacking him with a knife before disarming the much bigger guy. He starred in a shortlived Alaska-set series titled Kodiak , in which he played the title character, an Alaska State trooper. Sign up for THR news straight to your inbox every day. Follow Sign Up. View All. May 22, pm. Related Stories. There, many Hollywood stars, including actor Van Johnson, saw the 6-foot-6, ruggedly handsome Walker and encouraged him to give the movies a try, which Walker said he did after realizing the money would be better and the bullets would be fake.
He had a meeting with the film's legendary director Cecil B. DeMille, but was late after stopping to help a woman change a tire and feared he'd blown his shot. Walker explained why he was late and said Demille responded "Yes, I know all about it, that was my secretary.
He beat out several big names for the role of "Cheyenne," but speculated that it was because he was already under contract for much cheaper than the other actors would demand to Warner Bros. Based roughly on a movie, "Cheyenne" began as an hour-long program that originally was alternated with two other Westerns. The only one of the three programs to survive, it made Walker a star, although a restless one.
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