ABOUT SLIM PICKENS
Western actor who rode the atom bomb in Dr. Strangelove: or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bobm, and appeared in Blazing Saddles . His other films include Eye for an Eye, The Great Locomotive Chase, and The Sun Shines Bright.
At age 12, he left school to become a rodeo clown.
He played a sardonic cowboy in Blazing Saddles.
His brother, Samuel T. Lindley, performed under the stage name Easy Pickens.
Gene Wilder costarred with him in the film Blazing Saddles.
