Susan cavallari5/17/2023 Warners also cast Walker in the lead of a Western feature film, Fort Dobbs (Gordon Douglas, 1958). Walker's pleasant baritone singing voice was also occasionally utilised on the series and led Warner Brothers to produce an album of Walker doing traditional songs and ballads. It proved hugely popular for eight seasons. While the series regularly capitalised on Walker's rugged frame with frequent bare-chested scenes, it was also well written and acted. Cheyenne turned out to be the break out hit for Walker. Cheyenne originally appeared as part of Warner Bros Presents rotating with adaptations of Kings Row and Casablanca. He was cast as Cheyenne Bodie, a roaming cowboy hero in the post-American Civil War era. Wallis, and auditioned him for a new Western TV series.Ĭlint Walker's good looks and imposing physique helped him win the lead role in the TV series Cheyenne (1955). saw the film, found out that Walker was under contract to producer Hal B. DeMille to appear in The Ten Commandments (1956). Walker became a client of Henry Willson, who renamed him Jett Norman and cast him to appear in the Bowery Boys film Jungle Gents (Edward Bernds, 1955) as a Tarzan-type character. It was there that he met quite a few Hollywood people who told him that his size, physique and good looks would serve him well in Hollywood and that he should go to Los Angeles and give it a try. After a while he took a job as a security officer at the Sands Hotel in Las Vegas. After the war he worked his way cross country, including working in the oil fields in Brownwood, Texas, and wound up in California, where he worked as an undercover agent for a private detective agency on the Long Beach waterfront. At 16, Walker left high school to work at a factory and on a river boat, then joined the United States Merchant Marine at the age of 17 in the last months of World War II. He had a twin sister named Lucy (1927–2000). He was the son of Gladys Huldah (née Schwanda) and Paul Arnold Walker. In the 1950s, Walker with his broad shoulders and slim waist almost single-handedly started the Western craze on TV in his role as Cheyenne Bodie in Cheyenne (1955-1962).Ĭlint Walker was born Norman Eugene Walker in 1927 in Hartford, Illinois. Heavy set, athletic Clint Walker (1927) is a retired American actor and singer.
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