Name: | Clint Walker |
Occupation: | Actor |
Gender: | Male |
Height: | 198 cm (6′ 6”) |
Birth Day: | May 30, 1927 |
Age: | 93 |
Birth Place: | Hartford, United States |
Zodiac Sign: | Gemini |
Clint Walker
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Physique
Height | Weight | Hair Colour | Eye Colour | Blood Type | Tattoo(s) |
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198 cm (6′ 6”) | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Before Fame
He worked as a doorman and club bouncer before finding success in Hollywood.
Biography
Biography Timeline
Clint Walker was born Norman Eugene Walker in Hartford, Illinois, on May 30, 1927; the son of Gladys Huldah (née Schwanda) and Paul Arnold Walker. His mother was Czech. He had a twin sister named Lucy (1927–2000).
Walker had three marriages, each of which lasted approximately twenty years. Walker married Verna Garver in 1948. The marriage produced one daughter, Valerie (born 1950) before ending in divorce in 1968. Valerie became one of the first female airline pilots.
Billed as “Clint Walker”, he was cast as Cheyenne Bodie, a roaming cowboy hero in the post-American Civil War era. His casting was announced in June 1955.
In April 1956 Walker said “I don’t think I’d want any other roles … Westerns keep me outdoors and active.”
Walker supported Barry Goldwater in the 1964 United States presidential election.
In May 1971 he was seriously injured in a skiing accident on Mammoth Mountain when one of his ski poles went through his chest but he recovered.
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. Walker has said about the accident that he had a near-death experience.
Walker supported Telly Savalas in the biopic Pancho Villa (1972) and starred a short-lived series in 1974 called Kodiak, playing an Alaskan patrolman. He starred in the made-for-television cult film Killdozer! The same year as well as Scream of the Wolf (1974).
In 1974, Walker married Giselle Hennessy, who died in 1994. Walker then married Susan Cavallari in 1997. Eventually he took up residence in Grass Valley, California.
In 2004, he was inducted into the Hall of Great Western Performers at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
Walker died of congestive heart failure in Grass Valley, California, on May 21, 2018, nine days before his 91st birthday.
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