UNCLE Special Guest: Slim Pickens
Slim Pickens was the villain in the second episode of The Man From UNCLE, The Iowa Scuba Affair (1964), In the wave of his most famous role (in Stanley Kubrick's Doctor Strangelove ), Pickens as Clint Spinner mix again his cowboy persona with nuclear weapons. More about Slim Pickens from Wikipedia : Date of Birth 29 June 1919 , Kingsburg, California, USA Date of Death 8 December 1983 , Modesto, California, USA (brain tumor) Birth Name Louis Burton Lindley Jr. Height 6' 2" (1,88 m) Slim Pickens spent the early part of his career as a real cowboy and the latter part playing cowboys, and he is best remembered for a single "cowboy" image: that of bomber pilot Maj. "King" Kong waving his cowboy hat rodeo-style as he rides a nuclear bomb onto its target in the great black comedy Dr. Fantástico (1964). Born in Kingsburg, near Fresno in California's Central Valley, he spent much of his boyhood in near...