Clint Walker had a contract dispute with Warner Brothers, which led to his briefly leaving the show. Under his contract, Walker had to give Warner Brothers 50 percent of his personal appearance fees, and he could only record music under the Warner Brothers label.
Walker has said about the accident that he had a near-death experience. Walker died of congestive heart failure in Grass Valley, California, on May 21, 2018, nine days before his 91st birthday.
Walker had several memorable on screen fistfights, on Cheyenne and in the movies, with perennial bad guy Leo Gordon, one of the few actors big and mean enough to make such a fight realistic. Walker's twin sister, Neoma L. "Lucy" Westbrook, died Nov. 11, 2000 at her residence in Hartford, Illinois, aged 73.
As of January 2021, Clint Walker has an estimated net worth of $4 million. He makes most of his income with his chief careers as an actor as well as a singer.
Clint Walker on leaving "Cheyenne" - EMMYTVLEGENDS.ORG
Did Clint Walker do his own singing?
Clint Walker as Cheyenne Bodie has to sing in it. We all know that he had a wonderful voice. He sang in one of his movies too (Night of the Grizzly) and he even recorded an album (called "Inspiration"). Here we can hear three other songs: Some Sunday morning, Whipcrack, Beautiful dreamer!
Married three times (Vera Garver, 1948-1968, with a daughter named Valerie), Giselle Hennessy (1974-1994), and Susan Cavallari (1997-2018), Clint Walker had a long, full, and lucky life.
Wayne, perpetually patriotic and conservative, was opposed to such progressiveness and was particularly irritated by Eastwood's rising star, which arguably came to surpass his own for a time in the '60s.
CLINT WALKER, a 6'6", blue-eyed, muscle-bound mountain of a man. His canyon-deep baritone would be enough to make one melt...but then... take a look at that chest!
McCubbin scored his big show business break as both a stand-in and stunt double for Clint Walker on the Western TV series Cheyenne (1955). Russ went on to act in a handful of films and make guest appearances on various television shows.
As any fan of vintage TV Westerns will remember, the 6-foot-6 hunk of a man is best known for his work as Cheyenne Bodie, a cowboy hero who roamed the American West during the post-Civil War era on “Cheyenne.” While the series made ample use of Walker's rugged physique with frequent shots of his 48-inch bare chest atop ...
Died May 21, 2018 of congestive heart failure in Grass Valley, Calif. Before beginning his acting career, Clint Walker left high school to work. He held jobs in a factory and on a riverboat before joining the U.S. Merchant Marines during World War II, when the fleet delivered supplies and troops for the U.S. Navy.
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In an interview with Patrick McGilligan (as featured in the 1999 book "Clint Eastwood: Interviews"), Eastwood acknowledged that while he liked John Wayne as a young man ("depending on the film"), his favorite actor was James Cagney.
Clint Eastwood is officially retiring. The legendary actor-director has set the final film of his career at Warner Bros. After over six decades in the industry, Eastwood has nearly 50 films to his name over the span of his legendary career.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — In a May 22 obituary of Clint Walker, The Associated Press reported erroneously that Walker was 91 years old when he died. He was 90.
A: I could ride, but not that good, and I told them that. They said, "Well, by the time you've done the first year of 'Cheyenne,' you'll either be a good rider or a dead one." Then I got a horse called Brandy.
series “Cheyenne,” Clint Walker was often called upon to rescue a damsel in distress. It was a gesture that came easily to the 6-foot-6-inches bodybuilder.
Clint Walker was born Norman Eugene Walker in Hartford, southwestern Illinois, to Gladys Huldah (Schwanda), a Czech immigrant, and Paul Arnold Walker, who was from Arkansas. Walker almost single-handedly started the western craze on TV in the 1950s as Cheyenne Bodie in Cheyenne (1955).
