Word has come that big, beefy, hunk-a-licious Clint Walker has died. At 6'6", Walker was never a top movie star, but he did have his own TV show, Cheyenne during the era of Westerns in the 1950s and 1960s.
His height worked against him. He was drop-dead handsome, but staging shots between a 5'3" heroine and a 6'6" man required too much fancy work, so he was resigned to doing Westerns, which usually had male heavy casts, and men tend to be taller than women, so there you go.
Walker was 90 according to his daughter.
Let us remember him the way we would like to remember him, in his prime.
Farewell, you, magnificent beast, you.
Oh this news hurts my heart! He was only ninety! Night of the Grizzly was one of my favorite movies as a kid. I was ten when it came out and fell madly in love with this modern wonder. Such a gorgeous speaking voice too.
ReplyDeleteAlways a gentleman, too. My Aunt Betty, who lived in Bel Air was at a party at Rhonda Fleming's house when Clint Walker alked in and began making the rounds. She called him dreamy. "Elizabeth Taylor's eyes had nothing on Clint's eyes. Dreamy."
DeleteWOOF!
ReplyDeleteHe was such a hunk ....oh the dreams I had!
ReplyDeleteRIP
You and me both.
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