Walker would later recall thinking: “I’m not going to get that far carrying a gun and a badge. It was there that the actor Van Johnson suggested that he explore acting. Walker worked as a port security guard and a nightclub bouncer, and then to Las Vegas, where he was a deputy sheriff providing security at the Sands Hotel. The family moved to Long Beach, Calif., where Mr. In 1948 he married Verna Garver they had a daughter, Valerie. He quit school at 16 to find jobs - first in a local factory, then on riverboats - before making his way to the merchant marine, where he worked on the ore ships that plied the Great Lakes.
Norman Eugene Walker was born on May 30, 1927, in Hartford, Ill. O’Connor of The Times called it “about as interesting as watching a large block of polluted ice.”) The next year he returned to television in “Kodiak,” about an Alaska lawman, but the show was short-lived. Walker came close to dying in a freak accident on a ski trip in 1973 when he stumbled and a ski pole pierced his heart. His last film was Joe Dante’s “Small Soldiers” (1998), about high-tech toy soldiers that go on a rampage, in which he had a voice role along with some of his “Dirty Dozen” co-stars. His size forced him to restrict his movements to stay within camera range, which could be a challenge during onscreen fistfights. Walker a star.Īt 6 feet 6 inches, he was tall not only in the saddle one reporter joked that “he has snow on his shoulders six months of the year.” Walker to be shirtless, revealing a bodybuilder’s 48-inch chest and a 32-inch waist in onscreen moments that, while maybe not essential to the plot, helped make the handsome, blue-eyed Mr. Many episodes of “Cheyenne” called for Mr. “There were a few times I wondered which one it was going to be,” he said.
He later recalled the response: “You’ll either be a good rider, or a dead one.” Walker confessed to the crew that he did not have a great deal of experience on horseback.
ONLY THE BRAVE CAST CHEYENNE SERIES
“Cheyenne” was among the first television series produced by Warner Bros., and it had the lavish look of a big-screen movie.Īs shooting of the show’s first season began, Mr.
played Cheyenne Bodie, a big-hearted man who performed good deeds and fought bad men in his wanderings. Walker - born Norman, but renamed Clint by Jack Warner of Warner Bros.
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