Still walking tall and a nonagenarian come next May, thanks to a lifelong devotion to health and fitness, Clint Walker - the man who would once win televisions over, one set at a time when he broke the hallow grounds of the Ol' Tuscon and sashayed on down for seven full seasons on the ABC network between 1955 and 1963 as the only and one spur-donning sensation Cheyenne Bodie.
And though Clint Walker was always grounded a soul, that ten-gallon Stetson stood him just about sky high and due to that formidable frame of his, was a shoe-in for a barrage of adventure films and series, as seen in the eponymous Kodiak series of 1974. A near-death experience occurred not long before he starred in Kodiak, when in 1971 at the age of 44, while skiing alone on the steep terrains of California's Mammoth Mountain, he crashed and had a pole tip impale his chest, four inches deep, Walker miraculously made a full and fast recovery , unprecedented style in eight weeks and would be back on the saddle again, starring alongside Telly Savalas in Eugene Martin's light-hearted Western Pancho Villa.
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| Walker having a ball with Lucy |
Before he moseyed on down to Hollywood, 'Big' Clint (Born Norman Eugene) was working in Las Vegas's Sands Hotel where he would secure various jobs as a night-club bouncer, but his steely-eyes, chiseled features and bedroom voice, helped make him a treasure at Tinseltown. But Walker wasn't just another purdy pout by any such means- oh no sirree - the man, myth and cowboy legend could learn ya a thing or three about the fine art of being a thespian and the even finer art of how to eats spinach and oh yes it really can help you achieve those big muskles.
