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| children = 1 | notable role = Cheyenne Bodie in ''Cheyenne'' }} Norman Eugene Walker, known as Clint Walker (born May 30, 1927), is a retired American actor. He is perhaps best known for his cowboy role as "Cheyenne Bodie" in the ABC/Warner Brothers western television series ''Cheyenne''. ==Life and career== Walker was born in Hartford in Madison County, southwestern Illinois, the son of Gladys Huldah (Schwanda) and Paul Arnold Walker.〔(Walker's biography ) from his official website〕〔(Neoma Lucy Walker Westbrook )〕 His mother was Czech.〔(''Norman E Walker'' ) 〕 He left school to work at a factory and on a river boat, then joined the United States Merchant Marine at the age of seventeen in the last months of World War II.〔 After leaving the Merchant Marine, he labored at odd jobs in Brownwood, Texas, Long Beach, California, and Las Vegas, Nevada, where he worked as a doorman at the Sands Hotel.〔 He was also employed as a sheet metal worker and a nightclub bouncer. He became a client of Henry Willson, who renamed him "Jett Norman"〔p.507 Aaker, Everett Television Western Players of the Fifties: A Biographical Encyclopedia of All Regular Cast Members in Western Series, 1949-1959' McFarland, 1997〕 and cast him to appear in a Bowery Boys film (''Jungle Gents'') as a Tarzan-type character. In Los Angeles, he was hired by Cecil B. DeMille to appear in ''The Ten Commandments''. A friend in the film industry helped get him a few bit parts that brought him to the attention of Warner Bros., which was developing a western style television series. Walker's good looks and imposing physique (he stood 6 feet, 6 inches () tall with a 48-inch chest and a 32-inch waist〔(Cowboy actor inspires local Western writer ), a December 2003 review transcribed from an ''Idaho State Journal'' article〕) helped him land an audition where he won the lead role in the TV series ''Cheyenne''. Billed as "Clint" Walker, he was cast as Cheyenne Bodie, a roaming cowboy hero in the post-American Civil War era. While the series regularly capitalized on Walker's rugged frame with frequent bare-chested scenes, it was well written and acted. It proved hugely popular for eight seasons. Walker's pleasant baritone singing voice was also occasionally utilized on the series and led Warner Brothers to produce an album of Walker doing traditional songs and ballads.〔(Actor Clint Walker to be Inducted into National Cowboy Museum's Hall of Great Western Performers )〕 Walker then played roles in several big-screen films, including a trio of westerns for Gordon Douglas: ''Fort Dobbs'' in 1958, ''Yellowstone Kelly'' in 1959, and ''Gold of the Seven Saints'' in 1961, the comedy ''Send Me No Flowers'' in 1964, the actual leading role despite being billed under Frank Sinatra in the wartime drama ''None but the Brave'' in 1965, ''The Night of the Grizzly'' in 1966, and as the meek convict Samson Posey in the war drama ''The Dirty Dozen'' in 1967. In 1969, New York Times film critic Howard Thompson, in reviewing Walker's performance in the movie ''More Dead Than Alive'', described the actor as "a big, fine-looking chap and about as live-looking as any man could be. And there is something winning about his taciturn earnestness as an actor, although real emotion seldom breaks through".〔Howard Thompson, "'Dead' Western", The New York Times, May 1, 1969〕 In 1958, Thompson described the actor, then starring in ''Fort Dobbs'', as "the biggest, finest-looking Western hero ever to sag a horse, with a pair of shoulders rivaling King Kong's".〔"Western and 'Lafayette Escadrille' Open", The New York Times, April 19, 1958〕 During the 1970s he returned to television, starring in a number of made-for-TV western films as well as a short-lived series in 1974 called ''Kodiak''. He starred in the made-for-television cult film ''Killdozer!'' the same year. In 1998, he voiced Nick Nitro in the film ''Small Soldiers''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Clint Walker」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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