Clint Walker dead at 90

Watched The Dirty Dozen just a few days ago.

He was great.

He would've been the perfect film Superman in the 1960's.

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way ahead of his time in the body department

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Clint Walker's Home Gym (c. 1965)

He was kind of the template for the TV western star: he looked rugged, but in manner was low-key and soft-spoken

Trivia: Walker was supposed to do the comic "inspect the troops" scene in The Dirty Dozen. But the night before it was shot, he went to the director Robert Aldrich and said he wasn't comfortable with the scene. Aldrich looks at Donald Sutherland and says "You with the big ears! You're doing the scene tomorrow." It was DS's first big movie moment and would lead to him getting cast in MASH.

Aldrich stayed pissed off at Walker. In the finished film Clint is the only one of the DD's casualties who does not get a death scene (whether one was shot is not clear). This has led some people to claim his character actually survived the mission...


Great fight scenes with Clint Walker and Leo Gordon -- clips from the several fight scenes they did together, often doing their own stunts. Gordon had done time at San Quentin for bank robbery; Roger Corman called him the most intimidating man in Hollywood.

Posey, you killed a man with your bare hands because he shoved you?

I only hit him once.

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Died from congestive heart failure

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seems like he died of being 90

I liked him in The Dirty Dozen. He was one big dude!