Clint walker bio biography

He dropped out of school to work in a factory, and later he joined the US Navy as a Marine Merchant during the last few months of World War II when he was still only 17 years old. After he left the military, he worked in a variety of jobs in Texas, Nevada and California. This was just enough for Warner Brothers studios to acknowledge his potential, as the studios were producing western TV series at the time.

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That role gave him the opportunity to show his charisma and turned him into a TV western legend. Personal Life. Clint Walker married Verna Garver in , but they divorced in having had a daughter, Valerie in , who became a pioneer in female airline piloting. In Walker married again, to Giselle Hennessy who unfortunately died 20 years later in In he married Susan Cavallari, and eventually they became permanent residents of Grass Valley, California.

During a skiing vacation in Mammoth Mountain, California in May , Clint Walker barely survived an accident, falling from a ski elevator and being pierced through the heart by a ski pole — hospital officials pronounced him dead, but the doctor suddenly found faint signals of life, so he was rushed to the operating theater, and operated on successfully.

Only two months afterwards, Walker was already back to work, filming in Spain. In total, Clint Walker played in over 40 movies and TV series throughout his long career, mostly in the western genre.