That led to Walker’s casting in Cheyenne, and he would go on to make several films during the series’ 108-episode run. DeMille, who cast him in the 1956 blockbuster The Ten Commandments. Soon after arriving in L.A., he was introduced to Cecil B. According to the bio on his website, many celebrities the 6-foot-6 Walker met told him to try his luck in Hollywood.
Then the next thing I heard about four days later was Jack Warner reviewed all the stuff, pointed to me and said, ‘That is Cheyenne.'”īorn on May 30, 1927, in Hartford, IL, Walker did stints in the Merchant Marines and in Texas oil fields before moving to Long Beach, CA, and then to Las Vegas, working as a sheriff’s deputy at the Sands Hotel. I could see all these people that I’d seen in pictures over the years, and I thought, ‘I don’t stand a chance.’ The second day I thought, ‘I’m not going to get the job anyway, so why don’t I just relax and enjoy it.’ Which I did. “I think they had all the leading men available in Hollywood to test for Cheyenne two days in a row, and they had me test with them,” Walked said in a 2012 sit-down for The Interviews: An Oral History of Television. Bill Gold Dies: 'Casablanca', 'The Exorcist', 'J.
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