FrameThrower · Actors · Slim Pickens
Slim Pickens
5 films · 340 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1964–1981
Born 29 June 1919 · Kingsburg, California, USA · died 8 December 1983
Louis Burton Lindley Jr., known professionally as Slim Pickens, was an American actor and rodeo performer. Starting off in the rodeo, Pickens transitioned to acting and appeared in dozens of movies and TV shows. For much of his career Pickens played mainly cowboy roles. he is perhaps best remembered today for his comic roles in Dr. Strangelove (1964), Blazing Saddles (1972) and 1941 (1979), and his villainous turn in One-Eyed Jacks (1961).
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Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 5 films · 340 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1964–1981
- National Rodeo Hall of Fame1986
How their films are shot
Measured across 340 frames from the 5 films we hold. This is the look of the work Slim takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 5 films we hold, 50% of their frames are day, 49% natural — the look of the work Slim takes.
Time of day
Lighting
Shot size
Camera angle
Mood
Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
Often with
Shared films in this library, not a full filmography.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 340 frames from Slim Pickens's 5 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.