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Clint Walker died yesterday at the age of 90 from congestive heart failure.<\/p>\n
Walker was best known as Cheyenne Bodie, the star of the extremely popular Cheyenne<\/em> tv series which aired on ABC from\u00a01955-61.\u00a0 Cheyenne<\/em> was the first hour-long western drama.\u00a0 Walker also played Cheyenne Bodie on episodes of Maverick<\/em> and later Kung-Fu<\/em> as well as in the tv movie The Gambler Returns: The Luck of the Draw<\/em> and the theatrical release of Maverick<\/em>.\u00a0 The\u00a0 Cheyenne\u00a0<\/em>series was so popular, in some markets episodes were combined and re-edited for theatrical release.<\/p>\n After the series ended Walker could be found making guest appearances on tv series but his focus became making movies.\u00a0 \u00a0His best-known theatrical appearances included, None But the Brave<\/em>; The Dirty Dozen<\/em> and Grizzly<\/em>.\u00a0 In 1971, Walker was seriously injured in a fall from a sky lift that caused a ski pole to pierce his heart.\u00a0 He was pronounced dead, but when a faint heartbeat was heard he was rushed into surgery.\u00a0 Two months later Walker was back to work!<\/p>\n Walker went on to star in other theatrical films, as well as made-for-tv movies and the short-lived tv series Kodiak<\/em>.\u00a0 After voicing Nick Nitro in Small Soldiers<\/em>, Clint Walker retired.<\/p>\n Clint Walker was one of my first childhood heroes.\u00a0 I loved him in Cheyenne and still do.\u00a0 The series is still one of my favorites and can be seen on various cable channels daily.<\/p>\n Walker is survived by his daughter, Valerie and his wife\u00a0Susan Cavallari Walker.\u00a0 Our thoughts and prayers go out to Clint Walker’s family, friends and fans.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Clint Walker died yesterday at the age of 90 from congestive heart failure. Walker was best known as Cheyenne Bodie,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,54,57,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-movies","category-rip","category-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20403"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20404,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20403\/revisions\/20404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}