Clint Walker - Hartford, IL
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N 38° 49.995 W 090° 05.921
15S E 751841 N 4302272
50 year commemoration: "Hartford is the birthplace of actor Clint Walker, known for the television series Cheyenne and for the movies The Ten Commandments and The Dirty Dozen." ~ Wikipedia
Waymark Code: WM183VM
Location: Illinois, United States
Date Posted: 05/25/2023
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County of mark: Madison County
Location of mark: S. Old St. Louis Rd. & Hawthorne Ave., small memorial park, Hartford
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1920 of Oct. 1970
CLINT WALKER
Hartford 50 yr comm.
Norman Eugene "Clint" Walker (May 30, 1927 – May 21, 2018) was an American actor. He played cowboy Cheyenne Bodie in the ABC/Warner Bros. western series Cheyenne from 1955 to 1963.
Early life
Clint Walker was born Norman Eugene Walker in Hartford, Illinois, on May 30, 1927; the son of Gladys Huldah (née Schwanda) and Paul Arnold Walker. His mother was Czech. He had a twin sister named Lucy.
"Walker left school to work at a factory and on a riverboat, then joined the United States Merchant Marine at the age of 17 in the last months of World War II.
"After leaving the Merchant Marine, he did odd jobs in Brownwood, Texas; Long Beach, California; and Las Vegas, Nevada, where he worked as a doorman at the Sands Hotel. Walker was also employed as a sheet metal worker and a nightclub bouncer." ~ Wikipedia