Description:
Gregory Walcott grew up in North Carolina and went into the Army just after the end of World War II. After leaving the service, he grew restless on the East Coast and, with $100 in his pocket, thumbed his way west to pursue an acting career. An agent who spotted him in a little theater play helped Walcott land his debut movie role in Red Skies of Montana (1952). Two years later, on the strength of his performance as a drill instructor in the Marine Corps movie Battle Cry (1955), he was placed under contract at Warner Brothers. He co-starred (as a drill instructor again) in another Marine Corps story, The Outsider (1961), which earned him a Universal contract and his own TV series, 87th Precinct (1961) (1961-62) with Robert Lansing.
Birthday
January 13, 1928
Born In
Wendell, North Carolina, USA
Alternative names
Gregg Walcott
, Greg Walcott
Height
193 cm
Spouse/Ex-
Barbara May Watkins October 3, 1954 - June 14, 2010 (her death)
Trivia
During the 1970s served as a great "ham-fisted" foil to
Clint Eastwood, appearing in four of Eastwood's films:
The Eiger Sanction (1975),
Every Which Way But Loose (1978),
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974) and Joe Kidd (1972). Usually Eastwood would pummel Walcott to a bloody pulp by the end of the picture.
Quotes
[on starring in Edward D. Wood Jr.'s Plan 9 from Outer Space (1957)] I didn't want to be remembered for that. But it's better to be remembered for something than for nothing, don't you think?
Nickname
Barnyard
