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- Slim Pickens spent the early part of his career as a real cowboy and the latter part playing cowboys, and he is best remembered for a single "cowboy" image: that of bomber pilot Maj. "King" Kong waving his cowboy hat rodeo-style as he rides a nuclear bomb onto its target in the great black comedy Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964). Born in Kingsburg, near Fresno in California's Central Valley, he spent much of his boyhood in nearby Hanford, where he began rodeoing at the age of 12. Over the next two decades he toured the country on the rodeo circuit, becoming a highly-paid and well-respected rodeo clown, a job that entailed enormous danger. In 1950, at the age of 31, Slim married Margaret Elizabeth Harmon and that same year he was given a role in a western, Rocky Mountain (1950). He quickly found a niche in both comic and villainous roles in that genre. With his hoarse voice and pronounced western twang, he was not always easy to cast outside the genre, but when he was, as in "Dr. Strangelove", the results were often memorable. He died in 1983 after a long and courageous battle against a brain tumor. He was survived by his wife Margaret and children.
- Maya Van Horn was born on 26 December 1896 in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands. She was an actress, known for The Fugitive (1963), Combat! (1962) and The Man Called X (1956). She died on 8 December 1983 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
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Maritta Marke was born on 30 June 1905 in Äsperöd, Skåne län, Sweden. She was an actress, known for Lyckans gullgossar (1932), Sten Stensson Stéen från Eslöv på nya äventyr (1932) and Pensionat Paradiset (1937). She was married to Håkan von Eichwald and Leif Amble-Næss. She died on 8 December 1983 in Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden.- Dorothy Batley was born on 18 January 1902 in Marylebone, London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for The Blue Lagoon (1949), The Sins of Youth (1919) and Boys of the Old Brigade (1916). She was married to Guy Newall. She died on 8 December 1983 in Barnes, London, England, UK.