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- Birth nameJohn Marion Pickard Jr.
- Height5′ 10″ (1.78 m)
- John Pickard was born on June 25, 1913 in Lascassas, Tennessee, USA. He was an actor, known for True Grit (1969), The Twilight Zone (1959) and The Time Tunnel (1966). He was married to Anne Bernard McLaurine. He died on August 4, 1993 in Lascassas, Tennessee, USA.
- SpouseAnne Bernard McLaurine(May 21, 1936 - August 4, 1993) (his death, 1 child)
- ChildrenJohn Marion Pickard III
- ParentsRosaline RuckerJohn Marion Pickard Sr.
- Killed by a bull on a family farm.
- He was almost cast as Marshal Dillon when Gunsmoke (1955) was under development for television in 1955. Charles Marquis Warren (who produced the first year of the show) said his tests were going very well until he "...floundered in a love scene with Kitty. I don't think he ever knew how close he came to immortality!"
- Has played characters on both ends of a whip. In Hellgate (1952), he's seen as an inmate in a frontier prison who receives 17 lashes for lying to a guard. In Badlands of Montana (1957), he plays a corrupt frontier mayor who delivers 10 lashes to the back of an opponent played by Rex Reason,
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