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- Olaf Wieghorst was born on April 30, 1899 in Viborg, Denmark. He was an actor, known for El Dorado (1966) and The Mike Douglas Show (1961). He was married to Mabel Walters. He died on April 27, 1988 in El Cajon, California, USA.
- SpouseMabel Walters(1924 - April 27, 1988) (his death, 1 child)
- Famous American West painter.
- As a painter of the Old West genre art, his paintings hang in the Eisenhower Library in Abilene Kansas.
- After arriving in America, he joined the army, was posted to a cavalry unit on the US/Mexican border, and took part in the ultimately unsuccessful campaign that crossed the border into Mexico to try to capture Mexican bandit leader Pancho Villa after his attack on an American town in New Mexico.
- Inducted into the Hall of Great Westerners of the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in 1992.
- He served for years with the New York City Mounted Police.
- Horses have been my companion under nearly all possible conditions. I have frozen at night in subzero weather. Ridden across the desert in some of the hottest days on record. Starved with them and hunted for water with them longer than I care to remember. But besides all the aches and broken bones, I have no regrets!
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