Barbados Joe Walcott name as his own ring name. Walcott was born on March 13, 1873, in Demerara, Guyana, according to several sources, though he spent part of his youth in Barbados. As a youngster he set out to see the world and got a job as a cabin boy on a ship sailing to Boston that arrived around 1887. He soon settled in Boston as a piano mover, and porter and took other odd jobs as well. Later, he landed a job in a gym, and became popular with even the best of the boxers as an able opponent before turning professional.
Gregory Walcott Jackie Cooper. He was frequently cast in westerns like "Bonanza" (seven times), "Maverick", "Frontier Doctor", "Wagon Train", "The High Chaparral", "26 Men", "Sugarfoot" (with Will Hutchins and cast opposite another guest star, Joi Lansing, in the 1958 episode "Bullet Proof"), "Laramie", "The Rifleman", "The Tall Man", "The Dakotas", and in several episodes of CBS's "Rawhide", through which he began a long collaboration with Clint Eastwood. Walcott had featured roles in Eastwood's films "Joe Kidd" (1972), "Thunderbolt and Lightfoot" (1974), "The Eiger Sanction" (1975), and "Every Which Way But Loose" (1978). Walcott made a guest appearance on "Perry Mason" as Bill