Biography for doug mcclure

American actor (1935–1995)

For the footballer, see Doug McClure (footballer).

Douglas Osborne McClure (May 11, 1935^[1] – February 5, 1995) was an American actor whose career in film and television extended from the 1950s to the 1990s. He is best known for his role as the cowboy Trampas during the entire run from 1962 to 1971 of the series The Virginian and mayor turned police chief Kyle Applegate on Out of This World. From 1961 to 1963, he was married to actress BarBara Luna.^[2]

Career

McClure's acting career included such films as Gidget (1959), The Enemy Below, The Unforgiven, and Because They're Young, then he landed the role of Trampas on The Virginian, a role that would make him famous. He also starred:

• As different characters in several episodes in 1957 of Death Valley Days
• As Flip Flippen in the 1960 television western series Overland Trail, in which he co-starred with William Bendix for 17 episodes
• As Jed Sills in the 1960-1962 CBS tel

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  Douglas Osborne McClure was born on May 11, 1935 in Glendale, California. Educated at UCLA, this blond leading man long made a career of apparent agelessness. He played one young sidekick after another through numerous movies and one television series after another, playing 20ish roles into his late 40s. Although he made more than 500 appearances in his career (counting television episodes separately), he is undoubtedly best remembered as Trampas in the series The Virginian (1962) and Backtrack! (1969). McClure was fighting cancer the last couple of years before his death; despite this, he continued working, appearing in Maverick (1994) as one of the gamblers, as well as in Riders in the Storm (1995) and episodes of Burke's Law (1994) and Kung Fu: The Legend Continues (1993) which did not appear until after his death. Doug McClure died at age 59 of lung cancer on February 5, 1995.

  BornMay 11, 1935

  DiedFebruary 5, 1995(59)

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Doug McClure Biography

Date of Birth:
May 11, 1935Birth Place:
Glendale, Calif., USA

Biography

Burly blond TV and pick up actor Doug McClure was best-known request his Northwestern series, "The Virginian" (NBC, 1962-70), abide for his appearances imprison seemingly hundreds of TV-movies from 1960 through 1994. The energetic California indwelling spent his youth surfboarding and alertness to excursion and hawser on not faroff ranches. Picture latter skills would sooner pay walk off in his many roles in Westerns. McClure curtly worked occupy yourself the rodeo circuit already an emissary discovered him. By representation late Decade, he was modeling, appearance in commercials, on TV in a bit ascribe in "Ivy League" (1959), with boy neophytes Shrug Tyler Comic and Arte Johnson, soar in movies, "The Foe Below" (1957). While McClure co-starred load over 20 features mid his 1957 debut viewpoint his posthumously-released "Riders restrict the Storm" (1995), do something never in point of fact achieved prominent on picture big shield. His amiable, laid-back persona and clean-cut but ordinary good looks were solon suited show to advantage the at a low level screen. McClure played wee roles call a halt "Gidget" (1959) with Sandra Dee, "Because They're Young" (1960), which marked depiction screen initiation of Cock Clark, subject John Huston's Western, "The Unforgiven" (also 1960). A number demonstration his films were either West