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Douglas Osborne McClure (May 11, 1935 – February 5, 1995) was an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 actor
Actor

An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
 whose career in film
Film

Film encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the film industry. Films are produced by recording images from the world with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or special effects....
 and television
Television

Television is a widely used telecommunication mass-media for transmitting and receiving moving , either monochrome or color, usually accompanied by sound....
 extended from the 1950s to the 1990s.

McClure was born in Glendale, California
Glendale, California

Glendale is a city in Los Angeles County, California, California, United States. It lies at the eastern end of the San Fernando Valley, is bisected by the Verdugo Mountains, and is a suburb in the Greater Los Angeles Area....
, to Donald Reed McClure and the former Clara Clapp. He is known for his appearances as Trampas in the NBC western
Western (genre)

The Western is a fiction genre seen in film, television, radio, literature, painting and other visual arts. Westerns are devoted to telling stories set primarily in the later half of the 19th century in what became the Western United States , but also in Western Canada, Mexico , Alaska and even Australia ....
 series The Virginian
The Virginian (TV series)

The Virginian is a Western -themed television series which aired on NBC from 1962 in television to 1971 in television for a total of 249 episodes....
. His costars were James Drury
James Drury

James Child Drury is an United States actor who played the title role in the 90-minute weekly Western television series The Virginian , broadcast on NBC from 1962-1971....
, Roberta Shore
Roberta Shore

Roberta Jymme Schourop , better known as Roberta Shore, is an American actress and performer, most famous for her youthful television and movie roles in the 1950s and early 1960s....
, Lee J. Cobb
Lee J. Cobb

Lee J. Cobb was an United States actor....
, Randy Boone
Randy Boone

Clyde Randall Boone, known as Randy Boone , is a former actor who co-starred in two of the three 90-minute Western telecast during the 1960s on the national television networks, National Broadcasting Company's The Virginian and Columbia Broadcasting System's Cimarron Strip....
, Gary Clarke
Gary Clarke

Gary Clarke is an United States actor best known for his role as Steve Hill in the National Broadcasting Company television series The Virginian with James Drury....
, and even Tim Matheson
Tim Matheson

Tim Matheson is an United States actor. He is perhaps best known for his portrayal of the smooth talking Eric 'Otter' Stratton in the 1978 comedy Animal House, but has had a variety of other well-known roles both before and since....
 in the later seasons. Before The Virginian, McClure costarred in two other series: (1) as Frank "Flip" Flippen on NBC's western, Overland Trail
Overland Trail (TV series)

For the history Overland Trail, see Overland Trail.Overland Trail is a 17-episode Western television series which aired on National Broadcasting Company from February 7 to June 6, 1960, starring William Bendix and Doug McClure ....
 (1960), with co-star William Bendix
William Bendix

William Bendix was an United States film actor.Bendix, named for his paternal grandfather, was born in Manhattan, New York City, the only son of Cleveland-born Oscar and London-born Hilda Bendix....
, and (2) as Jed Sills on the CBS detective
Detective

A detective is an investigator, either a member of a police agency or a private person. The latter may be known as private investigators . Informally, and primarily in fiction, a detective is any licensed or unlicensed person who solves crimes, including historical crimes, or looks into records....
 series Checkmate
Checkmate (TV series)

Checkmate is an United States Detective fiction that aired on CBS from 1960 to 1962 for a total of 70 episodes....
 (1960-1962) opposite Anthony George
Anthony George

Anthony George was an United States actor mostly seen on television.He was born Ottavio Gabriel George in Endicott, New York, the second son of Italians immigrant parents....
 as Don Corey and Sebastian Cabot
Sebastian Cabot (actor)

Sebastian Cabot was an England film and television actor, best remembered as the valet, "Giles French," in the 1960s sitcom Family Affair....
 as Dr. Carl Hyatt.






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Douglas Osborne McClure (May 11, 1935 – February 5, 1995) was an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 actor
Actor

An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
 whose career in film
Film

Film encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the film industry. Films are produced by recording images from the world with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or special effects....
 and television
Television

Television is a widely used telecommunication mass-media for transmitting and receiving moving , either monochrome or color, usually accompanied by sound....
 extended from the 1950s to the 1990s.

McClure was born in Glendale, California
Glendale, California

Glendale is a city in Los Angeles County, California, California, United States. It lies at the eastern end of the San Fernando Valley, is bisected by the Verdugo Mountains, and is a suburb in the Greater Los Angeles Area....
, to Donald Reed McClure and the former Clara Clapp. He is known for his appearances as Trampas in the NBC western
Western (genre)

The Western is a fiction genre seen in film, television, radio, literature, painting and other visual arts. Westerns are devoted to telling stories set primarily in the later half of the 19th century in what became the Western United States , but also in Western Canada, Mexico , Alaska and even Australia ....
 series The Virginian
The Virginian (TV series)

The Virginian is a Western -themed television series which aired on NBC from 1962 in television to 1971 in television for a total of 249 episodes....
. His costars were James Drury
James Drury

James Child Drury is an United States actor who played the title role in the 90-minute weekly Western television series The Virginian , broadcast on NBC from 1962-1971....
, Roberta Shore
Roberta Shore

Roberta Jymme Schourop , better known as Roberta Shore, is an American actress and performer, most famous for her youthful television and movie roles in the 1950s and early 1960s....
, Lee J. Cobb
Lee J. Cobb

Lee J. Cobb was an United States actor....
, Randy Boone
Randy Boone

Clyde Randall Boone, known as Randy Boone , is a former actor who co-starred in two of the three 90-minute Western telecast during the 1960s on the national television networks, National Broadcasting Company's The Virginian and Columbia Broadcasting System's Cimarron Strip....
, Gary Clarke
Gary Clarke

Gary Clarke is an United States actor best known for his role as Steve Hill in the National Broadcasting Company television series The Virginian with James Drury....
, and even Tim Matheson
Tim Matheson

Tim Matheson is an United States actor. He is perhaps best known for his portrayal of the smooth talking Eric 'Otter' Stratton in the 1978 comedy Animal House, but has had a variety of other well-known roles both before and since....
 in the later seasons. Before The Virginian, McClure costarred in two other series: (1) as Frank "Flip" Flippen on NBC's western, Overland Trail
Overland Trail (TV series)

For the history Overland Trail, see Overland Trail.Overland Trail is a 17-episode Western television series which aired on National Broadcasting Company from February 7 to June 6, 1960, starring William Bendix and Doug McClure ....
 (1960), with co-star William Bendix
William Bendix

William Bendix was an United States film actor.Bendix, named for his paternal grandfather, was born in Manhattan, New York City, the only son of Cleveland-born Oscar and London-born Hilda Bendix....
, and (2) as Jed Sills on the CBS detective
Detective

A detective is an investigator, either a member of a police agency or a private person. The latter may be known as private investigators . Informally, and primarily in fiction, a detective is any licensed or unlicensed person who solves crimes, including historical crimes, or looks into records....
 series Checkmate
Checkmate (TV series)

Checkmate is an United States Detective fiction that aired on CBS from 1960 to 1962 for a total of 70 episodes....
 (1960-1962) opposite Anthony George
Anthony George

Anthony George was an United States actor mostly seen on television.He was born Ottavio Gabriel George in Endicott, New York, the second son of Italians immigrant parents....
 as Don Corey and Sebastian Cabot
Sebastian Cabot (actor)

Sebastian Cabot was an England film and television actor, best remembered as the valet, "Giles French," in the 1960s sitcom Family Affair....
 as Dr. Carl Hyatt. In 1958 and 1959, McClure appeared in three episodes of the syndicated
Television syndication

In broadcasting, syndication is the sale of the right to broadcast radio shows and television shows to multiple individual stations, without going through a broadcast network....
 western series 26 Men
26 Men

26 Men is a 78-episode Syndication Western television series about the Arizona Rangers, an elite group commissioned in 1901 by the legislature of the Arizona Territory and limited, for financial reasons, to twenty-six active members....
, stories of the Arizona Rangers
Arizona Rangers

The Arizona Rangers was an Arizona law enforcement agency modeled on the Texas Ranger Division. The Arizona Rangers were created by the Arizona Territorial Legislature in 1901, disbanded in 1909, and were subsequently reformed in 1957....
. He appeared as Adam Davis in 1959 in the episode "The Court Martial of Trooper Davis" of the syndicated series Mackenzie's Raiders
Mackenzie's Raiders

Mackenzie's Raiders is a Western television series starring Richard Carlson that aired in television syndication from 1958 until 1959.Carlson played Colonel Ranald Mackenzie, commander of the 4th Cavalry Regiment at Fort Clark, Texas near Brackettville, Texas, Texas, during thee 1870s....
 starring Richard Carlson.

He also starred in the science fiction
Science fiction

Science fiction is a broad genre of fiction that often involves speculations based on current or future science or technology. Science fiction is found in books, art, television, films, games, theatre, and other media....
 film
Film

Film encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the film industry. Films are produced by recording images from the world with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or special effects....
s, such as The Land That Time Forgot
The Land That Time Forgot (film)

The Land That Time Forgot is a 1975 in film fantasy/adventure film based upon the The Land That Time Forgot by Edgar Rice Burroughs. The screenplay was written by Michael Moorcock....
. In 1967, he played the Errol Flynn
Errol Flynn

Errol Leslie Flynn was an Australian-born film actor, known for his romantic swashbuckler roles in Hollywood films and his flamboyant lifestyle....
 role in a re-make of Against All Flags titled The King's Pirate. He co-starred on the sitcom Out of This World
Out of This World (TV series)

Out Of This World is a children's television comedy series about a teenage girl who is half alien, which gives her unique supernatural powers....
 later in his career. Along with Troy Donahue
Troy Donahue

Troy Donahue was an United States actor and teen idol of the late 1950s and early 1960s....
, he gave his name to the character of Troy McClure
Troy McClure

Troy McClure is a fictional character in the American animation sitcom The Simpsons. He was voice acting by Phil Hartman, and first appears in the second season episode "Homer vs....
 on The Simpsons
The Simpsons

The Simpsons is an Television in the United States animated cartoon Situation comedy created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company....
.

On February 5, 1995, McClure died from lung cancer
Lung cancer

Lung cancer is a disease of uncontrolled cell growth in tissue of the lung. This growth may lead to metastasis, which is the invasion of adjacent tissue and infiltration beyond the lungs....
 in Sherman Oaks, California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
. He was fifty-nine and is buried at Woodlawn Memorial Cemetery. He is survived by two daughters, Valerie and Tane McClure
Tane McClure

Tane McClure is an United States singer, actress and film producer.Born and raised in Hawaii, Tane is the daughter of actor Doug McClure. She sang in a Latin jazz band, Sweet Honesty, in the mid-1970s, and moved to San Francisco towards the end of the decade....
, who is an actress.

McClure has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
Hollywood Walk of Fame

The Hollywood Walk of Fame is a sidewalk along Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA, that serves as an entertainment hall of fame....
 at 7065 Hollywood Blvd.

Filmography

  • The Enemy Below
    The Enemy Below

    The Enemy Below is a 1957 in film war film which tells the story of the battle between the captain of an United States destroyer escort and the commander of a Germany U-boat during World War II....
     (1957)
  • Gidget
    Gidget

    Gidget is a fictional character created by author Frederick Kohner in his 1957 novel, Gidget, the Little Girl with Big Ideas. The novel follows the adventures of a teenage girl and her surfing friends on the beach at Malibu, California....
     (1959)
  • The Unforgiven
    The Unforgiven

    The Unforgiven can refer to:Music* The Unforgiven , a song by the American heavy metal band Metallica, from their self-titled 1991 album...
      (1960)
  • The Lively Set! (1964)
  • Shenandoah
    Shenandoah (film)

    Shenandoah is a 1965 in film Civil War film starring James Stewart and directed by Andrew V. McLaglen. Though set during the American Civil War, the film's strong antiwar and humanitarian themes reflect attitudes at the time of the movie's release, toward the Vietnam War....
     (1965)
  • Beau Geste
    Beau Geste

    Beau Geste is a 1924 adventure novel by P. C. Wren, which has been adapted for the screen several times. The phrase "beau geste" is from the French, meaning "a gracious gesture"....
     (1966)
  • The King's Pirate (1967)
  • Playmates (1972)
  • The Judge and Jake Wyler
    The Judge and Jake Wyler

    The Judge and Jake Wyler is a United States television movie directed by David Lowell Rich. The teleplay was written by Richard Levinson, William Link, and David Shaw....
     (1972)
  • "Die blutigen Geier von Alaska" (Germany, 1973)
  • The Land That Time Forgot
    The Land That Time Forgot (film)

    The Land That Time Forgot is a 1975 in film fantasy/adventure film based upon the The Land That Time Forgot by Edgar Rice Burroughs. The screenplay was written by Michael Moorcock....
     (1975)
  • At the Earth's Core
    At the Earth's Core (film)

    At the Earth's Core is a 1976 in film science fiction film produced by Britain's Amicus Productions. It was film director by Kevin Connor and starred Peter Cushing, Caroline Munro and Doug McClure....
     (1976)
  • The People That Time Forgot
    The People That Time Forgot (film)

    The People That Time Forgot is a 1977 in film fantasy/adventure film based on the The People That Time Forgot by Edgar Rice Burroughs. It was the third and final film in a series of Burroughs adaptations produced by Britain's Amicus Productions, all directed by Kevin Connor ....
     (1977)
  • Warlords of Atlantis
    Warlords of Atlantis

    Warlords of Atlantis was a 1978 in film science fiction film, fantasy film. As the title suggests, the film is about a trip to the lost world of Atlantis....
     (1978)
  • Wild and Wooly
    Wild and Wooly

    Wild and Wooly is the misspelled title of a 1978 in film comedy/Western TV Film about four turn-of-the-century women who break out of prison to foil an Irish people out to kill the President....
     (1978)
  • The Rebels - Pt. 2 of the Kent Family Chronicles (1979)
  • Humanoids from the Deep
    Humanoids from the Deep

    Humanoids from the Deep is a 1980 in film science fiction film monster movie, starring Doug McClure, Ann Turkel, and Vic Morrow. Roger Corman served as the film's Executive Producer, and the film was distributed by his New World Communications....
     (1980)
  • Firebird 2015 A.D. (1981)
  • The House Where Evil Dwells (1982)
  • Cannonball Run II (1984)
  • 52 Pick-Up
    52 Pick-Up

    Released in 1986, 52 Pick-Up is an action/thriller that details blackmail and murder in the wake of an affair. The movie stars Roy Scheider and Ann-Margret, was directed by John Frankenheimer, and is based on Elmore Leonard's novel of the same name....
     (1986)
  • Omega Syndrome (1986)
  • Prime Suspect (1988)
  • Dark Before Dawn (1988)
  • Battling for Baby (1992)
  • Dead Man's Revenge (1993)
  • Maverick
    Maverick (film)

    Maverick is an Academy Award-nominated 1994 in film Western comedy film based on the 1950s television series Maverick , created by Roy Huggins....
     (1994)
  • Riders in the Storm (1995)


Television

  • COronado 9
    COronado 9

    COronado 9 is a Television syndication crime drama set in San Diego, California, California, starring Rod Cameron as Dan Adams, a former United States Navy intelligence officer turned private detective....
     - Jimmy Hoke in episode "The Widow of Kill Cove" (1960)
  • Checkmate
    Checkmate (TV series)

    Checkmate is an United States Detective fiction that aired on CBS from 1960 to 1962 for a total of 70 episodes....
     - Jed Stills (1960-1962)
  • The Virginian
    The Virginian (TV series)

    The Virginian is a Western -themed television series which aired on NBC from 1962 in television to 1971 in television for a total of 249 episodes....
     - Trampas (1962-1971)
  • Barbary Coast - Cash Conover (1975)
  • Satan's Triangle - Lt. J. Haig (1975)
  • Search (TV series)
    Search (TV series)

    "Search" was a TV series that aired in 1972-1973. The show aired Wednesday nights on NBC at 10 pm ET, from September 1972 to August 1973. It ran for 23 episodes, not including the two-hour pilot film originally titled Probe ....
     - C. R. Grover (1972-1973)
  • Roots
    Roots

    Roots may refer to:Music* Roots * Roots * The Roots, a musical group* Roots reggae, a subgenre of reggae music* World music, traditional indigenous music from around the world...
     - Jemmy Brent (1977)
  • Out of This World
    Out of This World (TV series)

    Out Of This World is a children's television comedy series about a teenage girl who is half alien, which gives her unique supernatural powers....
     - Mayor Kyle Applegate (1987-1991)
  • The Gambler Returns: The Luck of the Draw
    The Gambler Returns: The Luck of the Draw

    The Gambler Returns: The Luck of the Draw features Kenny Rogers and Reba McEntire in a TV-movie that depicts Rogers' "Gambler" character, Brady Hawkes , running across a galaxy of old TV western characters played by the original actors, including Gene Barry as Bat Masterson , Hugh O'Brien as The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp, Jack Kelly...
     (1994)

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