Wayne McLaren was an American

United States

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 stuntman

Stuntman

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, model

Model (person)

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, actor

Actor

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, and rodeo

Rodeo

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 performer.

Biography

McLaren worked as a stuntman and rodeo rider before being hired to appear in ads for Marlboro.
In 1976, he did promotional work for the famous Marlboro cigarette advertising

Tobacco advertising

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 campaign

Advertising campaign

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 as the "Marlboro Man

Marlboro Man

The Marlboro Man is a figure used in tobacco advertising campaign for Marlboro cigarettes. In the United States, where the campaign originated, it was used from 1954 to 1999. The Marlboro Man was first conceived by Leo Burnett in 1954. The image involves a rugged cowboy or cowboys, in nature with...

".

After developing lung cancer

Lung cancer

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 in 1990, McLaren became an anti-smoking crusader citing his 30-year smoking habit as the cause of his cancer. During the time of McLaren's anti-smoking activism, Philip Morris

Philip Morris USA

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 denied that McLaren ever appeared in a Marlboro ad. In response, McLaren produced an affidavit from a talent agency that had represented him and a pay check stub asserting that he had been paid for work on a "Marlboro print" job.

Just before his death, a television spot was filmed showing images of him appearing as the cowboy

Cowboy

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 juxtaposed with those of him on his hospital bed; his brother, Charles McLaren, gave a voiceover about the dangers of smoking, and noted that the tobacco industry

Tobacco industry

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 promoted an 'independent lifestyle', before finally summarizing 'Lying there with all those tubes in you, how independent can you really be?'

Filmography

Film
Year	Film	Role	Notes
1969	Paint Your Wagon Paint Your Wagon (film) Paint Your Wagon is a 1969 American musical film starring Lee Marvin and Clint Eastwood. The movie was adapted by Paddy Chayefsky from the 1951 stage musical by Lerner and Loewe, set in a mining camp in Gold Rush-era California.-Plot:...		Stunts Uncredited
1972	The Honkers	Everett
	Junior Bonner Junior Bonner Junior Bonner is a film released in 1972 directed by Sam Peckinpah and starring Steve McQueen, Joe Don Baker, Robert Preston and Ida Lupino. The film focuses on a veteran rodeo rider as he returns to his hometown of Prescott, Arizona to participate in an annual rodeo competition and reunite with...
	Cry for Me, Billy	Soldier	Stunts
Television
Year	Title	Role	Notes
1968	Mission: Impossible Mission: Impossible Mission: Impossible is an American television series which was created and initially produced by Bruce Geller. It chronicled the missions of a team of secret American government agents known as the Impossible Missions Force . The leader of the team was Jim Phelps, played by Peter Graves, except in...	Artie Calvitos	2 episodes
1969	The Mod Squad The Mod Squad The Mod Squad is a television series that ran on ABC from September 24, 1968, until August 23, 1973. This series starred Michael Cole, Peggy Lipton, Clarence Williams III, and Tige Andrews...	Miller	1 episode
1971	The F.B.I.	Jay Yarborough	1 episode
	Cannon		Television movie
1972–1973	Cannon Cannon (TV series) Cannon is a CBS detective television series produced by Quinn Martin which aired from March 26, 1971 to March 3, 1976.The primary protagonist was the title character, Frank Cannon, played by William Conrad....		2 episodes
1973	Gunsmoke Gunsmoke Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman MacDonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place in and around Dodge City, Kansas, during the settlement of the American West....	Homer	1 episode

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