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Doug McClure
  • Birth Name:
    Douglas Osborne McClure
  • Date of Birth:
    May 11, 1935
  • Zodiac Sign:
    Taurus
  • Place of Birth:
    Glendale, California, USA
  • Place of Death:
    Sherman Oaks, California, USA
  • Date of Death:
    February 5, 1995
  • Cause of Death:
    Lung cancer
  • Height:
    6' 1"
  • Sex:
    Male
  • Nationality:
    American

Family

Doug McClure
  • Spouse:
    Faye Brash - Deceased
    Barbara Luna - Divorced
    Helen Crane - Divorced
    Diane Soldani - Divorced
    Diane Furnberg

Career

Doug McClure

Trivia

Doug McClure
  • He co-starred on the sitcom Out of This World later in his career.
  • . In 1967, he played the Errol Flynn role in a re-make of Against All Flags titled The King's Pirate.
  • He also starred in science fiction films such as At the Earth's Core, The Land That Time Forgot and The People That Time Forgot, all three based on the novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs.
  • He was an American actor whose career in film and television extended from the 1950s to the 1990s.
  • Played the Errol Flynn role in a re-make of Against All Flags (1952) titled The King's Pirate (1967). Ironically, both men died prematurely: Flynn at age 50 and McClure at age 59.
  • Along with Troy Donahue, he was the inspiration for the "Troy McClure" character on "The Simpsons" (1989).

Quotes

Doug McClure
  • “I’m proud to be living my life as an artist.”
  • “I was discovered on a surfboard in Malibu. I was a cowboy surfer; a surfboard under one arm and a saddle under the other.”
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Biography

Doug McClure
Last Updated: Wednesday, August 26, 2009

DougEducated 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 TV series after another, playing 20ish roles into his late 40s. Although he made more than 500 appearances in his career (counting TV 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 didn't appear until after his death. McClure got a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame shortly before his death.

Filmography

Doug McClure

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