Born: May 11, 1935
Died: February 5, 1995

Raw-boned blonde leading man Doug McClure came to films in 1957, but it was television that made him a star. He played secondary roles on such MCA series as The_Overland_Trail (1960) and Checkmate (1961-62) before striking paydirt as Trampas on the long-running (1962-71) western series The Virginian. During his first flush of stardom, McClure played leads in two Universal remakes, Beau_Geste (1966) and The_King's_Pirate (the 1967 remake of Errol_Flynn's Against_All_Flags). He also dashed through a trio of British-filmed Edgar Rice Burroughs derivations, The_Land_That_Time_Forgot (1974), At the Earth's Core (1976) and The_People_That_Time_Forgot (1977). He perpetuated his athletic, devil-may-care image into his brief 1975 TVer, Search (1975). In the late 1980s, Doug McClure reemerged as an agreeable comic actor, playing an Eastwoodish movie-star-cum-small-town-mayor in the syndicated sitcom Out of This World (1987-88). Hal Erickson, Rovi

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