Doug McClure(1935-1995)
- Actor
- Soundtrack
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.
