Doug McClure
Gender: Male
Born: 11th May 1935
Died: 5th February 1995
Nationality: United States of America
TV programs: Out of This World, Checkmate, The Virginian, Barbary Coast, Overland Trail, Search, Roots
Movies: Escape of the Birdmen, Humanoids from the Deep, Shenandoah, The People That Time Forgot, Warlords of Atlantis, The Land That Time Forgot, Terror in the Sky, At the Earth's Core, Beau Geste, Wild and Wooly, Battling for Baby, Nobody's Perfect, 52 Pick-Up, Gidget, Tapeheads, The Unforgiven, SST: Death Flight, The House Where Evil Dwells, What Changed Charley Farthing?, Backtrack!, Cannonball Run II, South Pacific, Maverick
Douglas Osborne "Doug" McClure (May 11, 1935 – February 5, 1995) was an American actor whose career in film and television extended from the 1950s to the 1990s. Born in Glendale, California, to Donald Reed McClure and the former Clara Clapp, he is best known for his appearances as Trampas in the NBC western series The Virginian.
McClure's acting career included such movies as The Enemy Below, South Pacific, The Unforgiven, and Because They're Young, before landing the part of Trampas on The Virginian - a part that would make him famous. He also starred in three other series: (1) as Frank "Flip" Flippen on NBC's western, Overland Trail (1960), with co-star William Bendix, (2) as Jed Sills on the CBS detective series Checkmate (1960–1962) opposite Anthony George as Don Corey and Sebastian Cabot as Dr. Carl Hyatt, and finally in the sci-fi/detective series Search (1972-73) in which he rotated the lead with Hugh O'Brian and Anthony Franciosa as a high-tech PROBE agent.
In 1958 and 1959, McClure appeared in three episodes of the syndicated western series 26 Men, stories of the Arizona Rangers. He appeared as Adam Davis in 1959 in the episode "The Court Martial of Trooper Davis" of the
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