Doug McClure
Husky blond TV and film actor Doug McClure was best-known for his Western series, "The Virginian" (NBC, 1962-70), and for his appearances in seemingly hundreds of TV-movies from 1960 through 1994. The athletic California native spent his youth surfing and learning to ride and rope on nearby ranches. The latter skills would eventually pay off in his many roles in Westerns. McClure briefly worked on the rodeo circuit before an agent discovered him. By the late 1950s, he was modeling, appearing in commercials, on TV in a bit part in "Ivy League" (1959), with fellow neophytes Mary Tyler Moore and Arte Johnson, and in movies, "The Enemy Below" (1957). While McClure co-starred in over 20 features between his 1957 debut and his posthumously-released "Riders in the Storm" (1995), he never really achieved stardom on the big screen. His affable, laid-back personality and clean-cut but unremarkable good looks were more suited to the small screen. McClure played small roles in "Gidget" (1959) with Sandra Dee, "Because They're Young" (1960), which marked the screen debut of Dick Clark, and John Huston's Western, "The Unforgiven" (also 1960). A number of his films were either Westerns, war films or rollicking adventures. In "Shenandoah" (1965), McClure was a Confederate soldier engaged to marry James Stewart's daughter, Rosemary Forsyth. He was the younger brother of Guy Stockwell's "Beau Geste" (1966) and the leader of a group who discover dinosaurs in "The Land That Time Forgot" (1975). Among his other films were the pallid comedy "Nobody's Perfect" (1968), the fantasy "Warlords of Atlantis" (1978), with Cyd Charisse as an Atlantean, "Cannonball Run II" (1983), John Frankenheimer's political thriller "52 Pick-Up" (1986), the rock music comedy "Tapeheads" (1988) and an affectionate cameo in "Maverick" (1994).
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Doug McClure
Filmography
Movies
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Riders in the Storm | Hamilton Monroe (Character) | - | 1995 |
68% |
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Maverick | Riverboat Poker Player (Character) | $101.5M | 1994 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Battling for Baby | David (Character) | - | 1992 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | B.L. Stryker: The King of Jazz | Unknown (Character) | - | 1989 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Prime Suspect | Unknown (Character) | - | 1989 |
60% |
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Tapeheads | Sid Tager (Character) | $129.0K | 1988 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dark Before Dawn | Kirkland (Character) | - | 1988 |
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Omega Syndrome | Detective Milnor (Character) | $13.3K | 1987 |
53% |
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52 Pick-Up | Mark Arveson (Character) | $4.3M | 1986 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Strange Companions | Archie (Character) | - | 1983 |
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The House Where Evil Dwells | Alex Curtis (Character) | - | 1982 |
No Score Yet |
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Firebird 2015 AD | McVain (Character) | - | 1981 |
55% |
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Humanoids From the Deep | Jim Hill (Character) | - | 1980 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Nightside | Danny Dandoy (Character) | - | 1980 |
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Warlords of Atlantis | Greg Collinson (Character) | - | 1978 |
63% |
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The People That Time Forgot | Bowen Tyler (Character) | - | 1977 |
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SST: Death Flight | Hank Fairbanks (Character) | - | 1977 |
33% |
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At the Earth's Core | David Innes (Character) | - | 1976 |
43% |
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The Land That Time Forgot | Bowen Tyler (Character) | - | 1975 |
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Satan's Triangle | Lt. J. Haig (Character) | - | 1975 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Adventure in Ventana | Narrator | - | 1974 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Bananas Boat | Charley Farthing (Character) | - | 1974 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Hellhounds of Alaska | Don Rutland (Character) | - | 1973 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Death Race | Lt. Del Culpepper (Character) | - | 1973 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Shirts/Skins | Doctor Francis Murphy (Character) | - | 1973 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Playmates | Kermit Holvey (Character) | - | 1972 |
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The Bull of the West | Trampas (Character) | - | 1972 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Judge and Jake Wyler | Jake Wyler (Character) | - | 1972 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Escape of the Birdmen | Major Harry Cook (Character) | - | 1971 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Terror in the Sky | George Spencer (Character) | - | 1971 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Death of Me Yet |
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- | 1971 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Backtrack | Trampas (Character) | - | 1969 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Nobody's Perfect | Doc Willoughby (Character) | - | 1968 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Longest Hundred Miles | Cpl. Steve Bennett (Character) | - | 1967 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The King's Pirate | Lt. Brian Fleming (Character) | - | 1967 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Beau Geste | John (Character) | - | 1966 |
100% |
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Shenandoah | Lt. Sam (Character) | - | 1965 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Lively Set | Chuck Manning (Character) | - | 1964 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Because They're Young | Jim Trent (Character) | - | 1960 |
67% |
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The Unforgiven | Andy Zachary (Character) | - | 1960 |
77% |
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South Pacific | Pilot in Hospital (Character) | - | 1958 |
86% |
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The Enemy Below | Ens. Merry (Character) | - | 1957 |
TV
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43% | No Score Yet | Burke's Law | J. Ross Richardson, highest bidder (Guest Star) | 1995 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Alfred Hitchcock Presents | Unknown (Character) | 1988 |
No Score Yet | 89% | Murder, She Wrote | Sheriff Sam Rankin (Guest Star) | 1987 |
No Score Yet | 42% | Airwolf | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1985 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Fall Guy | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1982-1985 |
No Score Yet | 95% | Magnum, P.I. | John Quillan (Guest Star) | 1985 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Master | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1984 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Simon & Simon | Murphy (Guest Star) | 1984 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Fantasy Island | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1982 1984 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | CHiPs | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1982 |
76% | 67% | Roots | Jemmy Brent (Character) | 1977 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Barbary Coast | Conover (Character) | 1975-1976 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Search | C.R. Grover (Character) | 1972 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Virginian | Trampas (Character) | 1962-1971 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Checkmate | Jed Sills (Character) | 1961-1962 |
92% | 96% | The Twilight Zone | Pete Grant (Character) | 1959 |