DOUG MCCLURE BIOGRAPHY & FILMOGRAPHY:

Doug McClure was born on May 11th, 1935 in Glendale, California with the birth name Douglas Osborne McClure, to parents Donald Reed McClure and Clara Clapp.  After High School he received his college education at UCLA and then went on to pursue a career as an actor.
 
McClure is most well known for his role on the television series "The Virginian" (1962) playing Trampas.  Throughout his long career he made more than 500 appearances on television and in films.  Some of his better television roles were on, "Backtrack!" (1969), "Overland Trail" (1960), "Checkmate" (1960-1962), "26 Men" (1958-1959) and "Search" (1972-1973).
 
Along with his numerous television roles, McClure was also seen on the big screen in such films as "The Kings Pirate" (1967), "The Enemy Below"(1957), "South Pacific" (1958), "The Unforgiven" (1960), "Because They're Young", " At the Earth's Core" (1976), "The Land That Time Forgot" (1975), and "The People That Time Forgot" (1977).
 
Along with a long resume of film and television success, he also did some commercial work such as for, Hamms Beer.  As his career progressed he was diagnosed with lung cancer, however he did not let that stop him from doing what he loved most, acting and taking on challenging new roles. Some of his later work in his career were roles on the television series, "Maverick" (1994), "Kung Fu: The Legend Continues" (1993) and "Burke's Law" (1995).
 
McClure married five different times during his lifetime.  His first wife was Faye Brash whom he wed in 1957 and they had one child before divorcing in 1961.  His second wife was Barbara Luna whom he wed December 17th, 1961 and they were only together for two years and had no children. He then chose to marry for a third time to Helen Crane in 1965 and they divorced in 1968.  McClure again took a chance on marrying another woman, wife number five was Diane Soldani in 1970 and they too had one child together before this marriage did not survive either and ended in 1979. His fifth and final wife was Diane Furnberg from August 27th, 1979 through his passing on February 5th, 1995 in Sherman Oaks, California after he died from lung cancer at the age of fifty nine and his remains are buried at Woodlawn Memorial Cemetery.  He was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for television in 1994, just shortly before he passed away.

 
Filmography

1996 One West Waikiki
1995 Kung Fu: The Legend Continues 
1995 Riders in the Storm
1995 Burke's Law
1994 Maverick
1994 Dead Man's Revenge
1994 In the Heat of the Night 
1992 Matlock 
1992 Battling for Baby
1991 The Gambler Returns: The Luck of the Draw 
1987-1991 Out of This World
1991 Evening Shade
1990 Zorro 
1989 B.L. Stryker 
1989 The Adventures of Superboy
1989 Prime Suspect 
1988 Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1988 Dark Before Dawn 
1988 Tapeheads 
1987 Murder, She Wrote 
1987 Omega Syndrome 
1986 52 Pick-Up 
1986 Crazy Like a Fox
1985 Airwolf
1982-1985 The Fall Guy
1985 Magnum, P.I.
1984 Too Close for Comfort
1984 Cover Up 
1984 Cannonball Run II
1984 The Master 
1984 Simon & Simon
1984 Hardcastle and McCormic
1982-1984 Fantasy Island
1984 Scarecrow and Mrs. King
1983 Automan
1983 Strange Companions 
1983 Manimal 
1982 The House Where Evil Dwells 
1982 CHiPs
1981 Firebird 2015 AD 
1980 Nightside 
1980 Humanoids from the Deep 
1979 The Rebels 
1978 Warlords of the Deep 
1978 Wild and Wooly 
1977 The People That Time Forgot 
1977 SST: Death Flight 
1977 Roots
1976 At the Earth's Core 
1975-1976 Barbary Coast
1976 The Bananas Boat 
1975 The Land That Time Forgot 
1975 Satan's Triangle
1973 Death Race
1973 Die blutigen Geier von Alaska
1973 Shirts/Skins 
1972-1973 Search 
1972 The Judge and Jake Wyle
1972 Circle of Fear 
1972 Playmates
1971 The Death of Me Yet 
1971 The Birdmen 
1971 Terror in the Sky 
1962-1971 The Virginian 
1968 Nobody's Perfect 
1968 It Takes a Thief
1967 The King's Pirate 
1967 The Longest Hundred Miles 
1966 Beau Geste 
1965 Shenandoah 
1964 The Lively Set
1960-1962 Checkmate
1961 The United States Steel Hour 
1960 Coronado 9 
1960 Overland Trail 
1960 Because They're Young 
1960 The Unforgiven 
1960 Johnny Midnight 
1959 Riverboat 
1959 Twilight Zone
1959 The Man Who Understood Women 
1959 Gidget 
1959 Lawman 
1959 Schlitz Playhouse 
1959 U.S. Marshal  aka Sheriff of Cochise
1959 The Gale Storm Show 
1958-1959 26 Men 
1959 Mackenzie's Raiders
1958 Man Without a Gun 
1958 The Adventures of Jim Bowie 
1958 The Court of Last Resort 
1958 South Pacific 
1957 The Enemy Below 
1957 Maverick 
1957 Death Valley Days
1957 Men of Annapolis
1956 Friendly Persuasion