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1. Clayton Moore (born Jack Carlton Moore, September 14, 1914 – December 28, 1999) was an American actor best known for playing the fictional western character the Lone Ranger from 1949 to 1952 and 1953 to 1957 on the television series of the same name and two related films from the same producers.
Clayton Moore was an actor who played The Lone Ranger in TV and movies. He started as a stuntman and model, and later became a TV star and a voice of the iconic character.
- September 14, 1914
- December 28, 1999
Clayton Moore (1914-1999) was an American actor and stuntman who starred in TV's The Lone Ranger from 1949 to 1957. He also appeared in movies, serials, westerns and commercials, and was known for his voice and mask as the masked man.
- Actor, Soundtrack
- September 14, 1914
- 38 sec
- December 28, 1999
- Moore performed in a trapeze group at the Chicago World’s Fair. Jack Carlton Moore was born in Chicago on September 14, 1914, the youngest of three brothers born to Theresa Fisher and Sprague Moore.
- He acted in serials with some of the most popular Western actors of the time. Once in L.A., Moore took acting classes for six months and eventually landed a gig with Warner Brothers, where he had “only bits and one liners,” but he was one step closer to his dream of being a Western actor.
- He was drafted during World War II. Moore’s journey to stardom was not without interruption: in 1942, he was drafted into the U.S. Army Air Forces, but because of the knee injury he suffered as a trapeze artist, he wasn’t qualified to serve overseas.
- Moore landed the role of the Lone Ranger thanks to his work in Ghost of Zorro. In 1949, Moore starred in Ghost of Zorro, Republic’s 12-chapter serial about Zorro’s grandson, Ken Mason, an engineer who heads west to deal with frontier ne’er-do-wells.
Dec 29, 1999 · Clayton Moore, whose hearty “Hi-yo, Silver” resounded on television throughout the 1950s and who personally identified so strongly with the Lone Ranger character that he refused even in old ...
Dec 29, 1999 · Clayton Moore, who grew up wanting to be a cowboy or a policeman and fulfilled both ambitions by playing the Lone Ranger on television, in the movies and at nostalgia shows, died yesterday at West ...
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The Lone Ranger: Created by George W. Trendle, George W. George. With Jay Silverheels, Clayton Moore, John Hart, Bill Ward. The adventures of the masked hero and his Native American partner.
