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Clayton Moore
Birthday: September 14, 1914

Birth Place: Chicago, Illinois, USA (some sources say 1908)
Height: 6' 1"

Below is a complete filmography (list of movies he's appeared in) for Clayton Moore. If you have any corrections or additions, please email us at corrections@actorsofhollywood.com. We'd also be interested in any trivia or other information you have.

 

Biography

Clayton Moore grew up in Illinois and was a circus acrobat at the age of eight. He would work his way up to aerialist with two circuses and also appear at the 1934 World's Fair. He then went to New York, where he found work as a male model. Hollywood was his next stop and he entered films in 1938 as a bit player and stuntman. In 1940, at the suggestion of producer Edward Small, he changed his first name to Clayton. He appeared in "B" pictures and serials through 1942, then entered the military. After the war he returned to these supporting roles while concentrating on westerns. By 1949 he was playing the "Masked Man", but that man was Zorro in Ghost of Zorro (1949). In 1949 he was hired to appear in "The Lone Ranger" (1949), the television version of the long-running radio show. One thing he had to do was to work on his voice so that he sounded like the radio Lone Ranger. When he got that right, he became famous, along with Tonto, on the small screen. He was The Lone Ranger from 1949 to 1952, when he was fired in a salary dispute. Along with William Boyd ("Hopalong Cassidy"), Moore was one of the most popular TV western stars of the era. He was replaced by John Hart, but Hart's tenure was terminated after one season. It was during his time away from the TV show that Moore returned to the big screen to continue his movie career with such memorable movies as Radar Men from the Moon (1952) and Jungle Drums of Africa (1953). Hired back to the series, at a higher salary, Moore remained as The Lone Ranger until the series ended in 1957, after 169 episodes. He appeared in two color big-screen movies continuations of that character, in The Lone Ranger (1956) and The Lone Ranger and the Lost City of Gold (1958). After a lifetime of "B" movie parts, Clayton Moore finally found success in a TV series and continued to make commercials and personal appearances as "The Lone Ranger" for the next three decades. At his appearances, he preached the Ranger's Code of good behavior, which he also practiced, and that image was never tarnished by the types of personal scandals that often affected other stars. In 1975 the Wrather Corp., which owned the series and the rights to the title character, got a court order to stop Moore from appearing in public as "The Lone Ranger". The company planned to film a new big-screen movie of the popular hero and did not want the public to confuse its new star with the old one. The film was one of the biggest flops of the 1980s, however, and Moore was given permission to again appear as "The Lone Ranger".

Movie Credits
The Stan Freberg Commercials (1999)
The Lone Ranger and the Lost City of Gold (1958)
Blind Witness (1957)
The Angel and the Outlaw (1957)
The Banker's Son (1957)
Journey to San Carlos (1957)
The Lone Ranger (1956)
Apache Ambush (1955)
The Titled Tenderfoot (1955)
[ Guy Madison ]
The Lone Ranger Rides Again (1955)
The Black Dakotas (1954)
Gunfighters of the Northwest (1954)
The Bandits of Corsica (1953)
[ Lee Van Cleef ][ Raymond Burr ]
Kansas Pacific (1953)
[ Sterling Hayden ]
Jungle Drums of Africa (1953)
Dry Gulch at Devil's Elbow (1953)
Ghost Mountain (1953)
Down Laredo Way (1953)
[ Slim Pickens ]
Ambush in Coyote Canyon (1952)
Son of Geronimo: Apache Avenger (1952)
[ Johnny Crawford ]
Barbed Wire (1952)
Montana Territory (1952)
[ Jack Elam ]
Desert Passage (1952)
Mutiny (1952)
Night Stage to Galveston (1952)
The Hawk of Wild River (1952)
Buffalo Bill in Tomahawk Territory (1952)
Captive of Billy the Kid (1952)
Radar Men from the Moon (1952)
The Legend of the Lone Ranger (1952)
Cyclone Fury (1951)
Sons of New Mexico (1949)
Bandits of El Dorado (1949)
The Cowboy and the Indians (1949)
Masked Raiders (1949)
South of Death Valley (1949)
The Gay Amigo (1949)
Frontier Investigator (1949)
Bride of Vengeance (1949)
[ Raymond Burr ]
Ghost of Zorro (1949)
[ Johnny Crawford ]
Riders of the Whistling Pines (1949)
Sheriff of Wichita (1949)
The Far Frontier (1948)
The Plunderers (1948)
Adventures of Frank and Jesse James (1948)
[ Johnny Crawford ]
Marshal of Amarillo (1948)
G-Men Never Forget (1948)
[ Johnny Crawford ]
Along the Oregon Trail (1947)
Jesse James Rides Again (1947)
Heldorado (1946)
The Crimson Ghost (1946)
The Bachelor's Daughters (1946)
Outlaws of Pine Ridge (1942)
Perils of Nyoka (1942)
Hello, Annapolis (1942)
Black Dragons (1942)
[ Bela Lugosi ]
Tuxedo Junction (1941)
International Lady (1941)
The Son of Monte Cristo (1940)
[ George Sanders ]
Kit Carson (1940)
[ Dana Andrews ][ Ward Bond ]
Broadway Serenade (1939)
Sergeant Madden (1939)
Four Girls in White (1939)
[ Buddy Ebsen ]
Burn 'Em Up O'Connor (1939)
Zorro's Fighting Legion (1939)
Radio Hams (1939)
Tell No Tales (1939)
Spring Madness (1938)
[ Burgess Meredith ]
Secrets of an Actress (1938)
The Texans (1938)
[ Randolph Scott ][ Walter Brennan ]
Cowboy from Brooklyn (1938)
[ Ronald Reagan ]
When Were You Born (1938)
Crime School (1938)
[ Humphrey Bogart ]
Go Chase Yourself (1938)
Thunder Trail (1937)
Forlorn River (1937)

Trivia

  • Best remembered as TV's "The Lone Ranger."
  • Inducted into the Stuntman's Hall of Fame in 1982.
  • Received the Western Heritage Award from the National Cowboy Hall of Fame in 1990.
  • "The Lone Ranger" premiered on WXYZ-AM Detroit Michigan in 1933. The show was created because WXYZ could not afford Network Programs. After getting the role, Clayton had to train his voice to sound more like the radio Ranger, Brace Beemer. Clayton Moore's favorite character was "The Ol' Prospector". The Lone Ranger would dress up in disguise and infiltrate places to gather information. Moore used the character on his home answering machine in Calabasas and would greet callers with it.
  • Died at 9:20 am PST of a heart attack
  • Had a history of heart trouble in the past.
  • Liked to quote and live by "The Lone Ranger Creed" written by Fran Striker around 1940 which began, "I believe that to have a friend, a man must be one" and included moral lessons such as: "That God put the firewood there, but every man must gather and light it himself."
  • Clayton Moore is the only person to have a star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame with his name and the character he was renowned for playing. His star says - CLAYTON MOORE, THE LONE RANGER.
  • Adopted a baby girl, Dawn Angela, in December of 1958.
  • Inducted into the Hall of Great Western Performers of the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in 1990.
  • Published an autobiography, "I Was That Masked Man."

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