Doug McClure

Douglas Osborne McClure was born on May 11, 1935 in Glendale, California. Educated at UCLA, this blond leading man long made a career of apparent agelessness. He played one young sidekick after another through numerous movies and one television series after another, playing 20ish roles into his late 40s. Although he made more than 500 appearances in his career (counting television episodes separately), he is undoubtedly best remembered as Trampas in the series _The Virginian (1962)_ (qv) and _Backtrack! (1969)_ (qv). McClure was fighting cancer the last couple of years before his death; despite this, he continued working, appearing in _Maverick (1994)_ (qv) as one of the gamblers, as well as in _Riders in the Storm (1995)_ (qv) and episodes of _Burke's Law (1994)_ (qv) and _Kung Fu: The Legend Continues (1993)_ (qv) which did not appear until after his death. 'Doug McClure' (qv) died at age 59 of lung cancer on February 5, 1995.::Kat Parsons <fke2d@Virginia.EDU>