Clayton Moore (September 14, 1914 - December 28, 1999) was an American actor best known for playing the fictional western character The Lone Ranger. Jump to: navigation, search September 14 is the 257th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (258th in leap years). ... Jump to: navigation, search 1914 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... Jump to: navigation, search December 28 is the 362nd day of the year (363rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 3 days remaining. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1999 is a common year starting on Friday Anno Domini (or the Current Era), and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... Jump to: navigation, search Actors in period costume sharing a joke whilst waiting between takes during location filming. ... Jump to: navigation, search The Lone Ranger The Lone Ranger was an early, long-running radio and television show based on characters created by George W. Trendle of Detroit, Michigan and developed by writer Fran Striker of Buffalo, New York. ...

Born as Jack Carlton Moore in Chicago, Illinois, Moore was a circus acrobat as a boy, then later spent time as a male model. Moving to Hollywood in the late 1930s, he began working as a stunt man and bit player between modelling jobs. According to his autobiography, around 1940, Hollywood producer named Edward Small convinced him to adopt the stage name "Clayton" Moore. He was an occasional player in western films and film serials for several years. His big break came in 1949, when he was cast in a low-budget Zorro serial. A new version of another masked Old West character, the radio staple The Lone Ranger, was being planned for the then-new medium of television, and Moore was soon cast for the role. www. ... Jump to: navigation, search Chicago, colloquially known as the Second City and the Windy City, is the third-largest city in population in the United States, following New York City and Los Angeles, and the largest inland city in the country. ... Jump to: navigation, search The Big Top of Billy Smarts Circus Cambridge 2004. ... ... Jump to: navigation, search // Events and trends The 1930s were described as an an abrupt shift to more radical lifestyles, as countries were struggling to find a solution to the global depression. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1940 was a leap year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... ... Edward Small (February 1, 1891 - January 25, 1977) was a film producer from the late 1920s through 1970. ... Justus D. Barnes, from The Great Train Robbery The Western is one of the classic American literary and film genres. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1949 is a common year starting on Saturday. ... Jump to: navigation, search Antonio Banderas as Zorro Zorro, Spanish for fox, is the name used by a fictional character, a Spanish-era California masked hero and master swordsman of the Old West, whose real name is (Don Diego Vega in the original story). ... Great Basin region, typical American West The Western United States has played a significant role in history and fiction. ... Jump to: navigation, search The Lone Ranger The Lone Ranger was an early, long-running radio and television show based on characters created by George W. Trendle of Detroit, Michigan and developed by writer Fran Striker of Buffalo, New York. ...

Moore then faced the challenge of training his voice to sound like the radio version of The Lone Ranger, which had then been on the air for many years. He succeeded, and along with co-star Jay Silverheels in the role of Tonto, with Fred Foy intoning the famous introduction, "...the Lone Ranger rides again!", and continuing the tradition of using Gioacchino Rossini's William Tell Overture as its dramatic theme music, the program soon became the highest-rated program to that point on the fledgling ABC network and its first true "hit". Jay Silverheels (June 26, 1912–March 5, 1980) was a Canadian actor. ... This article is about the U.S. Western character from The Lone Ranger . ... Fred Foy was an American actor and voice specialist. ... Portrait Gioacchino Antonio Rossini (February 29, 1792 — November 13, 1868) was an Italian musical composer who wrote more than 30 operas as well as sacred music and chamber music. ... Guillaume Tell (William Tell) is an opera in four acts by Gioacchino Rossini to a French libretto by Etienne de Jouy and Hippolyte Bis, based on Friedrich Schillers Wilhelm Tell. ... The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is a television and radio network in the United States. ...

After two successful years, which presented a new episode every week, 52 weeks a year, Moore left the role in a pay dispute and made a few more westerns and serials — sometimes playing the villain! The public was not very accepting of his replacement, actor John Hart, and the owners of the program relented and rehired Moore at his requested salary, who stayed with the program until it ended first-run production in 1957. He and Jay Silverheels also starred in two feature-length "Lone Ranger" theatrical motion pictures. There have been at least three American cinema actors named John Hart. This article concerns the one who is probably best-known for temporarily replacing Clayton Moore on the television series version of The Lone Ranger John Hart (born December 13, 1917) is an American motion picture and television actor. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1957 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A reel of film, which predates digital cinematography. ...

Moore thereafter retired from the motion picture industry, and became an accomplished real estate salesman. In the mid-sixties, however, during the first period of film and television nostalgia, his "Lone Ranger" episodes revived interest in him and Moore soon began to make his primary living in personal appearances as The Lone Ranger. He always expressed the highest regard for actor Jay Silverheels, who had portrayed the Ranger's sidekick Tonto on the program. Jay Silverheels (June 26, 1912–March 5, 1980) was a Canadian actor. ... Don Quixote and Sancho Panza unsuccessfully confront windmills. ...

In 1975 the owner of the Ranger character, Jack Wrather, obtained an order enjoining Moore from future appearances as The Lone Ranger. They anticipated making a new film version of the story, and did not want the value of the character being undercut by Moore's appearances, nor anyone to think that the by-now somewhat elderly Moore would be playing the role in the new picture. This move proved to be a public relations disaster of the first order. Moore responded by changing his costume slightly and replacing the mask with similar-looking wraparound sunglasses, and then countersued Wrather. He eventually won the suit, and was able to resume his appearances in costume, which he continued to do until shortly before his death. Jump to: navigation, search 1975 was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1975 calendar). ... Jack Wrather was the owner of the Disneyland Hotel in Anaheim, California and the RMS Queen Mary in Long Beach, California, until they were both acquired by Disney in 1989. ... Jump to: navigation, search The meaning of the term Public relations is controversial. ...

Some have attributed the incredible failure of Wrather's picture, finally released in 1981 as Legend of the Lone Ranger, to this move; in reality it was only one of the picture's many problems. Jump to: navigation, search 1981 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The title The Legend of the Lone Ranger has been used for at least two motion picture treatments of the story of The Lone Ranger, a Western character created by George W. Trendle. ...

Moore was so identified, both in his own mind and in the public mind, with the Ranger that he is the only person on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, as of 2004, to have his character's name along with his on the star, which reads, "Clayton Moore — The Lone Ranger". He was inducted into the Stuntman's Hall of Fame in 1982 and in 1990 was inducted into the Western Performers Hall of Fame at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Jump to: navigation, search An example of a Hollywood Walk of Fame star, for the film actress Carole Lombard. ... 2004 is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1982 is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Hall of Great Western Performers is a Hall of Fame at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States. ... The National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum was established in 1955 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States. ... Jump to: navigation, search Downtown Oklahoma City The State Capitol of Oklahoma From The South Nickname: Renaissance City Founded Incorporated 1889   County Oklahoma County Cleveland County Canadian County Mayor Mick Cornett Area  - Total  - Water 1,608. ...

Moore's official date of birth is recorded as 1914 by the United States Social Security Death Index. However, according to his publicist was in June, 1914, but it is common practice for actors to shave years off of their age in order to continue to be considered for leading roles which they might otherwise be considered too old for, and many believe that the year sometimes given, 1908, is probably more accurate. Regardless, his autobiography adheres to official date of September 14, 1914, which (as he pointed out) was the 100th anniversary of The Star-Spangled Banner. Jump to: navigation, search 1914 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... Jump to: navigation, search Nicholson took the copy Key gave him to a printer, where it was published as a broadside on September 17 under the title The Defence of Fort McHenry, with an explanatory note explaining the circumstances of its writing. ...

In keeping with the nature of the Ranger character, Moore is probably the only person or one of very few considered to have been a famous television actor whose face is largely unknown to the public. His full face was never shown in the TV series, although occasionally he would wear a beard as a disguise, revealing the upper half of his face in the process. However, there is no shortage of photos of Moore unmasked, including many in his autobiography.

Clayton Moore died in 1999 of emphysema and was buried in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California. Gates of Forest Lawn Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery is a cemetery in Glendale, Los Angeles County, California. ... County Los Angeles County, California Area  - Total  - Water 79. ...

Autobiography

I Was That Masked Man, by Clayton Moore with Frank Thompson, Taylor Publishing Company, 1996 - ISBN 0-87833-939-6

External links

• Moore's IMDb entry
• a fan site

See also: Other notable figures in Western films Notable figures in Western style motion pictures and/or television series some of whom have been voted into the Hall of Great Western Performers at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States. ...