- Clayton Moore
Clayton Moore was an American actor best known for playing the fictional western character The Lone Ranger. Born as Jack Carlton Moore in Chicago, Illinois, Moore was a circus acrobat as a boy, then later enjoyed a successful career as a John Robert Powers model. Moving to Hollywood in the late 1930s, he began working as a stunt man and bit player between modelling jobs. - Jay Silverheels
Jay Silverheels (June 26, 1912 - March 5, 1980) was a Canadian Mohawk Indian actor. - Fran Striker
Fran Striker (born Francis Hamilton Striker) (1903 - September 4, 1962) was an American writer for radio and comics, best known for creating "The Lone Ranger". - John Cassaday
John Cassaday (born 1971) is an American comic book artist and writer born in Fort Worth, Texas, and currently lives in New York City. His style is highly detailed and uses relatively realistically-proportioned human characters. He is best known for his work on "Planetary" with writer Warren Ellis, "Astonishing X-Men" with Joss Whedon and "Captain America". Other earlier work includes "Desperadoes". - John Hart
John Hart (born December 13, 1917) is an American motion picture and television actor. In his early career, he appeared mostly in Westerns. Although he has played mostly minor roles in some fairly well-known films, he is probably best-known for replacing Clayton Moore in 1952 for two seasons of the television show "The Lone Ranger" when Moore demanded a higher salary. Based on the assumption that the masked character rather than the actor was the series' true star, … - Brace Beemer
Brace Beemer (December 9, 1903 - March 1, 1965) was an American radio actor and announcer at radio station WXYZ, Detroit, Michigan. Born in Mount Carmel, Illinois, Beemer was six foot, three inches tall and was an expert horse rider. He served as the deep-voiced announcer for "The Lone Ranger" soon after its first broadcast in 1933. Beemer also appeared as the Ranger in public appearances because station owner George Trendle felt that Earl Graser, … - Jack Wrather
John Devereaux "Jack" Wrather, Jr. (May 24, 1918 - November 12, 1984), was a petroleum millionaire who became a television producer and later diversified by investing in broadcast stations and resort properties. He is best known for producing "The Lone Ranger" and "Lassie" television series in the 1950s. Wrather was born in Amarillo, Texas, the seat of Potter County, and grew up in Tyler, the seat of Smith County. - Tom Gill
Tom Gill (born May 1913, Brooklyn, New York City, New York; died October 17, 2005, Croton-on-Hudson, New York) is an American comic book artist best known for his more than 20-year run drawing "The Lone Ranger". - Lyle Bettger
Lyle S. Bettger was a character actor known most for his Hollywood roles from the 1950s, typically portraying villains. He is perhaps most recognisable as the wrathfully jealous elephant handler Klaus from the Oscar winning film "The Greatest Show on Earth" (1952). Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Lyle was the son of Frank Bettger, who was an infielder for the St Louis Cardinals. - George Montgomery
George Montgomery (August 29, 1916 - December 12, 2000) was an American painter, sculptor, furniture craftsman, and stuntman who is best known as an actor in western style film and television. Born George Montgomery Letz to Ukrainian immigrant parents in Brady, Montana, he was the youngest of fifteen children. He was raised on a large ranch where as a part of daily life he learned to ride horses and work cattle. - Judd Holdren
Judd Holdren (Oct. 16, 1915- Mar. 11, 1974) was an American film actor best known for his starring roles in the serials "Captain Video: Master of the Stratosphere", "Zombies of the Stratosphere", "The Lost Planet" and the semi-serial "Commando Cody: Sky Marshal of the Universe" during 1951 - 1953. He was born near Villisca, Iowa on October 16, 1915, one of 10 children in a farming family, and showed early interest in an acting career, … - John Todd
John Todd (born Fred McCarthy, 1877 - July 14, 1957) was an American radio actor. A former stage actor known for Shakespearean roles, Todd soon gained work at Detroit radio station WXYZ, as part of director James Jewell's repertory company, with roles on the various series produced by the station. His most famous work was on "The Lone Ranger". He played a local sheriff in some of the show's earliest episodes, but on the twelfth broadcast, which aired February 25, … - George J. Lewis
George J. Lewis (1903-1995) was a Mexican-born actor who appeared in many films and eventually TV series from the 1920s through the 1960s, usually specializing in westerns. He is probably best known for playing the protagonist's father in the 1950s TV series "Zorro. His Hispanic features suited him for character actor roles where any darker-skinned person was needed. He played a Native American in an "Adventures of Superman" episode called "Test of a Warrior". - Al Hodge
"Albert Hodge" (April 18, 1912 - March 19, 1979) was an American actor best known for playing the DuMont Television Network's famous space adventurer Captain Video from December 15, 1950 to April 1, 1955. He also portrayed the Green Hornet on radio from that series' beginnings in January 1936 until January 1943. Hodge grew up at 326 N. Freedom Street in Ravenna, … - George Seaton
George Seaton (April 17, 1911 - July 28, 1979) was an American playwright, film director and producer. He was born in South Bend, Indiana. He began his career as radio actor 'George Stenius' in Detroit, Michigan and is credited as being the first actor to play The Lone Ranger. He was nominated for the 1954 Academy Award for Directing for "The Country Girl" and is perhaps most famous as the director and co-writer of "Miracle on 34th Street" (1947). - John Doucette
John Doucette (January 21, 1921 - August 16, 1994) was a film character actor. Born in Brockton, Massachusetts he was a balding, husky man remembered for playing mob muscle and western bad guys in movies. Doucette progressed to dramatic roles, such as the 1970 movie Patton when he played 3rd Infantry Division Commander Maj. Gen. Lucian K. Truscott. Doucette starred in many John Wayne films such as The Sons Of Katie Elder and Big Jake etc. - Mike Barson
Mike Barson (born Michael Wilson Barson, 21 May 1958, North London, England), sometimes nicknamed Monsieur Barso, is an English musician, best known as a founding member and keyboardist of the second wave ska band, Madness. Barson co-founded a band called The Invaders in 1976. Soon, they changed their name to Madness after the song by Prince Buster and became one of the most popular bands in Two Tone. - Richard Crane
Richard Crane was a veteran character actor whose career spanned three decades in films and television. His early career included many uncredited performances in feature films. He is best remembered for his portrayal of the title role in the tv science fiction series "Rocky Jones, Space Ranger", which ran for one season in 1954. He also appeared in the outer-space adventure serial "Commando Cody: Sky Marshal of the Universe" in 1953, … - James Griffith
James Griffith (February 13, 1916 - September 17, 1993) was an American actor specializing in character roles. Griffith was born in Los Angeles, but yearned from a young age to be a musician rather than an actor. Instead, he managed to find work in little theatres around Los Angeles, where the budding musician eased into a duel career of acting. He hit it big in the production "They Can't Get You Down" in 1939, … - Tris Coffin
Tristram Coffin (1909-1990), also known as Tris Coffin, was a movie and TV actor from the late-1930s through the late-1970s, usually in westerns or other action-adventure films. He had several guest roles throughout the series "Adventures of Superman", sometimes playing a "good guy", sometimes a "bad guy". He also had a role in the very first TV episode of "The Lone Ranger", as Captain Reid of the Texas Rangers, … - James Lipton
James Lipton (born September 19, 1926 in Detroit, Michigan) is an American writer, poet, and dean emeritus of the Actors Studio Drama School in New York City. He is also the executive producer, writer and host of the Bravo cable television series, "Inside the Actors Studio", taped at the Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts at Pace University in New York City. Most recently, James has starred in a number of humorous television commercials for DC Shoes. - James Jewell
James Jewell (1906 - 1975) was an American radio actor, producer and director at radio station WXYZ, Detroit, Michigan. In June 1932, George Trendle, the owner of radio station WXYZ, decided to drop network affiliation and produce his own radio programs. Jim Jewell was hired as the dramatic director for the radio station. He supplied the actors from his own repertory company, the "Jewell Players". - Francis Hamilton Striker
Francis Hamilton Striker was the birth name of Fran Striker who created and wrote "The Lone Ranger" - Jack Chertok
Jack Chertok was born July 13th, 1906 in Atlanta, Georgia – was a film and television producer, perhaps best know to modern viewers as producer for the 182 black and white episodes of "The Lone Ranger" and as executive producer of the series "My Favorite Martian". Beginning in the mid-1930's he produced a wide variety of film shorts for MGM, including comedies, documentaries and crime dramas. His comedy "How to Sleep " won the 1935 Academy Award for Short Subjects, … - Lois Hall
Lois Hall born 22 August 1926 in Grand Rapids, Minnesota; died 21 December 2006 in Los Angeles, California. Hall's previous television appearances include "Studio One", "The Cisco Kid", "The Lone Ranger", "Adventures of Superman", "Marcus Welby, M.D.", the penultimate episode of "Little House on the Prairie" and "Star Trek: The Next Generation". - Herbert Klynn
Herbert Klynn (born November 11, 1917 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA - died February 3, 1999 in Tarzana, California, USA), was the founder of television animation studio "Format Films", best-known for producing The Alvin Show, The Lone Ranger, and other films and series in animation mostly during the 1960s. - Robert Leslie Bellem
Robert Leslie Bellem was a prolific American pulp magazine writer, best known for his creation of Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective. He was born in either 1894 or 1902, and died in 1968. Before becoming a writer he worked in Los Angeles as a newspaper reporter, radio announcer and film extra. After the demise of the pulps, Bellem switched to writing for television, including a number of scripts for "The Lone Ranger", "The Adventures of Superman" (1950s version), … - Hayden Rorke
William Henry Rorke was an American actor best known for playing the psychiatrist Col. Dr. Alfred E. Bellows on the hit 60's sitcom "I Dream of Jeannie". - Charles Larson
Charles Larson (ca. 1923 - 21 September 2006) was a writer and Emmy Award-nominated producer of television programs. Beginning his Hollywood career as a messenger for MGM, Larson ultimately became a screenwriter for short films and later for television. His TV writing credits during the 1950s include "Studio One", "The Lone Ranger", and "Climax!". During the 1960s, he wrote episodes for "The Virginian" and "Rawhide". - Cary Bates
Cary Bates is a comic book and animation writer. He was born in Pennsylvania in the United States. Bates began submitting ideas for comic book covers to DC Comics at the age of 13, and a number of them were bought and published, the first as the cover to "Superman" #167 (February 1964). Bates began to sell stories to DC when he was 17. Bates is best known for his work for DC Comics on such titles as "Action Comics", "Captain Atom", "The Flash", … - Robert Arthur
Robert "Bob" Arthur (born June 18, 1925 in Aberdeen, Washington) is a former American radio personality in Los Angeles, California and motion picture actor. Robert Arthur (b. June 18, 1925) was also a film actor who appeared in dozens of films in the 1940s and 1950s. Aberdeen-born Arthur appeared in the 1949 war film Twelve O'Clock High as the comic relief-providing Sgt. McIllhenny, in the 1951 Billy Wilder film, "Ace in the Hole", … - Martha Hackett
Martha Hackett (born February 21, 1961) is an American actress. She is known for her role as Seska in the television series "Star Trek: Voyager". Hackett is an alumna of Harvard University. - Kathleen Crowley
Betty Jane Kathleen Crowley (born December 26, 1931) was Miss New Jersey in 1949 and a contestant for Miss America in the same year (she came sixth). Afterwards she became an actress who specialized in being phenomenally seductive in TV series and movies. Most well known for playing a variety of sirens in TV's "Maverick" (1957) opposite James Garner, Jack Kelly, and Roger Moore, … - Ed Walker
Ed Walker (born April 23, 1932 in Forrest, Illinois) is a Washington, D.C. radio personality. Since 1990, he has hosted a weekly four-hour Sunday night program, "The Big Broadcast", on WAMU-FM, featuring vintage radio programs from the 1930s - 1950s, such as "Gunsmoke", "The Jack Benny Show", "The Lone Ranger", "Fibber McGee and Molly", and "Superman".. From 1955 to 1972, … - Kasey Rogers
Kasey Rogers (December 15 1925 - July 6 2006) was an American actress. Rogers was born Imogene Rogers in Morehouse, Missouri. She moved with her family to California at the age of two. As a child, her prowess at the game of baseball lead her friends to nickname her Casey (after the famous poem "Casey at the Bat"). - Gloria Winters
Gloria Winters (b. November 28 1932, Los Angeles, California) is an actress most noted for playing Penny in the 1950s-1960s American television series "Sky King". She was a child actor, starting as a baby in "Virtue", with Carole Lombard. She was in about 20 films. She also appeared on stage. In 1949-50, she played "Babs Riley" on "The Life of Riley", This was the first, less successful, version with Jackie Gleason and Rosemary DeCamp. - Sam Hennings
Actor Sam Hennings has been in the movie/TV industry since 1985. He has had many roles and has appeared in a wide variety of movies. He was born in the city of Macon, Georgia, United States, and has appeared in the following movies and TV shows, (role in parentheses): *"The Work And The Glory II: American Zion" (Ben Steed) - 2005 *"Havoc" (Mr. - Irene Vernon
Irene Vernon was an American actress. Vernon was born Irene Vergauwen in Mishawaka, Indiana. Her career began with small uncredited roles in 40s movies. Vernon ended her movie career in 1952, but during the 1950s, she moved over to television roles. Throughout the early 50s, Vernon guest starred in shows such as Fireside Theatre, The Lone Ranger, Danger, Flight, and The Donna Reed Show. It wasn't until 1964 that Vernon got the best role of her career. - Emerson Treacy
Emerson Treacy (born September 17, 1900; died January 10, 1967) was a film, Broadway and radio actor. He played the father of Spanky McFarland in two "Our Gang" shorts, "Bedtime Worries" and "Wild Poses", in 1933. Treacy played in dozens of other feature films, including small roles in "Adam's Rib" and "The Wrong Man", as well as television programs such as "The Lone Ranger", … - El Solitario
Roberto González Cruz was a Mexican professional wrestler who wrestled under the name El Solitario, derived from the popular comic book character "El Llanero Solitario" ("The Lone Ranger"). He entered the sport at the age of 14, and quickly became one of the best and most popular wrestlers in the country, especially after he defeated both Ray Mendoza and René Guajardo in hair vs. mask matches in 1968.
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