"Moore and co-star Jay Silverheels made history as the stars of the first Western written specifically for television. ""The Lone Ranger"" soon became the highest-rated program to that point on the fledgling ABC network and its first true hit. It earned an Emmy Award nomination in 1950. Moore was replaced in the third season by John Hart, reportedly due to a contract dispute, but he returned for the final two seasons. Moore later said he received no explanation from the producers as to why he was replaced or why he was rehired. The fourth season of ""The Lone Ranger"" was"
"Cowboys (TV series) Cowboys was a British television sitcom that aired on the ITV network during the early 1980s. The show was created by Peter Learmouth who would go on to create Granada television sitcom ""Surgical Spirit"" and starred Lancastrian character-actor Roy Kinnear as Joe Jones, whose ""small building firm hardly seems to do anything right at all"". Co-starring David Kelly (Previously best known for playing one armed dishwasher Albert Riddle in ""Robin's Nest"", Michael O'Sullivan in ""Waking Ned"" and inept builder Mr. O'Reilly in the second episode of ""Fawlty Towers"") as 'Wobbly' Ron, Colin Welland (Well respected actor ""Z-Cars"""
"Robert Livingston. Tonto was played in both by Victor Daniels, billed as Chief Thundercloud. ""The Lone Ranger"" was a TV show that aired for eight seasons, from 1949 to 1957, and starred Clayton Moore as the Lone Ranger and Jay Silverheels as Tonto. Only five of the eight seasons had new episodes. It was the ABC television network's first big hit of the early 1950s. Moore's tenure as the Ranger is probably the best-known treatment of the franchise. Moore was replaced in the third season by John Hart, but he returned for the final two seasons. The fifth and final"
"film actor, Clayton Moore, was chosen to take over the role for the television series. Although Beemer had the right voice and had made many public appearances as the Ranger, he had no experience as a film actor, as he preferred live action to television. However, Beemer's voice as the character was so familiar that Moore imitated his sound in the earliest TV episodes. Beemer also portrayed ""Sergeant William Preston"" of the Yukon on ""Challenge of the Yukon"", for a brief time after the ""Lone Ranger"" series ended. Beemer's last TV appearance, was an interview with former film actor, Bill"
"In 1979, Jack Wrather, then owner of the rights to the character, obtained a restraining order against Moore, enjoining Moore from appearing in public in his mask. The actor began wearing oversized wraparound Foster Grant sunglasses, as a substitute for the mask. Moore later won a countersuit, allowing him to resume his costume. Clayton Moore series: Other Lone Rangers: In 1961 CBS produced ""Return of the Lone Ranger"", starring Tex Hill, as the pilot episode for a proposed TV series. At the time of the 1981 release of the film ""The Legend of the Lone Ranger"", the company owning the"
"and rescues Kilgore's daughter from captivity. Parts of the film were shot in Kanab Canyon, Barracks Canyon, and Johnson Canyon in Utah. The film is recognized by American Film Institute in these lists: The Lone Ranger (1956 film) The Lone Ranger is a 1956 Western film based on ""The Lone Ranger"" television series, starring Clayton Moore and Jay Silverheels. ""The Lone Ranger"" was the first of two theatrical features based on the popular TV series of the same name; the other one being ""The Lone Ranger and the Lost City of Gold"" (1958), which was Bonita Granville's last film appearance."
"Roy Rogers Roy Rogers (born Leonard Franklin Slye, November 5, 1911 – July 6, 1998) was an American singer and actor. He was one of the most popular Western stars of his era. Known as the ""King of the Cowboys"", he appeared in over 100 films and numerous radio and television episodes of ""The Roy Rogers Show"". In many of his films and television episodes, he appeared with his wife, Dale Evans; his golden palomino, Trigger; and his German shepherd dog, Bullet. His show was broadcast on radio for nine years and then on television from 1951 through 1957. His"
"Ranger"" television series. Based on the assumption that the masked character, rather than the actor, was the true star of ""The Lone Ranger,"" the program's producers fired Moore (presumably over salary differences) and replaced him with Hart, who was of a similar build and had a comparable background in Westerns. However, the public never truly accepted Hart as the Lone Ranger, and by 1954 the producers returned Moore to the role. According to Clayton Moore's autobiography ""I Was That Masked Man,"" Moore never knew why he was replaced by Hart, and also stated that he had not sought a pay"
"shows, particularly during the era when westerns were popular. One of the most famous movies is ""Red River"" (1948) directed by Howard Hawks, and starring John Wayne and Montgomery Clift. Like many such films, Red River tended to exaggerate the dangers and disasters of cattle driving. More recently, the movie ""City Slickers"" (1990) was about a guest ranch-based cattle drive. In the 1958 film ""Cowboy"", Glenn Ford stars as a hard-living trail boss with Jack Lemmon as a citified ""tenderfoot"" who joins the drive. The long running TV show ""Rawhide"" (1959–1965), starring Eric Fleming and Clint Eastwood, dealt with drovers"
"The Lone Ranger (1956 film) The Lone Ranger is a 1956 Western film based on ""The Lone Ranger"" television series, starring Clayton Moore and Jay Silverheels. ""The Lone Ranger"" was the first of two theatrical features based on the popular TV series of the same name; the other one being ""The Lone Ranger and the Lost City of Gold"" (1958), which was Bonita Granville's last film appearance. She retired from the screen to marry Jack Wrather. Set in the American Southwest, the territorial governor enlists the help of the Lone Ranger to investigate mysterious raids on white settlers by Indians"
"defense attorney. As part of his strategy to defend Avery, Alton plans to pull off another stagecoach robbery. Cowboy Counsellor Cowboy Counsellor is a 1932 American Pre-Code Western film starring Hoot Gibson and directed by George Melford. It mixed in strong elements of comedy with courtroom drama. One reviewer deemed it ""the best of Gibson's films for Allied."" Dan Alton (Hoot Gibson) is a con artist, posing as a lawyer in order to sell copies of a phony law book. When Bill Clary (Jack Rutherford) robs a stagecoach, and plants some of the stolen money at the ranch of Luke"
"country: Roy Rogers Roy Rogers (born Leonard Franklin Slye, November 5, 1911 – July 6, 1998) was an American singer and actor. He was one of the most popular Western stars of his era. Known as the ""King of the Cowboys"", he appeared in over 100 films and numerous radio and television episodes of ""The Roy Rogers Show"". In many of his films and television episodes, he appeared with his wife, Dale Evans; his golden palomino, Trigger; and his German shepherd dog, Bullet. His show was broadcast on radio for nine years and then on television from 1951 through 1957."
"The Legend of the Lone Ranger The Legend of the Lone Ranger is a 1981 American western film that was directed by William A. Fraker and starred Klinton Spilsbury, Michael Horse and Christopher Lloyd. It is based on the story of The Lone Ranger, a Western character created by George W. Trendle and Fran Striker. Its producers outraged fans by not allowing actor Clayton Moore to wear the character's mask when making public appearances, and created a further bad buzz when the dialogue of leading man Klinton Spilsbury was dubbed by another actor, James Keach. The film was a huge"
"replaced upon his death in 1960 by John McIntire, and Robert Horton as the scout, subsequently replaced by Scott Miller and Robert Fuller.' The series was inspired by the 1950 film ""Wagon Master"" directed by John Ford and starring Ben Johnson, Harry Carey Jr. and also Ward Bond, and harkens back to the early widescreen wagon train epic ""The Big Trail"" (1930) starring John Wayne and also featuring Bond in his first major screen appearance, playing a supporting role. Horton's buckskin outfit as the scout in the first season of the television series resembles Wayne's, who also played the wagon"
"the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City. On Oct. 12, 2007, he won the Silver Spur Award along with Stuart Whitman, Peter Brown, and Dean Smith, who received a lifetime achievement award. On Oct. 12, 2013, Fuller was the first recipient of the Spirit of the Cowboy Lonestar Legacy Award, a new award which recognized his status in the industry, as a true Western hero. Robert Fuller (actor) Robert Fuller (born Leonard Leroy ""Buddy"" Lee, July 29, 1933), is an American horse rancher and retired actor. He began his career on television, guest-starring primarily on Western programs,"
"Cowboy (1958 film) Cowboy is a 1958 Technicolor western film directed by Delmer Daves and starring Glenn Ford and Jack Lemmon. This film is an adaptation of the Frank Harris semi-autobiographical novel ""My Reminiscences as a Cowboy"". Lemmon's character is based on Harris. The opening animated title sequence was created by Saul Bass. Screenwriters Edmund H. North and Dalton Trumbo, who received no screen credit at the time because he had been blacklisted as one of the Hollywood Ten. Frank Harris (Jack Lemmon) is a Chicago hotel clerk who dreams of making his fortune in the cattle business and has"
"1930s, he worked as a stuntman and bit player between modeling jobs. Moore in his 1996 autobiography ""I Was That Masked Man"" noted that Hollywood producer Edward Small persuaded him around 1940 to adopt the stage name ""Clayton"". Subsequently, he was cast as an occasional player in B Westerns and the lead in four Republic Studio cliffhangers and in two films for Columbia Pictures. During World War II, Moore enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Forces and served with that branch's First Motion Picture Unit making training films, such as ""Target-Invisible"", in which Moore co-starred with fellow actor Arthur Kennedy."
"the role of the runaway slave Jim in Michael Curtiz's film adaptation of Mark Twain's ""The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"", opposite Eddie Hodges as Huck. Moore garnered positive reviews for his sympathetic portrayal of Jim, which some viewers still consider the best interpretation of this much-filmed role. Moore did not choose to pursue a full-time career as an actor, but he did appear in 1960s films such as ""The Carpetbaggers"" (1964), ""The Hanged Man"" (1964) and ""The Fortune Cookie"" (1966), and on television in episodes of ""Family Affair"", ""Perry Mason"", ""Wagon Train"", ""The Reporter"", ""Batman"" (episode 35) and the soap"
"The Garry Moore Show The Garry Moore Show is the name for several separate American variety series on the CBS television network in the 1950s and 1960s. Hosted by experienced radio performer Garry Moore, the series helped launch the careers of many comedic talents, such as Dorothy Loudon, Don Adams, George Gobel, Carol Burnett, Don Knotts, Lee Goodman, James Kirkwood, Jr., and Jonathan Winters. ""The Garry Moore Show"" garnered a number of Emmy nominations and wins. The show originally started as a radio program; CBS eventually awarded Garry his own early-evening television show in its place. Garry's radio partner since"
"The Lone Ranger and the Lost City of Gold The Lone Ranger and the Lost City of Gold is a 1958 American Western film in Eastmancolor released by United Artists. The second of two theatrical features specifically based on and continuing the TV show ""The Lone Ranger"" it stars Clayton Moore and Jay Silverheels, reprising their roles from the TV series. The first feature film was 1956's ""The Lone Ranger"". No further films based on this specific version of the characters were made after this one. Three Indians were brutally murdered by a gang of hooded outlaws. Each one possessed"
"many film and television tie-in models that made the company famous in March 1965, with The Saint's Volvo P1800 (258) from the British television series ""The Saint"" starring Roger Moore. This was an update of the existing Volvo P1800 model that had been issued in 1962, now finished in white and featuring The Saint's logo on the bonnet and a model of The Saint in the drivers seat. However, with the second in the range of film and TV related models Corgi unwittingly revolutionised the British toy car industry. The most famous and best selling (to date) toy car of"
"Durward Kirby Homer Durward Kirby (August 24, 1911 – March 15, 2000), sometimes misspelled Durwood Kirby, was an American television host and announcer. He is best remembered for ""The Garry Moore Show"" in the 1950s and ""Candid Camera"", which he co-hosted with Allen Funt from 1961 through 1966. Kirby was born in Covington, Kentucky. His family moved to Indianapolis, Indiana, when he was 15. Kirby graduated from Arsenal Technical High School in Indianapolis, then entered Purdue University to study engineering. However, he dropped out to become a radio announcer. By 1936, Kirby was an announcer for WLW in Cincinnati, Ohio."
"1949 to 1957 on ABC and was that network's first hit series, was the tale of a former Texas Ranger and starred Clayton Moore and for one season John Hart. CBS had a children's program from 1955 to 1959, ""Tales of the Texas Rangers"", with Willard Parker and Harry Lauter as fictional rangers, which ran on the Saturday morning schedule and later in rebroadcasts on ABC. From 1965 to 1967, NBC aired ""Laredo,"" a light-hearted look at a company of Rangers in the border city of Laredo. A spin-off of ""The Virginian"", ""Laredo"" starred Philip Carey, Peter Brown, William Smith,"
"from U.N.C.L.E."", ""The Rogues"", ""My Three Sons"", ""Peyton Place"" (starring Moore's then husband, Ryan O'Neal), ""Daniel Boone"", ""Cowboy in Africa"", and ""The Iron Horse"". In 1967, Moore appeared as Daphne Harper, a snob and former college beauty queen chum of Darrin's, in the ""Charlie Harper, Winner"" episode of ""Bewitched"". During the time, Moore also had an uncredited role as ""Angie,"" the widow of Jesse Coe, in ""Nevada Smith"" starring Steve McQueen. Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, Moore also made multiple appearances on ""The Millionaire"", ""The United States Steel Hour"", ""Route 66"", ""Wagon Train"", ""Alfred Hitchcock Presents"" (and ""The Alfred Hitchcock"
"Charlie Moore (television personality) Charlie Moore (born November 7, 1970 in Wakefield, Massachusetts), sometimes known as ""Charlie Moore the Mad Fisherman"", is an American television sports personality. He is host of ""Charlie Moore: No Offense"" on the NBC Sports Network and ""Charlie Moore Outdoors"" on the New England Sports Network (NESN). From 2004 to 2010, Moore hosted ESPN’s ""Beat Charlie Moore"", which was the sports network’s top-rated outdoors show. Moore is known for having a high-energy and humorous hosting style. The ""Orlando Sentinel"" wrote, ""Moore, the brash, fast-talking Boston native, suddenly has become one of the country's most recognizable outdoorsmen."""
"to attempt to break into acting. Using the name Max Keller in 1979, he moved to New York City, where he did a few minor bit parts on a few daytime soaps. Klinton Spilsbury's dialogue in ""The Legend of the Lone Ranger"" was dubbed by actor James Keach. Considerable controversy surrounded Spilsbury at the time of the film's release, in part because of the studio's treatment of Clayton Moore, star of the popular 1950s TV series, who was prevented through legal action from wearing his black mask during personal appearances. Controversy also was due to Spilsbury's on-set antics, which included"
"character did not appear in a movie until the famous gunfight was depicted for the first time in the 1932 film ""Law and Order"", although the Wyatt Earp character is named Frame 'Saint' Johnson (Walter Huston). Since then, about 40 other movies have included his character. With the emergence of television in the 1950s, producers spun out a large number of Western-oriented shows. At the height of their popularity in 1959, there were more than two dozen ""cowboy"" programs on each week. At least six of them were connected in some extent to Wyatt Earp: ""The Life and Legend of"
"""Cowboy"" Bob Orton, Dick the Bruiser, Bruiser Brody, Gene Kiniski, Lou Thesz, Dory Funk, Jr. and Ted DiBiase. KPLR ended its relationship with the St. Louis Wrestling Club in September 1983 and ended that version of ""Wrestling at the Chase"". The station made a deal by which the WWF would produce its wrestling related programming. On December 27, 1983 and January 16, 1984, the WWF held TV tapings at the Chase Park Hotel which were turned into several episodes of ""Wrestling at the Chase"" which began airing in 1984. The first of these shows featured the first WWF appearance of"
"rights to the character, Wrather Corp., filed a lawsuit and obtained a court injunction to prevent Clayton Moore from appearing as the Lone Ranger, and then gave a cameo to his TV replacement, John Hart. The film itself was a critical and commercial failure. It starred Klinton Spilsbury in his only motion picture appearance. His lines were overdubbed by James Keach. The part of Tonto was played by Michael Horse, a Native American of Yaqui, Mescalero Apache, Zuni, and Latino descent. Moore, who never appeared publicly without his mask, was enjoined in the lawsuit from wearing it and, in protest,"
"Alvy Moore Jack Alvin ""Alvy"" Moore (December 5, 1921 – May 4, 1997) was an American light comic actor best known for his role as scatterbrained county agricultural agent Hank Kimball on the CBS television series ""Green Acres"". His character would often make a statement, only to immediately negate the statement himself and then negate the corrected statement until his stream of statements was interrupted by a frustrated Oliver Wendell Douglas portrayed by Eddie Albert. One such statement was, ""Good morning, Mr. Douglas! Well, it's not a good morning ... but it's not a bad morning either!"" Alvy Moore was"
"an enraged Duke. According to Warner Bros records the film earned $164,000 domestically and $60,000 foreihn. Ride Him, Cowboy Ride Him, Cowboy is a 1932 pre-Code Western film directed by Fred Allen starring 25-year-old John Wayne. Based on the 1923 novel of the same name by Kenneth Taylor Perkins, the film is a remake of ""The Unknown Cavalier"", a 1926 Western starring Ken Maynard, with lots of stock footage from the original. The film was titled ""The Hawk"" in the UK. John Drury (John Wayne) is passing through when townsfolk are about to kill Duke, a horse they believe to"
"and award winning screenwriter ""Chariots of Fire"") as Geyser and James Wardroper as Eric with Debbie Linden and Janine Duvitski. Series 1 ran for six episodes, while series 2 consisted of seven. The show had nothing to do with the Wild West, its title referring instead to the British colloquial use of ""cowboy"" to describe a workman of doubtful professionalism e.g. a ""cowboy builder"". Cowboys (TV series) Cowboys was a British television sitcom that aired on the ITV network during the early 1980s. The show was created by Peter Learmouth who would go on to create Granada television sitcom ""Surgical"
"Ranger"", on ""The Alaskans"", a short-lived series starring Roger Moore, three times in different roles on another long-running western series, ""Wagon Train"", on NBC's ""Tales of Wells Fargo"" with Dale Robertson, on the ABC western series ""Broken Arrow"", five times on the ABC western comedy ""Maverick"" starring James Garner and Jack Kelly, on the CBS western series ""The Texan"" with Rory Calhoun, the NBC western series ""The Californians"", twice on ""Colt .45"" with Wayde Preston, once on """" with Steve McQueen and as ""Sheriff Clay"" for a single 1960 episode of the NBC western series ""Riverboat"" with Darren McGavin, and"