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Film [ edit ]. Getting the star helped him feel better, he told well-wishers, who included his "Virginian" co-star James Drury. In popular culture [ edit ]. Television [ edit ].

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References [ edit ]. He was But I had been on television so much, people thought I wasn't around. But on Jan. Trampas was rehabilitated in the series as a happy-go-lucky young cowpoke. The character McClure played, a villain in the Owen Wister novel and the three movie versions, was rehabilitated in the series as a happy-go-lucky cowpoke. The pilot, produced and written by the team of Richard Levinson and William Link , failed to generate interest in the series and was released as a TV movie titled The Judge and Jake Wyler.

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Expand the sub menu Video. She said that while watching an episode Doug saw the character Troy McClure on the show and said, "Are they making fun of me? Interviewed by Terry Gross. Lisa and the 8th Commandment ". A role in a high school play drew him to the acting profession, and he studied drama at Santa Monica City College and the University of California, Los Angeles, while modeling and doing TV commercials.

Related Stories. Toggle the table of contents. Retrieved June 2, Doctors discovered the cancer had spread to his liver and bones, Morga said. External links [ edit ]. McClure fitted easily into the Western atmosphere. After The Virginian ended in , McClure was slated to co-star with Bette Davis on a series about a parolee assisting a judge, played by Davis, by doing detective work.

In , the actor joined the cast of "The Virginian," an ambitious, big-budget NBC project that was the first filmed series with minute episodes. Philadelphia: NPR. McClure began riding horses at age 8. After struggling a year with lung cancer, McClure appeared last Dec. In , he appeared in Shenandoah , a movie directed by Andrew V.