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Woodlawn Memorial Park
1847. 14th. Street. Santa Monica. CA.
Tel: (310) 450-0781


 

 

Doug McClure  11th.May 1935 - 5th.February 1995
Grave can be found on the 14th.Street Side of the Cemetery.
Cause of Death - Lung Cancer


Douglas Osborne McClure  was an American actor whose career in film and television extended from the 1950s to the 1990s. Born in Glendale, California, McClure is best remembered for his appearances in the TV western series The Virginian (McClure played "Trampas"), the 1960 television detective series Checkmate (TV series) opposite Sebastian Cabot, and science fiction films like The Land That Time Forgot. In 1967 he played the Errol Flynn role in a re-make of "Against All Flags" titled "The King's Pirate." In this movie's opening scene McClure is shown being given a shipboard flogging, a flogging which ranks 19th in the book "Lash! The Hundred Great Scenes of Men Being Whipped in the Movies." McClure has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
McClure died from lung cancer in Sherman Oaks, California at the age of 59, and is buried at Woodlawn Memorial Cemetery.