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Moore had already played a masked man in the film Ghost of Zorro. It was so popular that a San Francisco couple were spared a speeding fine when they told a judge they had been rushing home to hear the show. The series had become a hit on radio soon after Detroit station WXYZ created it in 1933.īy 1949, The Lone Ranger - always introduced with the words "A fiery horse with the speed of light, a cloud of dust and a hearty `Hi-yo, Silver!' The Lone Ranger" and a few bars of Rossini's William Tell Overture - was a national institution in America. He played in dozens of B movies with such titles as Intentional Lady and The Gay Amigo until 1949, when he beat 75 other actors to star in the television version of The Lone Ranger.
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Moore, long identified with the mythic former Texas Ranger who rode a white horse and fired silver bullets, was the latest in a series of Western stars to die in the late 1990s, including Roy Rogers, Gene Autry and Tex Ritter.īorn Jack Carlton Moore in Chicago on September 14th, 1914, he changed his name to Clayton Moore after moving to Hollywood to become a stunt man and movie extra in the late 1930s. A spokesman for West Hills Hospital in suburban Los Angeles said that Moore, a former trapeze artist, had been rushed to the emergency room of the hospital where he died on Tuesday. Actor Clayton Moore, who galloped to fame on 1950s television as the Lone Ranger, the "daring and resourceful masked rider of the Plains',' has died at the age of 85 of a heart attack.