Clayton Moore
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Clayton Moore (born Jack Carlton Moore, September 14, 1914 – December 28, 1999) was an American actor best known for playing the fictional western character
the Lone Ranger from 1949 to 1952 and 1953 to 1957 on the television series of the same name and two related movies from the same producers.
Born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1914, Moore was the youngest of three sons of Theresa Violet (née Fisher) and Charles Sprague Moore.
Moore's father, according to the federal census of 1930, was a native of New York and supported his family in Chicago by working as a real estate broker.
That same census also documents that a full-time maid, Amelia Hirsch, lived with the Moore family, an indication of the household's relative prosperity at the time.
Highly athletic as a boy, "Jack" became a circus acrobat by age eight, and later, in 1934, he appeared at the Century of Progress Exposition in Chicago with a trapeze act.
He graduated from Stephen K. Hayt Elementary School, Sullivan Junior High School, and Senn High School on the far North Side of Chicago.
Moore as a young man worked successfully as a John Robert Powers model.
Moving to Hollywood in the late 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 branc...
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