Clu Gulager
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Gulager in 2015
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| Born |
William Martin Gulager November 16, 1928 Holdenville, Hughes County Oklahoma, United States |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Spouse(s) | Miriam Byrd Nethery Gulager (died 2003) |
| Children |
Tom Gulager John Gulager |
William Martin "Clu" Gulager (born November 16, 1928), is an American television and film actor and director, particularly noted for his co-starring role as William H. Bonney (Billy the Kid) in the 1960–1962 NBC television series The Tall Man and for his role as Emmett Ryker in another NBC western series, The Virginian.
He also appeared in Peter Bogdanovich's The Last Picture Show and the racing film Winning, with Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward. Gulager was the protagonist Burt Wilson in the cult horror film The Return of the Living Dead, starred in McQ with John Wayne, and in director Don Siegel's The Killers with Lee Marvin, Ronald Reagan and Angie Dickinson. Gulager's short film A Day with the Boys was nominated for the prestigious Palme d'Or for best short film at the 1969 Cannes Film Festival.
Gulager was born in Holdenville in Hughes County in east central Oklahoma, the son of John Delancy Gulager, who had been an actor before settling down to practice law in Muskogee, Oklahoma. His paternal grandmother, Martha Schrimsher Gulager, was a sister of Mary Scrimshaw, the mother of the noted Oklahoma entertainer and newspaperman, Will Rogers, making Gulager and Rogers first cousins, once removed. He has Cherokee Native American ancestry. His nickname was given to him by his father for the clu-clu birds (known in English as martins, like his middle name) that were nesting at the Gulager home at the time Clu was born. From 1946-48 Gulager served in the United States Marine Corps. After attending Northeastern State University in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, Gulager transferred to Baptist-affiliated Baylor University in Waco, Texas. He won a one-year scholarship to study abroad, where he worked under Jean Louis Barrault, an internationally known French actor and director. In 1952 he returned to Baylor. That same year he married a young singer named Miriam Nethery.
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