Doug McClure

Doug McClure
McClure at 26 (1961)
Born	Douglas Osborne McClure (1935-05-11)May 11, 1935 Glendale, California, U.S.
Died	February 5, 1995(1995-02-05) (aged 59) Sherman Oaks, California, U.S.
Cause of death	Lung cancer
Resting place	Woodlawn Memorial Cemetery at Santa Monica, California
Alma mater	University of California, Los Angeles
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1956–1995
Spouse(s)	Faye Brash (m. 1957–61) (divorced) (1 child) Barbara Luna (m. 1961–63) (divorced) Helen Crane (m. 1965–68) (divorced) Diane Soldani (m. 1970–79) (divorced) (1 child) Diane Furnberg (m. 1979–95) (his death)
Children	Tane McClure Valerie McClure

Douglas Osborne "Doug" McClure (May 11, 1935 – February 5, 1995) was an American actor whose career in film and television extended from the 1950s to the 1990s. He is best known for his role as the cowboy Trampas during the entire run from 1962 to 1971 of the NBC western television series, The Virginian, loosely based on the Owen Wister novel.

McClure was born in Glendale, California. His English mother, Clara Elsie (née Barker; 1907–1997), had moved to the United States from her native United Kingdom in 1915, when her widowed mother married an American, Frank S Artman. Clara Barker was naturalized as an American citizen in 1918, and married Irish-American Donald Reed McClure (1904–1965) in 1929. Donald and Clara were parents to Donald Reed McClure, Jr. (1931–2003) and then Doug. The widowed Clara would marry Frank Clapp in 1971.

McClure's acting career included such films as The Enemy Below, The Unforgiven, and Because They're Young, before landing the part of Trampas on The Virginian – a part that would make him famous. He also starred:

McClure had a minor part in 1957 as an Army officer in "California Gold Rush in Reverse" on the syndicated anthology series Death Valley Days. The episode is a dramatization of the race in 1848 between the Army and the Navy to be the first to deliver gold nuggets from California to Washington, DC