Gary Clarke is an American

United States

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 actor

Actor

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 best known for his role as Steve Hill in the NBC

NBC

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 western

Western (genre)

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 television series The Virginian

The Virginian (TV series)

The Virginian is an American Western television series starring James Drury and Doug McClure, which aired on NBC from 1962 to 1971 for a total of 249 episodes. Filmed in color, The Virginian became television's first 90-minute western series...

with James Drury

James Drury

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. Clarke appeared on the program only for its first three seasons, 1962—1964. Earlier, in the 1960-1961 season, he appeared as Dick Hamilton in the NBC television series Michael Shayne

Michael Shayne

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, based on the fictional private detective character created by Brett Halliday

Brett Halliday

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. His co-stars were Richard Denning

Richard Denning

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 as the title character, Herbert Rudley

Herbert Rudley

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, and Jerry Paris

Jerry Paris

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. Patricia Donahue played Lucy Hamilton, Shayne's secretary and Dick Hamilton's older sister.

The Virginian episodes

Clarke appeared in forty-five episodes from 1962-1964:

• The Executioners (19 September 1962)
• Woman from White Wing (26 September 1962)
• Throw a Long Rope (3 October 1962)
• The Big Deal (10 October 1962)
• The Brazen Bell (17 October 1962)
• Big Day, Great Day (24 October 1962)
• Riff-Raff (7 November 1962)
• Impasse (14 November 1962)
• It Tolls for Thee (21 November 1962)
• The Devil's Children (5 December 1962)
• 50 Days to Moose Jaw (12 December 1962)
• The Accomplice (19 December 1962)
• The Man from the Sea (26 December 1962)
• Duel at Shiloh (2 January 1963)
• The Exiles (9 January 1963)
• Say Goodbye to All That (23 January 1963)
• The Man Who Wouldn't Die (30 January 1963)
• The Small Parade (20 February 1963)
• The Money Cage (6 March 1963)
• A Distant Fury (20 March 1963)
• Run Away Home (24 April 1963)
• Ride a Dark Trail (18 September 1963)
• A Killer in Town (9 October 1963)
• The Evil That Men Do (16 October 1963)
• It Takes a Big Man (23 October 1963)
• Brother Thaddeus (30 October 1963)
• A Portrait of Marie Valonne (6 November 1963)
• Run Quiet (13 November 1963)
• Stopover in a Western Town (27 November 1963)
• The Fatal Journey (4 December 1963)
• A Time Remembered (11 December 1963)
• The Invaders (1 January 1964)
• Roar from the Mountain (8 January 1964)
• The Thirty Days of Gavin Heath (22 January 1964)
• The Drifter (29 January 1964)
• First to Thine Own Self (12 February 1964)
• Smile of a Dragon (26 February 1964)
• Another's Footsteps (11 March 1964)
• Rope of Lies (25 March 1964)
• A Bride for Lars (15 April 1964)
• Dark Destiny (29 April 1964) l
• A Man Called Kane (6 May 1964)
• Felicity's Spring (14 October 1964)
• Big Image... Little Man (28 October 1964)
• The Girl from Yesterday (11 November 1964) (uncredited)

Later years

In July 2003, Clarke and Drury, along with two other The Virginian costars, Roberta Shore

Roberta Shore

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, and singer Randy Boone

Randy Boone

Clyde Wilson Randall Boone, Jr., known as Randy Boone , is a former actor who co-starred in two of the three 90-minute westerns telecast during the 1960s on the national television networks, NBC's The Virginian and CBS's Cimarron Strip...

, were guests at the Western Film Fair in Charlotte, North Carolina

Charlotte, North Carolina

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. In 2005, Clarke was interviewed by Tom Weaver in "Earth vs. the Sci-Fi Filmmakers".

Clarke formerly resided in Phoenix

Phoenix, Arizona

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, Arizona

Arizona

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, but he is listed in the Internet Movie Data Base as residing in Buda

Buda, Texas

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 in Hays County

Hays County, Texas

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 near Austin

Austin, Texas

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, Texas

Texas

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, as of January 2009. He is the divorce

Divorce

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d father of three sons.

He also has a daughter, Ava, who appeared with him at the 2011 Memphis Film Festival. Also in attendance were James Drury, Randy Boone, Roberta Shore and Don Quine.

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