Gary Clarke

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Gary Clarke (born Clarke Frederick L'Amoreaux, 1933) is an American actor best known for his role as Steve Hill in the NBC western television series The Virginian with James Drury and Doug McClure.

Early life

Clarke was born in Los Angeles, California, of French and Mexican origins, and he grew up in East Los Angeles' predominantly Chicano neighborhood. While in high school, he began dreaming of a career in acting, and after graduating, he performed in a community theater performance in San Gabriel, California. This culminated in a number of plays in Glendale. Clarke was employed as a machinist in San Gabriel as well as a newspaper deliveryman during this period.

Personal life

Clarke and Drury, as well as two other The Virginian co-stars, Roberta Shore and singer Randy Boone, were guests at the Western Film Fair in Charlotte, North Carolina, in July 2003.

Clarke, a boy when he married his first wife, Marilyn, and the couple had three children within three years, Jeff, Dennis, and David. Pat Woodell, Clarke's second wife, died after she was divorced. In 1991, he married Jerrene, his third wife. Ava and Natalie have two children.

Clarke, who lived in Austin, Texas, as of 2011, was a resident of Austin, Texas.

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Film and television career

Clarke recalled:

He went on to film including How to Make a Monster and Missile to the Moon (both 1958), Date Bait (1960) and Passion Street, U.S.A. (1964). He has stated that he was a Universal Pictures contract actor.

Dick Hamilton appeared in the single-season NBC television series Michael Shayne, based on Brett Halliday's fictional private detective stereotype, with opposite Richard Denning as the title character. In the episode "The Fatal Step" of the NBC Western series Laramie, he appeared as Tad Kimball, a friend of Jess Harper played by Robert Fuller.

Clarke appeared in the cast of the long-running television Western series The Virginian, remained on the program from 1962 to 1964. Captain Richards appeared in the 1967 ABC Western Hondo film.

Clarke said in an interview that he and co-star Steve Ihnat wrote the screenplay for director Ted V. Mikels' film Strike Me Deadly (1963), but that only Ihnat and Mikels appear in the film's credits list. Clarke under his birth name wrote several scripts for the NBC espionage sitcom Get Smart, which introduced Hymie the Robot as the running actor. Hymie is the subject of just one of his six scripts for the film ("Appointment in Sahara"), but not one of them is about him.

He wrote and produced television public-service announcements including "Youth at Risk," narrated nonfiction short films including "Promoting Healthy Behavior," and appeared in television series including Dynasty and The Young Riders, in which he had a four-episode recurring role. The Paperboy (2012) and Parkland (2013) were two of his films in the 2010s.

The production company L'Amoreaux/Bartlett/Race/Thomas needed actors for an independent TV pilot, written by Bartlett and Thomas and directed by Clarke about a young boy whose daydreams placed him in the Owen Wister book The Virginian's American Old West. It was shot on June 26-28, 2014, near Austin, Texas, under the name Billy and the Bandit; 11-year-old Jordan Elsass as Billy; and Roberta Shore as Billy; Ava L'Amoreaux and Donny Boaz as his parents; and Buck Taylor as a ranch foreman.

Singing career

Although Michael Shayne Clarke's cast member released the single "Tomorrow Will Never Come," backed by RCA Victor Records' "One Way Ticket". While on The Virginian, he performed a cover of the theme song, which was funded by Decca Records' "One Summer in a Million."

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