Clayton Moore

The Lone Ranger is taking off his dark glasses and putting on his mask once again. Actor Clayton Moore, who played the Western hero in 208 television episodes, said today that he can once again portray the masked man fighting for law and order. "Fair play has prevailed and the Lone Ranger believes in fair play," he said. In 1979, the Wrather Corp.

Most TV fans of a certain age know the answer to the question, "Who played the Lone Ranger?" Those who say Clayton Moore are correct, at least partially. There was another actor who played the Masked Man on "The Lone Ranger" TV series, temporarily replacing Moore in the title role for 52 episodes beginning in 1952. John Hart, 91, the handsome and athletic actor who also starred in the 1940s movie serial "Jack Armstrong: The All-American Boy" and the 1950s TV series "Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans," died Sunday at his home in Rosarito Beach in Baja California, said his wife, Beryl.

Congratulations to Frank Manning, who wrote such a wonderful article (Sept. 15) on the Lone Ranger. Clayton Moore is indeed a hero, not only internationally, but to our local community as well. I met him in the late 1970s when he dramatically rescued my daughter's friends, the Reifler twins. The girls were only 7 years old, but had decided that they were capable of handling a boat. Without anyone's knowledge the two had untied their rubber raft from its mooring and launched it on Calabasas Lake.

Re "Silver Memories and Bullets," Editorial, Sept. 18: As a matter of fairness, it should be pointed out that the "Lone Ranger" TV series featuring Clayton Moore was not the creative media event that established the Lone Ranger as a cultural icon. It was the radio version of the 1930s and 1940s featuring Brace Beemer and John Todd, the longest-running Lone Ranger and Tonto. These radio actors with their distinct and easily identifiable voices deserve most of the credit for creating the roles.

A memorial service for actor Clayton Moore, who played the Western hero known as the Lone Ranger on television, is scheduled for Sunday. The public program will be at 11 a.m. at the Autry Museum of Western Heritage in Los Angeles' Griffith Park. The family of Moore, who died Dec. 28, has asked that any memorial donations be made to the Motion Picture and Television Fund in Woodland Hills.

As the mysterious masked man astride his fabled stallion Silver, he embodied all that was brave and honorable, a hero whose sense of justice made him a national icon. And even when he wasn't portraying the Lone Ranger, Clayton Moore embodied the same ideals as his most famous role, said friends and fans who attended his memorial service Sunday. The actor died Dec. 28 of a heart attack at age 85.

As the mysterious masked man astride his fabled stallion Silver, he embodied all that was brave and honorable, a hero whose noble deeds and sense of justice made him a national icon. And even when he wasn't portraying the Lone Ranger, Clayton Moore embodied the same high ideals as his most famous role, said friends and fans who attended his memorial service Sunday. The actor died Dec. 28 of a heart attack at age 85.

Driving into this tiny town on the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada for a 60th anniversary celebration of the Lone Ranger, Jerry and Barbara Tighe spotted a guy with a Lone Ranger hat chatting with a group of people on a street corner. It wasn't until they were checking into their motel that the Anaheim couple discovered that the man in the white "Lone Ranger" hat was none other than TV's legendary Masked Man himself, Clayton Moore, out for an evening stroll.

Most TV fans of a certain age know the answer to the question, "Who played the Lone Ranger?" Those who say Clayton Moore are correct, at least partially. There was another actor who played the Masked Man on "The Lone Ranger" TV series, temporarily replacing Moore in the title role for 52 episodes beginning in 1952. John Hart, 91, the handsome and athletic actor who also starred in the 1940s movie serial "Jack Armstrong: The All-American Boy" and the 1950s TV series "Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans," died Sunday at his home in Rosarito Beach in Baja California, said his wife, Beryl.

Clayton Moore, television's "Lone Ranger," is keeping at least one masked eye on his trademark chrome-plated Colt .45s since they were recovered after disappearing at an airport luggage terminal on Christmas Eve. "They're priceless. I'd take nothing for them," Clayton Moore said Monday while testifying at the trial of Edward Louis Young III, who is accused of stealing the guns from the Continental Airlines terminal at Hobby Airport in Houston.

The felt on the leather in front has worn away, and you can see the back has been patched and touched up with dye. But the price isn't quite as shabby; $30,000 is the starting bid set by Sotheby's for the mask worn by Clayton Moore as the Lone Ranger in the 1950s television series. Also on the block are hundreds of other props, wardrobe accessories and memorabilia from the estate of the late actor, who died at 85 in December.

As the mysterious masked man astride his fabled stallion Silver, he embodied all that was brave and honorable, a hero whose noble deeds and sense of justice made him a national icon. And even when he wasn't portraying the Lone Ranger, Clayton Moore embodied the same high ideals as his most famous role, said friends and fans who attended his memorial service Sunday. The actor died Dec. 28 of a heart attack at age 85.

As the mysterious masked man astride his fabled stallion Silver, he embodied all that was brave and honorable, a hero whose sense of justice made him a national icon. And even when he wasn't portraying the Lone Ranger, Clayton Moore embodied the same ideals as his most famous role, said friends and fans who attended his memorial service Sunday. The actor died Dec. 28 of a heart attack at age 85.

A memorial service for actor Clayton Moore, who played the Western hero known as the Lone Ranger on television, is scheduled for Sunday. The public program will be at 11 a.m. at the Autry Museum of Western Heritage in Los Angeles' Griffith Park. The family of Moore, who died Dec. 28, has asked that any memorial donations be made to the Motion Picture and Television Fund in Woodland Hills.

It's summer 1956 and I'm almost 6 years old. My family and I are visiting relatives in Kanab, Utah. My aunt had sent my dad and me to the drugstore to pick up a couple of items. I was wearing a Davy Crockett coonskin cap and my Lone Ranger cap pistols. We entered the drugstore and there standing near the cashier--big as life--was Clayton Moore--the Lone Ranger! He was in town filming the first Lone Ranger movie. He spent five minutes talking to me, and I came away with an autographed Lone Ranger comic book and a few lessons on the proper handling of a pistol.

As a child, Clayton Moore wanted to be either a cowboy or a police officer. As the Lone Ranger, he got to be both. Moore first rode into America's living rooms in 1949 in his television role as the "daring and resourceful masked rider of the Plains." With a commanding cry of, "Hi yo, Silver!," the Lone Ranger and his faithful Indian companion, Tonto, brought justice to the Wild West. Already a fan of the Lone Ranger radio series that started in 1933, Moore beat out 75 other actors for the role.

Silver bullets, a silver buckle, two revolvers and holsters reported missing by television's Lone Ranger, Clayton Moore, have been located and will be returned, according to Beaumont, Tex., attorney Lum Hawthorn, who said the gear had been purchased by a collector who did not realize it belonged to the actor. "We've had a lot of fun with them in the office," Hawthorn said. "Everybody's been strapping them on and playing like the Lone Ranger."

Congratulations to Frank Manning, who wrote such a wonderful article (Sept. 15) on the Lone Ranger. Clayton Moore is indeed a hero, not only internationally, but to our local community as well. I met him in the late 1970s when he dramatically rescued my daughter's friends, the Reifler twins. The girls were only 7 years old, but had decided that they were capable of handling a boat. Without anyone's knowledge the two had untied their rubber raft from its mooring and launched it on Calabasas Lake.

Certain notions are set in granite in the view of Clayton Moore, alias the Lone Ranger: The good guys always wear white hats, fight for what they think is right and, above all, see to it that justice prevails. "I'll always wear the white hat," Moore said. "The white hat has always been the symbol of justice, fair play and honesty." Moore, who turned 80 Wednesday, said he has no regrets and would live his life all over again the same way.