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Clu Gulager

Clu Gulager
Clu Gulager
Born: Nov 16, 1928 in Holdenville, Oklahoma
Occupation: Actor, Writer, Director,
Active: '60s-'80s
Major Genres: Drama, Mystery
Career Highlights: The Hidden, McQ, The Return of the Living Dead
First Major Screen Credit: The Tall Man: Season 01 (1960)
19 Videos for Clu Gulager
Feast (2006) I'm Gonna Git You Sucka! (1988) The Return of the Living Dead (1985)
Gunfighter (1997) Tapeheads (1988) Lies (1983)
Eddie Presley (1993) Hunter's Blood (1987) King: The Martin Luther King Story (1978)
In the Line of Duty: Ambush in Waco (1993) Summer Heat (1987) The Other Side of Midnight (1977)
The Killing Device (1992) The Hidden (1987) The Last Picture Show (1971)
My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys (1991) A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge (1985) The Killers (1964)
The Willies (1991)
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Biography:

Actor Clu Gulager started out as the latest in a long line of Brando/Dean method types in the late 1950s. Gulager's searing interpretation of Mad Dog Coll on a 1959 episode of The Untouchables, coupled with his multi-faceted portrayal of Billy the Kid on the TV western series The Tall Man (1960-62) gained him a brief fan following.

He was also quite impressive as Lee Marvin's fellow hit man in The Killers (1964), which would have been the very first made-for-TV movie had not its excessive violence necessitated a theatrical release. Turning prematurely gray in the late 1960s, Gulager went on to play flinty authority figures on such weekly series as The Survivors (1969), San Francisco International Airport (1971) and The MacKenzies of Paradise Cove (1979).

He was also seen in numerous miniseries, most prominently as Lt. Merrick in Once an Eagle (1976) and General Sheridan in North and South II (1986). One of his better big-screen roles was Abilene in Peter Bogdanovich's The Last Picture Show (1971). Briefly entertaining notions of becoming a film director, Clu Gulager helmed the obscure 1969 short subject A Day with the Boys.

~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide.