What is Clayton Moore?
{{Infobox person |image = Lone ranger silver 1965.JPG |imagesize = 150px | | name = Clayton Moore | birthname = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1914|9|14}} | birth_place = [[Chicago]], [[Illinois]], [[United States]] | death_date = {{Death date and age|1999|12|28|1914|9|14}} | death_place = [[Los Angeles, California]], [[United States]] | othername = | yearsactive = | spouse = | homepage = }} '''Clayton Moore''' (September 14, 1914 – December 28, 1999) was an [[Americans|American]] [[actor]]. ==Career== His real name was '''Jack Carlton Moore'''. He was born in [[Chicago]], [[Illinois]]. He began his [[career]] as a child, as an [[acrobat]] in the [[circus]]. In 1938 he went to [[Hollywood]] and acted in minor roles in [[Western movie|Class B Western movies]]. In 1947 he was in the [[movie]] ''Jesse James Rides Again''. He played [[Jesse James]]. He also played James in ''Adventures of Frank and Jesse James'' (1948). He starred in ''The Ghost of Zorro'' (1949). The other B-movies he starred in were ''Cyclone Fury'' 1951; ''Montana Territory'', 1952, as Commissioner George Ives; and ''Gunfighters of the Northwest'', 1954. ==The Lone Ranger== In 1949 he was chosen by [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC Television]] to play [[The Lone Ranger]]. In the [[Television series|series]] of the [[The Lone Ranger (TV series)|same name]]. His co-star was the actor [[Jay Silverheels]]. It was the biggest success of ABC in the [[World War II|postwar]] period. From 1949 to 1956, 169 [[episode]]s were made of The Lone Ranger. His [[silver]] [[bullet]]s, white hat and black mask were [[icon]]s of the [[Western United States|western U.S.]] In 1979, the [[company]] owning the rights to The Lone Ranger forced him to no longer use the [[Fictional character|character]]. [[Judge]] Vernon Foster said Moore could no longer use his black mask, or [[Advertisement|advertise]] as The Lone Ranger.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://houdinisghost.com/claytonmoore.html |title=The Day They Took the Mask off