Clayton Moore appears on an episode of NBC's Real People in 1980 after he lost the right to wear his mask by the Jack Wrather Corp. He later regained his right to wear the mask of the Lone Ranger.
And NO ONE who ever tried to do The Lone Ranger after Clayton was any good at it! Clayton Moore and Jay Silverheels set the bar too high for ANY other actors to EVER successfully portray The Lone Ranger and Tonto.
This video drove me to tears; it is so beautiful, so wrought with the spirit of the Lone Ranger's values: truth, justice, perseverance, fighting the good fight. What a precious man. He is a legend. He loved God's people so much. He said "I believe in my country, my Creator, and certainly my fellow man." Would that more actors today lived like the Lone Ranger on and off screen! May God's truth and justice shine forth in this dark, grimly cold world. May the virtues of the Lone Ranger live on in our hearts!!
The values I received from the Masked Man have kept me on the straight and narrow path. I often failed to live up to the Ranger’s Creed but I’ve never stopped trying in 73 years. Thank you, Kemosabe.
I loved Real People. Where are the Heroes Today? What a great Man. What excitement when he came out. Some things were definitely better in the “Old Days”
THANK YOU EVER SO MUCH FOR POSTING THIS, AS A 71 YR OLD VIETNAM VET, CLAYTON WILL ALWAYS BE THE LONE RANGER, MAY OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST GRANT HIM ETERNAL PEACE.
The late Jim Croce recorded a song titled You Don't Mess Around With Jim, & pa rt of the lyrics goes like this-You don't pull the mask off t he old Lone Ranger & you d on't mess around with Jim.
His daughter says that when they went out in public he never let on who he was. But every now and then someone would recognize his voice and be awe struck. She said he was a great father too.
Mr. Moore had to be about 65 when he did this show. He looks great ! He will for a certain generation always be the Lone Ranger, just Johnny Weissmuller will always be Tarzan
Clayton Moore was and is the only Lone Ranger! He was a good man and didn't deserve what the people who made that disastrous 1981 movie did to him. Mr. Moore may be gone, but the Lone Ranger and Tonto will ride forever!
Amen Your So Right! No One could Ever Replace Him Anywhere!!! There is only Clayton Moore, He is and Always and Forever Will-be Will Be, The Lone Ranger!!! Loved Him as a little child! Still do!!! 😘❤️❤️❤️❤️
No. 1 Always! Still watching after all these years; quality and decency not found in today's entertainment venues. Also, along with Saturday morning cartoons, my intro to classical music as kid!!
This was filmed at Irving Mall in Irving, Texas. The female officer behind him at 6:02 is my big sister. She was assigned to him as his bodyguard while making his appearance there. It was really cool to think she was guarding him then, after we grew watching him and Tonto as our hero's on TV. Love ya Dink. A fiery horse with the speed of light, a cloud of dust, and a hearty Hi-Yo, Silver, away!
I heard that when Jay Silverheels "Tonto" had a stroke in 1976.Clayton Moore in 1977 rode a painted horse in the Rose Bowl in honor of his co-star and good friend Jay Silverheels
Despite the strolling Hell they put him through, in his biography, he had nothing but good words to say about Jack Wrather. I wish I was that good of a man!
This man was the true definition of an American hero I am 21 years old and my dad and me both grew up on the Lone Ranger and I intend to do the same with my children
Good!!! So glad they got their due Karma!!!! My daughter tapes them for me on my tv only Clayton Moore not John Hart, or I want to puke when I see someone else!!! I am sorry it just makes me sick! Or that horrid Movie I never heard of, Glad it bombed!!! That will teach them there is only one Lone Ranger with Tonto Clayton Moore Forever!!! 😘❤️🙏❌⭕️❌⭕️
He is the Lone Ranger!!!! RIP, you and Tonto!!!! God bless Real People, America's first reality show!!! We could sure use the help of Clayton Moore today
I couldn’t begin to put in words what that show meant to a chronic asthmatic kid, who missed so many days of school and had to stay home by myself. But the first note of the William Tell overture seemed to make being sick easy to ignore for a few moments.
This a cool video thanks for sharing. You can tell he was a great guy. Handing out pictures and getting with his funs. Now a days stars don't do that they ask for you to pay for a picture and to meet them.
The Courts of the U S should be ashamed of themselves. Here is a person along with Tonto who stood for many of the beliefs this country was founded on . He was not allowed to wear his mask because of money, the root of all evil. For the people who know of the Lone Ranger know that he will always be with them especially in their hearts
Legally, the Jack Wrather corp. owned the Lone Ranger copyright, so the judge had to grant the injunction against Moore, if they requested he stop appear in character. The judge has to follow the law, regardless of their personal feeling.
Loved him handsome and sexy looking too ! I was just a baby child so saw him on tv and my daughter, tapes all the Clayton Moore, The Lone Ranger episides for me now! 🥰❤️😘
Mr. Moore was royally screwed. That Movie they pushed with the new Lone Ranger, was a huge massive failure. I'm not sure but he eventually got his Mask back. He was my childhood hero, after my dad died in 74 when I was 10. He, the Lone Ranger helped me through a difficult period. Never met the man but sure wish I could have even for just a moment. I turn 60 later this year. You know what? He's still my hero to this day, and always will be. Hes what every man should strive to be. Anytime I find the Lone Ranger on TV. I watch it. He got his mask back in 1985. The look on Sarah Purcel's face when he gave her that silver bullet. The man was in every way the Real Lone Ranger. Thank you Mr. Moore for helping me through a difficult time as a kid.
Radio Station owner George Trendle created the Lone Ranger character who was known as Texas Ranger. John Reid.Fran Stryker wrote most of the early radio episodes. Trendle later created the character The Green Hornet whose alter ego was Britt Reid a distant relative of the Lone Ranger. Clayton Moore - born Jack Carlton Moore( Sept 1914-Dec. 1999)
I heard that, in his later years, he could still fit into his Ranger costume perfectly, and it always looked like they had melted him and poured him into it.
I loved watching the Lone Ranger. There's still some episodes of them on RU-vid. I was pissed off when I found he was not allowed to wear the mask in public. I was happy to see he got the right to wear the mask back.
The company owns the character; he was an actor. They had the right to prohibit him from wearing the mask. Even if it was an asshole thing to do. To most of us baby boomers, Clayton Moore was THE Lone Ranger.
You are correct, but they should of let him wear it. Like you said, he was the Lone Ranger. They should have work something out with him because he is so iconic in that role. Cheers
I refused to see both horrible Lone Ranger movies. The one with the dubbed in guy and the ridiculous one with Johnny Depp with the buzzard on his head. There is, was and always will be one Lone Ranger and Tonto. Clayton Moore & Jay Silverheels. They stood for right & justice. RIP.
wish I could of met The Lone Ranger......he was my all time Hero!!!! I still watch all the shows and have just watched 2 movies.....are there any more movies any where?? Seems I am running out of them :'(
Both movie remakes about The Lone Ranger bombed. The Disney version with Johnny Depp i only saw the promos for it when i went to see other movies some years ago. Every time I saw the promos for that awful version, i cried because it wasn't Clayton Moore.
@@one4freedom931 Be glad you didn't go see the movie because you would have either cried or gotten angry and thrown something at the screen if you had seen what they did to the character of the Lone Ranger
@@Flipperhome I had NO desire to see the Disney remake of "The Lone Ranger." I saw enough of it in promos in theaters for other movies I went to see. I could tell from the scenes showed that it was crap, and I still cried because it was NOT Clayton Moore. The actors in the Disney remake of TLR were absolutely AWFUL. I did see the 1980s one with Klinton Spilsbury later on TV, and didn't like that one either, though I'm sure it was Not as bad as the Disney remake.
didn't watch all the video but if you're talking about the one with Klinton Spilsbury as the Lone Ranger then the movie hurt the movie. almost as bad as Plan 9 from Outer Space and Attack of the Killer Tomatoes.
Oh the movie bombed badly , people were really pissed off about how the did Clayton Moore. I was about 15 years old then and it was all over the media.
It's intriguing to watch the preliminary episodes of 'The Lone Ranger ' from 1949, which were mostly shot at the top of what is now Red Mesa Drive in Chatsworth. Neither Clayton Moore nor Jay Silverheels were very good actors at that time but of course both of them became fine actors. And bare in mind that television was in its infancy; there were very few templates for creating new characters, besides movies of course.
He wasn't allowed to wear the a patriotic American crime fighter he truly was the lone ranger I wasn't around either I'm a 90s kid and I remember when he died I was sad to see my dads hero die and mine I watched the show when I was a kid and loved it they had no right to take the mask off
He was able to retain the mask and continue to portray himself as the Lone Ranger. In 1979, Jack Wrather, who owned the Lone Ranger character, obtained a court order prohibiting Moore from making future appearances as The Lone Ranger. Moore was able to keep the mask and Wrather died two months later.
I sent off and got a mask and a silver bullet! The bullet came apart so you could put a secret message in it! I also got a pair of Lone Ranger cap busters (toy guns) for Christmas once! Loved The Lone Ranger!
The taking away the mask was not what people think. He was trash talking the movie. The studio was trying to primate the movie and he said it was not a good story, the actor was bad, he didn’t want the movie released and disgrace the image. They took away the mask to shut him up on his public appearances. Then redubbed the lead actors voice. The movie was a flop and the producers lost their money and could not fight him in court. He got his mask back.
Jack Wrather paid a heavey price for his actions. His effort to take away as long ranger resulted him producing the Legend of the Lone Ranger,which became the worst movie made that year, since no one wanted to see the film without Clayton more.
