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Clu Gulager

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Clu Gulager, a veteran actor known for his roles on the NBC series “The Virginian” and the 1985 horror comedy “The Return of the Living Dead,” passed away at the age of 93 on August 5, 2022. meet John, his son.

Born William Martin Gulager in Holdenville, Oklahoma, on November 16, 1928, Clu’s father was a former actor. After serving in the US Marine Corps in the 1940s, he attended Northeastern State University and then Baylor University.

He began his acting career with the 1955 variety series Omnibus . Following the series The Tall Man and The Virginian, he had a leading film role in Don Siegel ‘s Underworld Code . Clu Gulager also directed his own short film, A Day With the Boys,  selected for the official short films section at the Cannes Film Festival in 1969. He later had a leading role in The Return of the Living Dead , a horror comedy.

In The Last Movie , Clu Gulager played a foreman who falls in love with  Ellen Burstyn  and seduces  Cybill Shepherd . More recently, he had been in   Sean  Baker ‘s Tangerine and  Quentin Tarantino ‘s Once Upon a Time in … Hollywood .  

Clu Gulager married fellow actress Miriam Byrd-Nethery in 1960. The two remained married until her death in 2003. They had two sons, Tom, and the aforementioned John Gulager, a film director, who bore the actor to your orders in Feast and Piranha 3D .

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