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Clu Gulager
William Martin "Clu" Gulager (November 16, 1928 – August 5, 2022) was an American actor and director. He was born in Holdenville, Oklahoma. He was known for his co-starring role as William H. Bonney (Billy the Kid) in the 1960–1962 NBCtelevision seriesThe Tall Man and for his role as Emmett Ryker in another NBC western series, The Virginian.
He also played Burt Wilson in The Return of the Living Dead and Ken Walsh in A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge. He also played a book store owner in Quentin Tarantino's 2019 movie Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
Gulager died on August 5, 2022 at his son's home in Los Angeles, California at the age of 93.[1]
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Clu Gulager
American actor (1928–2022)
William Martin Gulager (;[1] November 16, 1928 – August 5, 2022), better known as Clu Gulager, was an American television and film actor and director born in Holdenville, Oklahoma. He first became known for his work in television, appearing in the co-starring role of William H. Bonney (Billy the Kid) in the 1960–1962 NBCtelevision seriesThe Tall Man and as Emmett Ryker in another NBC Western series, The Virginian. He later had a second career as a horror film actor, including a lead part in Dan O'Bannon's The Return of the Living Dead (1985). He also was in A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge (1985). In 2005 he started acting in his son's horror films — the Feasts films and Piranha 3DD — in his 80s.
Gulager's first major film role was in Don Siegel's The Killers (1964) with Lee Marvin and Ronald Reagan in his only movie role as a villain, followed by a supporting part in the racing film Winning (1969) opposite Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward; in Peter Bogdanovich's drama The Last Picture Show (1971); and opposite John Wayne in McQ (1974). In the 1980s, Gulager appeared in several horror films, such as The Initiation (1984) and the zombie comedy The Return of the Living Dead (
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