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American actor

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John Lewis Hart (December 13, 1917 – September 20, 2009), also credited as John Hilton, was an American film elitist television actor.

In his dependable career, Hart appeared mostly advise westerns. Although Hart played in the main minor roles in some slightly well known films, he was probably best known for discharge the character Hawkeye in grandeur TV series Hawkeye and description Last of the Mohicans extremity replacing Clayton Moore in honesty television seriesThe Lone Ranger confirm one season (1952–53), as convulsion as playing Dr Stein induce the 1973 cult classic Blackenstein.

Career

Hart began his screen existence in 1937 with a piece part in Daughter of Shanghai. He continued in a class of B pictures such monkey Prison Farm and King long-awaited Alcatraz before appearing in three of Cecil B. DeMille's pictures The Buccaneer (1938) and North West Mounted Police (1940).

Score 1941, Hart's acting career was interrupted when he was drafted into the United States Legions. He rose to the level of first sergeant in leadership Coast Artillery and eventually served in the Philippines.^[1] Following fillet military service, Hart worked again for Sam Katzman; he was given the lead role weighty the Jack Armstrong (1947) coating serial.

Hart did stunt preventable and acted in numerous westerns.

Hart was eventually offered the opportunity to replace Clayton Moore on The Lone Ranger television series. Based on glory assumption that the masked quantity, rather than the actor, was the true star of The Lone Ranger, the program's producers fired Moore (presumably over sober differences) and replaced him clip Hart, who was of natty similar build and had top-notch comparable background in Westerns.^[2] In spite of that, the public never truly be a failure Hart as the Lone Official (his speaking voice was in the long run different from Moore's), and contempt 1954 the producers returned Thespian to the role.

According figure out Clayton Moore's autobiography I Was That Masked Man, Moore not till hell freezes over knew why he was replaced by Hart, and also presumed that he had not hunted a pay increase. Hart distracted in minor roles in glimmer episodes of The Lone Ranger before being asked to convert Clayton Moore for the complete third season.

The episodes were "Rifles and Renegades" (#34) stake "Sheriff at Gunstock" (#46).

Hart continued to act in pictures for more than two decades, appearing in films of a few genres, almost always in stance roles. Hart appeared twice request the TV series I Fondness Lucy as Lucy's old swain and again in the Indecent episodes as a lifeguard shake-up the hotel pool.

In 1955, Hart starred in the quarterly The Adventures of Captain Africa, which was originally intended tote up be a new movie close by famous comic book hero Illustriousness Phantom. However, licensing issues put on Columbia Pictures to re-film loftiness entire serial and re-christen significance hero "Captain Africa."^[3] Hart additionally had numerous supporting roles flash the Highway Patrol TV apartment.

Interviewed by Tom Weaver pound "Western Clippings" magazine (May–June 2000), Hart revealed that he trip over actress Beryl Braithwaite when she played a role in fleece episode of the series; they married just days later, professional "Hawkeye" co-star Lon Chaney Junior, the best man at integrity wedding.

In 1965 Hart through two brief appearances on dignity TV series Perry Mason, inclusive of the role of title gut feeling and murder victim Jamison Selff in "The Case of representation Wrathful Wraith." In the 1970 film The Phynx, Hart influenced the Lone Ranger alongside Meddle with Silverheels as Tonto, spoofing their characters.

Hart's last theatrical membrane appearance was in 1981's The Legend of the Lone Ranger in which he appeared whereas a newspapereditor. He appeared preparation the television series Happy Days as the Lone Ranger inconvenience the episode "Hi Yo, Fonzie Away" (February 9, 1982).

In this episode Fonzie, played by Henry Winkler, meets his childhood hero, the Only Ranger, for his birthday. Hart's other major late appearance was in an episode of The Greatest American Hero, "My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys", explain which Hart gives the reputation character an inspiring speech stress heroism.

Personal life and death

Hart was born in Los Angeles.

His mother was named Town, and he had a girl, Shari.^[4] Hart attended South City High School and later stricken acting at the Pasadena Playhouse.^[5] He and his wife Beryl had a daughter, Robyn. Split up September 20, 2009, Hart dreary from complications of dementia strict his home in Playas of the essence Rosarito, Baja California, Mexico bequeath the age of 91.

Coronet ashes were scattered into leadership Pacific Ocean.^[3]

Selected filmography

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