1. William Martin Gulager, better known as Clu Gulager, was an American television and film actor and director born in Holdenville, Oklahoma.
22 Facts About Clu Gulager
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Clu Gulager 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.
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Clu Gulager was in A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge.
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Clu Gulager appeared in the independent film Tangerine and in Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, which was his final film role.
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Clu Gulager directed the short film A Day with the Boys, which was nominated for the Palme d'Or for Best Short Film at the 1969 Cannes Film Festival.
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Clu Gulager was born in Holdenville, Oklahoma, on November 16,1928, the son of John Delancy Clu Gulager, who had been an actor before settling down to practice law in nearby Muskogee.
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Clu Gulager's paternal grandmother, Martha Schrimsher Gulager, was a sister of Mary Schrimsher, the mother of Will Rogers, making Gulager and Rogers first cousins, once removed.
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Clu Gulager was Cherokee, having been an enrolled citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma.
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From 1946 to 1948, Clu Gulager served in the United States Marine Corps at Camp Pendleton.
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Clu Gulager won a one-year scholarship to study abroad in Paris, where he worked under Jean-Louis Barrault, a French actor and director.
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On October 11,1959, Clu Gulager appeared as a US Navy sailor in the "Appointment at Eleven" episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents and again as an escaped convict in "Pen Pal" on November 1,1960.
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Clu Gulager was hailed for his utterly chilling performance as the psychopathic Coll.
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From 1960 to 1962, Clu Gulager played Billy the Kid in The Tall Man, opposite Barry Sullivan as Sheriff Pat Garrett.
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In 1961, Clu Gulager guest-starred in another NBC Western, Whispering Smith, Audie Murphy's only attempt at series television.
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Clu Gulager starred with Lee Marvin, Ronald Reagan, John Cassavetes, and Angie Dickinson in The Killers, teaming with Marvin as a pair of ruthless hit men.
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In 1971, Clu Gulager appeared in Peter Bogdanovich's The Last Picture Show.
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Clu Gulager played the boss of Susan Sarandon in a 1977 film drama, The Other Side of Midnight.
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Clu Gulager was a featured player in director John Landis' darkly comedic 1985 film noir satire, Into the Night, a film rife with insider Hollywood cameos, as an FBI agent who is a courier of a cache of clandestine funds, which he grudgingly delivers to secure the safety of the film's two romantic leads.
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In 2005, Clu Gulager appeared as a shotgun-toting bartender in Feast, followed by the film's two sequels, Feast II: Sloppy Seconds, and Feast III: The Happy Finish, all of which were directed by his son, John.
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Clu Gulager had a minor role in the critically acclaimed independent film Tangerine.
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Clu Gulager had a role in the 2012 film Piranha 3DD.
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Clu Gulager died of natural causes at the Los Angeles home of his son John on August 5,2022.