Clayton Moore

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1. A role that slipped away

   John Hart took over Moore's role in the third season, reportedly because of a contract dispute, and Moore came back for the last two seasons. Moore said the producers never told him why he was replaced or rehired.

2. A change of course

   Athletic as a boy, Moore joined the circus as an acrobat when he was eight years old. In 1934 he performed a trapeze act at the Century of Progress Exposition in Chicago.

3. A change of course

   As a young man, Moore found success as a John Robert Powers model. In the late 1930s he moved to Hollywood, where he took work as a stuntman and bit player between modeling jobs.

4. About the name

   Around 1940, the Hollywood producer Edward Small talked Moore into taking "Clayton" as his stage name, a change Moore later described in his 1996 autobiography I Was That Masked Man.

5. 

   A first

   Moore became so linked with the masked man that his Hollywood Walk of Fame star, the only one as of 2006, includes his character's name with his own. It reads Clayton Moore and The Lone Ranger.