David McLean

David McLean was an American film and television actor who started out on stage in little theater plays. Born Eugene Joseph Huth in Akron, Ohio, he served in the military during World War II and afterward acted in Los Angeles productions while also drawing sketches and cartoons. He became familiar through Marlboro television and print advertisements from the early 1960s, and he starred as the title character in Tate, an NBC Western that filled in for part of Perry Como's program during the summer of 1960. He had a leading role in X-15, Richard Donner's directorial debut, and appeared in The Strangler (1964), Nevada Smith (1966), Kingdom of the Spiders (1977) and Deathsport (1978). His many television guest spots included Laramie, The Virginian, Bonanza, Daniel Boone, Perry Mason and Death Valley Days, and he was a spokesman for Great Western Savings and Loan. He died in 1995.