The Lone Ranger (Clayton Moore) and Tonto (Jay Silverheels)

The Lone Ranger television series ran from 1949 to 1957, starring Clayton Moore
(John Hart from 1952 to 1954) with Jay Silverheels as Tonto. The show initially
featured Gerald Mohr as the episode narrator. Fred Foy served as both narrator
and announcer of the radio series from 1948 to its finish and became announcer
of the television version when story narration was dropped there. This was by far
the highest-rated television program on the ABC network in the early 1950s and
its first big hit. 

Samuel Pack "Sam" Elliott

Elliott moved from California to Portland, Oregon with his family
during his teenage years, He graduated from David Douglas High
School and attended Clark College in Vancouver, Washington,
where he completed a two-year program.

Sam as The Stranger in The Big Lebowski (1998)

 
Jack Henderson Clement (April 5, 1931 – August 8, 2013)

(AP) – "Cowboy" Jack Clement, a producer, engineer, songwriter and 
beloved figure who helped birth rock ‘n’ roll and push country music
into modern times, has died. He was 82.

Close friend Dub Cornett says Clement’s hospice nurse confirmed
that Clement died Thursday morning. He passed away just months
after learning he would be joining the Country Music Hall of Fame,
a fitting tip of the cowboy hat to the man whose personal story is
entwined with the roots of rock ‘n’ roll like few others. He was to
be inducted at a ceremony later this fall.

Clement’s career included stops in Memphis at Sun Records,
where he discovered Jerry Lee Lewis, and Nashville, where he
was a close collaborator of Johnny Cash, Charley Pride and
fellow 2013 inductee Bobby Bare.

“Cowboy” Jack Clement with Jerry Lee Lewis in 2010

 

Michael George Ansara (April 15, 1922 – July 31, 2013)

The stage, screen, and voice actor died after a long illness at his home in
Calabasas, California. Ansara is best known for his portrayal of Cochise
in the ABC-TV series Broken  Arrow (1956-1958). He also played the
original Klingon on several episodes of television’s "Star Trek".

The Gene Autry Show is a western/cowboy television series which
aired on CBS for 91 episodes from July 23, 1950 until August 7,
1956, originally sponsored by Wrigley’s Doublemint chewing gum.