CLU GULAGER BIOGRAPHY & FILMOGRAPHY:

Clu Gulager was born on November 16th, 1928 in Holdenville, Oklahoma with the birth name William Martin Gulager.  His father, John Gulager was an actor who performed on Broadway as well as vaudeville.  He was mostly raised by his alcoholic uncle who lived on a farm near Tahlequah, Oklahoma.
 
In the late 1940's he attended Northeastern State College in Tahlequah, Oklahoma and then between 1946 through 1948 he served in the United States Marine Corps and then Gulager first got his experience working as a stage actor when he was in Paris at a theater under the guidance of Jean-Louis Barrault. 
 
He then found work on a number of television shows such as "Have Gun-Will Travel" (1958), "Five Fingers" (1959), "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" (1959), "The Untouchables" (1959) and "Wagon Train" (1959-1964).
 
In 1960 he signed with Universal as a contract player and continued to make numerous appearances on a variety of television shows such as, "The Virginian" (1963-1968), "Dr. Kildare" (1964), "The Tall Man" (1960-1962) and "The Killers" (1964).
 
Some of his more well known film roles were on, "Winning" (1969), "The Last Picture Show" (1971), "Into the Night" (1985) and "The Return of the Living Dead" (1985). 
 
Clu Gulager has married only one time to actress, Miriam Byrd-Nethery in 1952 and they had two sons, John and Tom.  The couple remained married until she passed away on January 6th, 2003.   His son John is a well known film director.
 
He has not remarried again and is for the most part retired except for an appearance in his sons films, "Feast II: Sloppy Seconds" (2008), "Feast III: The Happy Finish" (2009) and his latest work "Piranha 3DD" (2011).

 
Filmography

2011 Piranha 3DD 
2009 Feast III: The Happy Finish 
2008 Feast II: Sloppy Seconds
2008 Thus to Tyrants
2006 Vic 
2005 Feast 
1999 Palmer's Pick Up
1999 Gunfighter 
1996 Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman 
1995 Walker, Texas Ranger
1995 Beavis and Butt-Head
1995 Kung Fu: The Legend Continues 
1994 Puppet Master 5: The Final Chapter 
1993 Ambush in Waco: In the Line of Duty 
1993 Killing Device 
1992 Eddie Presley
1991 My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys 
1990 The Willies
1990 Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective
1988 I'm Gonna Git You Sucka 
1988 Uninvited 
1988 MacGyver
1988 Tapeheads 
1988 Teen Vamp 
1987 The Hidden 
1985-1987 Murder, She Wrote
1987 Summer Heat 
1987 The Offspring
1986 Simon & Simon
1986 Hunter's Blood
1986 North and South, Book II 
1982-1986 The Fall Guy 
1986 Magnum, P.I. 
1986 Airwolf
1985 Riptide 
1985 Bridge Across Time 
1985 A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy's Revenge
1985 Lies
1985 The Return of the Living Dead
1985 Prime Risk
1985 Space
1985 Into the Night
1985 Knight Rider
1985 Street Hawk
1984 The Initiation 
1984 I Do Mind Dying 
1984 Cover Up
1984 Chattanooga Choo Choo 
1984 The Yellow Rose
1984 Masquerade 
1984 The Master 
1983 Automan 
1983 This Is the Life 
1983 Cutter to Houston 
1983 Living Proof: The Hank Williams, Jr. Story
1982 CHiPs 
1982 Quincy, M.E. 
1981 Falcon Crest
1980 Skyward
1980 Touched by Love 
1980 Kenny Rogers as The Gambler 
1979 A Force of One 
1979 Lawman Without a Gun 
1979 The MacKenzies of Paradise Cove
1979 Willa 
1978 A Question of Love 
1978 Stickin' Together 
1978 Ski Lift to Death
1978 King 
1978 Black Beauty
1977 The Oregon Trail 
1977 Westside Medical 
1977 Charlie Cobb: Nice Night for a Hanging 
1977 The Other Side of Midnight 
1977 Dog and Cat 
1976 Once an Eagle 
1976 Most Wanted
1972-1976 Hawaii Five-O 
1976 The Killer Who Wouldn't Die 
1976 Good Heavens 
1973-1976 Barnaby Jones 
1976 Ellery Queen 
1976 Phyllis 
1974-1975 Police Story 
1975 Three for the Road 
1975 Medical Story
1975 Kate McShane
1975 The Streets of San Francisco
1971-1975 Cannon 
1975 Khan!
1975 McCloud
1975 The Drought
1974 The ABC Afternoon Playbreak
1974 Get Christie Love!
1974 Gangsterfilmen 
1974 Hit Lady 
1974 Houston, We've Got a Problem 
1974 Shaft 
1974 Smile Jenny, You're Dead 
1974 Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law 
1974 McQ 
1973 The New Perry Mason
1968-1973 Ironside 
1973 Insight 
1973 Call to Danger 
1973 Kung Fu 
1973 Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color 
1973 Mystery in Dracula's Castle 
1973 Mannix 
1972 Molly and Lawless John 
1972 The Bold Ones: The New Doctors 
1972 Mod Squad
1972 Bonanza
1972 Footstep
1972 Medical Center
1972 The Glass House 
1971 Company of Killers
1971 The F.B.I.
1971 The Last Picture Show
1971 The Psychiatrist 
1969-1970 The Name of the Game
1970 San Francisco International Airport
1969 The Survivors 
1969 Winning
1963-1968 The Virginian
1967 Sullivan's Empire
1966 And Now Miguel
1964 The Killers
1959-1964 Wagon Train
1964 Dr. Kildare 
1964 Kraft Suspense Theatre
1962 The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
1960-1962 The Tall Man 
1961 The Defenders 
1961 Whispering Smith
1959-1960 Alfred Hitchcock Presents 
1959-1960 The Deputy
1960 The Rebel
1960 The Lineup 
1959 Riverboat 
1959 Five Fingers 
1959 The Untouchables 
1959 Law of the Plainsman
1959 Laramie 
1959 Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
1959 Have Gun - Will Travel 
1959 The Lawless Years 
1959 Wanted: Dead or Alive 
1959 Playhouse 90
1959 Black Saddle
1957 The Alcoa Hour
1957 West Point
1957 Studio One in Hollywood
1956 Goodyear Playhouse
1956 The United States Steel Hour