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John Hart (actor), This article is about the American cinema actor named John Hart. For other uses, see John Hart (disambiguation).John Hart (December 13, 1917 – September 20, 2009) was an American motion picture and television actor, born in Los Angeles, California. In his early career, he appeared mostly in Westerns. Although he played mostly minor roles in some fairly well-known films, he was probably best-known for replacing Clayton Moore in 1952 for one season of the television show The Lone Ranger when Moore demanded a higher salary.Based on the assumption that the masked character, rather than the actor was the true star of The Lone Ranger, the program producers fired Moore and replaced him with Hart, who was of a similar build and had a comparable background in westerns. However, the public never truly accepted Hart as The Ranger, and by 1954 the owners acquiesced to Moores demands and returned him to the role. According to Clayton Moores autobiography, I Was That Masked Man, Moore never knew why he was replaced with John Hart. He also stated that he had not sought a pay increase to portray The Lone Ranger.Though terminated, Hart continued to act in films for over two more decades on a fairly regular basis. He appeared in films of several genres, almost always in supporting roles.In 1955, he starred in Adventures of Captain Africa, which was originally intended to be a new movie about famous comic book hero The Phantom. However, licencing issues made Columbia re-film the entire serial and re-christen the hero Captain Africa. In 1957, Hart portrayed Nat Hawkeye Cutler in the syndicated western series Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans, set in New York State of the 1750s. The one-season program was based loosely on the novels of James Fenimore Cooper. It was filmed in Canada and featured some Indians in a favorable image. Interviewed by Tom Weaver in Western Clippings magazine (May-June 2000), Hart revealed that he met actress Beryl Braithwaite when she played a role in an episode of the series; they married just days later, with Hawkeye co-star Lon Chaney, Jr., the best man at the wedding.Hart played The Lone Ranger along side Jay Silverheels as Tonto, spoofing their characters in The Phynx, released in 1970.His last film appearance was in 1981s The Legend of the Lone Ranger in which he appeared as a newspaper editor, apparently as a tribute to his time as The Ranger years earlier. Another appearance was in the television series Happy Days as The Lone Ranger in the episode Hi Yo, Fonzie Away (Feb. 9, 1982), with Hart reprising his role as The Lone Ranger. In this episode Fonzie, played by Henry Winkler meets his childhood hero, The Lone Ranger, for his birthday. The other major late appearance was in a The Greatest American Hero episode, My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys, where Hart gives the title character an inspiring speech about heroism. John Hart also had numerous supporting roles in The Highway Patrol.On September 20, 2009 Hart died at his home in Playas de Rosarito, Baja California at the age of 91, survived by his wife Beryl and a daughter. His ashes were scattered into the Pacific Ocean.[edit] Filmography1937 : Daughter of Shanghai1938 : The Buccaneer1940 : North West Mounted Police1947 : Vacation Days1949 : Batman and Robin1950 : Atom Man vs. Superman1951 : Stagecoach Driver1952 : Kansas Territory1953 : The Lone Ranger1953 : The Great Adventures of Captain Kidd1955 : Adventures of Captain Africa, Mighty Jungle Avenger! serial1956 : The Ten Commandments1957 : Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans Tv series1962 : The Horizontal Lieutenant1965 : Rawhide Tv series1966 : Django spara per primo1970 : The Phynx1973 : Santee1973 : Blackenstein1976 : Blood Voyage1976 : The Astral Factor1978 : Cheerleaders Beach Party1981 : The Greatest American Hero1981 : The Legend of the Lone Ranger[edit] References^ After 60 Years, the Lone Ranger Still Lives. LA Times. http://articles.latimes.com/1993-06-12/entertainment/ca-2379_1_lone-ranger/2. Retrieved 2010-09-27. ^ John Hart dies at 91; the other Lone Ranger. Chicago Tribune. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/obituaries/la-me-john-hart23-2009sep23,0,2385894.story. Retrieved 2010-11-01. ^ John Hart dies 91 - http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-john-hart23-2009sep23,0,2845778.story[edit] External linksJohn Hart at Find a GraveJohn Hart at the Internet Movie DatabaseHawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans PagePersondataNameHart, JohnAlternative namesShort descriptionDate of birthDecember 13, 1917Place of birthLos Angeles, California, United StatesDate of deathSeptember 20, 2009Place of deathPlayas de Rosarito, Baja California, MexicoRetrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hart_(actor)Categories: 1917 births | 2009 deaths | Actors from Los Angeles, California | American film actors | American television actorsHidden categories: Infobox person using deprecated parameters | Articles with hCardsPersonal toolsLog in / create accountNamespacesArticleDiscussionVariantsViewsReadEditView historyActionsSearchNavigationMain pageContentsFeatured contentCurrent eventsRandom articleDonate to WikipediaInteractionHelpAbout WikipediaCommunity portalRecent changesContact WikipediaToolboxWhat links hereRelated changesUpload fileSpecial pagesPermanent linkCite this pagePrint/exportCreate a bookDownload as PDFPrintable versionLanguagesDeutschNederlands This page was last modified on 22 February 2011 at 04:16.Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License;additional terms may apply.See Terms of Use for details.Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization.Contact usPrivacy policyAbout WikipediaDisclaimersif ( window.mediaWiki ) {mediaWiki.config.set({wgCanonicalNamespace: , wgCanonicalSpecialPageName: false, wgNamespaceNumber: 0, wgPageName: John_Hart_(actor), wgTitle: John Hart (actor), wgAction: view, wgArticleId: 1203840, wgIsArticle: true, wgUserName: null, wgUserGroups: [*], wgCurRevisionId: 415263305, wgCategories: [Infobox person using deprecated parameters, Articles with hCards, 1917 births, 2009 deaths, Actors from Los Angeles, California, American film actors, American television actors], wgBreakFrames: false, wgRestrictionEdit: [], wgRestrictionMove: [], wgSearchNamespaces: [0], wgFlaggedRevsParams: {tags: {status: {levels: 1, quality: 2, pristine: 3}}}, wgStableRevisionId: null, wgRevContents: {error: Unable to get content., waiting: Waiting for content}, wgWikimediaMobileUrl: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki, wgCollapsibleNavBucketTest: false, wgCollapsibleNavForceNewVersion: false, wgArticleAssessmentJUIPath: http://bits.wikimedia.org/w/extensions-1.17/UsabilityInitiative/js/js2stopgap/jui.combined.min.js, Geo: {city: , country: }, wgNoticeProject: wikipedia});}if ( window.mediaWiki ) {mediaWiki.loader.load([mediawiki.legacy.wikibits, mediawiki.util, mediawiki.legacy.ajax, mediawiki.legacy.mwsuggest, ext.vector.collapsibleNav, ext.vector.collapsibleTabs, ext.vector.editWarning, ext.vector.simpleSearch]);mediaWiki.loader.go();}if ( window.mediaWiki ) {mediaWiki.user.options.set({ccmeonemails:0,cols:80,contextchars:50,contextlines:5,date:default,diffonly:0,disablemail:0,disablesuggest:0,editfont:default,editondblclick:0,editsection:1,editsectiononrightclick:0,enotifminoredits:0,enotifrevealaddr:0,enotifusertalkpages:1,enotifwatchlistpages:0,extendwatchlist:0,externaldiff:0,externaleditor:0,fancysig:0,forceeditsummary:0,gender:unknown,hideminor:0,hidepatrolled:0,highlightbroken:1,imagesize:2,justify:0,math:1,minordefault:0,newpageshidepatrolled:0,nocache:0,noconvertlink:0,norollbackdiff:0,numberheadings:0,previewonfirst:0,previewontop:1,quickbar:1,rcdays:7,rclimit:50,rememberpassword:0,rows:25,searchlimit:20,showhiddencats:0,showjumplinks:1,shownumberswatching:1,showtoc:1,showtoolbar:1,skin:vector,stubthreshold:0,thumbsize:4,underline:2,uselivepreview:0,usenewrc:0,watchcreations:1,watchdefault:0,watchdeletion:0,watchlistdays:3,watchlisthideanons:0,watchlisthidebots:0,watchlisthideliu:0,watchlisthideminor:0,watchlisthideown:0,watchlisthidepatrolled:0,watchmoves:0,wllimit:250,flaggedrevssimpleui:1,flaggedrevsstable:false,flaggedrevseditdiffs:true,flaggedrevsviewdiffs:false,vector-simplesearch:1,useeditwarning:1,vector-collapsiblenav:1,usebetatoolbar:1,usebetatoolbar-cgd:1,variant:en,language:en,searchNs0:true,searchNs1:false,searchNs2:false,searchNs3:false,searchNs4:false,searchNs5:false,searchNs6:false,searchNs7:false,searchNs8:false,searchNs9:false,searchNs10:false,searchNs11:false,searchNs12:false,searchNs13:false,searchNs14:false,searchNs15:false,searchNs100:false,searchNs101:false,searchNs108:false,searchNs109:false});mediaWiki.loader.state({user.options:ready});/* cache key: enwiki:resourceloader:filter:minify-js:3:ae2156c08a06314b12473d37e57711e2 */} if ( window.isMSIE55 ) fixalpha();