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The D-A-D song "Marlboro Man" is about the advertisements featuring the character. The Neil Young song "Big Green Country" refers to the Marlboro man as "the cancer cowboy", who was "pure as driven snow" before his death. The World Entertainment War song "Marlboro Man, Jr." begins, "The Marlboro Man is dead Long live the Marlboro Man! In our ...
William Leo Thourlby (January 22, 1924 – April 15, 2013) was an American actor, model and writer. He was known for his rugged, cowboy look when he appeared as the face of the Marlboro Man campaign in the 1950s. [1]
He was the Marlboro Man from 1968 until 1989. [2] He is also credited with being the most portrayed man in the world by some. [3] Philip Morris has used many cowboys for their ads but has declared that Winfield was "really the Marlboro man." [4] [5] As an adult, Winfield moved to Wyoming and began ranching.
As an actor, he played Captain Richard "Dick" Hammer in the television series Emergency! but left the show during the 1972 first season after ten episodes. He returned to firefighting up till his retirement in 1983, during which he became one of many actors who portrayed the Marlboro Man in print advertisements in the 1970s.
Marvel's controversial vigilante, the Punisher, is trading in his traditional skull symbol in favor of a new look in the limited series, Punisher. (Photo: Marvel Comics) (Marvel Comics)
In the mid-1950s he appeared in magazine and TV ads as the first widely publicized "Cowboy" Marlboro Man. [2] In 1959, he was cast as Sergeant Major Carmody, with Doug McClure as Corporal Jenkins, in the episode "The Face of Courage" of the NBC western series, Riverboat , starring Darren McGavin and Burt Reynolds .
The camera first captured 39-year-old Richards, at 230 pounds, delivering a relentless, brutal beating to the 64-year-old, 140-pound victim, Caitlin Sidley, assistant Monmouth County prosecutor ...
In 1976, he did promotional work for the famous Marlboro cigarette advertising campaign as the "Marlboro Man". After developing lung cancer in 1990, McLaren became an anti-smoking crusader citing his 30-year smoking habit as the cause of his cancer.