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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.
Appearance. move to sidebar hide. Christian Haren (February 1, 1935 – February 27, 1996) was an ... Haren and Darrell Winfield (21 years as the Marlboro Man) ...
In the 1950s, Norris played the Marlboro Man in numerous Marlboro television commercials. [6] Norris was president of the American Quarter Horse Association [7] during the 1980s. Norris died on November 3, 2019, in Colorado Springs, Colorado, at the age of 90. [8]
Graphic video played in court at a detention hearing for Carl A. Richards shows him repeatedly punching 64-year-old George L. Mott III in the head.
McLaren worked as a stuntman and rodeo rider before being hired to appear in ads for Marlboro. [2] McLaren competed in bronc riding and bull riding events. [3] In 1976, he did promotional work for the famous Marlboro cigarette advertising campaign as the "Marlboro Man".
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.