However, licensing issues made Columbia re-film the entire serial and re-christen the hero "Captain Africa". In 1955, he starred in The Adventures of Captain Africa, which was originally intended to be a new movie about famous comic book hero The Phantom. The other major one is The Greatest American Hero episode, "My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys" where Hart appears as himself inadvertently giving the title character an inspiring speech about heroism at a time when he was considering abandoning his superhero career. In this episode Fonzie, played by Henry Winkler, meets his childhood hero, The Lone Ranger. 9, 1982), with Hart reprising his role as "The Lone Ranger". Another appearance was in the television series Happy Days as "The Lone Ranger" in the episode "Hi Yo, Fonzie Away" (Feb. His last film appearances, were in 1981's The Legend of the Lone Ranger in which he appeared as newspaper editor Lucas Striker, apparently as a tribute to his time as "The Ranger" years earlier. He appeared in films of several genres, almost always in supporting roles. Though terminated, Hart continued to act in films for over two more decades on a fairly regular basis. However, the public never truly accepted Hart as "The Ranger," and by 1954 the owners acquiesced to Moore's demands and returned him to the role. It was filmed in Canada and featured Native Americans in a favorable image.īased 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. The one-season program was based loosely on the novels of James Fenimore Cooper. 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.
Although he has played mostly minor roles in some fairly well-known films, he is probably best-known for replacing Clayton Moore in 1952 for the third season of the television show The Lone Ranger when Moore demanded a higher salary. In his early career, he appeared mostly in Westerns. John Hart (DecemSeptember 20, 2009) was an American motion picture and television actor. This article contains information from Wikipedia.
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