On my first endurance ride, Castle Rock 50 in
1971, I rode some distance with Clint. This was before he went into
TV. As I remember, he was riding a pinto horse. I distinctly
remember offering to share my candy bar with him. The embarrassing part of
that was I had decided before the ride that an important item I must carry with
me in my cantle pouch was a small tube of hand cream. The hand cream
leaked out and blended nicely with the candy bar, so when I offered to
share the candy with Clint I realized it might taste odd. I
mentioned this to him and he graciously told me it didn't matter, and we ate it
anyway. That's all I really remember, but his name stuck with me all
these years.
And the reason
this is relevant is because those of us who watched One Life to Live in those
days noticed that the wall of his character's office sported a Tevis Cougar
Rock Picture and at times he was seen wearing a Tevis buckle on the
air which he did earn by completing
Tevis..............mb
(Feb. 2) - Soap opera veteran
Clint Ritchie, who for two decades starred as a plain-spoken ranch owner on
'One Life to Live,' died on Saturday just hours after getting a pacemaker
implanted, a friend of that actor told Radar Online. He was
70.
The star's pal and
bookkeeper, Linda Honore, said Ritchie "had been sick for awhile." He suffered
a heart attack in late January, and had the pacemaker installed.
Ritchie played Clint Buchanan
on the long-running ABC soap. He joined the cast in 1979 and last made an
appearance in 2004. The role was recast.
