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Wesley Eure (born August 17, 1951) is an American actor, singer, author, producer, director, charity fundraiser, and lecturer. He is best known for appearing as Michael Horton on the American soap opera ''Days of Our Lives'' from 1974 to 1981, during which he also starred on the popular children's television series ''Land of the Lost''. He later hosted the popular children's game show ''Finders Keepers'' in 1987 and 1988, and co-created the children's educational television show ''Dragon Tales'' in 1999. He subsequently published several books (for children and adult), and has produced plays and raised funds for HIV/AIDS and other causes. ==Early career== Eure was born Wesley Eure Loper in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on August 17, 1951.〔Denis, Paul and Beck, Amy Louise. ''Daytime TV's Star Directory.'' New York: Popular Library, 1976, p. 85.〕 His father abandoned the family when he was two years old,〔 so his mother, Mary Jane Loper, moved the family to Hattiesburg, Mississippi, where Eure's grandmother lived. While Eure grew up in Mississippi, his mother got a bachelor's degree in psychology and began teaching. She took positions in Texas and Illinois, and then got a job as a drug abuse counselor with the state of Nevada. The Eures moved to Las Vegas, where his mother ran a methadone clinic and hosted a radio talk show about drug abuse.〔(Newcomb, Roger. "The Wesley Eure Interview, Part One." WeLoveSoaps.com. November 12, 2009. ) Accessed 2013-12-09.〕 He spent his senior year of high school in Las Vegas.〔 Eure wanted to be an actor since the age of five,〔 his love of performing stemming from a need for attention.〔 While the family lived in Illinois, he enrolled in a summer program at Northwestern University, where he took acting lessons and won an award.〔 His first break came when he was 17 years old and working part-time at the New Frontier Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas selling artwork. He was hired as a driver for Robert Goulet and Carol Lawrence during their summer tour.〔〔 He spent most of 1968 and 1969 as their driver.〔 After the Goulet-Lawrence tour ended in New York City, Eure decided he would not return to high school and stayed.〔 After a few short months of auditions and odd jobs, in 1970 Eure became a cast member at the American Shakespeare Festival in Stratford, Connecticut.〔("Michelle Will Tell." ''Lexington Dispatch.'' July 3, 1975. ) Accessed 2013-12-09.〕 Hired more for his ability to make the cast and crew laugh than his acting skill, Eure worked with a dialect coach to get rid of his deep Southern accent.〔 During his time in Stratford, he worked with Jane Alexander in ''The Tempest'',〔 and appeared in ''Mourning Becomes Electra'', ''Merry Wives of Windsor'', ''Twelfth Night'', and many original works produced by the company. At the Bucks County Playhouse in Pennsylvania, he performed in ''West Side Story'' and then joined a musical comedy revue and traveled throughout the East Coast resort areas. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Wesley Eure」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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