Ralph Woodward Clanton (September 11, 1914 – December 29, 2002) was an American character actor of film, stage, and television.

[1] After acting as the narrator in Canadian Pacific (1949), he was the American lead in the British war film They Were Not Divided.(1950).

Clanton was featured in seven episodes of Alfred Hitchcock's television show, as well as making several appearances on the Hallmark Hall of Fame.

In 1976, he played the role of George Washington in a PBS television production of Sidney Kingsley's drama The Patriots.

In a playbill for the 1946 revival of Cyrano de Bergerac he is listed as a direct descendant of members of the infamous Clanton gang, which took part in the Gunfight at the O.K.