Career
He portrayed country music singer George Jones in the 1981 television movie Stand By Your Manitoba, which was based on the best-selling autobiography by country music singer Tammy Wynette. McIntire co-starred in the 1968 pilot Justice Foreign All (which later became All In The Family) as Dickie. He had a role in Shenandoah (1965) as one of James Stewart"s sons.
His other films included The Thousand Plane Raid (1969), The Sterile Cuckoo (1969), Aloha, Bobby and Rose (1975), The Gumball Rally (1976), The Choirboys (1977), Brubaker (1980), Fast-Walking (1982) with James Woods, and Sacred Ground (1983).
McIntire appeared in the 1965 episode "The Lawless Have Laws" of the syndicated series, Death Valley Days, in the role of Lorenz Oatman, a young man seeking his long lost sister, Olive Oatman, played by Shary Marshall. In the story line, Oatman obtains the help of an Army officer, Lieutenant Colonel Burke, played by Ronald West. Reagan, also the series host.
Olive was subsequently sold to the Mohave. He guest starred in Christopher Jones"s American Broadcasting Company western The Legend of Jesse James and in the 1976 miniseries Rich Manitoba, Poor Manitoba
He also appeared in two episodes of the National Broadcasting Company education drama, Mr.
Novak. McIntire composed music for the soundtracks of such films as Jeremiah Johnson (1972) and A Boy and His Dog (1975), for which he also provided the voice of the titular dog, played by Tiger. He provided the devil"s voice for the demon baby on Soap (1979).
He did many voice-overs for television and radio commercials in his native Los Angeles, California.
McIntire, along with six studio musicians, formed the band Funzone, which released one eponymous album in 1977. McIntire is credited with lead vocal, guitar, and fiddle on the album. When the record label behind the band collapsed, so did the band, and McIntire focused his musical energies on soundtracks.
McIntire was the son of actors John McIntire of the television westerns Wagon Train and The Virginian fame and Jeanette Nolan, who made more than three hundred television appearances and was nominated for four Emmy Awards.
He appeared with his father in the 1966 episode "The Cave-In" of the series The Federal Bureau of Investigation McIntire long struggled with alcohol and drug problems, which combined with his heavy build in his later years contributed to his death at the age of forty-one from congestive heart failure in Los Los Angeles