Jack Lambert (actor, 1920)

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Jack Taylor Lambert (born April 13, 1920 in Yonkers , New York , † February 18, 2002 in Carmel-by-the-Sea , California ) was an American actor .

life and work

After attending elementary and middle school in his hometown, Jack Lambert graduated from Colorado College in English . Instead of pursuing his original professional goal as a teacher, he began a career as a theater actor . He played his first leading role on Broadway in 1941 in the play Brother Cain by Michael Kallesser and Richard Norcross.

In 1943 he went to Hollywood and initially took on supporting roles in a number of small film productions. He had one of his first prominent appearances in Robert Siodmak's film noir Avengers of the Underworld (1946) as the insidious but intellectually less fortunate killer "Dum Dum". In the 1940s and 1950s, Lambert was committed to the role of the unsympathetic villain in numerous crime films and westerns . A brief change in 1954 brought him an engagement in a music revue in San Diego .

From the mid-1950s onwards, he mainly focused on appearances in television series such as Alfred Hitchcock Presents , Smoking Colts and Bonanza . Tired of committing to a single role, Lambert played for Texas for the last time in a movie in 1963 , when he was four, and retired from the television business in the late 1960s.

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Brother Cain Broadway @ John Golden Theater - Tickets and Discounts. Retrieved July 2, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Karen Burroughs Hanns Berry: Bad Boys: The Actors of Film Noir. McFarland & Co., 2003, pp. 366-369.
personal data
SURNAME Lambert, Jack
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lambert, Jack Taylor (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-American actor
DATE OF BIRTH April 13, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Yonkers , New York
DATE OF DEATH February 18, 2002
Place of death Carmel-by-the-Sea , California