Dack Rambo

Dack Rambo ( born November 13, 1941 in Delano, California as Norman Rambo, † March 21, 1994 in Los Angeles ) was an American actor.

Rambo was discovered at the age of 21 years of Loretta Young for television. He later graduated with a professional acting training at the Lee Strasberg. It was followed by numerous appearances in television films and series, including in the series Cannon, Gunsmoke, Charlie's Angels and the soap opera Another World and All My Children. Special popularity he achieved in the role of Jack Ewing, the long-lost cousins ​​of JR (Larry Hagman ) in the television series Dallas, which he embodied 1985-1987. In 1973 he was awarded by readers' choice and a Bronze Bravo Otto the German youth magazine BRAVO.

1991 diagnonstiziert at Rambo AIDS, after which he retired from acting to devote himself to fighting the disease and public information to AIDS. In 1994, he died at the age of only 52 years.

His twin brother, Dirk Rambo, who also worked as an actor in film and television, died in 1967 in a traffic accident.