Jack Lambert (actor)
Jack Taylor Lambert ( born April 13, 1920 in Yonkers, New York, † 18 February 2002 in Carmel -by-the -Sea, California ) was an American actor.
Life and work
After attending primary and secondary school in his home town Jack Lambert made from Colorado College with a degree in English. Instead of his original career goal to pursue as a teacher, he began a career as a theater actor. His first starring role on Broadway in 1941, he played in the play Brother Cain. In 1943 he went to Hollywood, initially in supporting roles in a number of small film productions. He had in Robert Siodmak's film noir Avenger of the Underworld (1946 ) as insidious but mentally mind of low income Killer " Dum Dum " One of his first distinctive appearances. In the 1940s and 1950s, Lambert seemed determined with the role of unsympathetic villain in numerous thrillers and western. Short-term variation gave him his involvement in a musical revue in San Diego in 1954. Starting in the mid -1950s he moved primarily to appearances in television series such as Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Gunsmoke or Bonanza. The determination tired on a roll compartment, Lambert played in 1963 with Four for Texas with for the last time in a movie and retired in the late 1960s and from the TV business.