Jack Lambert (American actor)
Jack Lambert | |
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Born | Yonkers, New York, U.S. | April 13, 1920
Died | February 18, 2002 Carmel, California, U.S. | (aged 81)
Occupation | Actor |
Years active | 1942–1970 |
Children | Lee J. Lambert |
Jack Lambert (April 13, 1920 – February 18, 2002) was an American character actor who specialized in playing movie tough guys and heavies. He is best known for playing the psychotic cat-loving, iron-hooked Steve "the Claw" Michel in Dick Tracy's Dilemma.[1][2]
Following a spell on Broadway, the Yonkers, New York-born Lambert moved to Hollywood and began working in films in 1942.[3] He was a familiar figure in Westerns and crime dramas after World War II, in such movies as The Killers, The Enforcer, Bend of the River, Vera Cruz, Kiss Me Deadly, and How the West Was Won.[citation needed][4]
Lambert also appeared in many television series of the 1950s and 1960s, such as Rod Cameron's State Trooper, twice on Bat Masterson (1959 in S1E22's "Incident in Leadville" and again in 1961 in S3E19's "Bullwhacker’s Bounty"), Gunsmoke (as all evil gunman Kin Creed in the 1959 S4E35 episode “There Never Was A Horse”, where he likely was the only man in the shows 20 year run who ever outdrew Matt Dillon - but missed), Have Gun – Will Travel, Sugarfoot, Tales of Wells Fargo, Daniel Boone, Wagon Train, Bonanza, Get Smart (season one, episode 18, 1966) and The Andy Griffith Show (season three, episode 32, 1963, "The Big House")[5] From 1959 to 1960, Lambert was a regular cast member (as Joshua Walcek, sometimes called "Joshua MacGregor"), in 23 of the 42 episodes of the Darren McGavin series, Riverboat.[6][citation needed]
Personal life[]
In 1959 Lambert moved into a home in Palm Springs, California, owned by his wife Marjorie Franklin (who owned the home with her divorced husband Alexander Hall).[7]
Lambert is not to be confused with the British character actor with the same name who died in 1976.[8]
Partial filmography[]
- 1943: Stage Door Canteen – Sailor Cutting In with Ina Claire (uncredited)
- 1943: Follies Girl – Unconfirmed Bit Part (uncredited)
- 1943: Bomber's Moon – Curly (tail gunner)
- 1943: Hostages – SS guard
- 1943: Seeds of Freedom – Speaker
- 1943: Swing Fever – Jack (Conlon's Henchman) (uncredited)
- 1943: The Cross of Lorraine – Jacques
- 1943: Lost Angel – Lefty Moran (uncredited)
- 1944: The Canterville Ghost – Trigger – Machine Gunner (uncredited)
- 1944: Till We Meet Again (1944) – Drunken German Soldier (uncredited)
- 1945: The Hidden Eye – Louie
- 1945: Duffy's Tavern – Waiter (uncredited)
- 1946: Abilene Town – Jet Younger
- 1946: The Harvey Girls – Marty Peters
- 1946: The Hoodlum Saint – Minor Role (uncredited)
- 1946: O.S.S. – German Lieutenant (uncredited)
- 1946: The Killers – 'Dum-Dum' Clarke
- 1946: Plainsman and the Lady – Sival
- 1947: New Orleans – Biff Lewis
- 1947: Dick Tracy's Dilemma – Steve 'The Claw' Michel
- 1947: The Vigilantes Return – Henchman Ben Borden
- 1947: The Unsuspected – Mr. Press
- 1948: Reaching from Heaven – Buck Huggins
- 1948: River Lady – Swede
- 1948: Belle Starr's Daughter – Bronc Wilson
- 1948: Disaster – Frosty Davenport
- 1948: Force of Evil – (uncredited)
- 1949: Big Jack – Bud Valentine
- 1949: The Great Gatsby – Reba
- 1949: Yes Sir, That's My Baby – Leslie Schultze
- 1949: Brimstone – Luke Courteen
- 1949: Border Incident – Chuck (uncredited)
- 1950: Dakota Lil – Dummy
- 1950: Stars in My Crown – Perry Lokey
- 1950: North of the Great Divide – Henchman Stagg
- 1951: The Enforcer – Philadelphia Tom Zaca
- 1951: The Secret of Convict Lake – Matt Anderson (uncredited)
- 1952: Bend of the River – Red
- 1952: Montana Belle – Ringo
- 1952: Blackbeard the Pirate – Tom Whetstone
- 1953: Scared Stiff – Zombie
- 1953: 99 River Street – Mickey
- 1954: Vera Cruz – Charlie
- 1955: Run for Cover – Larsen
- 1955: Kiss Me Deadly – Sugar Smallhouse
- 1955: At Gunpoint – Kirk
- 1956: Backlash – Mike Benton
- 1956: Canyon River – Kincaid
- 1957: Chicago Confidential – Smitty (uncredited)
- 1958: Machine-Gun Kelly – Howard
- 1958: Hot Car Girl – Cop #1 at soda bar
- 1958: Party Girl – Nick (uncredited)
- 1959: Alias Jesse James – Snake Brice (uncredited)
- 1959: Day Of The Outlaw – Tex (Bruhn's gang)
- 1960: Freckles – Duncan
- 1961: The George Raft Story – Jerry Fitzpatrick
- 1962: How the West Was Won – Gant Henchman (uncredited)
- 1963: 4 for Texas – Monk
References[]
- ^ "Jack Lambert – Biography, Movie Highlights and Photos". AllMovie.
- ^ "AFI-Catalog". catalog.afi.com.
- ^ "Jack Lambert – Broadway Cast & Staff". www.ibdb.com.
- ^ "Jack Lambert, born 1920". BFI.
- ^ "Jack Lambert – TV Guide". TVGuide.com.
- ^ "Riverboat – TV Guide". TVGuide.com.
- ^ Meeks, Eric G. (2014) [2012]. The Best Guide Ever to Palm Springs Celebrity Homes. Horatio Limburger Oglethorpe. p. 35. ISBN 978-1479328598.
- ^ "Jack Lambert, born 1899". BFI.
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