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Jack Lord
Lord as Felix Leiter in Dr. No
Birth name John Joseph Patrick Ryan
Born December 30, 1920(1920-12-30)
Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
Died January 21, 1998 (aged 77)
Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S
John Joseph Patrick Ryan (December 30, 1920 – January 21, 1998), best known by his stage name Jack Lord, was an American television, film, and Broadway actor. He was best known for his starring role as Steve McGarrett in the American television program Hawaii Five-O from 1968 to 1980. Lord also appeared in several classic feature films, among them Man of the West (1958) starring Gary Cooper and Dr. No starring Sean Connery.
Contents [hide]
1 Early years
2 Career
3 Artist
4 Death
5 Trivia
6 References
7 External links
[edit] Early years
Born in Brooklyn, New York, Jack Lord was the son of Irish-American parents. His father, William Lawrence Ryan was a steamship company executive. He developed his equestrian skills on his mother's fruit farm in the Hudson River Valley. At the age of fifteen he started spending summers at sea, and from the deck of cargo ships, painted and sketched the landscapes he encountered — Africa, the Mediterranean and China. He was educated at John Adams High School in Ozone Park, New York, Fort Trumbull Merchant Marine Academy, then located in New London, Connecticut, graduating as an Ensign with a Third Mates License.
On a football scholarship to New York University he secured a degree in Fine Arts. He spent the first year of World War II with the War Department's Corps of Engineers, building bridges in Persia. He then returned to the Merchant Marine as an Able Seaman before enrolling in the deck officer course at Fort Trumbull. While making maritime training films, he took to the idea of acting.
This is when he decided to attend the Neighborhood Playhouse, working first as a salesman for Horgan Ford, then later as a Cadillac salesman in New York to fund his studies. Later, at the Actor's Studio, he studied with Marlon Brando, Paul Newman, and Marilyn Monroe.
[edit] Career
Jack Lord in a scene from Hawaii Five-O.His first work on Broadway was in, "Traveling Lady" with Kim Stanley. He was then cast as a replacement for Ben Gazarra in "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof". Prior to that he had been in several off and pre-broadway plays including "The Little Hut"(his first play), "The Illegitimist",and "The Savage". His first Hollywood movie role was in "Court Martial of Billy Mitchell" with Gary Cooper. Early in his career, he met his wife, Marie, who gave up her own career to support him.
Lord was the first actor to play the character of Felix Leiter in the James Bond film series, introduced in the first Bond film, Dr. No. One story alleges that the film producers did not ask Lord to reprise the role in later films, since they felt that having the same actor playing Leiter would upstage the dominance of Sean Connery as the leading man. There is another story that Lord demanded co-star billing, a bigger role and more money to reprise the Felix Leiter role in Goldfinger (film) with Guy Hamilton casting the role to an older actor to make Leiter more of an American 'M' than a friend to Bond.
In 1962, Lord starred as Stoney Burke, a rodeo cowboy from Mission Ridge, South Dakota, in the television series of that name.
In 1965, Jack Lord was considered for the role of Captain Kirk on Star Trek; the role ultimately went to William Shatner. Because Lord wanted to co-produce and have a percentage in ownership of the series, he was ultimately rejected by both Gene Roddenberry and Desilu Studios.
[edit] Artist
After Hawaii Five-O, Lord concentrated on his painting and his work was well-renowned — one of his paintings was formerly housed by New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art — and his art has been housed in some 40 museums worldwide.[1]
[edit] Death
Jack Lord died of congestive heart failure at his home on January 21, 1998 in Honolulu, Hawaii, at the age of 77. Friends reported that in his final years, Lord suffered from Alzheimer's or a similar degenerative disease.[2] He left an estate of $40 million, and being a philanthropist in his lifetime, the entire estate went to various Hawaiian charities upon his wife Marie's death in 2005.[3] Portions of their estate were auctioned on eBay in March 2007].
[edit] Trivia
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Jack Lord's television debut was on the April 11, 1954 telecast of "Follow That Man" in an episode entitled "The Chinese Dolls." The series has never been aired on network television since it went off the air in 1956, but is available commercially on DVD. This very episode is also scheduled for a public film showing at the Mid atlantic nostalgia convention in Aberdeen, Maryland in September 2007.
The above is true,"Jack Lord" did debut in China Dolls however; prior to that time he played parts in "The Red Menace" and "Project X" which were credited under his given name.
The producers of the 2000 Norm MacDonald comedy Screwed paid homage to Lord by making Danny DeVito's character Grover the zealous vice-president of the "Jack Lord Fan Club". The film's focus on this topic included scenes from Hawaii Five-O being watched (and spoken word for word) by Grover.
Traci Lords derived her stage name from the last name of her favorite actor.
Jack Lord also appears in the lead role of John Fry in the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation's movie Williamsburg: the Story of a Patriot
Game show host Richard Dawson made fun of Jack Lord on the first episode of Family Feud when it debuted in 1976. His first line was "I haven't been this excited since I got the oil drilling rights to Jack Lord's hair!"
Originally, he wanted to be billed "Jack Ryan," but another actor had already registered that name with Actors' Equity Association. He wanted a short name that would fit on a movie marquee, so he became "Jack Lord" instead.
A dedicated liberal activist, he was a vocal advocate of gun control in the United States, though he used guns in nearly every performance.
He was dubbed "the Lord" (behind his back) by the cast and crew of Hawaii Five-O because of his imperious manner[citation needed].
He was known for being a very cultured man who loved reading poetry out loud on the set of his TV show and as being somewhat reclusive at his Honolulu home.
Lord met his son (from his first marriage), only once when the boy was an infant; his son was later killed in an accident at the age of thirteen.
In an interview for the May 1970 issue of Photoplay, he talks about his Irish-American background, referring to his father Lawrence Ryan as "big and tough and Irish" and his mother, Josephine O'Brien as an "Irish matriarch".
[edit] References
^ [1]
^ [2]
^ [3]
[edit] External links
The Jack Lord Photo Gallery
www.jacklordpersonalmemorabilia.com/
Jack Lord at the Internet Movie Database
Photographs of several Jack Lord paintings at the M&E Five-O Page (German)
Persondata
NAME Lord, Jack
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ryan, John Joseph Patrick
SHORT DESCRIPTION American actor
DATE OF BIRTH December 30, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH New York, New York, U.S.
DATE OF DEATH January 21, 1998
PLACE OF DEATH
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Lord"
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Jack Lord
Lord as Felix Leiter in Dr. No
Birth name John Joseph Patrick Ryan
Born December 30, 1920(1920-12-30)
Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
Died January 21, 1998 (aged 77)
Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S
John Joseph Patrick Ryan (December 30, 1920 – January 21, 1998), best known by his stage name Jack Lord, was an American television, film, and Broadway actor. He was best known for his starring role as Steve McGarrett in the American television program Hawaii Five-O from 1968 to 1980. Lord also appeared in several classic feature films, among them Man of the West (1958) starring Gary Cooper and Dr. No starring Sean Connery.
Contents [hide]
1 Early years
2 Career
3 Artist
4 Death
5 Trivia
6 References
7 External links
[edit] Early years
Born in Brooklyn, New York, Jack Lord was the son of Irish-American parents. His father, William Lawrence Ryan was a steamship company executive. He developed his equestrian skills on his mother's fruit farm in the Hudson River Valley. At the age of fifteen he started spending summers at sea, and from the deck of cargo ships, painted and sketched the landscapes he encountered — Africa, the Mediterranean and China. He was educated at John Adams High School in Ozone Park, New York, Fort Trumbull Merchant Marine Academy, then located in New London, Connecticut, graduating as an Ensign with a Third Mates License.
On a football scholarship to New York University he secured a degree in Fine Arts. He spent the first year of World War II with the War Department's Corps of Engineers, building bridges in Persia. He then returned to the Merchant Marine as an Able Seaman before enrolling in the deck officer course at Fort Trumbull. While making maritime training films, he took to the idea of acting.
This is when he decided to attend the Neighborhood Playhouse, working first as a salesman for Horgan Ford, then later as a Cadillac salesman in New York to fund his studies. Later, at the Actor's Studio, he studied with Marlon Brando, Paul Newman, and Marilyn Monroe.
[edit] Career
Jack Lord in a scene from Hawaii Five-O.His first work on Broadway was in, "Traveling Lady" with Kim Stanley. He was then cast as a replacement for Ben Gazarra in "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof". Prior to that he had been in several off and pre-broadway plays including "The Little Hut"(his first play), "The Illegitimist",and "The Savage". His first Hollywood movie role was in "Court Martial of Billy Mitchell" with Gary Cooper. Early in his career, he met his wife, Marie, who gave up her own career to support him.
Lord was the first actor to play the character of Felix Leiter in the James Bond film series, introduced in the first Bond film, Dr. No. One story alleges that the film producers did not ask Lord to reprise the role in later films, since they felt that having the same actor playing Leiter would upstage the dominance of Sean Connery as the leading man. There is another story that Lord demanded co-star billing, a bigger role and more money to reprise the Felix Leiter role in Goldfinger (film) with Guy Hamilton casting the role to an older actor to make Leiter more of an American 'M' than a friend to Bond.
In 1962, Lord starred as Stoney Burke, a rodeo cowboy from Mission Ridge, South Dakota, in the television series of that name.
In 1965, Jack Lord was considered for the role of Captain Kirk on Star Trek; the role ultimately went to William Shatner. Because Lord wanted to co-produce and have a percentage in ownership of the series, he was ultimately rejected by both Gene Roddenberry and Desilu Studios.
[edit] Artist
After Hawaii Five-O, Lord concentrated on his painting and his work was well-renowned — one of his paintings was formerly housed by New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art — and his art has been housed in some 40 museums worldwide.[1]
[edit] Death
Jack Lord died of congestive heart failure at his home on January 21, 1998 in Honolulu, Hawaii, at the age of 77. Friends reported that in his final years, Lord suffered from Alzheimer's or a similar degenerative disease.[2] He left an estate of $40 million, and being a philanthropist in his lifetime, the entire estate went to various Hawaiian charities upon his wife Marie's death in 2005.[3] Portions of their estate were auctioned on eBay in March 2007].
[edit] Trivia
Trivia sections are discouraged under Wikipedia guidelines.
The article could be improved by integrating relevant items and removing inappropriate ones.
Jack Lord's television debut was on the April 11, 1954 telecast of "Follow That Man" in an episode entitled "The Chinese Dolls." The series has never been aired on network television since it went off the air in 1956, but is available commercially on DVD. This very episode is also scheduled for a public film showing at the Mid atlantic nostalgia convention in Aberdeen, Maryland in September 2007.
The above is true,"Jack Lord" did debut in China Dolls however; prior to that time he played parts in "The Red Menace" and "Project X" which were credited under his given name.
The producers of the 2000 Norm MacDonald comedy Screwed paid homage to Lord by making Danny DeVito's character Grover the zealous vice-president of the "Jack Lord Fan Club". The film's focus on this topic included scenes from Hawaii Five-O being watched (and spoken word for word) by Grover.
Traci Lords derived her stage name from the last name of her favorite actor.
Jack Lord also appears in the lead role of John Fry in the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation's movie Williamsburg: the Story of a Patriot
Game show host Richard Dawson made fun of Jack Lord on the first episode of Family Feud when it debuted in 1976. His first line was "I haven't been this excited since I got the oil drilling rights to Jack Lord's hair!"
Originally, he wanted to be billed "Jack Ryan," but another actor had already registered that name with Actors' Equity Association. He wanted a short name that would fit on a movie marquee, so he became "Jack Lord" instead.
A dedicated liberal activist, he was a vocal advocate of gun control in the United States, though he used guns in nearly every performance.
He was dubbed "the Lord" (behind his back) by the cast and crew of Hawaii Five-O because of his imperious manner[citation needed].
He was known for being a very cultured man who loved reading poetry out loud on the set of his TV show and as being somewhat reclusive at his Honolulu home.
Lord met his son (from his first marriage), only once when the boy was an infant; his son was later killed in an accident at the age of thirteen.
In an interview for the May 1970 issue of Photoplay, he talks about his Irish-American background, referring to his father Lawrence Ryan as "big and tough and Irish" and his mother, Josephine O'Brien as an "Irish matriarch".
[edit] References
^ [1]
^ [2]
^ [3]
[edit] External links
The Jack Lord Photo Gallery
www.jacklordpersonalmemorabilia.com/
Jack Lord at the Internet Movie Database
Photographs of several Jack Lord paintings at the M&E Five-O Page (German)
Persondata
NAME Lord, Jack
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ryan, John Joseph Patrick
SHORT DESCRIPTION American actor
DATE OF BIRTH December 30, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH New York, New York, U.S.
DATE OF DEATH January 21, 1998
PLACE OF DEATH
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Lord"
Categories: Articles lacking sources from April 2007 | All articles lacking sources | Articles with trivia sections from May 2007 | All articles with unsourced statements | Articles with unsourced statements since February 2007 | 1920 births | 1998 deaths | American television actors | American film actors | People from New York City | People from Hawaii | American sailors | Deaths from cardiovascular disease | Irish-Americans
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