First Name
Jack
Last Name
Lord
Birthday
30/12/1920
Height
74
Build
Average
Birthplace
Brooklyn, NY, USA
Zodiac Sign
Capricorn
Died
21/01/1998
Place of Death
Honolulu, HI
Cause of Death
Congestive Heart Failure
Claim to Fame
Steve McGarrett - Hawaii Five-O
Gender
Male
Hair Color
Brown - Dark
Ethnicity
White
Nationality
American
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Role ID
Actor/Actress, Director, Producer
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Profile Bio Text
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 earlier in his career, among them Man of the West (1958) starring Gary Cooper and the first James Bond film Dr. No (1962) starring Sean Connery. 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 United States Merchant Marine Academy, then located in New London, Connecticut, graduating as an Ensign with a Third Mates License. He attended New York University on a football scholarship, and earned 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.
Jack Lord died of congestive heart failure at his home on January 21, 1998 in Honolulu, Hawaii, at the age of 77. 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. Portions of their estate were auctioned on eBay in March 2007. Friends of Lord claimed that in his final years he suffered from Alzheimer`s disease.
Couple Profile Source
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Lord
University
New York University
Full Name at Birth
John Joseph Patrick Ryan
Count - Awards
1
Age
77
Wikipedia Text
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 known for his starring role as Steve McGarrett in the American television program Hawaii Five-O from 1968 to 1980. Lord appeared in feature films earlier in his career, among them Man of the West (1958). He was the first actor to play recurring character Felix Leiter, in Dr. No, the first James Bond film.
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