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Most Recent Role: Steve McGarrett on Hawaii Five-O
Gender: Male
Birthplace: New York, NY, USA
Birthday: 12-30-1920
Birth Name: John Joseph Patrick Ryan
Date of Death: 1-21-1998
Cause of Death: congestive heart failure
Born John Joseph Patrick Ryan, Jack Lord was the son of a steam freighter executive and a mother who owned a farm north of New York City. Aside from an early career at sea as well as an enlistment in the Merchant Marine (both before and during World War II), Lord had a talent for drawing and painting, majoring in Fine Arts at New York University. He began studying acting in New York and...

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Hawaii Five-O
Woe to Wo Fat
Saturday 5 April 1980 on CBS

To investigate the disappearance of three scientists, McGarrett disguises himself as a colleague and finds himself up against his evil nemesis Wo Fat.

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Jack Lord had a clause in his contracts specifying that wherever a TV series or movie location took him there must be first-class accommodations for two. This was so he could keep his wife (Marie) close to him. (edit)
Hawaii Five-O producer Leonard Freeman looked at Jack Lord as very much a perfectionist. Freeman once said, "Having a star like Jack is like having money in the bank. He's always on time; no bags under his eyes, and he's credibility casting. When he flashes that badge, people believe him." Prior to the Hawaii Five-O series, Jack Lord and Leonard Freeman had worked together on an unsold pilot called Grand Hotel. (edit)
Lord trained at the famous New York Actor's Studio with such future movie stars as Paul Newman, Marilyn Monroe, and Marlon Brando. (edit)
Jack Lord's first Broadway appearances included versions of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Traveling Lady. (edit)
Lord was a popular sensation in Hawaii - tour buses often ran by his home and he was constantly swamped for autographs. He so identified with the state and the series Hawaii Five-O that he owned a white Cadillac with personalized license plates that read "Five-O." (edit)

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Jack Lord: (in a 1971 "Photoplay" interview, speaking of his siblings and father) Dad paid us a penny a line to learn poetry. I memorized hundreds and hundreds of poems, all of which proved useful later when I had to learn lines. (edit)
Jack Lord: (speaking to "Movie Life Magazine" in 1963) There is a terrible tendency to conform today. Its particularly sad because all the great men and women have had one thing in common - they dared to be different, dared to speak their minds, dared to espouse the unpopular cause. (edit)
Jack Lord: (telling an interviewer his view of the impact of "Hawaii Five-O" on Hawaii) Hawaii Five-O has given the people of this state a whole industry - the tourist industry - we never had before. (edit)
Jack Lord: (speaking of his relationship with his second wife Marie in 1972) I never realized that two people could really become one, but that's what's happened to us. Its just a very special relationship. (edit)
Jack Lord: ( discussing his reputation as a difficult personality) I can’t kiss a**. I say what’s on my mind. (edit)
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"One of the all-time greats"
Great and wonderful!
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