Jack Laird
Jack Laird | |
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Born | Jack Laird Schultheis May 8, 1923 Monrovia, California, U.S. |
Died | December 3, 1991 Los Angeles, California, U.S. | (aged 68)
Resting place | Hollywood Forever Cemetery |
Occupations | |
Years active | 1949–1990 |
Spouse | Cicely Ann Browne (1948-?)
Peggy Jackson (1959-1964) Jeri Emmett (1964-1974) |
Children | 3 |
Jack Laird (born Jack Laird Schultheis; May 8, 1923 – December 3, 1991) was an
.Early life
Laird was born on May 8, 1923, in Monrovia, California, to Leonard Schultheis, a businessman, and Thelma Laird, a Theater Director who taught night school dramatics, and from whom Laird took classes, in his high school years he was art editor of the school newspaper, while a student at
Career
Laird entered the entertainment industry at a young age. One of his first appearances as a child actor was in an unbilled bit part in the 1934 film
One of Laird's favorite actors was
Personal life
On January 17, 1948, Laird married his first wife, actress Cicely Ann Browne, but due to their careers, the marriage ended, Browne retained custody of their son, Sean. On February 22, 1959, Laird married his second wife, Peggy Jackson, a young stage actress who would later appear on the medical show Ben Casey as Nurse Van Buren, they had a daughter, Sharon, after five years, Jackson and Laird divorced. In November 1964, Laird married his third wife, Jeri Emmett, a former Playboy Bunny turned writer, they had a daughter, Persephone, through his marriage to Emmett, Laird would become step-father to her other children, Kurtis, Michael, and Journey, Emmett had written a few episodes for such television shows as, The Fugitive, Iron Horse, The Bold Ones: The Protectors (under the name Betty Deveraux),[7] and Mannix, as well as a Television Series Treatment called "Confessions of a Den Mother", and a book about her days working at the playboy club called "Point Your Tail in The Right Direction".
He was an avid film collector and
Death
Laird died of
Filmography
Films
Year | Film | Credit | Notes |
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1934 | The Circus Clown | Actor (Uncredited) | Role: Child |
1949 | Mr. Belvedere Goes to College | Actor (Uncredited) | Role: Dr. Phillips |
Sword in the Desert | Actor (Uncredited) | Role: Orderly | |
1950 | Francis | Actor (Uncredited) | Role: Switchboard Operator |
1951 | Call Me Mister | Actor (Uncredited) | Role: Soldier |
Journey into Light | Actor (Uncredited) | Role: Worms | |
1964 | The Hanged Man | Writer | Television Movie, Co-Wrote Screenplay with "Stanford Whitmore" |
See How They Run | Producer | ||
1965 | Dark Intruder | Producer | |
1967 | Code Name: Heraclitus | Producer | |
How I Spent My Summer Vacation | Producer | ||
Ready and Willing | Producer | ||
1968 | Shadow over Elveron | Producer | |
1969 | Trial Run | Producer | |
Destiny of a Spy | Producer | ||
1970 | The Movie Murderer | Producer | |
Hauser's Memory | Producer | ||
1973 | Amanda Fallon | Director, Producer | |
The Return of Charlie Chan | Producer | ||
1975 | One Of Our Own | Writer, Producer | |
1976 | Perilous Voyage | Producer | |
1979 | Beggarman, Thief | Producer | |
1981 | Hellinger's Law | Writer, Executive Producer | Co-Wrote Screenplay with "Peter S. Fischer" |
1990 | Kojak: It's Always Something | Writer | |
Kojak: None So Blind | Writer | Co-Wrote Screenplay with "Scott Shepherd" | |
The Bride in Black | Writer | Co-Wrote Story with "Claire Labine" |
Television
Year | TV Series | Credit | Notes |
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1951 | Racket Squad | Writer | 1 Episode |
1952 | China Smith | Writer | Unknown Episodes |
Rebound | Actor | 2 Episodes | |
Your Jeweler's Showcase | Writer | 1 Episode | |
The Unexpected | Writer | 2 Episodes | |
1953 | The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok | Writer | 1 Episode |
The Doctor | Writer | 1 Episode | |
1954 | Waterfront | Writer | 1 Episode |
The New Adventures of China Smith | Writer | 3 Episodes | |
Kraft Television Theatre | Writer | 1 Episode | |
Private Secretary | Writer | 1 Episode | |
1954-55 | The Lone Ranger | Writer | 6 Episodes |
Mr. District Attorney | Writer | 3 Episodes | |
1955 | Fireside Theatre | Writer | 1 Episode |
Brave Eagle | Writer | 1 Episode | |
Cavalcade of America | Writer | 4 Episodes | |
1955-57 | Highway Patrol | Writer | 4 Episodes |
1956 | Warner Bros. Presents | Writer | 2 Episodes |
Celebrity Playhouse | Writer | 4 Episodes | |
Matinee Theater | Writer | 5 Episodes | |
The Man Called X | Writer | 2 Episodes | |
1956-57 | Dr. Christian | Writer | 6 Episodes |
1957 | Men of Annapolis | Writer | 2 Episode |
Code 3 | Writer | 5 Episodes | |
Wire Service | Writer | 1 Episode | |
1957-58 | Broken Arrow | Writer | 3 Episodes |
1957-59 | M Squad | Writer | 12 Episodes |
1957-60 | The Millionaire | Writer | 6 Episodes |
1958 | The Restless Gun | Writer | 1 Episode |
Man Without a Gun | Writer | 3 Episodes | |
Target | Writer | 1 Episode | |
Rescue 8 | Writer | 1 Episode | |
1958-59 | Man with a Camera | Writer | 2 Episodes |
Flight |
Writer | 3 Episodes | |
1958-62 | Have Gun – Will Travel | Writer | 7 Episodes |
1959 | Tales of Wells Fargo | Writer | 1 Episode |
21 Beacon Street | Writer | 1 Episode | |
The Third Man | Writer | 1 Episode | |
Dragnet | Writer | 1 Episode | |
World of Giants | Writer | 1 Episode | |
The Lineup | Writer | 1 Episode | |
New York Confidential | Writer | 2 Episodes | |
Not for Hire | Writer | 1 Episode | |
1959-60 | Hotel de Paree | Writer | 4 Episodes |
Bronco | Writer | 2 Episodes | |
1959-61 | The Rebel | Writer | 4 Episodes |
1960 | Pony Express | Writer | 1 Episode |
The Man from Blackhawk | Writer | 1 Episode | |
1960-61 | Dante | Writer | 2 Episodes |
1960-62 | My Three Sons | Writer | 2 Episodes |
1961 | The Detectives | Writer | 1 Episode |
The Brothers Brannagan | Writer | 2 Episodes | |
1961-65 | Ben Casey | Writer, Story Editor, Producer, Associate Producer, Actor | Multiple Episodes |
1964 | Channing | Writer, Producer, Executive Producer | 17 Episodes |
Kraft Suspense Theatre | Producer | 2 Episodes | |
1964-67 | Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre | Writer, Director, Producer | Multiple Episodes |
1966 | The Wild Wild West | Writer | 2 Episodes |
1969-70 | The Bold Ones: The Protectors | Executive Producer | 5 Episodes |
1970 | The Psychiatrist | Story Consultant | 1 Episode |
1970-73 | Night Gallery | Writer, Director, Producer, Actor | 43 Episodes |
1972-73 | The Bold Ones: The New Doctors | Producer | 2 Episodes |
1973 | Dr. Simon Locke | Writer | 1 Episode |
1973-77 | Kojak | Writer, Supervising Producer | 78 Episodes |
1975-76 | Doctors' Hospital | Writer, Producer | 13 Episodes |
1976-77 | Switch | Producer, Supervising Producer | 9 Episodes |
1977 | Testimony of Two Men | Producer | 3 Episodes |
1978 | The Dark Secret of Harvest Home | Producer | 2 Episodes |
What Really Happened to the Class of '65? | Writer, Producer | 4 Episodes | |
1981 | The Gangster Chronicles | Producer | 13 Episodes |
1984 | Whiz Kids | Writer (Uncredited) | 1 Episode |
1984-85 | Deadly Nightmares | Production Consultant | 10 Episodes |
1985 | Hell Town | Writer | 1 Episode |
The Insiders | Writer | 2 Episodes |
Unproduced Projects
Throughout his career Jack Laird had a number of projects that were never produced or broadcast:
- From The 1950's to the 1960s, Laird wrote several spec scripts, which included, "Red Wolf Crossing", which was an adaptation of the H.G. Wells novel of the same name that was adapted by Howard Rodman,[12] and "The Other Place", a screenplay written by Theodore Sturgeon.[13]
- In early 1967, Laird and Herman Miller had written an early draft of Coogan's Bluff.
- In 1969, Laird was attached to two film projects that were never produced, "The Richest Hill On Earth" which was written by Halsted Welles (Based on a treatment by Laird), and "Unit Theta", which was written by Wilton Schiller.
- From the 1950s to the 1980s, Laird had written or had developed several Television Series Treatments that were never picked up called "Daniel Boone: The Gun Runners",[14] "Talmadge", "Brute Force", "Atonement", "...& Cucamonga", "E.Z. Wheeler: Ex-Cop", "In The Name Of The Law", "Newsroom",[15] "Code Name: Damocles"[16] "Senior Year", "The Lorne Greene Project", and "Tokatyan".
- At the time of his death, Laird was working on a television series based on stories by thriller writer Robert Ludlum[2]
- In 1967, he created an unsold comedy pilot, The Return of the Original Yellow Tornado, about two elderly, retired superheroes Mickey Rooney is the original Yellow Tornado and Eddie Mayehoff is his retired sidekick who must once again don their leotards to do battle with a super-villain who has been set free and has vowed to destroy the world. The pilot was eventually expanded to a film-that was never released.[17][18]
- In 1972, he worked as producer on one of the pilot episodes produced for Biography, an unsold TV series. Four pilots were completed and eventually appeared as TV movies, but Laird's episode about Houdini was never filmed.[17]
- In the 1970s, Laird was attached to several film projects, a spec script he had written called "Hotel Imperial - Tokyo", which was based on an original story by Alan Lee, "Mantrap", a spec script he co-wrote with Wilton Schiller, "The Broken-Field Runner", a screenplay written by Fred Segal, which Laird was going to produce.
- In 1988, Laird wrote a spec script that was called "Suffer The Little Children".
References
- ISBN 0-595-27612-1. Retrieved 2021-06-26.
- ^ a b "Filmreference.com". Jack Laird Biography. Retrieved February 16, 2008.
- ^ "Jack Laird filmography". www.bfi.org.uk. Archived from the original on July 19, 2020. Retrieved 2020-07-18.
- ^ "Jack Laird Filmography". www.catalog.afi.com. Retrieved 2020-07-24.
- ^ "Television and the Movie Industry". digitalhistory.uh.edu. Archived from the original on 2007-10-19. Retrieved 2007-11-05.
- ^ "Cinema: Film History Since 1880". matthewhunt.com. Retrieved 2007-11-05.
- ^ "Betty Deveraux". www.wgfoundation.org. Retrieved 2020-09-17.
- ISBN 978-0-8156-2782-1.
- ^ "1950'S TV SCRIPTS JACK LAIRD ANTHOLOGY #4 BOUND VOLUME". www.worthpoint.com. Retrieved 2021-01-29.
- ^ "1967 UNPRECEDENTED SCRIPT-OUT OF THE DARKNESS - LAIRD". www.worthpoint.com. Retrieved 2021-01-29.
- ^ "1971 UNIQUE & ORIGINAL TV SCRIPT-FIRES, BOMBS & PATRIOTS-LAIRD COLLECTION". www.worthpoint.com. Retrieved 2021-01-29.
- ^ "CIRCA 1960 INCOMPARABLE TV SCREENPLAY TREATMENT-THE INVISIBLE MAN-LAIRD". www.worthpoint.com. Retrieved 2021-01-29.
- ^ "THEODORE STURGEON 1966 SCRIPT "THE OTHER PLACE" JACK LAIRD UNIVERSAL STUDIOS TV". www.worthpoint.com. Retrieved 2021-01-29.
- ^ "RARE 1954 FIRST EPISODE DANIEL BOONE TV SCRIPT EARLY TELEVISION UN-MADE PILOT". www.worthpoint.com. Retrieved 2021-01-29.
- ^ "1970'S PILOT SCRIPTS JACK LAIRD CREATED / WRITTEN BOUND VOLUME TELEVISION SHOWS". www.worthpoint.com. Retrieved 2021-01-29.
- ^ "ORIGINAL TV PREMISE CIRCA 1970 - CODE NAME: DAMOCLES - JACK LAIRD COLLECTION". www.worthpoint.com. Retrieved 2021-01-29.
- ^ a b "The Internet Movie Database". Jack Laird - Other Works. Retrieved February 16, 2008.
- ^ "Mickey Rooney and Eddie Mayehoff as Superheroes to compete with Batman- The Return of the Original Yellow Tornado, Captain Nice and Mr. Terrific". www.thelifeandtimesofhollywood.com. 27 September 2018. Retrieved 2020-07-24.
External links
- Jack Laird at IMDb
- Jack Laird @ thetvdb.com