Personal Life
Lord's first marriage to Anne Willard ended in divorce in 1947. Lord met his son (from his first marriage) only once when the boy was an infant. The boy was later killed in an accident at age thirteen.
On January 17, 1949, Lord married Marie de Narde, who gave up her own career in fashion design to devote her life to him. Marie designed Lord's off-camera wardrobe, as well as her own.
Lord was a chain-smoker who failed at traditional methods of quitting. According to Lord, it was his faith in God which broke him of his habit. Lord and a friend visited a Catholic church where both knelt while Lord promised God he would stop smoking.
Lord was known for being a cultured man who loved reading poetry out loud on the set of his television show and for being reclusive at his Honolulu home.
Cinematographers sometimes refer to a 50mm lens as a "Jack Lord" in reference to the name of the show that made him famous.
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