Jack Lambert (April 13, 1920 – February 18, 2002) was an American character actor born in Yonkers, New York specializing in playing movie tough guys and heavies. Best known for playing the psychotic cat-loving, iron-hooked Steve "the Claw" Michael in Dick Tracy's Dilemma.
Following a stint on Broadway, Lambert moved to Hollywood and began working in films in 1942. Lambert was a familiar figure in Westerns and crime dramas after World War II, in such movies as Kiss Me Deadly, Vera Cruz, The Killers, Bend of the River, How the West Was Won, and The Enforcer.
Lambert also appeared in many television series of the 1950s and 1960s, such as Rod Cameron's State Trooper, Gunsmoke, Have Gun - Will Travel, Daniel Boone, Wagon Train, Bonanza, Get Smart, etc., and he was a regular on Darren McGavin's Riverboat.
He is often confused with Jack Lambert, a British character actor of the same name, as well as the former Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker Jack Lambert.
Famous quotes containing the words jack and/or lambert:
“This is the maiden all forlorn
That milked the cow with the crumpled horn”
—Mother Goose (fl. 17th–18th century. The House That Jack Built (l. 22–23)
“Our duty now is to keep alive—to exist. What becomes of a nation if its citizens all die?”
—Dudley Nichols, U.S. screenwriter. Jean Renoir. George Lambert (George Sanders)