- Rod Lauren
Infobox actor
name = Rod Lauren
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birthdate = birth date|1940|3|20
location = Flagicon|United StatesUnited States
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deathdate = death date and age|2007|7|11|1940|3|20
birthname = Roger Lawrence Strunk
othername = Rod Strunk
deathplace = Flagicon|United StatesTracy, California United States
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spouse =Nida Blanca Rod Lauren (
March 20 1940 –July 11 2007 ) was an American actor and singer.As an actor, he worked mostly in television, appearing in single episodes of "
Alfred Hitchcock Presents " and "Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. " amongst others during the 1960s. Lauren's most notable film is "The Crawling Hand " (1963) which achieved latter-day notoriety when it was featured on "Mystery Science Theater 3000 ".As a singer, Lauren is a
one-hit wonder who hit #31 on theBillboard Hot 100 chart with the song "If I Had a Girl" in 1960 and performed twice on "The Ed Sullivan Show " that year.From 1979 to 2001, Lauren, who had since reverted to the use of his given name, Roger Lawrence Strunk, was married to
Nida Blanca , a leading Filipino film actress. After Blanca's body was discovered onNovember 6 2001 in the car park inside aSan Juan City parking garage (she had been stabbed to death), Lauren soon emerged as a suspect behind the killing [ [http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/ceb/2003/02/15/news/charge.medel.strunk.doj.html Charge Medel, Strunk: DOJ] ] [ [http://www.newsflash.org/2002/07/sb/sb002293.htm Nida Blanca Murder: It's Still Strunk, Medel After All] ] .He moved back to the
United States and was able to successfully fight extradition to thePhilippines to face trial for the murder. Other suspects were later charged. [ [http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/man/2006/06/24/news/justice.junks.plea.of.suspect.in.actress.slay.case.html Justice Junks Plea of Suspect in Actress Slay Case] ] [ [http://www.newsflash.org/2004/02/ht/ht006368.htm Two More Charged in Nida Murder] ]Strunk committed suicide on
July 11 ,2007 by jumping from a second-floor balcony of the Tracy Inn inTracy, California where he had been staying for the previous three days. [ [http://tracypress.com/content/view/10155/2242/ Body ID'd as Roger Strunk] ] .References
External links
*imdb name|0491075|Rod Lauren
* [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:drk0ikc6bb89~T5 Rod Lauren's allmusic.com entry]
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