- Jack Laird
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birthdate =March 8 ,1923
birthplace =California ,United States flagicon|United States
deathdate =December 3 ,1991 (aged 68)
deathplace =Los Angeles ,California ,USA (cancer)
restingplace =Hollywood Forever
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yearsactive = 1951 - 1981
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awards =Jack Laird (
May 8 1923 —December 3 1991 ) was an American television producer, writer, director and actor who received three Emmy nominations for writing and/or producing the TV series "Ben Casey ", "Night Gallery " and "Kojak ".Born in the
India n metropolis ofBombay (renamed "Mumbai" in 1995), Jack 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 "The Circus Clown ". He continued to appear in unbilled bits into his late twenties, but eventually moved into writing and producingcite web | title=Filmreference.com| work=Jack Laird Biography| url=http://www.filmreference.com/film/78/Jack-Laird.html| accessmonthday=February 16 | accessyear=2008] .One of Laird's favorite actors was
Leslie Nielsen with whom he made severalmade-for-TV movie s, including 1964's "See How They Run", the first feature in that genre [cite web |url=http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/historyonline/film_chron.cfm |title=Television and the Movie Industry |publisher=digitalhistory.uh.edu |accessdate=2007-11-05] [cite web |url=http://www.matthewhunt.com/cinema/1960s.html |title=Cinema: Film History Since 1880 |publisher=matthewhunt.com |accessdate=2007-11-05] , ', "Dark Intruder ", "The Return of Charlie Chan " and numerous TV episodes. Nielsen also starred in a series created by Laird, '.Jack Laird died of
cancer inLos Angeles at the age of 68. His final resting place inHollywood Forever Cemetery is in the "Garden of Legends" (formerly Section 8), Lot 266.Unused Projects
A number of Jack Laird's projects were never produced or broadcast:
* At the time of his death, Laird was working on a television series based on stories by thriller writer
Robert Ludlum * In 1967, he created an unsold comedy pilot about two elderly, retired superheroes 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.cite web | title=The Internet Movie Database| work=Jack Laird - Other Works| url=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0481963/otherworks| accessmonthday=February 16 | accessyear=2008] .
* 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.
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