Jack Lambert (April 13, 1920 â€" February 18, 2002) was an American
character actor who specialized in playing movie tough guys and
heavies. He is best known for playing the psychotic cat-loving,
iron-hooked Steve "the Claw" Michel in Dick Tracy's Dilemma.Following
a spell on Broadway, the Yonkers, New York-born Lambert moved to
Hollywood and began working in films in 1942. He was a familiar figure
in Westerns and crime dramas after World War II, in such movies as The
Killers, The Enforcer, Bend of the River, Vera Cruz, Kiss Me Deadly,
and How the West Was Won.Lambert also appeared in many television
series of the 1950s and 1960s, such as Rod Cameron's State Trooper,
Gunsmoke (season four, episode 35, 1959), Have Gun - Will Travel,
Sugarfoot, Tales of Wells Fargo, Daniel Boone, Wagon Train, Bonanza,
Get Smart (season one, episode 18, 1966) and The Andy Griffith
Show.From 1959 to 1960, he was a regular cast member (as Joshua
Walcek, sometimes called "Joshua MacGregor"), in 23 of the 42 episodes
of the Darren McGavin series, Riverboat.
character actor who specialized in playing movie tough guys and
heavies. He is best known for playing the psychotic cat-loving,
iron-hooked Steve "the Claw" Michel in Dick Tracy's Dilemma.Following
a spell on Broadway, the Yonkers, New York-born Lambert moved to
Hollywood and began working in films in 1942. He was a familiar figure
in Westerns and crime dramas after World War II, in such movies as The
Killers, The Enforcer, Bend of the River, Vera Cruz, Kiss Me Deadly,
and How the West Was Won.Lambert also appeared in many television
series of the 1950s and 1960s, such as Rod Cameron's State Trooper,
Gunsmoke (season four, episode 35, 1959), Have Gun - Will Travel,
Sugarfoot, Tales of Wells Fargo, Daniel Boone, Wagon Train, Bonanza,
Get Smart (season one, episode 18, 1966) and The Andy Griffith
Show.From 1959 to 1960, he was a regular cast member (as Joshua
Walcek, sometimes called "Joshua MacGregor"), in 23 of the 42 episodes
of the Darren McGavin series, Riverboat.
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