Roger Lawrence "Rod" Strunk (March 20, 1941 â€" July 11, 2007),
popularly known as Rod Lauren, was an American actor and singer.As an
actor, he worked mostly in television, appearing in single episodes of
Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Combat! 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 the Billboard 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 whom Lauren met during the filming of
Once Before I Die. After Blanca's body was discovered on November 6,
2001 in the parking lot inside a San Juan City parking garage (she had
been stabbed to death), Lauren soon emerged as a suspect behind the
killing.
popularly known as Rod Lauren, was an American actor and singer.As an
actor, he worked mostly in television, appearing in single episodes of
Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Combat! 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 the Billboard 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 whom Lauren met during the filming of
Once Before I Die. After Blanca's body was discovered on November 6,
2001 in the parking lot inside a San Juan City parking garage (she had
been stabbed to death), Lauren soon emerged as a suspect behind the
killing.
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