Movieland Mystery Photo [Updated]
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[Update 2: Yes, I got tricky. There were two Jack Lamberts in the Jack Lambert envelope! [BAD MAN ... 1800 style ... is popular character actor Jack Lambert, here seen as the villainous Valentine, right-hand man to bandit Wallace Beery in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's "Big Jack." Beneath the scar and coonskin cap, Lambert's really a solid citizen who would sooner kid than kill. In addition to Beery, the cast includes Richard Conte, Marjorie Main, Vanessa Brown and Edward Arnold. Richard Thorpe directed, Gottfried Reinhardt, producing. [Jack Lambert -- Popular character actor. Latest release "Big Jack" opposite the late Wallace Beery. Just finished featured lead in "Stars in My Crown" opposite Joel McCrea for M-G-M. Lambert has played in 35 pictures in 4 years. [The photo is stamped July 26, 1949. ]
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[Update: Jack Lambert plays hired gunman in "Chicago Confidential," to screen Wednesday at Orpheum, Hawaii, El Rey and various other theaters and drive-ins, in a photo published Oct. 13, 1957. ] Here’s our mystery guest with a mystery revolver – Colt or Smith & Wesson? [Update: Mary Mallory examined the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ version of this photo and says that in fact the gun is loaded. Evidently The Times’ art department touched up the bullets.] Hey! The art department even painted bullets in the cylinder! It wasn’t loaded.
[Julie Merholz calls this a Smith & Wesson and I tend to agree, based on the bump on the bottom of the barrel that looks like a catch for the ejector rod, which Colts don't have. ]
[Update 2: DRAMATIC MOMENT -- Tina Louise and Jack Lambert are caught by camera in a suspenseful scene from "Day of the Outlaw," new Sidney Harmon production for United Artists release, in a photo published Jan. 4, 1959. ] [Update: Please Congratulate Julie Merholz, Benito and Don Danard (via email) for identifying our mystery folks! ] Here’s our mystery fellow being mean to a mystery companion!
[Update 2: Jack Lambert as the padre in the Ealing Studio production of "The Captive Heart," a Prestige Picture released through Universal-International, in a photo stamped Jan. 7, 1948.] [Update: Please congratulate Julie Merholz, Brent Walker, Periwinkle, Mary Mallory and Don Danard (via email) for identifying the other Jack Lambert!] And for Thursday, we have… HEY! Wait a minute! What is this guy doing in the file?! |
Henry Hull???
Posted by: Steven Moshlak | May 23, 2011 at 07:39 AM
Neville Brand.
Posted by: Mary mallory | May 23, 2011 at 08:03 AM
Jack Lambert
Posted by: Julie Merholz | May 23, 2011 at 08:11 AM
Jack Lambert
Posted by: Bob Levinson | May 23, 2011 at 08:22 AM
This is the late, great Jack Lambert.
Posted by: MichaelRyerson | May 23, 2011 at 08:31 AM
Jack Lambert
Posted by: Jenny M | May 23, 2011 at 09:09 AM
Jack Lambert. He was a great bad guy in a billion zillion movies.
Posted by: fibber mcgee | May 23, 2011 at 09:24 AM
Burton Gilliam of 'Blazing Saddles' and others.
Posted by: Arye Michael Bender | May 23, 2011 at 09:40 AM
Is it Jack Lambert? He's a scary henchman in "The Unsuspected".
Posted by: Lee Ann, Thom and Megan | May 23, 2011 at 09:43 AM
This is one of the best of the bad men, Jack Lambert.
Posted by: MIKE HAWKS | May 23, 2011 at 09:49 AM
Jack Lambert -
Posted by: Carmen | May 23, 2011 at 09:49 AM
John Ericson
Posted by: Dewey Webb | May 23, 2011 at 10:24 AM
John Ericson
Posted by: Dewey Webb | May 23, 2011 at 10:25 AM
Robert Wilke. A terrific character actor as well as a very good golfer.
Posted by: RJ Marzulla | May 23, 2011 at 10:37 AM
Robert Wilke
Posted by: RJ Marzulla | May 23, 2011 at 10:39 AM
Leonardo DiCaprio
Posted by: Sheba | May 23, 2011 at 11:52 AM
Jack Lambert.
Posted by: Mary Mallory | May 23, 2011 at 01:04 PM
Mystery Man - Jeffery Hunter?
Posted by: David Andrews | May 23, 2011 at 08:52 PM
Squint Walker
Posted by: Dewey Webb | May 24, 2011 at 07:00 AM
Smith & Wesson P .38 Special
Posted by: Julie Merholz | May 24, 2011 at 07:11 AM
What good is a Roscoe if it ain't loaded, I ask you? To mangle a line by Ray Chandler, if you want someone murdered you hire someone who is good at it.
Posted by: fibber mcgee | May 24, 2011 at 07:55 AM
Lee Marvin?
Posted by: Susan | May 24, 2011 at 09:36 AM
Is Monday's photo from BIG JACK?
Posted by: Mary Mallory | May 24, 2011 at 12:40 PM
Today's photo is from CHICAGO CONFIDENTIAL. There are bullets or cartridges in the gun, they just made them look larger.
Posted by: Mary Mallory | May 24, 2011 at 02:30 PM
Jack Elam?
Posted by: Dewey Webb | May 24, 2011 at 07:53 PM