Jack Lord Biography

Fast Facts

• Earned a football scholarship to New York University
• Before he decided to become an actor, he worked as an engineer in Persia, was a merchant-marine officer and managed an art school
• Painted as a hobby and had his work exhibited in New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art and Museum of Modern Art
• Worked as a Cadillac salesman to support himself while studying acting at the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York
• Was considered for the role of Capt
• Kirk on Star Trek
• Insisted, against the wishes of CBS, that Hawaii Five-O be filmed entirely on location