Hill Street Blues
1981
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Feb 28, 2002 · Feb. 28, 2002 12 AM PT. TIMES STAFF WRITER. Lawrence Tierney, a veteran character actor and onetime B-movie leading man whose two-fisted, tough-guy image on screen in the 1940s and ‘50s rivaled...
Nov 28, 2022 · This is just one of the too-good-to-not-be-true stories author Burt Kearns relates in his punchy bio, Lawrence Tierney: Hollywood's Real-Life Tough Guy. The book takes full measure of the prolific character actor, whose bumpy six-decade career was marked by bouts of erratic behavior, pugnacious on-set antics, and alcohol abuse.
Lawrence Tierney: Hollywood's Real-Life Tough Guy is the first biography of the notorious and legendary screen actor Lawrence Tierney, written by Burt Kearns and published on 6 December 2022 by the University Press of Kentucky, as part of its Screen Classics series.
Mar 2, 2002 · Lawrence Tierney, the veteran actor and leading man of B movies whose tough-guy characters in the 1940's and 50's were often mirrors of his own troubled life, died here on Tuesday. He was 82....
Jun 9, 2021 · Book About Late Actor and Notorious Bad Guy Lawrence Tierney Set from Writer-Producer Burt Kearns. The actor, who broke out in 1945's 'Dillinger' playing a notorious gangster, lived a life...
Mar 1, 2002 · Thu 28 Feb 2002 21.00 EST. It was a brilliant stroke on the part of Quentin Tarantino to cast Lawrence Tierney, who has died aged 82, as the old crime boss Joe Cabot in Reservoir Dogs (1992)....
Biography. Lawrence Tierney (March 15, 1919 – February 26, 2002) was an American actor, known for his many screen portrayals of mobsters and hardened criminals, which mirrored his own frequent brushes with the law.
