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John Phillip Law More at IMDbPro »

Date of Birth

7 September 1937, Los Angeles, California, USA

Date of Death

13 May 2008, Los Angeles, California, USA

Height

6' 5" (1.96 m)

Spouse

Shawn Ryan

(? - ?) (divorced) 1 child

Trivia

Daughter, Dawn Law, born in 1974, with model Shawn Ryan.

Son of actress, Phyllis Sallee.

Fluent in the Italian, Spanish, French & German languages

He got his first career break in the motion picture The Russians Are Coming the Russians Are Coming (1966). His most memorable career project was performing in the movie Barbarella (1968) with actress Jane Fonda.

Frequent & favoured guest at the Playboy Mansion in the 70s & 80s.

Older brother Thomas Law used to be married to noted 60s historian, Lisa Law.

Has starred in two movies which were featured on the show Mystery Science Theater 3000: Diabolik and Space Mutiny.

Son of Los Angeles County Deputy Sheriff John Law.

Brother Tom was once a road manager for "Peter, Paul and Mary" and rented rooms in their Los Feliz mansion to singers and artists of the time, including Bob Dylan. It was documented in "Flashing on the Sixties", a 1987 collection of photos and text.

Following bit parts on Broadway, he transported himself to Europe and found work in Italian films. Director Norman Jewison "discovered" Law while in Europe and cast him in his feature The Russians Are Coming the Russians Are Coming (1966).

Studied with Elia Kazan at the Lincoln Center Repertory Theater in the early 1960s.

Took classes in drama at the University of Hawaii.

The tall and handsome blond '60s and '70s actor, son of a Los Angeles County Sheriff's Deputy, was best known for playing silent, mysterious types on film, including the object of Rod Steiger's affection in The Sergeant (1968), but also appeared in a numerous Italian movies both before and after his Hollywood peak.

In 1970, when actor Brian Kelly was critically hurt and paralyzed following a motorcycle accident, Law stepped into Kelly's starring role in Columbia's trashy release The Love Machine (1971), adapted from Jacqueline Susanns best-selling novel. Like Susann's other best-seller Valley of the Dolls (1967), the film version was unmercifully panned.

Where Are They Now

(July 2003) Travelling & working abroad until the fall of 2003

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