British architect with BDP; could not confirm in RIBA online directory of members 4/13/04.
Born at 12:5am-PST
Enlisted in the US Marine Corps during WW II, was decorated for valor and received a field promotion to lieutenant during the battle of Guadalcanal. It was there he was wounded and also contracted a severe case of malaria. He was sent back to the US, hospitalized, and eventually received a medical discharge from the Corps.
Was frequently seen in Westerns as tall, sneering villains.
Buried at a military cemetery in Westwood California.
Discovered by a talent agent while in a Beverly Hills restaurant
Married twice. His first marriage lasted over 20 years before their divorce. His second marriage to a much younger woman lasted less than a year. He had three children.
Some references state Russells birth name as William Lawrence Russell, but U.S. Census records and California birth and death records confirm his birth name as John Lawrence Russell.
In 1930, lived at 338 South Hobart Boulevard, Los Angeles, California.
A supporting actor in adult westerns and other "A"-budget films after WWII, he was a lookalike for John Trent (1906-66), star of "B" action films of the 1930s and 1940s, such as the "Tailspin Tommy" series. The two men were not related.
He was one the many Hollywood celebrities who like to make regular weekend visits to Ralph Helfer s Africa U.S.A. Exotic Animal Ranch in Soledad Canyon, California to pitch in with the chores to play with the animals.
Child: Lydia
Singer, songwriter, and guitarist for pop/rock band, Admiral Twin.
The first peer of the realm to espouse show business in order to raise money to keep up his stately home. It was said that there was little he would not do in the interests of promoting Woburn.
He allowed the nudist film Nudist Paradise to be shot at Woburn.
In order to minimise the effects of death duty and taxation on his own sons, and remembering the difficulties he had when his father - the 12th Duke - committed suicide, he handed over his estate in 1974 and thereafter lived outside the UK.
He had two sons by his first wife, Clare Gwendolen Bridgman: Henry Robin Ian Russell, born 1940, who suceeded him as 14th Duke of Bedford; and Rudolf Russell, born 1944. There was one son by his second wife, Hon. Lydia Yarde-Buller: Francis Hastings Russell, born 1950.
Father-in-law of Henrietta Tiarks.
British Embassy to Moscow 1941.
Drafted by the Philadelphia Phillies in the 1st round (13th pick) of the 1982 amateur draft.
Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting.
If peace cannot be maintained with honour, it is no longer peace. .
