Rod Lauren Net Worth is
$18 Million

Mini Biography

Rod Lauren was created Roger Lawrence Strunk in Fresno, California, on March 20, 1940. He relocated along with his parents to Tracy, California, when he was three. Dad Larry Strunk was a schoolteacher who consequently found are a switchman for the Southern Pacific Railroad; his mom was also a instructor and a chapel organist. While going to Tracy SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, Roger made an appearance in school takes on and performed the trombone in the senior high school music group. Graduating in 1957, he started singing in regional night clubs in Tracy. A recording professional was taken by his easy vocal design that differed significantly from the favorite rock ‘n’ move genre. The exec gambled with it, provided the young an audition and Roger finished up earning an RCA documenting contract. He required around the professional name of Pole Lauren. The fledgling vocalist made an appearance on both Ed Sullivan and Dick Clark’s range showcases between 1959 and 1960 and gained a mild strike on the way (#31 around the Billboard graph) with “EASILY Had a woman” in 1960. Nevertheless, with the English invasion, his performing career fell aside. Fortunately, Pole experienced a dark, sulky, greaser-type charm that recalled the rebel in Fabian and, with this look, he began to discover acting careers on Television. He also gained singing function in Vegas and Southern California lounge night clubs around the sly. In 1963 alone Pole made six movies, most of them low-budget in nature but a few that found cult infamy. In the cheapjack shocker Terrified (1963) he’s one of several college students caught inside a ghost city having a masked psychopathic killer. In Dark Zoo (1963) it really is veteran acting professional Michael Gough who imperils Lauren’s existence like a demented pet owner who causes his caged domestic pets to attack. The 3rd horror flick is usually his most widely known, The Crawling Hands (1963), where the hand of the deceased astronaut involves existence and wreaks havoc. Additional genres combined in had been party flicks like the Small Swingers (1963) as well as the mediocre oaters The Weapon Hawk (1963) and Legislation from the Lawless (1964). Pursuing isolated appearances about Gomer Pyle: USMC (1964) and Fight! (1962), Lauren’s film profession just about dissolved. His last film appearance is at movie director John Derek’s Childish Points (1969) (aka “The Confessions of Tom Harris”), which starred Derek’s then-wife Linda Evans. The film was manufactured in 1966 however, not released until 3 years later on. In 1964 Lauren visited the Philippines for the filming of Once Before I Die (1966), even though there met Nida Blanca, a then-rising Filipino film star. He shuttled backwards and forwards between your Philippines and Southern California for over ten years before finally marrying Ms. Blanca in 1979. Then took permanent home in Manila. Ms. Blanca was a celebrity in the Philippines much like Doris Day time or Debbie Reynolds. Pole functioned as his wife’s escort as his personal career dissipated. His last years were just like a bad horror tale. On November 6, 2001, wife Nida was viciously stabbed to loss of life in a car parking garage area. In November of 2003 Pole (who had lengthy came back to his actual name of Roger Strunk) was to become billed with her murder after government bodies claimed he employed an assassin to destroy his wife who experienced threatened to divorce and disinherit him. Within an exemplory case of the dysfunctional Manila justice program, authorities allowed Pole to return towards the U.S. before costs could be submitted against him. Declaring his mom, who lived back Tracy, California, was dying of malignancy and he would have to be with her, he were able to withstand extradition and resettled in Tracy. The former actor found employment like a camera operator for the town of Tracy’s public-access station, Channel 26. The stresses from the ongoing analysis, however, finally required its toll and he finished everything on July 11, 2007, by jumping to his loss of life from a second-floor motel balcony in Tracy. He was 67.

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