Lawrence Tierney publicity photo Dillinger 1945 color added 2015
by David Lee Guss
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Lawrence Tierney publicity photo Dillinger 1945 color added 2015
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David Lee Guss
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"Lawrence James Tierney (March 15, 1919 - February 26, 2002) was an American actor known for his many screen portrayals of mobsters and tough guys, roles that mirrored his own frequent brushes with the law In 2005, New York Times critic David Kehr observed that 'the hulking Tierney was not so much an actor as a frightening force of nature.'
Tierney's numerous arrests for being drunk and disorderly and jail terms for assault on civilians and lawmen alike took a toll on his career. He was an admitted alcoholic who tried to go sober in 1982 after having a mild stroke, once observing during a 1987 interview that he 'threw away about seven careers through drink.'
In just seven years between 1944 and 1951, Tierney was arrested over a dozen times for brawling, frequently for drunkenness. His legal troubles included a 90-day jail sentence he served from August to November 1951 for breaking a New York college student's jaw. At the time of an October 1958 arrest for fighting two policemen outside a Manhattan bar, the New York Times reported he had been arrested six times in California and five in New York on similar charges. In January 1973, he was stabbed in a bar fight on the West Side of Manhattan.
One of Tierney's last roles was a cameo appearance as Bruce Willis' invalid father in Armageddon (1998). That same year, his long-term agent, Don Gerler, recounted over Tierney's continuing troubles with the law: 'A few years back [in 1994] I was still bailing him out of jail. He was 75-years-old and still the toughest guy in the bar!'"
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