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Terry Lawrence

I'm the cousin of the famous Jackie Taylor who was Band Leader/Violinist of the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Coconut Grove with the Boswell Sisters from the 1920's to the 30's. He was married to actress Vera Stedman.
As a little guy, I always asked my Dad if I could be on T.V. so he picked me up and put me on top of the television set. After I got mad at him he decided to let me have my way and got me an agent and signed me up for Actor's Screen Guild. I had my first roll as an actor in Hollywood in the T.V. series The "Millionaire" as an orphan. Maybe he was trying to give me away, Ha Ha. After that I appeared in films with Abbott and Costello, Barbara Stanwyck and Joel McRae ("Trooper Hook") which still appears on The Western Channel(Stars), Encore, Turner Classics and AMC. It has been on 5 times this month already and has played many times for the last few years. You have to look for it! ( I guess I was crazy but I didn't tell too many people in school about my acting because I was kind of modest at the time). Now in these days who in the hell cares.
My television appearances included shows ranging from The Lone Ranger and "The Millionaire", to The Lawrence Welk Show (sang with the Lennon Sisters in 1957),The Eddie Fisher Show, Art Linkletter commercials for Pillsbury and Franco American Spagetti, the first Jiff Peanut Butter commercial in "1960" and a Cracker Jack commercial with Johnny Crawford and Jay North of "Dennis The Menace". I also played a 10 year old Elvis Presley with side burns on the "Tennesse Ernie Ford Show". My brother Robert Lawrence was on the Donna Reed Show in the 1963 Christmas episode as Mike with Buster Keaton as Santa Claus.
What exciting times and what an opportunity!
Then at age 11 at that time, there weren't very many parts for kids my age until they reached the age of about 17, so the last thing I appeared in was a 1961 Ford commericial with Veronica Cartwright, who later became a famous actress after appearing in the 1980 movie "Aliens". By the way, her younger sister was Angela Cartwright who was Linda in Danny Thomas' "Make Room for Daddy" TV series. Later She was in the series "Lost In Space".
I probably should have gone back into the movies by the age of 17 like Angela did, but an interest in music took me into a different direction in my career. As a guitarist, piano player, and vocalist, I've worked with many musicians over the years.
At this moment, I'm currently playing with several Tribute, American Hero's, Doo Wap and R&B groups at corporate parties, vegas shows and casinos.
I'm also the cousin of the famous Jackie Taylor who was Band Leader/Violinist of the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Coconut Grove with the Boswell Sisters from the 1920's to the 30's. He was married to actress Vera Stedman.

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