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Ging as Beau McCloud (center) with Suzanne Lloyd and Howard Keel in Tales of Wells Fargo, 1961
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Born |
Jack Lee Ging November 30, 1931 Alva, Oklahoma, U.S. |
Residence | Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
Occupation | Actor |
Years active | 1958-1994 |
Spouse(s) | Ramona Ging (1978-present); 2 children Gretchen Graening (1956-1972; divorced) 1 child Katie Ging (1952-1954; divorced); 1 child |
Jack Lee Ging (born November 30, 1931 in Alva, Oklahoma) is an American actor, best known as General Harlan "Bull" Fulbright on NBC's television adventure series The A-Team.
Before turning to acting, Ging served in the United States Marine Corps and during the 1950s played college football at the University of Oklahoma, Norman.
He had the starring role in the war film Sniper's Ridge (1960), played Will Coleman in the 1975 adaptation of the film Where the Red Fern Grows, and appeared sporadically as police contact Lieutenant Dan Ives on Mike Connors's Mannix in the early 1970s. Other film credits include Hang 'Em High (1968), Play Misty for Me (1971), and High Plains Drifter (1973), all opposite Clint Eastwood; the horror films Die Sister, Die! (1972) and Sssssss (1973); and That Man Bolt (1973). He also appeared in TV movies such as Terror in the Sky (1971) and The Disappearance of Flight 412 (1974).
Ging portrayed Dan Wright in NBC's The Man and the Challenge, an adventure series which ran for thirty-six episodes during the 1959-1960 season. Ging also starred in an episode of Bat Masterson with Gene Barry, "Dead Men don't pay no debts", playing a small town sheriff in love with a girl whose name is the same as the man he's sworn to kill.