Lance LeGault
| Lance LeGault | |
|---|---|
| Born |
William Lance Legault May 2, 1935 Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| Died | September 10, 2012 (aged 77) Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Other names | W. L. LeGault |
| Occupation | Film, television, and voice actor |
| Spouse(s) | Teresa LeGault (1984-2012; his death); 4 children |
William Lance LeGault (May 2, 1935 – September 10, 2012), sometimes credited as W. L. LeGault, was an American film and television actor, best known as the .44 Magnum wielding U.S. Army Colonel Roderick Decker in the 1980s American television series The A-Team.
LeGault was born May 2, 1935 in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Mary Jean (née Kovachevich) and Ernest Legault. LeGault's father, Ernest, was French-Canadian from Moose Creek, Ontario, Canada. LeGault's mother, Mary, was born in Illinois, the daughter of immigrants from the former Austria-Hungary. The family was poor. He lived in an orphanage for a time between his dad's death when Lance was four years old and when his mother remarried. He started working at 11, and was fired from the railroad at 13 when they discovered he was not 18 as he had claimed.
He grew up in Chillicothe, Illinois and graduated from Chillicothe Township High School in 1955. He received a full football scholarship to the Municipal University of Wichita, where he majored in business administration for two years before dropping out to pursue a music career.
LeGault's first three feature films were Elvis Presley movies, Girls! Girls! Girls! (1962) in which he was a stunt double for Elvis Presley, Kissin' Cousins (1964), and Viva Las Vegas (1964). He also appeared in Presley's 1968 NBC television special Elvis (also known as Elvis' 68 Comeback Special), where he sat at the side of the stage playing a tambourine. He appeared in Roustabout, another Presley film, as a carnival barker. In 1969, he appeared as Iago in the UK stage version of Jack Good's Catch My Soul: Rock Othello, and played Iago again in the 1974 Metromedia film version of Catch My Soul.
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