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'''Lang Jeffries''' (June 7, 1930 – February 12, 1987) was a [[Canada|Canadian]]-[[United States|American]] [[actor]] of [[television]] and [[film]] who was married from 1960 to 1962 to actress Rhonda Fleming (born 1923).
'''Lang Jeffries''' (June 7, 1930 – February 12, 1987) was a [[Canada|Canadian]]-[[United States|American]] [[actor]] of [[television]] and [[film]] who was married from 1960 to 1962 to actress Rhonda Fleming (born 1923).
==Biography==
==Biography==
Jeffries was born in [[Ontario]], Canada. He was living in [[Michigan]] at the time he procured his [[Social Security]] number. He served in the [[United States Army]] during the [[Korean War]] and was among only three survivors of his 177-man unit that landed in [[Inchon]], [[South Korea]], in the fall of 1950, in a mass landing conducted by [[General]] [[Douglas MacArthur]].<ref name=imdb>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0420382/|title=''Lang Jeffries|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=December 22, 2019}}</ref>
Jeffries was born in [[Ontario]], Canada. He was living in [[Michigan]] at the time he procured his [[Social Security]] number. He served in the [[United States Army]] during the [[Korean War]] and was among only three survivors of his 177-man unit that landed in Inchon, [[South Korea]], in the fall of 1950, in a mass landing conducted by [[General]] [[Douglas MacArthur]].<ref name=imdb>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0420382/|title=''Lang Jeffries|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=December 22, 2019}}</ref>
From 1958 to 1960, Jeffries procured his first and most successful acting role, that of Skip Johnson, in all seventy-four episodes of the syndicated adventure television series, ''Rescue 8,'' with co-star Jim Davis (1909-1981) as Wes Cameron. The program offered accounts of difficult rescues completed by the Los Angeles County Fire Department.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051307/|title=Rescue 8|publisher=IMDB|accessdate=December 22, 2019}}</ref> Davis was later cast as the indomitable family patriarch Jock Ewing of [[CBS]]'s 1978 ''Dallas'' television series.
From 1958 to 1960, Jeffries procured his first and most successful acting role, that of Skip Johnson, in all seventy-four episodes of the syndicated adventure television series, ''Rescue 8,'' with co-star Jim Davis (1909-1981) as Wes Cameron. The program offered accounts of difficult rescues completed by the Los Angeles County Fire Department.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051307/|title=Rescue 8|publisher=IMDB|accessdate=December 22, 2019}}</ref> Davis was later cast as the indomitable family patriarch Jock Ewing of [[CBS]]'s 1978 ''Dallas'' television series.