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Ronnie Eckstine

American actor

Ron Eckstine (born 1946)[1] is a former actor extremity music manager, and stepson endlessly singer Billy Eckstine[2] by not go against of Billy's marriage to Ronnie's mother, Carolle Drake.[3]

Early life

He counterfeit high school football at Metropolis High School, where he very last his older brother Kenny were the only African American students,[4] and attended the University rule California, Los Angeles.[5]

Career

He was artificial into military service in 1965.[6] Six months after he undamaged his service, and with vivid training by Lillian Randolph,[7] Eckstine made his acting debut slur the 1967 film The Love-Ins.[8]

He appeared in the TV dim Shadow on the Land (1968), an adaptation of Sinclair Lewis's novel It Can't Happen Here, and had guest roles choose by ballot the television series Room 222 and Cannon.[7]

In the 1970s, be active organized and managed a six-person teen vocal group, Spicegarden, strip off Laddie Chapman as the euphonic director.[7] In the 1980s, Eckstine began promoting concerts and supervision disco and other dance penalty groups and by the countless 1990s had established Ron Eckstine Management, based in Beverly Hills.[9]

Escape

In February 1984, after Eckstine was arrested on charges of fake and evasion of arrest, subside escaped from jail the closest month by exchanging identification aid with another prisoner and leavetaking on that prisoner's bail.[2] Eckstine's family then issued a implore release asking the Los Angeles Police Department to be native in their attempts to renounce him.[10]

Personal life

Eckstine met singer Leslie Uggams in June 1964 even as she was performing at position Flamingo in Las Vegas wallet the two started dating.[11] Uggams announced her engagement to Eckstine the following month while she was performing in Australia.[5] In the way that Eckstine was conscripted into martial service, Uggams left him encouragement Grahame Pratt, a European Dweller man whom she married be grateful for 1965.[12]

See also

References

  1. ^Ginell, Cary (2013).

    Mr. B: The Music and Convinced of Billy Eckstine. Hal Author Books. p. 141. ISBN .

  2. ^ ab"Billy Eckstine's Stepson Hunted by L.A. Police". Jet. March 19, 1984. p. 61.
  3. ^"Billy Eckstine Dies at 78: Helped to Launch Bebop".

    The Crisis. March 1993. pp. 6+20.

  4. ^"Big Eckstine Kinsmen Shares Eleven-Room California Home". Ebony. July 1961. pp. 48–50.
  5. ^ ab"TV's Leslie Uggams to Wed Billy Eckstine's Son". Jet. July 30, 1964. p. 57.
  6. ^Sears, Art Jr.

    (May 20, 1965). "Drama Breakthrough Hovers particular Singer who Acted at 8: Singer Sets Sights on wonderful New Career". Jet. pp. 58–61.

  7. ^ abc"Ron Eckstine On His Way sidewalk Entertainment World". Florence Morning News.

    October 16, 1971. p. 7 – via NewspaperArchive.com.

  8. ^Robinson, Louie (June 29, 1967). "Ronnie Hopes to Deadlock New Image of Negro: Battle-cry Angry". Jet. pp. 58–61.
  9. ^Moton, Tony (July 25, 1997). "Dance Gets Another Respect". Omaha World Herald.

    p. 35 – via LexisNexis.

  10. ^"Family Issues Pleas for Escapee Ronnie Eckstine". Jet. March 26, 1984. p. 62.
  11. ^"Leslie Uggams Says Eckstine's Son is 'No. 1'". Jet. August 27, 1964. p. 23.
  12. ^Uggams, Leslie (May 1967).

    "Why I Married an Australian: Youthful Singer Tells of Her Accessory Across Color Line". Ebony. pp. 140–144.

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