Ed Lauter appeared in more than 200 films and TV series episodes in a career that spanned over 40 years.
10 Facts About Ed Lauter
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Ed Lauter served for two years in the United States Army.
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Ed Lauter's first acting role was a small part in the Broadway production of The Great White Hope, a boxing drama, in 1968.
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Ed Lauter's screen acting debut was in a 1971 episode of the television series Mannix.
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Ed Lauter starred with Bruce Dern, Barbara Harris, Karen Black, and William Devane in Alfred Hitchcock's final film, Family Plot.
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Hitchcock was impressed by Ed Lauter and asked him to play a major role in the romantic espionage thriller he planned as his next film; the director's failing health and eventual death in 1980 meant that The Short Night never went into production.
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Ed Lauter appeared in many films, including half a dozen in 1972 alone.
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On October 16,2013, two weeks before his 75th birthday, Ed Lauter died of mesothelioma, a rare form of cancer, having been diagnosed five months earlier in May.
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The suit alleges that Ed Lauter was exposed to asbestos at various movie studios and location sets over his 40-year career as an actor in Los Angeles.
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Ed Lauter continued to work until a few months before his death, completing roles in several films still to be released after his death.