Celebrity Biographies
James Stacy
James Stacy’s career could go further, as he came to have important roles with Marlon Brando, and Susan Hayward, but it stalled because of fatality. The actor, known in the United States above all as the gunman Johnny Madrid Lancer, in the series “Lancer” died on September 15, 2016 in Ventura, California, at the age of 80, after suffering an allergic reaction in the hospital. in which he had been admitted.
Born Maurice William Elias on December 23, 1936, in Los Angeles, he was the son of an Irish waitress and a Lebanese book trader. He made his film debut with a minimal role as a reporter in Sayonara , starring Marlon Brando .
Afterwards, he alternated television with roles in titles such as South of the Pacific , and starred in A Swingin’ Summer , and Llamarada , along with Raquel Welch . But she became popular mainly because of the series Lancer , a cheeky copy of Bonanza , centered around a family of farmers, where she played one of the sons, the fastest with the revolver.
After divorcing singer and actress Connie Stevens , in 1966, he joined fellow performer Kim Darby , with whom he had a daughter, before separating.
He experienced one of the hardest moments of his life in 1973 when a drunk driver hit the motorcycle on which he was traveling with his girlfriend. She died instantly, while the actor suffered a double amputation of his left arm and leg.
However, he returned to acting two years later with The Wicked West , opposite Kirk Douglas , who had written for him a handicap-adjusted role, a newspaper editor. With Barbara Hershey he starred in the telefilm Just a Little Inconvenience , where he played a Vietnam vet who called his amputation ‘a little inconvenience’.
In November 1995 he was involved in a shady affair, as he was accused of sexually abusing a minor. He did not appear at the trial, but was arrested the next day in Honolulu. He went to prison and even tried to commit suicide.