Keep your nose clean, Ron Masak!
Happy birthday to Columni Ron Masak, best known to Columbo fans as the cab driver who maybe drove Verity Chandler to take her infamous picture of Sheik Yarami's house, and might have handled the stolen necklace from Dorothea Page in Ashes to Ashes. Probably.
Ronald Alan Masak, known as Ron Masak, was born on July 1, 1936, in Chicago, Illinois. He was the son of a salesman/musician, Floyd Lewis Masak, of Bohemian Czech descent, and a mother, Mildred Alice Rudy, of Irish descent. Ron attended Chicago City College and studied theater at both the CCC and the Drama Guild.
He made his acting debut with the Drama Guild in Chicago in "Stalag 17" in 1954. During his career, he starred in 25 feature films and guest-starred in some 350 television shows. Perhaps his most beloved character was that of Sheriff Mort Metzger on "Murder, She Wrote".
In addition to his television roles, Masak demonstrated his range of talent in films such as "Ice Station Zebra", "Daddy's Gone A-Hunting", "Tora! Tora! Tora!", "A Time For Dying", "Harper Valley PTA", "Cops & Roberts" and "The Man From Clover Grove". He played his first big screen villain starring in "No Code of Conduct".
Ron Masak passed away on October 20, 2022, in Thousand Oaks, California.
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