Jack Lalor

(b. Birr, Ireland, 27/03/1875 – d. Johannesburg, 23/07/1964). Boxer, actor. Born Edmund Lawlor in Ireland, Jack Lalor was a professional South African boxer who fought between 1897 and 1919, first as a welterweight, then as a middleweight and finally as a heavyweight, winning the South African championship in all three divisions. During his career he won 55 matches, lost 8 and drew 8. He is also known to have acted in one film. In Joseph Albrecht’s sporting drama The Stolen Favourite (1919) he plays the heroine’s brother, a keen amateur boxer, who is instrumental in enabling the hero to regain the money he lost due to the villain’s crooked schemes. (FO)