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. His opponent in the film, Dick Heyns, had also been a genuine heavyweight boxer. (FO)