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Laughlin was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the son of Margaret and Thomas Laughlin. [1] He attended Washington High School, [4] [5] where he was involved in an athletics controversy that made headlines throughout the city, caused by Laughlin being forced to attend another school for a brief period, making him ineligible to play football at his former school on his return.
The Born Losers is a 1967 American outlaw biker film. [3] The film introduced Tom Laughlin as the half-Indigenous American Green Beret Vietnam veteran Billy Jack.Since 1954, Laughlin had been trying to produce his Billy Jack script about discrimination toward Indigenous Americans.
She met actor Tom Laughlin while a student at the University of South Dakota in 1953, and married him while she was a graphic artist [4] on October 15, 1954. [5] They borrowed a car and moved to Los Angeles in 1955. [4] They had three children: Frank, Teresa, and Christina. Her daughter Teresa is a fashion designer. [6]
Billy Jack is a 1971 American action drama independent film, the second of four films centering on a character of the same name which began with the movie The Born Losers (1967), played by Tom Laughlin, who directed and co-wrote the script.
As both men find themselves enmeshed with the political world of Washington, D.C. during the McCarthy era, the show does shine a light on real people from that time to help move the story forward.
Nicholas Laughlin (born 1975), Trinidadian editor and writer; Robert B. Laughlin (born 1950), American physicist; Simon Laughlin, British neurobiologist, on the Committee of the Rank Prize for Optoelectronics; Tom Laughlin (1931–2013), American actor; Tom Laughlin (born 1971), American professional wrestler better known as Tommy Dreamer
He started wrestling as "Billy Jack" in the Pacific Northwest territory but had to change his name when Tom Laughlin (who starred in the movie Billy Jack) threatened to sue him. He added his real last name to the gimmick and continued to work as a babyface.
On July 4, 1969, Han Bong-soo was giving a demonstration of hapkido at a park in Pacific Palisades, California. In the audience was Tom Laughlin. After a spectacular demonstration, Laughlin approached Han about being involved in a movie project called Billy Jack.