Peter Lawford

Peter Lawford was the very picture of mid-century Hollywood glamour and its hidden rot. English-born, he became a Rat Pack fixture alongside Sinatra and Dean Martin and married into the Kennedy clan as JFK's brother-in-law. That access put him at the centre of an era, yet his later years, dogged by addiction until his death in 1984, are a sobering counterweight to the charm. I find him a fascinating cautionary figure: proximity to power and fame is intoxicating but corrosive. The Walk of Fame star captures the rise; the harder story is everything that came after.

Name (English)

Peter Lawford

Name (Japanese)

ピーター・ローフォード

Reading

ぴーたー・ろーふぉーど

Born

September 7, 1923 – December 24, 1984

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Virgo / Boar

Origin

London, United Kingdom

Occupation

film producer / film actor / television actor / manufacturer / actor

Awards & achievements

• star on Hollywood Walk of Fame

Motto

Private

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%94%E3%83%BC%E3%82%BF%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AD%E3%83%BC%E3%83%95%E3%82%A9%E3%83%BC%E3%83%89

Tags

• film producer
• film actor
• television actor

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.