Jack Stang was born on October 29, 1923 in Newburgh, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Ring of Fear (1954), Highway Patrol (1955) and I, the Jury (1953). He died on January 7, 1996 in Fort Meyers, Florida, USA.
Was close friends with novelist Mickey Spillane. It was Jack Stang that Spillane hoped would one day play Mike Hammer in a film, and Spillane even financed a screen test for Stang to that end.
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Mickey Spillane named the main character in his final crime novel, Dead Street (2007), after Jack Stang.