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Nationality
  
American

Known for
  
Role in The Love-Ins

Ethnicity
  
African American

Name
  
Ronnie Eckstine


Citizenship
  
United States

Role
  
Actor

Occupation
  
Actor

Movies
  
The Love-Ins

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Residence
  
Los Angeles, California

Ronnie Eckstine


Ron Eckstine (born 1946) is a former actor and music manager, and stepson of singer Billy Eckstine by way of Billy's marriage to Ronnie's mother, Carolle Drake.

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He played high school football at Birmingham High School, where he and his older brother Kenny were the only African American students, and attended the University of California, Los Angeles.

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Eckstine met singer Leslie Uggams in June 1964 while she was performing at the Flamingo Las Vegas and the two started dating. Uggams announced her engagement to Eckstine the following month while she was performing in Australia. Eckstine was then conscripted into military service, and Uggams left him for Grahame Pratt, a European Australian man whom she married in 1965. Six months after he completed his military service, and with dramatic training by Lillian Randolph,

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Eckstine made his acting debut in the 1967 film The Love-Ins. He appeared in the TV movie Shadow on the Land (1968), an adaptation of Sinclair Lewis's novel It Can't Happen Here, and had guest roles in the television series Room 222 and Cannon.

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In the 1970s he organized and managed a 6-person teen vocal group, Spicegarden, with Laddie Chapman as the musical director. In the 1980s, Eckstine began promoting concerts and managing disco and other dance music groups and by the late 1990s had established Ron Eckstine Management, based in Beverly Hills.

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In February 1984, Eckstine was arrested on charges of forgery and evasion of arrest, and he escaped from jail the following month by exchanging identification bracelets with another prisoner and leaving on that prisoner's bail. Eckstine's family then issued a press release asking the Los Angeles Police Department to be discreet in their attempts to recapture him.

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Filmography

Actor
1971
Cannon (TV Series)
- Girl in the Electric Coffin (1971)
1970
Room 222 (TV Series) as
Jeff
- Mel Wertz and the Nickel-Plated Toothpick (1970) - Jeff (as Ron Eckstine)
1968
Shadow on the Land (TV Movie) as
David
1967
The Love-Ins as
Bobby

References

Ronnie Eckstine Wikipedia


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