生于明尼苏达州贝来肯，早期曾做过牙科护士和摄影模特儿。1941年被选中出演影片《不法之徒》(旧译《双枪太保》)中一名妖艳的女子，由此开始其银幕表演生涯。此片1943年曾短暂上映，引起轩然大波，1950年1月起遭到禁映。之后饰演一些玩世不恭的性格角色。1971年主演百老汇音乐剧《交际》。目前仍在一些影视片中断续出现。其主要影片还有《小寡妇》、《脂粉双枪侠》、《拉斯维加斯的故事》、《法国线条》、《火狐》、《热血》、《琥珀还要暗淡》等。
American character actor specializing in tough guys and heavies. A native of Yonkers, New York, he worked on the Broadway stage and then became an increasingly familiar figure in Westerns and crime dramas after World War II. Although almost as familiar a presence in films as his contemporaries Warren Oates, Robert J. Wilke, and Leo Gordon, for some reason Lambert never became as well-known as these, even by film buffs, despite having appeared in a great number of similar roles and films. His credits are often confused with those of the Scots actor of the same name, Jack Lambert.
Iron Eyes Cody was born Espera or "Oscar" DeCorti, the son of two first-generation immigrants from Italy. In 1924 he moved to California, changed his name from "DeCorti" to "Corti" to Cody, and started working as an actor, presenting himself as a Native American. He married an Indian woman, Bertha Parker, and together they adopted two Indian sons, Robert and Arthur. Iron Eyes Cody lived and worked as an Indian for all his adult life; he labored for decades to promote Native American causes, and was honored by Hollywood's Native American community in 1995 as a "non-Native" for his contribution to film.
