Welcome to
the Peter Lawford page of the Rat Pack Memories website. This page will
be filled with pictures, info, movies and
stories in the life of Peter Lawford.
Actor, born
Peter Sidney Lawford, on September 7, 1923 in London, England. Best
known as the husband of Patricia Kennedy, the sister of president John
F. Kennedy; and as a member of the Rat Pack. Lawford's father was a
knighted World War I veteran who became an actor after he retired.
Lawford's film debut was at age eight in the British film Poor Old
Bill (1931) followed by a role in Lord Jeff (1938). Lawford grew to be
a handsome and suave young man, who was being groomed for stardom by
MGM in the 1940s. Lawford was the first actor to kiss Elizabeth Taylor
on camera, and the last to speak to Marilyn Monroe before she died.
The debonair Lawford enjoyed a reputation as a jet-setting playboy and
was a heavy drinker. Lawford and Sinatra had a falling out in 1961
over brother-in-law Robert Kennedy's objections to Sinatra's alleged
Mafia connections, and the two men never spoke again..
