Biography

Ben Lackland came to New York in 1925 to study at the Theater Guild School and lived in Manhattan until 1958. During his career, he appeared in many plays with such figures as Josephine Hull, Walter Hampden, Ruth Gordon, Otis Skinner and Ethel Barrymore. He met his future wife, stage actress Marjorie Dulin, during the Lakeland Players' production of "Yes, My Darling Daughter" in Maine, and he played in thirty Broadway productions before switching to the infant medium of television in 1946. By 1950 he was a five-night-a-week regular on "Captain Video and His Video Rangers" as the benevolent Commissioner of Public Safety Charles Carey. He was 58 when he died at home from an overdose of barbiturates. The Essex County Medical Examiner's Office's autopsy report said that Ben Lackland was a "suicide by ingestion of an overdose of sleeping pills."
- IMDb mini biography by: Louis Rugani

While working in the actuarlal department of the Life Insurance Company of Virginia, Ben Lackland played in stock In The Thirteenth Chair, then went on to take part in many famous Broadway hits, working with Brian Donlevy in "Perfumed", George Cohan i "Keys" and Ethel Barrymore in "Incident:.Besides several musical successes, he toured in "State of the Union", the Pulitzer prize play by Howard Lindsay. But Ben Lackland said that the work he was proudest of was that with the USO during World War II; he was in the first full-length play to reach France, where they played for the troops for nearly a year. Then he joined the Ninth Army in Germany, traveling over 3,000 miles in weapons carriers. Ben later devoted himself to television, and was noted for playing the part of Charles Carey, Commissioner of Public Safety for the Solar Federation in "Captain Video and His Video Rangers", the weekday DuMont TElevision success that showed the youth of the nation the value of honesty, courage and gallantry in his impersonation of Commissioner Carey. He was often greeted on New York streets as Commissioner Carey by viewers, grateful parents and appreciative police.
- IMDb mini biography by: Louis Rugani

On June 14, 1955 Ben Lackland was granted patent number 2710408 for a device to assist in the creation and retention of necktie knots.