GOODBYE, JACK GING...

You flaunted a contagious cool that fit so well with the roles you played. 

For the sake of The A-Team, The Eleventh Hour, The Man and the Challenge; Tales of Wells Fargo, and MacKenzie's Raiders, you were ideal to a tee, and when guest starring, you had enough charisma to seize the reins: case in point, Twilight Zone's brutally honest "The Whole Truth". 

But you were also effective on The Six Million Dollar Man; The Bionic Woman; The Greatest American Hero; Galactica 1980; Fantasy Island; Highway to Heaven; Little House on the Prairie; Bonanza; The Fall Guy; The Virginian; Bat Masterson; Mannix; Kojak; Perry Mason; Barnaby Jones; Wiseguy; Starsky and Hutch; The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries; Dr. Kildare; Quincy; The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo; B.J. and the Bear; Sea Hunt; Riptide; Alfred Hitchcock Presents; Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color; The Winds of War; and War and Remembrance.  

On the feature-length front, you also struck gold, starring with Clint Eastwood in Play Misty for Me, Hang 'Em High and High Plains Drifter. Then there was Ghost of Dragstrip Hollow; Die Sister, Die!; Sssssss; Terror in the Sky; The Disappearance of Flight 412; That Man Bolt; Sniper's Ridge; Desire in the Dust; Intimacy; Another Man, Another Chance; Tess of the Storm Country '60; and Where the Red Fern Grows. To say the least, impressive and then some. 

Your career was one that I'd have mimicked if only I had pursued acting; but as a viewer, your artful ability to emote allowed me to live vicariously through your guise, and for that, I thank you from the bottom of my heart, Mr. Ging.