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Ronnie Eckstine
American actor
Ron Eckstine (born 1946)[1] is a former actor and music manager, and stepson of singer Billy Eckstine[2] by way of Billy's marriage to Ronnie's mother, Carolle Drake.[3]
Early life
He played high school football at Birmingham High School, where he and his older brother Kenny were the only African American students,[4] and attended the University of California, Los Angeles.[5]
Career
He was conscripted into military service in 1965.[6] Six months after he completed his service, and with dramatic training by Lillian Randolph,[7] Eckstine made his acting debut in the 1967 film The Love-Ins.[8]
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.[7]
In the 1970s, he organized and managed a six-person teen vocal gro