As an actor, he worked mostly in television, appearing in single episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Combat!

Lauren's most notable film is The Crawling Hand (1963) which achieved latter-day notoriety when it was featured on Mystery Science Theater 3000.

As a singer, Lauren is a one-hit wonder who hit #31 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart with the song "If I Had a Girl" in 1960 and performed twice on The Ed Sullivan Show that year.

[1][2] He moved back to the United States and was able to successfully fight extradition to the Philippines to face trial for the murder.

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