William Lance LeGault(May 2, 1935 – September 10, 2012), sometimes credited as W. L. LeGault, was an American film and television actor, best known as the .44 Magnum wielding U.S. Army Colonel Roderick Decker in the 1980s American television series The A-Team.
LeGault was born May 2, 1935 in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Mary Jean (née Kovachevich) and Ernest Legault. LeGault's father, Ernest, was French-Canadian from Moose Creek, Ontario, Canada. LeGault's mother, Mary, was born in Illinois, the daughter of immigrants from the former Austria-Hungary. The family was poor. He lived in an orphanage for a time between his dad's death when Lance was four years old and when his mother remarried. He started working at 11, and was fired from the railroad at 13 when they discovered he was not 18 as he had claimed.
William Lance LeGault(May 2, 1935 – September 10, 2012), sometimes credited as W. L. LeGault, was an American film and television actor, best known as the .44 Magnum wielding U.S. Army Colonel Roderick Decker in the 1980s American television series The A-Team.
LeGault was born May 2, 1935 in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Mary Jean (née Kovachevich) and Ernest Legault. LeGault's father, Ernest, was French-Canadian from Moose Creek, Ontario, Canada. LeGault's mother, Mary, was born in Illinois, the daughter of immigrants from the former Austria-Hungary. The family was poor. He lived in an orphanage for a time between his dad's death when Lance was four years old and when his mother remarried. He started working at 11, and was fired from the railroad at 13 when they discovered he was not 18 as he had claimed.