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Born in Los Angeles on September 7, 1937, Law was the son of Los Angeles County deputy sheriff John Law and actress Phyllis Sallee. He grew up on Hollywood studio back lots and was a second-generation graduate of Hollywood High.

He went on to study engineering and psychology at Cal Poly and the University of Hawaii. After taking drama classes at the U of H, he decided to become an actor.

Moving to New York in the early 1960s, Law studied with Elia Kazan at the Lincoln Center Repertory Theater. He made his Broadway debut in Garson Kanin`s Come One Strong with Van Johnson and Carroll Baker. He then appeared in the original New York production of The Changeling with Fay Dunaway at Lincoln Center.

His training at the Neighborhood Playhouse sent him on a show business odyssey. He sang and danced as Judge Aristide Forrestier in Can Can, stalked the stage in two productions of Dracula, and won the hearts of children as The Aviator in The Little Prince.

Going to Europe, Law worked in several Italian films, where director Norman Jewison spotted him. Law`s star rose when Jewison cast him as young Soviet submariner Alexei Kolchin, who successfully romanced a teenage babysitter in 1966`s The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming, a 1966 Cold War comedy set in New England.

The following year, the role earned him a Golden Globe nomination for Most Promising Newcomer - Male. Also in 1967, he received fifth place in the Golden Laurel nominations for Male New Face.

Law next gained fame as bronzed angel Pygar in Barbarella, Roger Vadim`s science-fiction fantasy starring Fonda, who was married to the director at the time. Wearing huge, feathery wings, Pygar protected Fonda`s gun-toting, go-go-booted heroine in outer space.

His subsequent films included Hurry Sundown (1967), The Sergeant (1968) opposite Rod Steiger, and The Red Baron (1970). Law starred in the 1971 flop The Love Machine (based on Jacqueline Susann`s pulp novel) as ruthless Robin Stone.

An inveterate traveler (learning Italian and Spanish in Europe), he starred in more than 50 films produced in over 20 countries. He appeared in many action-adventure movies, including The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1974), The Cassandra Crossing (1977) and Tarzan the Ape Man (1981). Other movies included Danger Diabolik, The Hawaiians and Death Rides A Horse.

Law appeared opposite numerous distinguished European and U.S. actors, including Alan Arkin, Claudia Cardinale, Bo Derek, Ava Gardner, Mel Gibson, Richard Harris, Charlton Heston, Burt Lancaster, Sophia Loren, Groucho Marx, Sam Neil, Anthony Quinn, George Raft and Ugo Tognazzi. He worked for such noted producers and directors as Robert Wise, Otto Preminger, Carlo Ponti, Franco Rossi, Dino De Laurentiis, George Cosmatos and Dennis Hopper.

In television, he starred in the acclaimed mini-series The Best Place to Be with Donna Reed. He also starred in two Italian series: Little Women of Today and Europa Mission, both for RAI-TV.

Back home, he guest-starred as Jim Grainger (Cricket`s father) on the daytime TV drama The Young and the Restless.

One of his European pictures, Stardust (with Alberto Sordi and Monica Vitti), was voted the most popular Italian movie of the past 20 years by the Italian people.

As his career began in the 1960s, Law lived in a 1924 Los Feliz mansion with brother Tom, a former road manager for Peter, Paul and Mary. The two brothers made the r

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