Rod Lawrence Strunk (born March 20, 1940 in Fresno, CA; passed away on July 11, 2007 in Tracy, CA), popularly known as "Rod Lauren", was an American actor and singer. As an actor, he worked mostly in television, appearing in single episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents and Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. amongst others during the 1960s. Lauren's most notable film is 1963's The Crawling Hand, which achieved latter-day notoriety when it was featured on MST3K as Experiment 106.