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Richard Jaeckel

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Richard Hanley Jaeckel (October 10, 1926 – June 14, 1997) was an American actor of film and television.[1][2] Jaeckel became a well-known character actor in his career, which spanned six decades. He received a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination for his role in the 1971 adaptation of Ken Kesey's Sometimes a Great Notion.

Richard Jaeckel
Jaeckel in the trailer for The Devil's Brigade (1968)
Born
R. Hanley Jaeckel

(1926-10-10)October 10, 1926
Long Beach, New York, U.S.
DiedJune 14, 1997(1997-06-14) (aged 70)
Woodland Hills, California, U.S.
OccupationActor
Years active1943–1994
Spouse
Antoinette Marches
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​
(m. 1947)​
Children2, including Barry Jaeckel
Awards1971 Academy Award for
Best Supporting Actor (nomination)
War service
Allegiance United States
Service/branch United States Merchant Marine
Years of service1944–1949
Battles/warsWorld War II

Early years

Jaeckel was born October 10, 1926, in Long Beach, New York, the son of Richard Jaeckel and Millicent Hanley. His father was active in the family's fur business, and his mother was a stage actress. His birth name was R. Hanley Jaeckel, with only the initial rather than a first name. He attended The Harvey School and other private schools. The family lived in New York until 1934, when they moved to Los Angeles, where his father operated a branch of the family business. He graduated from Hollywood High School.[3]

Career

A short, tough man, Jaeckel played a variety of characters during his 50 years in films and television. Jaeckel got his start in the business at the age of seventeen while he was employed as a mailboy at 20th Century Fox studios in Hollywood.[3]: 8  A casting director auditioned him for a role in the 1943 film Guadalcanal Diary; Jaeckel won the role and settled into a lengthy career in supporting parts.

He served in the United States Merchant Marine from 1944 to 1949, then starred in two of the most remembered war films of 1949: Battleground and Sands of Iwo Jima with John Wayne. One of Jaeckel's shortest film roles was in The Gunfighter, in which his character is killed by Gregory Peck's character in the opening scene. He played the role of Turk, the roomer's boyfriend, in the Academy Award-winning 1952 film Come Back, Little Sheba, with Shirley Booth, Burt Lancaster, and Terry Moore. In 1960, he appeared as Angus Pierce in the western, Flaming Star, starring Elvis Presley. He played Lee Marvin's able second-in-command, Sgt. Bowren, in the 1967 film The Dirty Dozen for director Robert Aldrich, and reprised the role in the 1985 sequel, The Dirty Dozen: Next Mission. Jaeckel appeared in several other Aldrich films, including Attack (1956), Ulzana's Raid (1972), and Twilight's Last Gleaming (1977).

Jaeckel also guest-starred in many television programs. He was cast as a boxer in a 1954 episode of Reed Hadley's CBS legal drama, The Public Defender. Also in 1954, Jaeckel portrayed Billy the Kid in an episode of the syndicated western anthology series, Stories of the Century, with Jim Davis as the fictitious Southwest Railroad detective Matt Clark.

Seven years later, Jaeckel played Denver in "The Grudge Fight" episode of the NBC western series The Tall Man.

In 1957, he appeared as Mort Claffey in two episodes, "Paratroop Padre" and "The Light," of the syndicated religion anthology series, Crossroads. That same year, he portrayed Lieutenant Bradshaw in episode "War of the Whale Boats" of the military drama, Navy Log. In 1956 and 1957, he appeared in three episodes of another military drama, The West Point Story.

In 1955 and 1958, Jaeckel appeared in different roles on two episodes of CBS's fantasy drama The Millionaire. In 1958, Jaeckel guest-starred as Webb Martin in the episode "The Bloodline" of NBC's western series Cimarron City. That same year, he appeared in the syndicated drama of the American Civil War, Gray Ghost in the episode entitled "The Hero". In 1959, Jaeckel was cast as Clint Gleason in episode "The Man Behind the Star" of CBS's The Texan western series, starring Rory Calhoun.

In 1960, Jaeckel appeared twice on Nick Adams's ABC western series, The Rebel, as Marshal Roader in "The Rattler" and as Clyde Traskel in "Run, Killer, Run".

In 1963, Jaeckel played Willie the murderer in "The Case of the Lover's Leap" on CBS's Perry Mason, starring Raymond Burr. That same year he was among the guest stars on the short-lived ABC/Warner Brothers western series, The Dakotas and in "The Predators" episode of Have Gun – Will Travel, Season 6 (1962). Also in 1963, Jaeckel, speaking in German, played the role of Wehrmacht Sgt. Buxman in the Combat! TV series episode "Gideon's Army." Finally in that year, he guest starred in the TV Western Series Gunsmoke in the S8E27 episode "Two of a Kind", playing Irish immigrant mine owner O’Ryan, who was feuding with his partner. Jaeckel appeared in Alfred Hitchcock Presents "Incident in a Small Jail" (1961) as well as The Alfred Hitchcock Hour episodes , "Low Clouds and Coastal Fog" (1963), "Death of a Cop (1963), and "Off Season" (1965).

In 1964, Jaeckel appeared as Danny in the episode "Keep Cool" of The New Phil Silvers Show and as Mitch Devlin in an episode of Bonanza, ″Between Heaven and Earth″.

In 1966, Jaeckel made a second guest appearance on Perry Mason as Mike Woods in the episode "The Case of the Bogus Buccaneers." That same year he also co-starred as Christopher Cable in an episode – "The Night of the Grand Emir" – of The Wild Wild West. He guest-starred in 1967 as Dibbs in the episode "Night of Reckoning" on Bonanza.

Jaeckel's most famous film appearances of the 1950s are in 3:10 to Yuma (1957) and The Naked and the Dead (1958). His film career achieved its greatest success in the period 1967 to 1975, in such features as The Dirty Dozen (1967), The Devil's Brigade (1968), Chisum (1970), Sometimes a Great Notion (1971) (for which he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor), Ulzana's Raid (1972), Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973), The Outfit (1973), The Drowning Pool (1975), and Walking Tall Part 2 (1975). Chisum was a John Wayne vehicle in which Jaeckel, Christopher George and Andrew Prine all co-starred in prominent supporting roles. The three would re-team six years later in Grizzly (1976) (an amiable "Jaws" ripoff reset in the forest), and Jaeckel and George would team again in another "nature strikes back" story, Day of the Animals (1977).

In 1976 he starred in the B movie Mako: The Jaws of Death.

On television, in 1975 he starred as the title character on the episode “Larkin” on Gunsmoke (S20E17). In 1977, Jaeckel appeared with Donna Mills, Bill Bixby, and William Shatner in the last episode, entitled "The Scarlet Ribbon", of NBC's western series The Oregon Trail, starring Rod Taylor and Andrew Stevens. The following year he played Sergeant Lykes in the epic TV miniseries Centennial.

He had a recurring role in the short-lived Andy Griffith vehicle Salvage 1 (1979).

The later films in his career included a major role in John Carpenter's 1984 film Starman as an NSA agent hunting an alien life form played by Jeff Bridges as well as in the action films Black Moon Rising with Tommy Lee Jones and Delta Force 2: The Colombian Connection with Chuck Norris. In his later years, Jaeckel was known to television audiences as Lt. Ben Edwards on Baywatch. He also co-starred on Robert Urich's ABC series Spenser: For Hire in the role of Lieutenant Martin Quirk.

Personal life

On May 29, 1947, Jaeckel married Antoinette Helen Marches in Tijuana, Mexico. They had two sons,[4] Barry and Richard.[1] His son Barry is a professional golfer who has won on the PGA Tour.[citation needed]

Death

Jaeckel died at the age of 70 from cancer, at the Motion Picture & Television Hospital in Woodland Hills, California.[5]

Recognition

In 1972, Jaeckel received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Sometimes a Great Notion.[6] In 1992, he received a Golden Boot Award for his work in westerns.[7]

Selected filmography

References

  1. ^ a b Blumenthal, Ralph (June 17, 1997). "Richard Jaeckel Is Dead at 70; A Durable Movie Tough Guy". The New York Times. Retrieved September 13, 2010.
  2. ^ Vallance, Tom (June 18, 1997). "Obituary: Richard Jaeckel". Independent. London. Retrieved September 13, 2010.
  3. ^ a b Freese, Gene (2016). Richard Jaeckel, Hollywood's Man of Character. McFarland. ISBN 9781476662107. Retrieved May 25, 2018.
  4. ^ Aaker, Everett (2017). Television Western Players, 1960–1975: A Biographical Dictionary. McFarland. pp. 228–230. ISBN 9781476662503. Retrieved May 25, 2018.
  5. ^ Blumenthal, Ralph (June 17, 1997). "Richard Jaeckel Is Dead at 70; A Durable Movie Tough Guy". The New York Times. Retrieved August 8, 2020.
  6. ^ "Search Results". Academy Awards Database. Retrieved May 25, 2018.[permanent dead link]
  7. ^ . b-westerns.com. Archived from the original on May 25, 2018. Retrieved May 25, 2018.

External links

  • Richard Jaeckel at IMDb

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This article needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed Find sources Richard Jaeckel news newspapers books scholar JSTOR July 2009 Learn how and when to remove this template message Richard Hanley Jaeckel October 10 1926 June 14 1997 was an American actor of film and television 1 2 Jaeckel became a well known character actor in his career which spanned six decades He received a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination for his role in the 1971 adaptation of Ken Kesey s Sometimes a Great Notion Richard JaeckelJaeckel in the trailer for The Devil s Brigade 1968 BornR Hanley Jaeckel 1926 10 10 October 10 1926Long Beach New York U S DiedJune 14 1997 1997 06 14 aged 70 Woodland Hills California U S OccupationActorYears active1943 1994SpouseAntoinette Marches m 1947 wbr Children2 including Barry JaeckelAwards1971 Academy Award forBest Supporting Actor nomination War serviceAllegiance United StatesService wbr branchUnited States Merchant MarineYears of service1944 1949Battles warsWorld War II Contents 1 Early years 2 Career 3 Personal life 4 Death 5 Recognition 6 Selected filmography 7 References 8 External linksEarly years EditJaeckel was born October 10 1926 in Long Beach New York the son of Richard Jaeckel and Millicent Hanley His father was active in the family s fur business and his mother was a stage actress His birth name was R Hanley Jaeckel with only the initial rather than a first name He attended The Harvey School and other private schools The family lived in New York until 1934 when they moved to Los Angeles where his father operated a branch of the family business He graduated from Hollywood High School 3 Career EditA short tough man Jaeckel played a variety of characters during his 50 years in films and television Jaeckel got his start in the business at the age of seventeen while he was employed as a mailboy at 20th Century Fox studios in Hollywood 3 8 A casting director auditioned him for a role in the 1943 film Guadalcanal Diary Jaeckel won the role and settled into a lengthy career in supporting parts He served in the United States Merchant Marine from 1944 to 1949 then starred in two of the most remembered war films of 1949 Battleground and Sands of Iwo Jima with John Wayne One of Jaeckel s shortest film roles was in The Gunfighter in which his character is killed by Gregory Peck s character in the opening scene He played the role of Turk the roomer s boyfriend in the Academy Award winning 1952 film Come Back Little Sheba with Shirley Booth Burt Lancaster and Terry Moore In 1960 he appeared as Angus Pierce in the western Flaming Star starring Elvis Presley He played Lee Marvin s able second in command Sgt Bowren in the 1967 film The Dirty Dozen for director Robert Aldrich and reprised the role in the 1985 sequel The Dirty Dozen Next Mission Jaeckel appeared in several other Aldrich films including Attack 1956 Ulzana s Raid 1972 and Twilight s Last Gleaming 1977 Jaeckel also guest starred in many television programs He was cast as a boxer in a 1954 episode of Reed Hadley s CBS legal drama The Public Defender Also in 1954 Jaeckel portrayed Billy the Kid in an episode of the syndicated western anthology series Stories of the Century with Jim Davis as the fictitious Southwest Railroad detective Matt Clark Seven years later Jaeckel played Denver in The Grudge Fight episode of the NBC western series The Tall Man In 1957 he appeared as Mort Claffey in two episodes Paratroop Padre and The Light of the syndicated religion anthology series Crossroads That same year he portrayed Lieutenant Bradshaw in episode War of the Whale Boats of the military drama Navy Log In 1956 and 1957 he appeared in three episodes of another military drama The West Point Story In 1955 and 1958 Jaeckel appeared in different roles on two episodes of CBS s fantasy drama The Millionaire In 1958 Jaeckel guest starred as Webb Martin in the episode The Bloodline of NBC s western series Cimarron City That same year he appeared in the syndicated drama of the American Civil War Gray Ghost in the episode entitled The Hero In 1959 Jaeckel was cast as Clint Gleason in episode The Man Behind the Star of CBS s The Texan western series starring Rory Calhoun In 1960 Jaeckel appeared twice on Nick Adams s ABC western series The Rebel as Marshal Roader in The Rattler and as Clyde Traskel in Run Killer Run In 1963 Jaeckel played Willie the murderer in The Case of the Lover s Leap on CBS s Perry Mason starring Raymond Burr That same year he was among the guest stars on the short lived ABC Warner Brothers western series The Dakotas and in The Predators episode of Have Gun Will Travel Season 6 1962 Also in 1963 Jaeckel speaking in German played the role of Wehrmacht Sgt Buxman in the Combat TV series episode Gideon s Army Finally in that year he guest starred in the TV Western Series Gunsmoke in the S8E27 episode Two of a Kind playing Irish immigrant mine owner O Ryan who was feuding with his partner Jaeckel appeared in Alfred Hitchcock Presents Incident in a Small Jail 1961 as well as The Alfred Hitchcock Hour episodes Low Clouds and Coastal Fog 1963 Death of a Cop 1963 and Off Season 1965 In 1964 Jaeckel appeared as Danny in the episode Keep Cool of The New Phil Silvers Show and as Mitch Devlin in an episode of Bonanza Between Heaven and Earth In 1966 Jaeckel made a second guest appearance on Perry Mason as Mike Woods in the episode The Case of the Bogus Buccaneers That same year he also co starred as Christopher Cable in an episode The Night of the Grand Emir of The Wild Wild West He guest starred in 1967 as Dibbs in the episode Night of Reckoning on Bonanza Jaeckel s most famous film appearances of the 1950s are in 3 10 to Yuma 1957 and The Naked and the Dead 1958 His film career achieved its greatest success in the period 1967 to 1975 in such features as The Dirty Dozen 1967 The Devil s Brigade 1968 Chisum 1970 Sometimes a Great Notion 1971 for which he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor Ulzana s Raid 1972 Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid 1973 The Outfit 1973 The Drowning Pool 1975 and Walking Tall Part 2 1975 Chisum was a John Wayne vehicle in which Jaeckel Christopher George and Andrew Prine all co starred in prominent supporting roles The three would re team six years later in Grizzly 1976 an amiable Jaws ripoff reset in the forest and Jaeckel and George would team again in another nature strikes back story Day of the Animals 1977 In 1976 he starred in the B movie Mako The Jaws of Death On television in 1975 he starred as the title character on the episode Larkin on Gunsmoke S20E17 In 1977 Jaeckel appeared with Donna Mills Bill Bixby and William Shatner in the last episode entitled The Scarlet Ribbon of NBC s western series The Oregon Trail starring Rod Taylor and Andrew Stevens The following year he played Sergeant Lykes in the epic TV miniseries Centennial He had a recurring role in the short lived Andy Griffith vehicle Salvage 1 1979 The later films in his career included a major role in John Carpenter s 1984 film Starman as an NSA agent hunting an alien life form played by Jeff Bridges as well as in the action films Black Moon Rising with Tommy Lee Jones and Delta Force 2 The Colombian Connection with Chuck Norris In his later years Jaeckel was known to television audiences as Lt Ben Edwards on Baywatch He also co starred on Robert Urich s ABC series Spenser For Hire in the role of Lieutenant Martin Quirk Personal life EditOn May 29 1947 Jaeckel married Antoinette Helen Marches in Tijuana Mexico They had two sons 4 Barry and Richard 1 His son Barry is a professional golfer who has won on the PGA Tour citation needed Death EditJaeckel died at the age of 70 from cancer at the Motion Picture amp Television Hospital in Woodland Hills California 5 Recognition EditIn 1972 Jaeckel received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Sometimes a Great Notion 6 In 1992 he received a Golden Boot Award for his work in westerns 7 Selected filmography EditGuadalcanal Diary 1943 as Pvt Johnny Chicken Anderson Wing and a Prayer 1944 as Beezy Bessemer Jungle Patrol 1948 as Lt Dick Carter City Across the River 1949 as Bull Battleground 1949 as Bettis Sands of Iwo Jima 1949 as Pfc Frank Flynn The Gunfighter 1950 as Eddie Wyoming Mail 1950 as Nate Fighting Coast Guard 1951 as Tony Jessup The Sea Hornet 1951 as Johnny Radford My Son John 1952 as Chuck Jefferson Hoodlum Empire 1952 as Ted Dawson Come Back Little Sheba 1952 as Turk Fisher Big Leaguer 1953 as Bobby Bronson Sea of Lost Ships 1953 as Ensign H G Hap O Malley The Violent Men 1954 as Wade Matlock The Shanghai Story 1954 as Knuckles Greer Apache Ambush 1955 as Lee Parker Attack 1956 as Pvt Snowden 3 10 to Yuma 1957 as Charlie Prince Cowboy 1958 as Paul Curtis The Lineup 1958 as Sandy McLain The Naked and the Dead 1958 as Gallagher The Gun Runners 1958 as Buzurki When Hell Broke Loose 1958 as Karl Platinum High School 1960 as Hack Marlow The Gallant Hours 1960 as Lt Cmdr Roy Webb Flaming Star 1960 as Angus Pierce Town Without Pity 1961 as Cpl Birdwell Birdie Scott The Predators 1962 as John Tyree Have Gun Will Travel The Young and The Brave 1963 as Cpl John Estway 4 for Texas 1963 as Pete Mancini Nightmare in the Sun 1965 as Motorcyclist Town Tamer 1965 as Deputy Johnny Honsinger Once Before I Die 1966 as Lt Custer The Dirty Dozen 1967 as Sgt Clyde Bowren The Devil s Brigade 1968 as Pvt Omar Greco The Green Slime 1968 as Commander Vince Elliott Latitude Zero 1969 as Perry Lawton Surabaya Conspiracy 1970 as Dirk Chisum 1970 as Jesse Evans Sometimes a Great Notion 1971 as Joe Ben Stamper The Deadly Dream 1971 TV as Delgreve Mission Impossible 1971 TV as Edward Trask Ulzana s Raid 1972 as Sergeant Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid 1973 as Sheriff Kip McKinney The Outfit 1973 as Kimmie Cherney Chosen Survivors 1974 as Major Gordon Ellis The Drowning Pool 1975 as Franks Walking Tall Part 2 1975 as Stud Pardee The Kill 1975 as Ming Grizzly 1976 as Arthur Scott Mako The Jaws of Death 1976 as Sonny Stein Twilight s Last Gleaming 1977 as Capt Stanford Towne Day of the Animals 1977 as Professor MacGregor Speedtrap 1977 as Billy Mr No Legs 1979 as Chuck The Dark 1979 as Det Dave Mooney Salvage 1 1979 as Jack Klinger Pacific Inferno 1979 as Dealer Delta Fox 1979 as Santana Herbie Goes Bananas 1980 as Shepard All the Marbles 1981 as Bill Dudley Cold River 1982 as Mike Allison Blood Song 1982 as Frank Hauser Airplane II The Sequel 1982 as Controller 2 Goma 2 1984 as Martin Starman 1984 as George Fox The Dirty Dozen Next Mission 1985 as Sgt Clyde Bowren The Fix 1985 as Charles Dale Black Moon Rising 1986 as Earl Windom Ghetto Blaster 1989 as Mike Henry Delta Force 2 The Colombian Connection 1990 as DEA Agent John Page The King of the Kickboxers 1991 as Captain O Day Martial Outlaw 1993 as Mr WhiteReferences Edit a b Blumenthal Ralph June 17 1997 Richard Jaeckel Is Dead at 70 A Durable Movie Tough Guy The New York Times Retrieved September 13 2010 Vallance Tom June 18 1997 Obituary Richard Jaeckel Independent London Retrieved September 13 2010 a b Freese Gene 2016 Richard Jaeckel Hollywood s Man of Character McFarland ISBN 9781476662107 Retrieved May 25 2018 Aaker Everett 2017 Television Western Players 1960 1975 A Biographical Dictionary McFarland pp 228 230 ISBN 9781476662503 Retrieved May 25 2018 Blumenthal Ralph June 17 1997 Richard Jaeckel Is Dead at 70 A Durable Movie Tough Guy The New York Times Retrieved August 8 2020 Search Results Academy Awards Database Retrieved May 25 2018 permanent dead link Golden Boot Awards b westerns com Archived from the original on May 25 2018 Retrieved May 25 2018 External links Edit Biography portal New York state portal California portal Film portal Television portalRichard Jaeckel at IMDb Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title 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