Jeremy Slate

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Jeremy Slate (born February 17, 1926 in Atlantic City , New Jersey , † November 19, 2006 in Los Angeles , California ) was an American actor.

life and career

Jeremy Slate has appeared in minor film roles since the late 1950s. He became known through the television series The Aquanauts , in which he played a Californian diver between 1960 and 1961. In the first phase of his film career, Slate cultivated the image of the playboy or surfer boy in many films , for example at the side of Elvis Presley in Café Europa (1960) and Girls! Girls! Girls! (1962). Over the course of the decade, Slate also took on substantial character roles and now played more "tough guys" or unsympathetic villains. Directed by Henry Hathaway , he appeared on the side of John Wayne in the westerns The Four Sons of Katie Elder (1965) and The Marshal (1969). Not only as an actor, but also as a screenwriter , Slate worked on the cult film Hell's Angels '70 about a group of motorcyclists.

In the 1970s, the acting offers for Jeremy Slate decreased significantly, he was now mostly on television. From 1979, however, he found regular employment again when he took over the role of Chuck Wilson in the soap opera Love, Lie, Passion until 1987 . Slate played his last film role in 1992 as a clergyman in the Stephen King film The Lawnmower Man . The last time he appeared in front of the camera was the year he died for the sitcom My Name Is Earl .

From 1948 to 1966 he was married to Beverly Van Wert, from 1966 to 1967 with the actress Tammy Grimes . Both marriages ended in divorce. Jeremy Slate died in November 2006 at the age of 80 from complications from cancer surgery. He was survived by his partner Joan and four children.

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Jeremy Slate at Allmovie
  2. Jeremy Slate, Actor, 80, Dies , The New York Times, Nov. 22, 2006