Nicholas Hammond

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Nicholas Hammond (born May 15, 1950 in Washington, DC ) is an American actor and screenwriter.

life and career

Nicholas Hammond was born as the son of the American Colonel Thomas W. Hammond (1908-1970) and the British actress Eileen Bennett (* 1920). Because of his father's job, the family moved frequently and lived temporarily in Europe. Thanks to his mother, he came to acting early on and made his film debut in 1963 with a supporting role in Lord of the Flies , the film adaptation of William Golding 's novel of the same name . Two years later he appeared next to Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer in the extremely popular musical film My Songs - My Dreams : He played Friedrich, the eldest son of the Trapp family.

In adulthood, Hammond continued his acting career with an appearance in the Broadway -Stück Conduct Unbecoming and supporting roles in the feature films Skyjacked and Superdad - Superdad continued. He also took on guest roles in popular television series such as The Waltons , Petrocelli , Magnum , Dallas and Mord ist Her Hobby in the 1970s and 1980s . Hammond was mostly committed to the role of the attractive lover. He also gained fame through his role as Peter Parker aka Spider-Man in the television series The Amazing Spider-Man . The series was first broadcast between 1977 and 1979 and was the first real film adaptation of the Spider-Man comics, so Hammond also became the first real actor of the comic hero.

Hammond's first marriage to Laura Soli ended in divorce in 1984. Shortly afterwards, after filming in Australia, he was so fascinated by this country that he moved there entirely in the late 1980s. In the meantime he has also taken on the Australian citizenship. On Australian television he works as an actor and occasionally as a screenwriter and director. In 2019 he took part in an important Hollywood production for the first time after a long period, when he played the television director Sam Wanamaker in Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019) .

Hammond has been in a relationship with actress Robyn Nevin , former director of the Sydney Theater Company , since the early 1990s .

Filmography (selection)

movie theater

watch TV

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eileen Bennett. Retrieved December 28, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Nicholas Hammond reveals fame brought him 'no shortage of females' . In: Mail Online . ( dailymail.co.uk [accessed December 28, 2017]).
  3. ↑ Alex Arbuckle: No CGI, but the 1970s Spider-Man TV show had spunk. Retrieved March 19, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Mariella Van Houten, More Articles, 2019 July 27:15 Actors Who've Portrayed Spiderman. In: Showbiz Cheat Sheet. July 27, 2019, accessed March 19, 2020 (American English).
  5. ↑ Whatever happened to Nicholas Hammond '71? In: Princeton Alumni Weekly . January 21, 2016 ( princeton.edu [accessed December 28, 2017]).
personal data
SURNAME Hammond, Nicholas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-American actor
DATE OF BIRTH May 15, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Washington, DC