Richard Jaeckel

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Richard Hanley Jaeckel (born October 10, 1926 in Long Beach , Long Island , New York , United States , † June 14, 1997 in Woodland Hills , California , United States) was an American actor .

Life

Beginnings of the career

After finishing high school, Richard Jaeckel got a job as a clerk at the 20th Century Fox film studios through the mediation of columnist Louella Parsons , who was friends with his mother . There he was discovered a little later by a producer who was looking for young actors for a film about American GIs in the South Pacific. Jaeckel received one of the roles and made his feature film debut in 1943 alongside Anthony Quinn in Guadal Canal - Hell in the Pacific . From 1944 to 1949 Jaeckel himself did military service as a GI.

Cinema roles

After his return to Hollywood, he played soldiers in two films alongside John Wayne ( You were our comrade and Kesselschlacht ) - roles that he would play many times over the course of his 40-year career. The medium-sized, well-trained actor was often cast for stereotypical gangsters and killers. Jaeckel often played in westerns like Chisum (next to John Wayne), in Sam Peckinpah's Pat Garrett chases Billy the Kid , next to Gregory Peck in The Sniper , next to Burt Lancaster in No Mercy for Ulzana , next to Glenn Ford in count to three and pray and alongside Elvis Presley in Flaming Star . He was also seen in numerous other genres: In dramas like Return, little Sheba! (with Burt Lancaster), science fiction films such as in the American-Japanese cheap production Monster from Space , in John Carpenter's Starman and alongside Joseph Cotten in U 4000 - Panic Under the Ocean and comedies such as the western parody Four for Texas (with Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin ) and the disaster film parody The Incredible Journey in a Crazy Spaceship and family films like Herbie goes crazy .

Only rarely did he get roles in which he could develop his acting skills apart from the usual villain roles. In 1970 he was hired by Paul Newman for his film They Want To Be Giants . In this saga of a family of lumberjacks, Jaeckel played the son of Henry Fonda , who drowns wedged between several tree trunks while his brother (played by Newman, who also directed) makes desperate attempts to save himself. This tragicomic role earned Jaeckel an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor . Three years later he starred alongside Newman in the thriller Under Water You Don't Die again.

Jaeckel became known to a wide audience primarily through Robert Aldrich's war film The Dirty Dozen , in which an American major ( Lee Marvin ) puts together a combat group made up of partially convicted felons (including Charles Bronson and Telly Savalas ) who were on an ascension mission in World War II to be sent to occupied France to find either death or general amnesty. In addition to Marvin, Richard Jaeckel embodies as upright Sergeant Clyde Bowren, the only soldier who volunteers for this command. 18 years later Jaeckel and Marvin stood for the sequel, this time as a television production, in the same roles again in front of the camera.

In addition, Jaeckel was seen in numerous other war films; he starred alongside Lee Marvin and Jack Palance in Ardennes 1944 (directed by Robert Aldrich), alongside Aldo Ray in The Naked and the Dead , alongside James Cagney in The Admiral , alongside Ursula Andress in Once Before I Die , alongside William Holden in Die Devil Brigade and in City Without Pity one of the defendants Kirk Douglas is defending before the military tribunal.

watch TV

Jaeckel often took on guest roles in television series, for example in Bonanza , Perry Mason , Murder is her Hobby and Dallas . In the crime series Los Angeles 1937 he worked in six episodes as a police lieutenant in 1972/73. In the crime series Spenser based on the novels by Robert B. Parker , he played from 1985 to 1987 as police lieutenant Martin Quirk, the law-abiding friend of the title character ( Robert Urich ). His last role was Lt. Ben Edwards , whom he played from 1991 to 1992 and in guest appearances in 1993 and 1994 in the series Baywatch - The Lifeguards of Malibu .

End of life

In 1994, he lost his Brentwood, California home and most of his possessions due to a multi-million dollar debt. In the same year Jaeckel got black skin cancer . He died on June 14, 1997 in a California filmmaker care home.

His son Barry Jaeckel was successful as a professional golfer for a while.

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biography / Trivia on imdb.com
personal data
SURNAME Jaeckel, Richard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jaeckel, Richard Hanley (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-American actor
DATE OF BIRTH October 10, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Long Beach , New York
DATE OF DEATH June 14, 1997
Place of death Woodland Hills , California