Skip Homeier

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Skip Homeier (born October 5, 1930 in Chicago , Illinois - † June 25, 2017 in Indian Wells , California ; born George Vincent Homeier ) was an American actor . His acting career includes over 130 roles in productions for film and television. He was best known through films such as The Sniper , Okinawa , The Last Attack , The Blind Spider or The Last Bullet Strikes .

life and career

Skip Homeier, born George Vincent Homeier in Chicago, Illinois in 1930 , began his radio career in his hometown at the age of six. Homeier played his first film role in 1944 under his youthful name Skippy Homeier as Hitler Youth Emil Bruckner, who is adopted by his American relatives, in Leslie Fenton's drama Tomorrow, the World! , alongside stars like Fredric March , Betty Field and Agnes Moorehead . In the decades that followed, he played numerous roles in dramas, war films, crime films and westerns. He made striking appearances as a trigger-happy young man in Henry King's noble western The Sniper , in Lewis Milestone's war drama Okinawa or in Samuel Fuller's anti-war film The Last Attack . He often embodied neurotic or villain-like figures. He played one of his few leading roles in the 1957 director Montgomery Tully's The Blind Spider . He played his last film role and thus also last role at all in 1982 in William Witney's Western Showdown at Eagle Gap .

Homeier had already turned to television as early as 1950 and played there in episodes of successful series. He was best known on television for his portrayal of villain roles. His TV appearances between 1950 and 1982 included: The Silver Theater (1950), Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1956-1958), West of Santa Fé (1960), Wagon Train (1964), The Outer Limits (1964), The Addams Family (1964), Perry Mason (1965), Bonanza (1966), The Seaview (1968), Cobra, Take Over You (1968), The People at Shiloh Ranch (1969), Spaceship Enterprise (1969 ), The Boss (1969), Mannix (1969), Makeup and Guns (1974 ), The Road Adventure (1974), Bumpers Territory (1976), The Streets of San Francisco (1977), The Six Million Dollar Man ( 1977), The Incredible Hulk (1979), Barnaby Jones (1979), Vegas (1980), Quincy (1982).

He played more complex TV roles as Lt. Dan Raven in 13 episodes of the television series Dan Raven in 1960 and in 24 episodes from 1970 to 1971 the character of Dr. Hugh Jacoby in the television series The Interns .

From 1963 until his death in 2017 at the age of 86, Skip Homeier was married to his wife Della Sharman. He was also survived by Michael and Peter, two sons from his first divorced marriage in the 1950s.

Filmography (selection)

movie theater

  • 1948: Miss Wildfang (Mickey)
  • 1949: The Big Cat
  • 1950: The Sniper (The Gunfighter)
  • 1951: Okinawa (Halls of Montezuma)
  • 1951: The Last Attack (Fixed Bayonets!)
  • 1952: Mariner watch out (Sailor Beware)
  • 1952: Has anyone seen my bride? (Has Anybody Seen My Gal?)
  • 1953: The Last Posse
  • 1954: Bridgehead X (Beachhead)
  • 1954: Three bit the grass (The Lone Gun)
  • 1954: Duel in Socorro (Dawn at Socorro)
  • 1954: The Spider (Black Widow)
  • 1954: Scar Face (Cry Vengeance)
  • 1955: Avengers in Black (Ten Wanted Men)
  • 1955: Post robbery in Central City (The Road to Denver)
  • 1955: The finger on the trigger (At Gunpoint)
  • 1956: The Black Mustang (Stranger at My Door)
  • 1956: Laramie's Death Gorge (Dakota Incident)
  • 1956: Duel at the Apache Pass (Thunder Over Arizona)
  • 1956: Horizon in Flames (The Burning Hills)
  • 1956: Baptism of Fire (Between Heaven and Hell)
  • 1957: The Blind Spider (No Road Back)
  • 1957: All About Your Head (The Tall T)
  • 1958: Day of the Badman
  • 1959: Killer von Dakota (Plunderers of Painted Flats)
  • 1960: One does not give up (Comanche Station)
  • 1963: The Iron Collar (Showdown)
  • 1964: The last bullet hits (Bullet for a Badman)
  • 1977: I am the greatest (The Greatest)
  • 1982: Showdown at Eagle Gap

watch TV

  • 1969: Starship Enterprise ( The Way to Eden and Stencils of Violence , TV series)
  • 1970: The Challenge (TV movie)
  • 1972: Two for the Money (TV movie)
  • 1973: Voyage of the Yes (TV movie)
  • 1976: Helter Skelter - The Night of the Long Knives ( Helter Skelter, TV movie)
  • 1977: Washington: Behind Closed Doors ( Washington: Behind Closed Doors ) (TV miniseries)
  • 1978: Overboard (TV movie)
  • 1978: How the West Was Won ( TV miniseries)
  • 1979: The Wild Wild West Revisited (TV movie)

literature

Web links

Commons : Skip Homeier  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Remembering TOS Guest Star Skip Homeier, 1930–2017
  2. ^ Biographical data by Skip Homeier in: Screen World 1968 , by John Willis, 1983, p. 221
  3. ↑ Timothy Read: Skip Homeier obituary . In: The Guardian . August 24, 2017, ISSN  0261-3077 ( theguardian.com [accessed January 5, 2020]).
  4. ↑ Timothy Read: Skip Homeier obituary . In: The Guardian . August 24, 2017, ISSN  0261-3077 ( theguardian.com [accessed January 5, 2020]).
personal data
SURNAME Homeier, Skip
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Homeier, George Vincent (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-American actor
DATE OF BIRTH 5th October 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Chicago , Illinois , USA
DATE OF DEATH June 25, 2017
Place of death Indian Wells , California , USA