Richard Jaeckel

Infobox Actor
name = Richard Jaeckel

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birthname = Richard Hanley Jaeckel
birthdate = birth date|1926|10|10
birthplace = Long Beach, Long Island, New York,
United States
deathdate = death date and age|1997|6|14|1926|10|10
deathplace = Los Angeles, California,
United States
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occupation = Actor
yearsactive = 1943 – 1994
spouse = Antoinette Marches
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Richard Hanley Jaeckel (October 10, 1926 – June 14, 1997) was an American actor.

Jaeckel was born in Long Beach, New York. A short, but tough guy, he played a variety of characters in his 50 years in movies and television and became one of Hollywood's best known character actors. Jaeckel got his start in the business at the age of 17 while working as a mailboy at 20th Century Fox studios in Hollywood. A casting director auditioned him for a key role in the 1943 film "Guadalcanal Diary", Jaeckel won the role and settled into a lengthy career in supporting parts.

He served in the US Navy 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. He also played the role of Turk, the daughter's boyfriend, in the celebrated 1952 film "Come Back, Little Sheba", co-starring with Shirley Booth, Burt Lancaster, and Terry Moore. He played Lee Marvin's able second-in-command in "The Dirty Dozen" for director Robert Aldrich. Jaeckel appeared in several other Aldrich films, including "Attack", "Ulzana's Raid" and "Twilight's Last Gleaming".

The highlight of Jaeckel's career was in 1971, when he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor for his role in "Sometimes a Great Notion". He had a recurring role in the short-lived Andy Griffith vehicle "Salvage 1". In his later years, Jaeckel was known to TV audiences as Lt. Ben Edwards on the series "Baywatch". He also co-starred on the TV Series "" as Lt. Martin Quirk.

Jaeckel died in 1997, aged 70, after a three year battle with melanoma, at the Motion Picture and Television Hospital in Woodland Hills, California. His son, Barry, is a professional golfer who has won on the PGA Tour.

elected filmography

* "Guadalcanal Diary" (1943)
* "Battleground" (1949)
* "Sands of Iwo Jima" (1949)
* "The Gunfighter" (1950)
* "Come Back, Little Sheba" (1952)
* "" (1957)
* "Town Without Pity" (1961)
* "The Dirty Dozen" (1967)
* "The Green Slime" (1968)
* "The Devil's Brigade" (1968)
* "Chisum" (1970)
* "Sometimes a Great Notion" (1971)
* "Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid" (1973)
* "The Drowning Pool" (1975)
* "Walking Tall Part 2" (1975)
* "Grizzly" (1976)
* "" (1976)
* "Twilight's Last Gleaming" (1977)
* "Herbie Goes Bananas" (1980)
* "" (1982)
* "Cold River" (1982)
* "Starman" (1984)
* "Black Moon Rising" (1986)
* "" (1990)
* "The King of the Kickboxers" (1991)
* "Martial Outlaw" (1993)

External links

*imdb name|id=0001395|name=Richard Jaeckel
* [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=6622617 Richard Jaeckel on Find-A-Grave]