Richard Jaeckel
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Jaeckel in the trailer for The Devil's Brigade (1968)
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| Born |
Richard Hanley Jaeckel October 10, 1926 Long Beach, Long Island New York, U.S. |
| Died | June 14, 1997 (aged 70) Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Cause of death | Melanoma |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1943–1994 |
| Spouse(s) | Antoinette Marches Jaeckel (1947–1997) (his death) |
| Children |
Barry Jaeckel Richard Jaeckel Jr. |
| Awards | 1971 Academy Award Best Supporting Actor (nomination) |
Richard Hanley Jaeckel (October 10, 1926 – June 14, 1997) was an American actor of film and television. Jaeckel became a well known character actor in his career, which spanned six decades. He was honored with a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination for his role in the 1971 adaptation of Ken Kesey's Sometimes a Great Notion.
Jaeckel was born in Long Beach, New York. A short, tough guy, he played a variety of characters during his fifty years in movies and television and became one of the best known character actors in Hollywood. Jaeckel got his start in the business at the age of seventeen while he was employed 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 United States Merchant Marine 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. One of Jaeckel's shortest film roles was in The Gunfighter, in which his character is killed by Gregory Peck's character in the opening scene. He played the role of Turk, the roomer's boyfriend, in the Academy Award-winning 1952 film Come Back, Little Sheba, with Shirley Booth, Burt Lancaster, and Terry Moore. In 1960, he appeared as Angus Pierce in the western, Flaming Star, starring Elvis Presley. He played Lee Marvin's able second-in-command, Sgt. Bowren, in the 1967 film The Dirty Dozen for director Robert Aldrich, and reprised the role in the 1985 sequel, The Dirty Dozen: Next Mission. Jaeckel appeared in several other Aldrich films, including Attack, Ulzana's Raid, and Twilight's Last Gleaming.
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