Skip Homeier
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Homeier in Boys' Ranch, 1946
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| Born |
George Vincent Homeier October 5, 1930 Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1941–1982 |
| Spouse(s) | Della Sharman (m. 1963) |
Skip Homeier (born George Vincent Homeier; October 5, 1930) is an American actor who started his career at age 11 and became a child star. He is now retired,
Homeier began acting as Skippy Homeier at the age of 11, on the radio show Portia Faces Life. At the same age, he also did "dramatic commercial announcements" on The O'Neills and Against the Storm on radio. In 1942, he also joined the casts of Wheatena Playhouse and We, the Abbotts. From 1943 until 1944, he played the role of Emil in the Broadway play, and film Tomorrow, the World. Cast as a child indoctrinated into Nazism, who is brought to the United States from Germany following the death of his parents, Homeier was praised for his performance. He played the troubled youngster in the 1944 film adaptation of Tomorrow, the World and received good reviews playing opposite Fredric March and Betty Field as his American uncle and aunt.
Homeier changed his first name from Skippy to Skip when he became 18. He attended the University of California, Los Angeles
Although Homeier worked frequently throughout his childhood and adolescence, playing wayward youths with no chance of redemption, he did not become a major star, but he did make a transition from child actor to adult, especially in a range of roles as delinquent youths, common in Hollywood films of the 1950s.
In 1954, he guest-starred in an episode of the NBC legal drama Justice, based on cases of the Legal Aid Society of New York. He was cast later in an episode of Steve McQueen's Wanted Dead or Alive, a CBS western series. Homeier played a man sought for a crime of which he is innocent, but who has no faith in the legal system's ability to provide justice. Fleeing from McQueen's bounty hunter character Josh Randall, Homeier's character leaps to his death from a cliff.
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