Richard Jaeckel
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Born R. Hanley Jaeckel (the "R" stood for nothing), young Richard Jaeckel arrived in Hollywood with his family in the early 1940s. Columnist Louella Parsons, a friend of Jaeckel's mother, got the boy a job as a mailman at the 20th Century-Fox studios. When the producers of Fox's Guadalcanal Diary found themselves in need of a baby-faced youth to play a callow marine private, Jaeckel was given a screen test. Despite his initial reluctance to play-act, Jaeckel accepted the Guadalcanal Diary assignment and remained in films for the next five decades, appearing in almost 50 movies and playing everything from wavy-haired romantic leads to crag-faced villains. Between 1944 and 1948, Jaeckel served in the U.S. Navy. Upon his discharge, he co-starred in Sands of Iwo Jima with John Wayne and Forrest Tucker. In 1971, Jaeckel was nominated for a "Best Supporting Actor" Oscar on the strength of his performance in Sometimes a Great Notion. Richard Jaeckel has also been a regular in several TV series, usually appearing in dependable, authoritative roles: he was cowboy scout Tony Gentry in Frontier Circus (1962), Lt. Pete McNeil in Banyon (1972), firefighter Hank Myers in Firehouse (1974), federal agent Hank Klinger in Salvage 1 (1979), Major Hawkins in At Ease (1983) (a rare -- and expertly played -- comedy role), and Master Chief Sam Rivers in Supercarrier (1988). From 1991-92, Jaeckel played Lieutenant Ben Edwards on the internationally popular series Baywatch. Jaeckel passed away at the Motion Picture & Television Hospital of an undisclosed illness at the age of 70.
Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
MOVIES
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | BOX OFFICE | YEAR |
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No Score Yet | Martial Outlaw |
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— | 1993 |
No Score Yet | The King of the Kickboxers |
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— | 1991 |
11% | Delta Force 2: The Colombian Connection |
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— | 1990 |
No Score Yet | Ghetto Blaster |
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— | 1989 |
No Score Yet | Supercarrier (Deadly Enemies) |
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— | 1988 |
43% | Black Moon Rising |
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— | 1986 |
No Score Yet | The Dirty Dozen: Next Mission |
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— | 1985 |
No Score Yet | Pacific Inferno |
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— | 1985 |
No Score Yet | Killing Machine |
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— | 1985 |
85% | Starman |
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— | 1984 |
No Score Yet | Fix |
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— | 1984 |
42% | Airplane 2 - The Sequel |
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— | 1982 |
No Score Yet | Cold River |
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— | 1982 |
No Score Yet | Blood Song |
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— | 1982 |
No Score Yet | ... All the Marbles |
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— | 1981 |
No Score Yet | The Awakening of Candra |
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— | 1981 |
No Score Yet | Mr. No Legs |
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— | 1981 |
40% | Herbie Goes Bananas |
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— | 1980 |
No Score Yet | Pacific Inferno |
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— | 1979 |
No Score Yet | The Dark |
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— | 1979 |
No Score Yet | Speed Trap |
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— | 1978 |
No Score Yet | Speedtrap |
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— | 1978 |
80% | Twilight's Last Gleaming |
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— | 1977 |
No Score Yet | Day of the Animals |
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— | 1977 |
No Score Yet | Delta Fox |
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— | 1977 |
No Score Yet | Mako: The Jaws of Death |
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— | 1976 |
40% | Grizzly |
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— | 1976 |
No Score Yet | The Last Day |
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— | 1975 |
50% | The Drowning Pool |
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— | 1975 |
No Score Yet | Part 2 Walking Tall |
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— | 1975 |
No Score Yet | Chosen Survivors |
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— | 1974 |
No Score Yet | Born Innocent |
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— | 1974 |
No Score Yet | The Outfit |
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— | 1974 |
86% | Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid |
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— | 1973 |
No Score Yet | Firehouse |
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— | 1973 |
No Score Yet | The Kill |
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— | 1973 |
90% | Ulzana's Raid |
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— | 1972 |
100% | Sometimes a Great Notion (Never Give an Inch) |
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— | 1971 |
83% | Chisum |
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— | 1970 |
No Score Yet | The Haunted House of Horror, (Horror House) |
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— | 1970 |
No Score Yet | The Surabaya Conspiracy |
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— | 1970 |
No Score Yet | Latitude Zero (Atragon II) (Ido zero daisakusen) |
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— | 1969 |
17% | The Green Slime |
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— | 1969 |
60% | The Devil's Brigade |
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— | 1968 |
79% | The Dirty Dozen |
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— | 1967 |
No Score Yet | Once Before I Die |
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— | 1965 |
11% | Four for Texas |
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— | 1963 |
60% | Town Without Pity |
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— | 1961 |
91% | Flaming Star |
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— | 1960 |
No Score Yet | The Gallant Hours |
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— | 1960 |
No Score Yet | Platinum High School |
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— | 1960 |
83% | The Naked and the Dead |
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— | 1958 |
No Score Yet | The Gun Runners |
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— | 1958 |
86% | The Lineup |
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— | 1958 |
No Score Yet | When Hell Broke Loose |
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— | 1958 |
96% | 3:10 to Yuma |
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— | 1957 |
100% | Attack |
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— | 1956 |
No Score Yet | The Violent Men |
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— | 1955 |
No Score Yet | Big Leaguer |
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— | 1953 |
75% | Come Back, Little Sheba |
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— | 1952 |
43% | My Son John |
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— | 1952 |
No Score Yet | Hoodlum Empire |
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— | 1952 |
83% | Wyoming Mail |
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— | 1950 |
100% | The Gunfighter |
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— | 1950 |
100% | Sands of Iwo Jima |
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— | 1950 |
75% | Battleground |
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— | 1949 |
No Score Yet | City Across the River |
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— | 1949 |
80% | Wing and a Prayer |
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— | 1944 |
No Score Yet | Guadalcanal Diary |
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— | 1943 |
TV
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | YEAR |
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Baywatch
1989-2001
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No Score Yet |
Murder, She Wrote
1984-1996
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No Score Yet |
Little House on the Prairie
1974-1983
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No Score Yet |
Charlie's Angels
1976-1981
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No Score Yet |
Gunsmoke
1955-1975
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No Score Yet |
Ironside
1967-1975
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No Score Yet |
Mission: Impossible
1966-1973
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No Score Yet |
The Wild Wild West
1965-1969
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No Score Yet |
Bonanza
1959-1973
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No Score Yet |
Perry Mason
1957-1966
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No Score Yet |
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
1962-1965
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No Score Yet |
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955-1962
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Quotes from Richard Jaeckel's Characters
Maj. Reisman: | Any questions? |
Archer Maggott: | Suh? Do we have to eat with niggahs? [Jefferson jumps Maggot] |
Sgt. Bowren: | [as Reisman exits the room] : What's going on, sir? |
Maj. Reisman: | Oh, the gentleman from the South had a question about the dining arrangements. He and his comrades are discussing place settings now. |
Detective Franks: | There's nothing wrong with southern California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure." |
Detective Franks: | There's nothing wrong with southern California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure. |