1. Alex Nicol appeared in more than forty feature films as well as directing many television shows including The Wild Wild West, Tarzan, and Daniel Boone.
18 Facts About Alex Nicol
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Alex Nicol's father was the arms keeper at Sing Sing.
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Alex Nicol studied at the Feagin School of Dramatic Art before joining Maurice Evans' theatrical company, with whom he made his Broadway debut with a walk-on in Henry IV, Part 1.
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However, it was as a character actor that Alex Nicol spent most of his career.
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Alex Nicol's acting career was interrupted by a five-year stint in the army.
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Alex Nicol served with the 101st Cavalry and attained the rank of Technical Sergeant.
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Alex Nicol next appeared in Forward the Heart, and then as part of the original cast of Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical South Pacific, playing one of the marines, but after a few weeks in the show he successfully auditioned to replace Ralph Meeker as Mannion in Mister Roberts, and was made understudy to the play's star Henry Fonda.
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Alex Nicol didn't show up, and the stage manager finally said to me, 'Okay, Alex, get dressed'.
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Alex Nicol was given a contract by Universal, and Sherman directed his second film, Tomahawk, in which he played a cavalry officer with a hatred of Indians.
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Alex Nicol played a troublesome sergeant in Red Ball Express, directed by Budd Boetticher.
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Alex Nicol returned to Universal to appear in two George Sherman films, The Lone Hand and Dawn at Socorro.
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Alex Nicol then made three films in England, including the lead role in Face the Music, and Ken Hughes' The House Across the Lake.
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Alex Nicol starred with Shelley Winters in the play Saturday Night Kid.
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Alex Nicol then returned to Hollywood where he made his first film as a director, The Screaming Skull, in which he acted.
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Alex Nicol traveled to Italy when director Martin Ritt gave him a role in Five Branded Women.
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Alex Nicol later worked as a director in television and did episodes of Daniel Boone, Wild Wild West, and many episodes for Tarzan starring Ron Ely.
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Alex Nicol retired in the late 1980s and died of natural causes in Montecito, California in 2001.
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Alex Nicol was survived by his wife, Jean and his three children, Lisa Nicol, Alexander Nicol III, and Eric Nicol.