Richard Jaeckel received a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination for his role in the 1971 adaptation of Ken Kesey's Sometimes a Great Notion.
22 Facts About Richard Jaeckel
2.
Richard Jaeckel's father was active in the family's fur business, and his mother was a stage actress.
3.
Richard Jaeckel attended The Harvey School and other private schools.
4.
Richard 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.
5.
Richard Jaeckel 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.
6.
Richard Jaeckel 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.
7.
Richard Jaeckel appeared in several other Aldrich films, including Attack, Ulzana's Raid, and Twilight's Last Gleaming.
8.
Richard Jaeckel was cast as a boxer in a 1954 episode of Reed Hadley's CBS legal drama, The Public Defender.
9.
Also in 1954, Richard Jaeckel portrayed Billy the Kid in an episode of the syndicated western anthology series, Stories of the Century, with Jim Davis as the fictitious Southwest Railroad detective Matt Clark.
10.
Seven years later, Richard Jaeckel played "Denver" in "The Grudge Fight" episode of the NBC western series The Tall Man.
11.
In 1955 and 1958, Richard Jaeckel appeared in different roles on two episodes of CBS's fantasy drama The Millionaire.
12.
In 1958, Richard Jaeckel guest-starred as Webb Martin in the episode "The Bloodline" of NBC's western series Cimarron City.
13.
In 1960, Richard Jaeckel appeared twice on Nick Adams's ABC western series, The Rebel, as Marshal Roader in "The Rattler" and as Clyde Traskel in "Run, Killer, Run".
14.
In 1963, Richard Jaeckel played Willie the murderer in "The Case of the Lover's Leap" on CBS's Perry Mason, starring Raymond Burr.
15.
Also in 1963, Richard Jaeckel, speaking in German, played the role of Wehrmacht Sgt.
16.
In 1966, Richard Jaeckel made a second guest appearance on Perry Mason as Mike Woods in the episode "The Case of the Bogus Buccaneers".
17.
Richard Jaeckel guest-starred in 1967 as Dibbs in the episode "Night of Reckoning" on Bonanza.
18.
In 1977, Richard Jaeckel appeared with Donna Mills, Bill Bixby, and William Shatner in the last episode, entitled "The Scarlet Ribbon", of NBC's western series The Oregon Trail, starring Rod Taylor and Andrew Stevens.
19.
Richard Jaeckel had a recurring role in the short-lived Andy Griffith vehicle Salvage 1.
20.
Richard Jaeckel co-starred on Robert Urich's ABC series Spenser: For Hire in the role of Lieutenant Martin Quirk.
21.
On May 29,1947, Richard Jaeckel married Antoinette Helen Marches in Tijuana, Mexico.
22.
In 1972, Richard Jaeckel received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Sometimes a Great Notion.