15 Facts About Rick Jason

Rick Jason served from 1943 to 1945 in the US Army Air Corps during World War II.

Later, MGM was searching for an actor to replace Fernando Lamas in the 1953 movie Sombrero and gave the role to Rick Jason, who was earlier released from Columbia Pictures.

In 1956, Rick Jason played the lead in The Fountain of Youth, a half-hour unsold television pilot written and directed by Orson Welles which won the Peabody Award in 1958.

Rick Jason guest-starred on ABC's anthology series, The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse.

Rick Jason appeared on the NBC interview program Here's Hollywood, in the Rawhide episodes "Incident of the Coyote Weed" and "Incident of the Valley in Shadow", and co-starred in 1969 in The Monk.

Rick Jason made films in Japan and Israel, as well as films such as Color Me Dead, The Day of the Wolves, The Witch Who Came from the Sea, Love and the Midnight Auto Supply, Partners and Illegally Yours.

Rick Jason played Cornelius Vanderbilt in the 1989 miniseries Around the World in 80 Days.

Rick Jason was a favorite voice for TV commercial narration in the 1960s.

In 2000, Rick Jason published his autobiography Scrapbooks of My Mind: A Hollywood Autobiography.

The book describes Rick Jason growing up in New York during the Great Depression and shares behind-the-scenes stories of his film and tv career.

Rick Jason's body was cremated and interred at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California in the Cathedral Mausoleum.

Producer Steve Rubin wrote a tribute to Rick Jason published in the Los Angeles Times on October 20,2000:.

Rick Jason was not only a wonderful human being, a devoted husband, and a fine actor, he was one of our best storytellers with links to the "Golden Age" of Hollywood.

For we boomers, Rick Jason helped illuminate the legacy of World War II to those of us too young to experience or remember it.

Rick Jason brought dignity to the image of the fighting man at a time when Vietnam was moving us in the other direction.