1. George Vincent Homeier, known professionally as Skip Homeier, was an American actor who started his career at the age of eleven and became a child star.
14 Facts About Skip Homeier
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Skip Homeier began to act for radio shows at the age of six as Skippy Homeier.
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Skip Homeier was cast later in an episode of Steve McQueen's Wanted Dead or Alive, a CBS Western series.
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Skip 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.
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Skip Homeier appeared in a 1956 episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents, with co-star Joanne Woodward entitled "Momentum".
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Skip Homeier appeared as Kading in an episode of the NBC western Jefferson Drum, starring Jeff Richards.
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In 1960, Skip Homeier appeared on an episode of The Rifleman: The Spoiler as Brud Evans.
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Skip Homeier made two guest appearances on Perry Mason, both times as the defendant.
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Skip Homeier was cast in the feature film The Ghost and Mr Chicken with Don Knotts.
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Skip Homeier continued to be cast frequently on television as a guest star, often as a villain.
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Skip Homeier appeared in all four of Irwin Allen's science-fiction series in the mid-to-late 1960s.
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Skip Homeier guest-starred on Star Trek: The Original Series in two episodes: as the Nazi-like character Melakon in "Patterns of Force" and as Dr Rota Sevrin in "The Way to Eden".
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Skip Homeier died on June 25,2017, at the age of 86 from spinal myelopathy at his home in Indian Wells, California.
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Skip Homeier is survived by his wife, Della, and his sons Peter and Michael from his first marriage to Nancy Van Noorden Field.