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1 | He was a mail courier on the 20th Century-Fox studio lot in 1943 when a casting agent spotted him and signed him for a part in Guadalcanal Diary (1943). |
2 | Met actor Robert Blake while they were filming Town Without Pity (1961) and they became good friends, remaining close until the day Jaeckel died. Blake once said that Jaeckel was the only guy he had ever met who was "crazier than me". |
3 | In November of 1948, while he and his wife were in San Francisco, his oldest son, then 14 months old, fell into the family swimming pool and nearly drowned. His uncle, John Marches, happened to come into the backyard and find the baby. |
4 | In the early 1970s he and his wife owned a German Shepherd named "Cruncher". Cruncher was the name of a character he played on the Mike Connors series Tightrope (1959). |
5 | Father of Richard Jaeckel Jr.. |
6 | Has been in three different projects about outlaw Billy the Kid. In 1954 he played Billy the Kid in an episode of Stories of the Century (1954). In 1970 he appeared in Chisum (1970) as Jess Evans, a former sidekick of Billy the Kid, and then in 1973 he appeared in Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973) as Sheriff Kip McKinney, who assists in capturing the infamous outlaw. |
7 | Jaeckel had the distinction of being cast as an "irregular" supporting player in films alongside the likes of Paul Newman, Burt Lancaster and Glenn Ford. |
8 | According to Robert Osborne in "Academy Awards 1972 Oscar Annual," Jaeckel got the role in Sometimes a Great Notion (1970) when Paul Newman ran into him at Malibu Beach. Jaeckel was relaxing and swimming with his family and friends, and as Newman watched him playing with his own children, he thought that Jaeckel would be just right to play his brother in the film. Newman subsequently stood up for casting Jaeckel at later conferences with studio management, and he got the part, and an Oscar nomination. |
9 | Was forced to file bankruptcy in early 1994 due to a $1.7-million debt, and eventually he lost his home in Brentwood, CA, and most of his possessions. He later moved into the Motion Picture and Television Retirement Center in Woodland Hills, a retirement home for actors and other motion picture people, where he stayed for the next three years until his death in June of 1997. |
10 | His wife, Antoinette, was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease shortly before his death. |
11 | Although Jaeckel was battling cancer, director Joe Dante had originally hoped that he would be able to return to work and provide the voice of Link Static for his project Small Soldiers (1998). This film reunited Jaeckel's fellow cast members from The Dirty Dozen (1967). Jaeckel died from his cancer before shooting began. |
12 | His son, Barry, is a former touring PGA golfer. |
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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Lawman | 1961 | TV Series | Al Janaker |
The Tall Man | 1961 | TV Series | Denver |
The Untouchables | 1960 | TV Series | Hans Eberhardt |
Flaming Star | 1960 | | Angus Pierce |
The Rebel | 1960 | TV Series | Traskel / Deputy Roader |
77 Sunset Strip | 1960 | TV Series | Bob Bent |
Tales of Wells Fargo | 1960 | TV Series | Len Lassiter |
The Gallant Hours | 1960 | | Lt. Cmdr. Roy Webb |
Platinum High School | 1960 | | Hack Marlow |
Zane Grey Theater | 1960 | TV Series | Tod Mulvey |
Tightrope | 1959 | TV Series | Cruncher |
Alcoa Theatre | 1958-1959 | TV Series | Spencer |
Naked City | 1959 | TV Series | Lance |
Trackdown | 1959 | TV Series | Frank Wilson |
The Texan | 1959 | TV Series | Clint Gleason |
Behind Closed Doors | 1959 | TV Series | Von Kellwitz |
Cimarron City | 1958 | TV Series | Webb Martin |
Flight | 1958 | TV Series | |
When Hell Broke Loose | 1958 | | Karl |
The Silent Service | 1957-1958 | TV Series | Smith / Steve |
The Gun Runners | 1958 | | Buzurki |
The Millionaire | 1955-1958 | TV Series | John Hawley / Joey Saxon |
The Naked and the Dead | 1958 | | Gallagher |
Panic! | 1957-1958 | TV Series | Lieutenant Wilson / Steve Bridges |
The Lineup | 1958 | | Sandy McLain |
Cowboy | 1958 | | Paul Curtis |
The Gray Ghost | 1958 | TV Series | |
Wire Service | 1957 | TV Series | Kidnapper |
Matinee Theatre | 1955-1957 | TV Series | Hubert Laurie |
3:10 to Yuma | 1957 | | Charlie Prince |
Playhouse 90 | 1957 | TV Series | Sgt. Luke Mertz |
Crossroads | 1957 | TV Series | Mort Claffey |
Navy Log | 1957 | TV Series | Lt. Gilbert Bradshaw |
Studio 57 | 1957 | TV Series | |
West Point | 1956-1957 | TV Series | Col. Bellman / Cadet Leo Tanner |
Schlitz Playhouse | 1957 | TV Series | |
The 20th Century-Fox Hour | 1956 | TV Series | Ed Miller |
Attack | 1956 | | Pvt. Snowden |
Climax! | 1956 | TV Series | Hordan |
Front Row Center | 1956 | TV Series | Mitch Mullin |
Jane Wyman Presents The Fireside Theatre | 1955 | TV Series | The Kid |
Apache Ambush | 1955 | | Lee Parker |
Luke and the Tenderfoot | 1955 | TV Series | Sandy Burke |
Producers' Showcase | 1955 | TV Series | Ruby |
The Violent Men | 1955 | | Wade Matlock |
Kraft Theatre | 1954 | TV Series | |
The Ford Television Theatre | 1954 | TV Series | Joe Thompson |
The Elgin Hour | 1954 | TV Series | Virgil Gaddis |
Goodyear Playhouse | 1954 | TV Series | Billy |
Public Defender | 1954 | TV Series | Jimmy Morse / Davey Davis |
The Shanghai Story | 1954 | | 'Knuckles' Greer |
The United States Steel Hour | 1954 | TV Series | Vinnie Harold |
Stories of the Century | 1954 | TV Series | William H. Bonney alias Billy the Kid |
Sea of Lost Ships | 1953 | | Ensign H.G. 'Hap' O'Malley |
Four Star Playhouse | 1953 | TV Series | Stanley Warren |
Big Leaguer | 1953 | | Bobby Bronson |
Come Back, Little Sheba | 1952 | | Turk Fisher |
Hoodlum Empire | 1952 | | Ted Dawson |
My Son John | 1952 | | Chuck Jefferson |
The Sea Hornet | 1951 | | Johnny Radford |
The Bigelow Theatre | 1951 | TV Series | |
Fighting Coast Guard | 1951 | | Tony Jessup |
Wyoming Mail | 1950 | | Nate |
The Gunfighter | 1950 | | Eddie |
Sands of Iwo Jima | 1949 | | Pfc. Frank Flynn |
Battleground | 1949 | | Bettis |
City Across the River | 1949 | | Bull |
Jungle Patrol | 1948 | | Lt. Dick Carter |
Wing and a Prayer | 1944 | | Beezy Bessemer |
Guadalcanal Diary | 1943 | | Pvt. Johnny ('Chicken') Anderson |
Baywatch | 1991-1994 | TV Series | Ben Edwards |
Martial Outlaw | 1993 | Video | Mr. White |
China Beach | 1991 | TV Series | Dad Winslow |
The King of the Kickboxers | 1990 | | Captain O'Day |
Delta Force 2: The Colombian Connection | 1990 | | John Page - DEA Agent |
Ghetto Blaster | 1989 | | Mike Henry |
Panic at Malibu Pier | 1989 | TV Movie | Al Gibson |
Supercarrier | 1988 | TV Series | Master Chief Sam Rivers |
Murder, She Wrote | 1987 | TV Series | Dr. Leon Chatsworth |
Spenser: For Hire | 1985-1987 | TV Series | Lt. Martin Quirk |
Black Moon Rising | 1986 | | Earl Windom |
The Fix | 1985 | | Charles Dale |
The Dirty Dozen: Next Mission | 1985 | TV Movie | MP Sgt. Clyde Bowren |
Cover Up | 1985 | TV Series | Joe Stanton |
Starman | 1984 | | George Fox |
Goma-2 | 1984 | | Martin |
Masquerade | 1984 | TV Series | |
The Love Boat | 1984 | TV Series | Frank Bannon |
The Awakening of Candra | 1983 | TV Movie | Robert Harrison |
Dallas | 1983 | TV Series | A.D.A. Percy Meredith |
At Ease | 1983 | TV Series | Maj. Hawkins |
Fantasy Island | 1983 | TV Series | Kodiak |
Matt Houston | 1983 | TV Series | Kip Williams |
Airplane II: The Sequel | 1982 | | Controller #2 (as Richard H. Jaeckel) |
Blood Song | 1982 | | Frank Hauser |
Cold River | 1982 | | Mike Allison |
King's Crossing | 1982 | TV Series | Josh McCall |
McClain's Law | 1982 | TV Series | |
...All the Marbles | 1981 | | Bill Dudley (Reno referee) |
Little House on the Prairie | 1976-1981 | TV Series | Irv Hartwig / Murphy |
Charlie's Angels | 1980 | TV Series | Bud Fischer |
Herbie Goes Bananas | 1980 | | Shepard |
Reward | 1980 | TV Movie | Capt. Randolph |
Insight | 1972-1980 | TV Series | Henry Burke |
The $5.20 an Hour Dream | 1980 | TV Movie | Albert Kleinschmidt |
Lou Grant | 1979 | TV Series | Dan Staley |
Delta Fox | 1979 | | Santana |
Pacific Inferno | 1979 | | Dealer |
Salvage 1 | 1979 | TV Series | Jack Klinger |
The Dark | 1979 | | Det. Dave Mooney |
Mr. No Legs | 1979 | | Chuck |
Champions: A Love Story | 1979 | TV Movie | Peter Scoggin, Jr. |
Centennial | 1978 | TV Mini-Series | Sgt. Lykes |
Go West, Young Girl | 1978 | TV Movie | Billy |
Black Sheep Squadron | 1978 | TV Series | Major John Duncan |
Big Hawaii | 1977 | TV Series | Cal Seward |
Carter Country | 1977 | TV Series | Bill Peterson |
Speedtrap | 1977 | | Billy |
Kingston: Confidential | 1977 | TV Series | |
The Fantastic Journey | 1977 | TV Series | York |
Day of the Animals | 1977 | | Professor MacGregor |
Twilight's Last Gleaming | 1977 | | Capt. Stanford Towne |
Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color | 1974-1977 | TV Series | Ed Kern / Jack Hughes |
Kit Carson and the Mountain Men | 1977 | TV Movie | Ed Kern |
The Oregon Trail | 1977 | TV Series | |
Gemini Man | 1976 | TV Mini-Series | Nik Radinski |
McCloud | 1976 | TV Series | Sheriff Matheson |
Mako: The Jaws of Death | 1976 | | Sonny Stein |
Jigsaw John | 1976 | TV Series | Sheriff |
Grizzly | 1976 | | Arthur Scott |
Baretta | 1976 | TV Series | Downing |
Joe Forrester | 1976 | TV Series | |
Ellery Queen | 1975 | TV Series | Nick McVey |
The Kill | 1975 | | Ming |
Walking Tall Part II | 1975 | | Stud Pardee |
Cannon | 1975 | TV Series | Cy Carter |
The Drowning Pool | 1975 | | Franks |
The Last Day | 1975 | TV Movie | Grat Dalton |
Gunsmoke | 1963-1975 | TV Series | Pence Fraley / Larkin / Sean O'Ryan |
Petrocelli | 1974 | TV Series | Sergeant Sanford |
Lucas Tanner | 1974 | TV Series | Coach Ed Scoley |
Police Story | 1974 | TV Series | Sergeant Wilson |
Movin' On | 1974 | TV Series | Red Wallace |
Born Innocent | 1974 | TV Movie | Mr. Parker |
Chosen Survivors | 1974 | | Major Gordon Ellis |
Firehouse | 1974 | TV Series | Hank Myers |
The F.B.I. | 1971-1974 | TV Series | Devlin / Sgt. Sam Ryker |
The Outfit | 1973 | | Kimmie Cherney |
Shaft | 1973 | TV Series | Det. Sgt. Lew Turner |
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid | 1973 | | Sheriff Kip McKinney |
Partners in Crime | 1973 | TV Movie | Frank Jordan |
The Red Pony | 1973 | TV Movie | James Creighton |
Firehouse | 1973 | TV Movie | Hank Myers |
Banyon | 1972 | TV Series | Lt. Pete McNeil |
Ironside | 1972 | TV Series | Caesar |
Ulzana's Raid | 1972 | | Sergeant |
Emergency! | 1972 | TV Series | Defense Attorney |
Mission: Impossible | 1971 | TV Series | Edward Trask |
O'Hara, U.S. Treasury | 1971 | TV Series | Barth |
The Deadly Dream | 1971 | TV Movie | Delgreve |
Sometimes a Great Notion | 1970 | | Joe Ben Stamper |
Chisum | 1970 | | Jess Evans |
Stoney | 1969 | | Dirk |
Latitude Zero | 1969 | | Perry Lawton |
The Green Slime | 1968 | | Commander Vince Elliott |
The Name of the Game | 1968 | TV Series | Malchek |
The Devil's Brigade | 1968 | | Pvt. Omar Greco |
Bonanza | 1964-1967 | TV Series | Dibbs / Mitch Devlin |
The Dirty Dozen | 1967 | | Sgt. Bowren |
The Wild Wild West | 1966-1967 | TV Series | Sergeant Stryker / Christopher Cable |
The Time Tunnel | 1967 | TV Series | Sgt. Mueller |
Once Before I Die | 1966 | | Lt. Custer |
Perry Mason | 1963-1966 | TV Series | Mike Woods / Willie |
Town Tamer | 1965 | | Deputy Johnny Honsinger |
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour | 1963-1965 | TV Series | Milt Woodman / Boxer / Tom |
Nightmare in the Sun | 1965 | | Motorcyclist |
The 26th Cavalry | 1965 | | |
Suspense | 1964 | TV Series | |
The New Phil Silvers Show | 1964 | TV Series | Danny |
The Outer Limits | 1964 | TV Series | Capt. Mike Doweling |
The Virginian | 1964 | TV Series | Pat Wade |
Temple Houston | 1964 | TV Series | Coley |
Combat! | 1963 | TV Series | Sgt. Buxman |
4 for Texas | 1963 | | Pete Mancini |
The Young and the Brave | 1963 | | Cpl. John Estway |
The Dakotas | 1963 | TV Series | Cal Storm |
Wagon Train | 1961-1963 | TV Series | Bud Piper / Barker |
Have Gun - Will Travel | 1962 | TV Series | John Tyree |
Frontier Circus | 1961-1962 | TV Series | Tony Gentry |
Town Without Pity | 1961 | | Cpl. Birdwell "Birdie" Scott |
Alfred Hitchcock Presents | 1961 | TV Series | The Mechanic |
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