Post by dividavi on Sept 26, 2017 9:39:53 GMT
I'm shocked, startled and surprised to be the first to mention the death of 60s TV actor Skip Homeier. OK, his career actually extended from the 1940s to the 1980s but in the 1960s Skip was EVERYWHERE! Like, he was on Star Trek where he played some tribalistic alien with big ears. Do you remember this episode? I sure don't.
Now, here's a Star Trek episode which is memorable. Skip played Melikon, the nominal second-in-command to Earthling John Gill in a society based on Nazi Germany. It's titled Patterns of Force with David Brian (Mr. District Attorney) as the imprisoned John Gill.
Of course the greatest naval TV series of that era wasn't Star Trek but Voyage to the Bottom Of the Sea. Yes, Skip Homeier appeared there too. In two separate episodes he played a US Senator with mind control powers and also a guy who could breathe underwater. Additionally, Skip appeared on Outer Limits. Of course there was an obligatory role in Perry Mason.
He should have been a superstar but that wasn't meant to be.
Born October 5, 1930 in Chicago, Illinois, USA
Died June 25, 2017 in Indian Wells, California, USA (spinal myelopathy)
Birth Name George Vincent Homeier
Height 6' 1½" (1.87 m)
Now, here's a Star Trek episode which is memorable. Skip played Melikon, the nominal second-in-command to Earthling John Gill in a society based on Nazi Germany. It's titled Patterns of Force with David Brian (Mr. District Attorney) as the imprisoned John Gill.
Of course the greatest naval TV series of that era wasn't Star Trek but Voyage to the Bottom Of the Sea. Yes, Skip Homeier appeared there too. In two separate episodes he played a US Senator with mind control powers and also a guy who could breathe underwater. Additionally, Skip appeared on Outer Limits. Of course there was an obligatory role in Perry Mason.
He should have been a superstar but that wasn't meant to be.
Beginning on radio in his native Chicago at age six ("Portia Faces Life"), child/juvenile actor Skippy Homeier (ne George Vincent Homeier) came to films at age 14 with Tomorrow, the World! (1944), originally a 1943 Broadway drama starring Ralph Bellamy and Shirley Booth, taking his role as a callous Nazi youth successfully to the screen the following year opposite Fredric March and Betty Field.
Born in 1930, the tousled, fair-haired youth, who bore a very strong resemblance to actor Keith Andes, remained a troublesome, unsympathetic teen throughout the 40s and, as he grew into adult roles (now billed as Skip Homeier or G.V. Homeier), continued at a menacing pace in movie westerns and crime dramas, notably Halls of Montezuma (1951), The Gunfighter (1950) (as Gregory Peck's nemesis), Cry Vengeance (1954) (as an albino hit man), and Stranger at My Door (1956).
Homeier's film career bogged down as an adult and he turned more and more to TV parts into the late 50s and 60s, playing good guys at times just as a change of pace. He starred in a brief TV series Dan Raven (1960) in the early 1960s. Skip phased out his career following the 70s decade (at the relatively young age of 50) and retired completely, remaining purposely out of the limelight. According to his son, Michael Homeier, Skip has not yet been tempted by film festivals or nostalgia conventions.
Born in 1930, the tousled, fair-haired youth, who bore a very strong resemblance to actor Keith Andes, remained a troublesome, unsympathetic teen throughout the 40s and, as he grew into adult roles (now billed as Skip Homeier or G.V. Homeier), continued at a menacing pace in movie westerns and crime dramas, notably Halls of Montezuma (1951), The Gunfighter (1950) (as Gregory Peck's nemesis), Cry Vengeance (1954) (as an albino hit man), and Stranger at My Door (1956).
Homeier's film career bogged down as an adult and he turned more and more to TV parts into the late 50s and 60s, playing good guys at times just as a change of pace. He starred in a brief TV series Dan Raven (1960) in the early 1960s. Skip phased out his career following the 70s decade (at the relatively young age of 50) and retired completely, remaining purposely out of the limelight. According to his son, Michael Homeier, Skip has not yet been tempted by film festivals or nostalgia conventions.
Died June 25, 2017 in Indian Wells, California, USA (spinal myelopathy)
Birth Name George Vincent Homeier
Height 6' 1½" (1.87 m)