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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Jun 18, 2018 15:22:29 GMT
Richard Jaeckel (or "Jake" as he was known among friends) was a familiar face to everyone who watches movies. Because of his intense looks, he played many tough guys over the years, some good, some bad, usually dying on screen by the end of the movie. He was the Sean Bean of on-screen deaths before Sean Bean!  He was before my time, somewhat, so I'm not entirely certain if he was just a popular supporting actor or considered an actual star in his own right. But he worked a lot and with some of the best, crossing back and forth between movies and TV. He appeared in Sands of Iwo Jima (1949) and Chisum (1970) with John Wayne, Come Back, Little Sheba (1952) with Burt Lancaster, 3:10 To Yuma (1957) with Glenn Ford, Flaming Star (1960) with Elvis Presley, 4 For Texas (1963) with Frank Sinatra, The Dirty Dozen (1967) with Lee Marvin, Starman (1984) with Jeff Bridges and Black Moon Rising (1986) with Tommy Lee Jones. He was handpicked by Paul Newman himself to play his brother in Sometimes A Great Notion (1971), which earned Jaeckel his only Oscar nomination. He and Newman later reteamed for The Drowning Pool (1975).        I first encountered Jaeckel in The Jaws of Death (1976). The year before I was too young to go see Jaws, but when this came to our local theatre, I hounded my mom until she took me to see this. I later repaid her kindness by keeping her awake all night with my shark nightmares.    And then he was in Grizzly (1976), he was suddenly the king of animal attack movies. He later did Day of the Animals (1977), which I never did get to see...yet.  He was a regular on the early seasons of Baywatch, which started out as an okay show, not the cheesefest it became.   Jaeckel was discovered while working as a mailboy at 20th Century Fox, even though he never considered becoming an actor, he accepted his first movie role, and his career was off and running. If you don't recognize him, then you haven't watched enough movies yet.  All the Richard Jaeckel movies I've seen to date: Sands of Iwo Jima
3:10 To Yuma
Flaming Star
The Dirty Dozen
Sometimes a Great Notion
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
The Outfit
Walking Tall Part II
Grizzly
The Jaws of Death
The Dark
Herbie Goes Bananas
Airplane II: The Sequel
Starman
Black Moon Rising |
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Post by bravomailer on Jun 18, 2018 15:27:41 GMT
Certainly a welcome face in film. Jaeckel played a GI in Guadalcanal Diary before entering the service (Merchant Marine?). And of course his character in a later film coins the term "dirty dozen".
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Post by koskiewicz on Jun 18, 2018 15:55:14 GMT
...very good character actor. I am surprised he never became a bigger star...
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Post by mattgarth on Jun 18, 2018 16:21:34 GMT
A Baker's Dirty Dozen of Richard Jaeckel's movie career highlights:
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01) One of the three survivors of the DIRTY DOZEN raid
02) Opposite Glenn Ford in three Westerns -- THE VIOLENT MEN, 3:10 TO YUMA, COWBOY
03) Shot by two Oscar winners -- Gregory Peck (THE GUNFIGHTER) and Van Heflin (3:10 TO YUMA)
04) Offspring of two Oscar-winning parents -- Dean Jagger and Helen Hayes (MY SON JOHN)
05) Twice portrayed a U.S. Marine in WW2 -- GUADALCANAL DIARY and SANDS OF IWO JIMA
06) Pursued an Oscar-nominated Alien -- STARMAN (Jeff Bridges)
07) Did not survive the Battle of the Bulge -- BATTLEGROUND
08) Member of two WWII raids -- THE DIRTY DOZEN and THE DEVIL'S BRIGADE
09) Defended as rapist by Military Attorney Major Kirk Douglas -- TOWN WITHOUT PITY
10) Twice at Guadalcanal -- Marine in GUADALCANAL DIARY and Naval Aviator in THE GALLANT HOURS (for Cagney as 'Admiral Bull Halsey')
11) Baseball pitcher for Team Manager Edward G. Robinson -- BIG LEAGUER
12) Drowned an Oscar-nominated death -- SOMETIMES A GREAT NOTION
13) and got to romance Oscar nominee Terry Moore -- COME BACK LITTLE SHEBA
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Post by wmcclain on Jun 18, 2018 16:58:22 GMT
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Post by mikef6 on Jun 18, 2018 17:37:50 GMT
A Baker's Dirty Dozen of Richard Jaeckel's movie career highlights:
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03) Shot by two Oscar winners -- Gregory Peck (THE GUNFIGHTER) and Van Heflin (3:10 TO YUMA)
This was my first notice of Jaeckel many years ago as the "young punk" who challenges Peck's Johnny Ringo ("He don't look so tough") in the opening scene resulting in the pursuit of Ringo by Jaeckel's brothers. |
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Post by mattgarth on Jun 18, 2018 18:07:12 GMT
A Baker's Dirty Dozen of Richard Jaeckel's movie career highlights:
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03) Shot by two Oscar winners -- Gregory Peck (THE GUNFIGHTER) and Van Heflin (3:10 TO YUMA)
This was my first notice of Jaeckel many years ago as the "young punk" who challenges Peck's Johnny Ringo ("He don't look so tough") in the opening scene resulting in the pursuit of Ringo by Jaeckel's brothers. And for a trip down memory lane, Mike -- here is that memorable encounter: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3z6Obp0rcuo |
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Post by Primemovermithrax Pejorative on Jun 18, 2018 18:24:04 GMT
Seemed like he took over for Nick Adams in the B movie circuit.
THE GREEN SLIME--I imagine Nick Adams could have done the role that Jaeckel had.
Then he did some forgotten obscurities like CHOSEN SURVIVORS.
GRIZZLY I saw in a drive-in--I probably saw THE JAWS OF DEATH too.
I think I need to check out the latter again.
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Post by mattgarth on Jun 18, 2018 18:27:39 GMT
A Baker's Dirty Dozen of Richard Jaeckel's movie career highlights:
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03) Shot by two Oscar winners -- Gregory Peck (THE GUNFIGHTER) and Van Heflin (3:10 TO YUMA)
This was my first notice of Jaeckel many years ago as the "young punk" who challenges Peck's Johnny Ringo ("He don't look so tough") in the opening scene resulting in the pursuit of Ringo by Jaeckel's brothers. Apparently Jaeckel did not learn his lesson -- he tried to pull the same stunt with Glenn Ford five years later in THE VIOLENT MEN: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yx1YKgM-p1k |
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Post by mikef6 on Jun 18, 2018 18:28:12 GMT
This was my first notice of Jaeckel many years ago as the "young punk" who challenges Peck's Johnny Ringo ("He don't look so tough") in the opening scene resulting in the pursuit of Ringo by Jaeckel's brothers. And for a trip down memory lane, Mike -- here is that memorable encounter: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3z6Obp0rcuo"Why do I have to run into a squirt like you every place I go these days?" Excellent. Thanks. I see it is JIMMY Ringo, not Johnny as I typed. |
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Post by mattgarth on Jun 18, 2018 18:33:00 GMT
"Excellent. Thanks. I see it is JIMMY Ringo, not Johnny as I typed."
A natural mistake, Mike -- I've often made it myself.
By-the-bye, John Ireland did play a 'Johnny Ringo' in GUNFIGHT AT THE OK CORRAL
There was a real gunfighter by that name (1844-1882), who did run with the Clantons. He was well educated, and was fond of quoting Greek.
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Post by taylorfirst1 on Jun 18, 2018 18:58:57 GMT
Great character actor who had many, many, MANY memorable roles. He was also a regular on the TV series "Spenser for Hire" in the 80's. "Mako the Jaws of Death" was shown on Commander USA's groovy movies with hilarious results.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jun 18, 2018 23:38:25 GMT
He was in so many great pictures playing amazing characters. It was always rather surprising to find him as the bad guy with his big puppy dog eyes and boy next door blond good looks. Believably bad or good. Long career and a good one. Thanks for the thread ! Lebowskidoo 🦞 |
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Post by petrolino on Jun 19, 2018 17:13:18 GMT
Strong actor.
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Post by mikef6 on Jun 19, 2018 17:22:03 GMT
By-the-bye, John Ireland did play a 'Johnny Ringo' in GUNFIGHT AT THE OK CORRAL
That must be it. I saw "OK Corral" just about two months ago and reviewed it for the weekly thread. The name must have stuck in my head. Thanks again. |
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Post by taylorfirst1 on Jun 19, 2018 17:22:27 GMT
He had a very lengthy career and did not seem to age very much through most of it.
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Post by RiP, IMDb on Jun 19, 2018 20:48:08 GMT
He played the Quint character in Grizzly (1976).
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Post by RiP, IMDb on Jun 19, 2018 20:49:35 GMT
He had a very lengthy career and did not seem to age very much through most of it. |
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Post by mikef6 on Jun 19, 2018 21:06:12 GMT
Jaeckel had a guest star role in one of my top three favorite TV series, “Mission: Impossible.” In the 6th season story, “Run For The Money” (first broadcast on December 11, 1971), Jaeckel plays a mob enforcer who, as the result of the M:I flim-flam, is taken for a ride by his former colleagues. I couldn’t find a photo illustration from this show.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jun 19, 2018 21:15:49 GMT
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