Born 1926 in Long Beach, New York, American actor Richard Jaeckel became a well-known character actor in his career, which spanned six decades. He received a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination for his role in the 1971 adaptation of Ken Kesey’s Sometimes a Great Notion.
A short, tough man, Jaeckel played a variety of characters during his 50 years in films and television. He served in the United States Merchant Marine from 1944 to 1949, then starred in two of the most remembered war films of 1949: Battleground and Sands of Iwo Jima with John Wayne.
Jaeckel’s most famous film appearances of the 1950s are in 3:10 to Yuma (1957) and The Naked and the Dead (1958). His film career achieved its greatest success in the period 1967 to 1975, in such features as The Dirty Dozen (1967), The Devil’s Brigade (1968), Chisum (1970), Sometimes a Great Notion (1971) (for which he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor), Ulzana’s Raid (1972), Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973), The Outfit (1973), The Drowning Pool (1975), and Walking Tall Part 2 (1975).
Jaeckel died in 1997 at the age of 70 from cancer, at the Motion Picture & Television Hospital in Woodland Hills, California. Take a look at these vintage photos to see portraits of a young Richard Jaeckel in the 1940s and 1950s.
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