Nicholas Hammond (born May 15, 1950) is an American actor best known for his roles as Friedrich von Trapp in The Sound of Music and Peter Parker/Spider-Man in The Amazing Spider-Man. He also appeared on the TV show The Brady Bunch as Doug Simpson, who breaks a date with Marcia after a football hits her nose causing it to swell.
The son of actress Eileen Bennett, Hammond was 10 when he made his first movie appearance in Lord of the Flies.
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Nicholas Hammond (born May 15, 1950) is an American actor best known for his roles as Friedrich von Trapp in The Sound of Music and Peter Parker/Spider-Man in The Amazing Spider-Man. He also appeared on the TV show The Brady Bunch as Doug Simpson, who breaks a date with Marcia after a football hits her nose causing it to swell.
The son of actress Eileen Bennett, Hammond was 10 when he made his first movie appearance in Lord of the Flies.
Besides his subsequent work as Spider-Man, Hammond's most visible screen role was as Friedrich von Trapp in the 1965 megahit The Sound of Music. During the filming of The Sound of Music he grew six inches, from 5ft 3in to 5ft 9in. In 1972 he starred as Peter Linder in Skyjacked alongside Walter Pidgeon and Charleton Heston. In 1973, he made a memorable guest appearance on The Brady Bunch as the high school BMOC Doug Simpson, who loses interest in Marcia after her tragic football accident (when she said, "Oh, my nose!"). After making the transition...
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