Richard Hanley Jaeckel (October 10, 1926 – June 14, 1997) was an American actor of film and television.
Jaeckel was born in Long Beach, New York. A short, but tough guy, he played a variety of characters in his fifty years and became one of Hollywood's best known character actors. Jaeckel got his start in the business at the age of seventeen while working as a mailboy at 20th Century Fox studios in Hollywood. A casting director auditioned him for...
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Richard Hanley Jaeckel (October 10, 1926 – June 14, 1997) was an American actor of film and television.
Jaeckel was born in Long Beach, New York. A short, but tough guy, he played a variety of characters in his fifty years and became one of Hollywood's best known character actors. Jaeckel got his start in the business at the age of seventeen while working as a mailboy at 20th Century Fox studios in Hollywood. A casting director auditioned him for a key role in the 1943 film Guadalcanal Diary, Jaeckel won the role and settled into a lengthy career in supporting parts.
He served in the United States Navy 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. He also played the role of Turk, the daughter's boyfriend, in the celebrated 1952 film Come Back, Little Sheba, co-starring with Shirley Booth, Burt Lancaster, and Terry Moore. He played Lee Marvin's able second-in-command in The Dirty Dozen for director...
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