Richard Jaeckel

Acting

Richard Jaeckel

Born 1926-10-10 · Long Beach, Long Island, New York, USA

Richard Hanley Jaeckel (October 10, 1926 – June 14, 1997) was an American actor of film and television.

Acting credits

Airplane II: The Sequel poster
6.1

A faulty computer causes a passenger space shuttle to head straight for the sun, and man-with-a-past Ted Striker must save the day and get the shuttle back on track – again – all the while trying to patch up his relationship with Elaine.

Airplane II: The Sequel

1982

Starman poster
6.9

When an alien takes the form of a young widow's husband and asks her to drive him from Wisconsin to Arizona, the government tries to stop them.

Starman

1984

Sands of Iwo Jima poster
6.4

Haunted by personal demons, Marine Sgt. John Stryker is hated and feared by his men, who see him as a cold-hearted sadist. But when their boots hit the beaches, they begin to understand the reason for Stryker's rigid form of discipline.

Sands of Iwo Jima

1950

The Dirty Dozen poster
7.6

12 American military prisoners in World War II are ordered to infiltrate a well-guarded enemy château and kill the Nazi officers vacationing there. The soldiers, most of whom are facing death sentences for a variety of violent crimes, agree to the mission and the possible commuting of their sentences.

The Dirty Dozen

1967

The Gunfighter poster
7.4

The fastest gun in the West tries to escape his reputation.

The Gunfighter

1950

The King of the Kickboxers poster
6.9

Jake, a New York policeman poses as an actor to expose the making of martial-arts death movies in Thailand.

The King of the Kickboxers

1990

...All the Marbles poster
6.1

A two-bit promoter tries to take a women's wrestling team to the top.

...All the Marbles

1981

3:10 to Yuma poster
7.3

Dan Evans, a small time farmer, is hired to escort Ben Wade, a dangerous outlaw, to Yuma. As Evans and Wade wait for the 3:10 train to Yuma, Wade's gang is racing to free him.

3:10 to Yuma

1957

Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid poster
7.2

Pat Garrett is hired as a lawman on behalf of a group of wealthy New Mexico cattle barons to bring down his old friend Billy the Kid.

Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid

1973

Herbie Goes Bananas poster
5.4

The adorable little VW helps its owners break up a counterfeiting ring in Mexico.

Herbie Goes Bananas

1980

The Outfit poster
6.7

A two-bit criminal takes on the Mafia to avenge his brother's death. Earl Macklin is a small time criminal who is released from prison after an unsuccessful bank robbery only to discover that a pair of gunmen killed his brother.

The Outfit

1973

Chisum poster
6.7

Cattle baron John Chisum joins forces with Billy the Kid and Pat Garrett to fight the Lincoln County Land War in the New Mexico Territory of 1878.

Chisum

1970

Black Moon Rising poster
5.5

An FBI free-lancer stashes a stolen Las Vegas-crime tape in a high-tech car stolen by someone else.

Black Moon Rising

1986

Delta Force 2: The Colombian Connection poster
5.6

When DEA agents are taken captive by a ruthless South American kingpin, the Delta Force is reunited to rescue them in this sequel to the 1986 film.

Delta Force 2: The Colombian Connection

1990

Ulzana's Raid poster
6.9

After fierce war chief Ulzana and a small war party jump the reservation bent on murder and terror, an inexperienced young lieutenant is assigned to track him down.

Ulzana's Raid

1972

The Drowning Pool poster
6.3

Harper is brought to Louisiana to investigate an attempted blackmail scheme. He soon finds out that it involves an old flame of his and her daughter. He eventually finds himself caught in a power struggle between the matriarch of the family and a greedy oil baron, who wants their property. Poor Harper! Things are not as straight-forward as they initially appeared.

The Drowning Pool

1975

Flaming Star poster
6.5

Pacer Burton, a young man of mixed Kiowa and white heritage, is caught between two worlds as conflict erupts between Native Americans and white settlers in Texas.

Flaming Star

1960

Guadalcanal Diary poster
5.6

Concentrating on the personal lives of those involved, a war correspondent takes us through the preparations, landing and initial campaign on Guadalcanal during WWII.

Guadalcanal Diary

1943

The Green Slime poster
5.3

A giant asteroid is heading toward Earth so some astronauts disembark from a nearby space station to blow it up. The mission is successful, and they return to the station unknowingly bringing back a gooey green substance that mutates into one-eyed tentacled monsters that feed off electricity. Soon the station is crawling with them, and people are being zapped left and right!

The Green Slime

1968

Twilight's Last Gleaming poster
6.5

A renegade USAF general, Lawrence Dell, escapes from a military prison and takes over an ICBM silo near Montana and threatens to provoke World War 3 unless the President reveals details of a secret meeting held just after the start of the Vietnam War between Dell and the then President's most trusted advisors.

Twilight's Last Gleaming

1977

Grizzly poster
5.2

An eighteen-foot grizzly bear figures out that humans make for a tasty treat. As a park ranger tries rallying his men to bring about the bear's capture or destruction, his efforts are thwarted by the introduction of dozens of drunken hunters into the area.

Grizzly

1976

Martial Outlaw poster
6.2

A DEA agent and his brother, a Los Angeles cop, battle the Russian mafia.

Martial Outlaw

1993

The Violent Men poster
6.5

A former Union Army officer plans to sell out to Anchor Ranch and move east with his fiancée, but the low price offered by Anchor's crippled owner and the outfit's bullying tactics make him reconsider. When one of his hands is murdered he decides to stay and fight, utilizing his war experience. Not all is well at Anchor with the owner's wife carrying on with his brother who also has a Mexican woman in town.

The Violent Men

1955

Battleground poster
6.7

Members of the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division are fighting for their country amidst the rugged terrain of Bastogne, Belgium, in December 1944. Holley and his American compatriots have already seen one of their own, Roderigues, perish under enemy fire. The men try to rebuff another series of Nazi attacks, but what they really need is a change in the weather. Without clear skies, they'll never get the air support they need.

Battleground

1949