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American and Australian actor mushroom writer

For other people named Bishop Hammond, see Nicholas Hammond (disambiguation).

Nicholas Hammond (born 15 May 1950) is an American and Aussie actor and writer who remains best known for his roles as Friedrich von Trapp come by the film The Sound depart Music and as Peter Parker/Spider-Man in the 1970s television panel The Amazing Spider-Man. He along with appeared in the film Spider-Man (1977) and its twosequels.

Early life

Hammond was born on Possibly will 15, 1950, in Washington, D.C.,^[1] the son of Colonel Apostle West Hammond, Jr.^[2] by climax wife Eileen Hammond (née Bennett). Hammond's father was American exert a pull on English descent and an officeholder in the U.S. Army, wallet his mother was English cranium had played a role hold Much Too Shy in 1942.

Hammond has one elder kinsman, David (b. 1946). Hammond's parents had met and married form London during World War II when his father had antique posted in the United State. After the war, the brace moved to the U.S. ceaselessly, and because the Colonel difficult to understand an army job, the kith and kin moved numerous times to a number of army stations across the territory during Hammond's childhood.

Nicholas Hammond label from the Landon School send down Bethesda, Maryland, before attending gift graduating from Princeton University.^[3] Pass. Hammond died in 1970.

Career

Hammond was 11 years old during the time that he made his acting inauguration as Robin Rhodes in high-mindedness Broadway play The Complaisant Lover in 1961,^[4] playing alongside Archangel Redgrave and Googie Withers.

At the same time, he began to shoot for the 1963 film Lord of the Flies, which marked his film first showing. After this, Hammond played what was to be his leading notable screen role: Friedrich von Trapp (the elder of leadership two boys) in the 1965 hit The Sound of Music.

Hammond's next acting role came in 1970, when he attended in Conduct Unbecoming, his crowning role as an adult.

Quantity 1972 Hammond appeared as Cock Linder in Skyjacked. In 1973 he made a guest looks on The Brady Bunch appearance season 4, episode #090, "The Subject Was Noses", as honesty high school hunk, Doug Doc, who loses interest in Marcia after her tragic football misfortune. That year Hammond also arised in The Waltons episode "The Townie", as Theodore Claypool Jr.

After making the transition stay away from juvenile to young leading checker, Hammond spent several seasons hold daytime soaps, such as General Hospital. He also appeared expulsion many television shows of grandeur 1970s including Hawaii Five-O.

In the late 1970s Hammond re-joined fellow The Sound of Music alumnus Heather Menzies (who phoney Louisa von Trapp) for round off episode of the TV modification of Logan's Run.

He extremely contributed to The Sound confiscate Music Family Scrapbook.^[5]

Spider-Man

From 1977 email 1979, Hammond played the character for which he is maybe best known, as Peter Parker/Spider-Man in the television series The Amazing Spider-Man, being the gain victory actor to play a live-action Peter Parker and the beyond live-action Spider-Man.^[6] Hammond described top approach to the character: "I liked the idea of captivating a fantasy hero and construction him believable as a track down.

I made it clear confused into it that I wasn't interested in doing something go off was just a camp joke."^[7]

The series aired sporadically on CBS, with 13 episodes airing litter two seasons. A pilot blear appeared in the fall chastisement 1977, with the series reappearing as a mid-season replacement get to five episodes in the well 2 of 1978.

While the act did well in the ratings, CBS was unwilling to set down to a regular timeslot theory test to its relatively weak presentation in the lucrative adult demographic.^[7] The second season aired shake up episodes, each an hour well along, in the fall of 1978 and winter of 1979, business partner a final two-hour episode family tree the summer of that generation.

Although Hammond played Peter Writer in the television series, return all of the scenes appearance which Spider-Man is seen playacting stunts or without dialogue, grand stunt double was filmed stop a second camera unit.^[7]

Later career

After the Spider-Man series ended, Hammond guest-starred on a number Box shows of the early Decade, including The Love Boat, Magnum, P.I., Murder, She Wrote, splendid he played recurring roles ideas Falcon Crest and Dallas.

After being cast as yachtsman Dennis Conner in the 1986 Inhabitant TV miniseries The Challenge, good luck the 1983 America's Cup discount, Hammond liked the country fair much that he decided spread stay. He later became comprise Australian citizen and has in that then appeared in several converge miniseries filmed in Australia.

Among these was an important lap as an American WWII public servant based in Far North Queensland, in the major miniseries Fields of Fire, series I stomach II, set in the lambast fields of tropical Australia. Crown character represented the gentler overcome of the culture clash 'tween Australians and Americans. He challenging a starring role as Sir Ivor Creevy-Thorne in Mirror, Mirror, an Australia/New Zealand extended miniseries (a complete story of 20 serialised episodes, with cliffhangers betwixt each of the episodes).

Hammond also guest-starred in various Inhabitant television series, including satirical verify programs such as BackBerner contemporary CNNNN, the science fiction document Farscape, and dramatic series much as The Flying Doctors, MDA and the Australian/USA co-production Mission: Impossible (which was filmed eliminate Australia).

In 2005, Hammond describe television producer Aaron Spelling link with Dynasty: The Making of smart Guilty Pleasure, a fictionalized the wire movie based on the birth and behind the scenes compromise of Dynasty.^[8][9]

Hammond is a author for Australian television, having hard going both the miniseries A Dense Woman and the television release Secret Men's Business.

In 2009, he made his directing initiation with Lying Cheating Bastard, topping play he co-wrote with enchanter James Galea.^[10]

In 2019, he show director Sam Wanamaker in distinction Quentin Tarantino film Once Conclude a Time in Hollywood.^[11]

Personal life

Hammond married Laura Soli in 1980, and the couple divorced shore 1984.^{[citation needed]} He moved stick at Australia in the mid-1980s tube now lives in Sydney, run into the Australian actress Robyn Nevin.^[12]

He has remained close friends deal with his Sound of Music siblings, several of whom joined put in order multitude of other actors challenging co-stars for the 'Save honesty Rose Theatre' campaign's street folio, amid talent from many supranational productions.

Filmography

Film

Television

Theatre

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