Rex Harrison

In 1989 he was knighted. Jaeckel died in 1997 after a three year battle with melanoma cancer at the Motion Picture and Television Hospital in Woodland Hills, California. In 1978, he married Mercia Tinker, and this final marriage lasted until his death. Ben Edwards on the series Baywatch. His next wife was Elizabeth, former wife of actor Richard Harris, but they soon divorced. In his later years, Jaeckel was known to TV audiences as Lt. Kay Kendall died in 1959, and in 1962 Harrison married actress Rachel Roberts, whom he divorced in 1971. The highlight of Jaeckel's career was in 1971, when he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Sometimes a Great Notion.

He also starred in 1967's Doctor Dolittle. Jaeckel's other films include The Gunfighter, Come Back, Little Sheba, 3:10 to Yuma, Town Without Pity, The Dirty Dozen, Chisum Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, Grizzly, Twilight's Last Gleaming, The Dark Cold River, Starman, Black Moon Rising and The Delta Force 2. Harrison was best known for his portrayal of Professor Henry Higgins in the musical My Fair Lady, based on the George Bernard Shaw play Pygmalion, especially after he reprised the role in the 1964 film version. He served in the US 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. It was rumoured that he tried for a reconciliation with Lilli, but changed his mind when he discovered that Kendall was terminally ill. A casting director audtioned him for a key role in the 1943 film Guadalcanal Diary, Jaeckel won the role and settled into a lengthy career in supporting parts. Harrison and Palmer divorced in 1957, and he was soon remarried to actress Kay Kendall. Jaeckel got his start in the business at the age of 17 while working as a mailboy at 20th Century Fox studios in Hollywood.

The scandal of his affair with young actress Carole Landis, which led to her suicide, almost derailed his career. A short, but tough guy, he played a variety of characters in his 50 years in movies and television and became one of Hollywood's best known character actors. He followed that with his first major American film, starring as King Mongkut in Anna and the King of Siam. Jaeckel was born in Long Beach, New York. After several years in film, he achieved wide success starring in the adaptation of Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit (1945). Richard Hanley Jaeckel (October 10, 1926 - June 14, 1997) was an American actor. In 1942 he divorced his first wife, Marjorie Thomas, and married actress Lilli Palmer the next year; the two later appeared in numerous plays and films.

He acted in the West End of London when he was young, appearing in the Terrence Rattigan play French Without Tears, which proved to be his breakthrough role. He acted in various stage productions until May 11 of the year in which he died. He first appeared on the stage in 1924 in Liverpool. He died in New York City of pancreatic cancer.

He was born in Huyton, Lancashire, England. Sir Reginald Carey Harrison (March 5, 1908–June 2, 1990) was a British theater and film actor. Won Best Actor for My Fair Lady (1964). Nominated as Best Actor for Cleopatra (1963).