Richard Jaeckel

Jaeckel died in 1997 after a three year battle with melanoma cancer at the Motion Picture and Television Hospital in Woodland Hills, California. The close relationship he has developed with the FDNY, as well as individual firefighters across the New York/New England area, has resulted in Leary's most recent television show, Rescue Me, a drama-comedy on FX. Ben Edwards on the series Baywatch. As the foundation's president, Leary has been active in all of the fundraising, and usually presents large checks and donated equipment personally. In his later years, Jaeckel was known to TV audiences as Lt. A separate fund run by the Leary's foundation, the Fund for New York's Bravest, has distributed over $2 million (USD) to the families of the 343 firefighters killed in the September 11, 2001 attacks, as well as provided funding for necessities such as a new mobile command center, first responder training, and a high-rise simulator for the FDNY's training campus. 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. In response, the comedian founded the Leary Firefighters Foundation, which has since distributed over $2.5 million (USD) to fire departments in the Worcester, Boston, and New York City areas for equipment, training materials, and new vehicles and facilities.

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. Tommy Spencer. 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. Among the dead were Leary's cousin, Jerry Lucey, and his close childhood friend, Lt. 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. On December 3, 1999, 6 firefighters from Leary's hometown of Worcester were killed in a massive warehouse fire. Jaeckel got his start in the business at the age of 17 while working as a mailboy at 20th Century Fox studios in Hollywood. However, many other comedians - including Jon Stewart, Janeane Garofalo, Colin Quinn, and Lenny Clarke - have formed close personal and professional relationships with Leary, which suggests that the opinion of him as a material thief is not shared by everyone within the profession.

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. While it has never been proven that Leary took any of his jokes from other comedians (a claim he fiercely denies), some comedians (notably Joe Rogan and Greg Giraldo) and especially fans loyal to Hicks consider aspects of Leary's act and persona to be stolen. Jaeckel was born in Long Beach, New York. The friendship ended as a result, though Leary has said he wanted to patch things up before Hicks died in 1994. Richard Hanley Jaeckel (October 10, 1926 - June 14, 1997) was an American actor. For many years, Leary had been friends with fellow comedian Bill Hicks. However, when Hicks heard Leary's 1993 release No Cure For Cancer, he decided Leary was stealing his material, due to the perceived similarity in topics covered and some punchlines of Hicks', particularly those on Hicks' releases of 1989 (Sane Man) and 1990 (Dangerous). Leary also produces numerous movies, television shows, and specials, including Comedy Central's Shorties Watching Shorties and the movie Blow, through his production company, Apostle.

He also provided voices for characters in animated films such as Ice Age and A Bug's Life. Although he says he is most at home on stage doing stand-up, Leary has appeared as an actor in over 40 movies, including The Match Maker, The Virgin Suicides, The Ref, Wag the Dog, and Demolition Man. Due to its explicit and controversial content, however, it received limited airplay on mainstream American radio stations. It was voted #1 in a major Australian youth radio poll, the Triple J Hottest 100, and the video became a late-night MTV staple.

In 1994, his sardonic commentary song on the American lower-middle-class male, "Asshole", achieved much notoriety. No Cure for Cancer was written with contributions from the English comedians Frank Skinner and David Baddiel when Leary was forced to stay over in London for a short period due to his son's premature birth there and ensuing health problems. He has also released two records of his stand-up comedy: No Cure for Cancer (1993) and Lock n' Load (1997). Leary first became famous through an MTV sketch in which he ranted about REM.

Leary is a distant cousin through marriage of Conan O'Brien; contrary to popular belief, they are not actually related through a recent common ancestor. He is a graduate of Emerson College in Boston, where he also taught comedy writing classes for five years after graduating. August 18, 1957) is an actor/comedian/writer/director whose father immigrated to Worcester, Massachusetts from Ireland. Denis Leary (b.