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. His filmography includes:. Ben Edwards on the series Baywatch. His next film was Martin Lawrence Live: Runteldat in which he performed his standup comedy act. In his later years, Jaeckel was known to TV audiences as Lt. He then earned $16.5 million for Black Knight (2001). 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. After the success of Big Momma's House, he was paid $13 million for What's the Worst Thing That Could Happen? with Danny DeVito.

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. The success of these movies made Lawrence quite wealthy. 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. Despite his personal problems, Lawrence appeared in many popular movies such as Bad Boys with Will Smith, Nothing to Lose with Tim Robbins, Life with Eddie Murphy, Blue Streak, and Big Momma's House. 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. He went into a coma after collapsing from heat exhaustion while jogging in August 1999. Jaeckel got his start in the business at the age of 17 while working as a mailboy at 20th Century Fox studios in Hollywood. While directing A Thin Line Between Love and Hate (1996), which he wrote, produced, and starred in, he reportedly had violent outbursts and took drugs on the set. Martin! co-star Tisha Campbell sued him for sexual harassment, and left the show during its last season.

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. On March 28, 1997, he was arrested outside a Hollywood nightclub after a man claimed Lawrence punched him; he was ordered to perform community service. Jaeckel was born in Long Beach, New York. In August 1996, he was arrested at Burbank Airport for carrying a loaded gun in his suitcase. Richard Hanley Jaeckel (October 10, 1926 - June 14, 1997) was an American actor. The divorce led to many personal problems in Lawrence's life. Southall is now married to Emmitt Smith.

They had a daughter and divorced in 1996. He married Patricia Southall, a former Miss Virginia, on January 7, 1995. Its crudeness, however, did not prevent You So Crazy! from becoming one of the highest-grossing concert films of all time. The film received the NC-17 rating and was later released unrated.

In 1994, Lawrence released the controversial concert film, You So Crazy!. The show won a NAACP Image Award for Best Lead Actor in a Comedy Series. Martin ran to 1997, and remains in syndication. In 1991, Lawrence worked in his first starring role in Talking Dirty After Dark. By 1992, he had his own sitcom, Martin on Fox.

He had a more prominent role in Eddie Murphy's Boomerang, and emceed Def Comedy Jam. Lawrence made his movie debut in Spike Lee's Do The Right Thing and played minor roles in House Party and House Party 2. That appearance led to a role in the 1985 television series What's Happening Now!. Several years later, Lawrence got a chance to perform on Star Search.

He attended Eleanor Roosevelt High School while living there. When his father left the family, Lawrence claims he began performing comedy to cheer-up his mother, Chlora, who was forced to cashier at various department stores to support Martin and his five siblings. His family then moved to Landover, Maryland. When Lawrence was six, his family moved to the New York City borough of Queens.

military. His father was in the U.S. He was born in Frankfurt. April 16, 1965) is an actor, comedian, and producer.

Martin Lawrence (b. Rage Control (2004) (pre production). Bad Boys II (2003). National Security (2003).

Martin Lawrence Live: Runteldat (2002). Black Knight (2001) (2001). What's the Worst That Could Happen? (2001). Big Momma's House (2000).

Blue Streak (1999). Life (1999). Nothing to Lose (1997). A Thin Line Between Love and Hate (1996).

Bad Boys (1995). You So Crazy! (1994). Martin (1992-1997). Boomerang (1992).

Talkin Dirty After Dark (1991). House Party 2 (1991). Hammer, Slammer, & Slade (1990). House Party (1990).

Do the Right Thing (1989). A Little Bit Strange (1989). What's Happening Now!! (1985).