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

Nicholas Hammond (born 15 May 1950) is an American and Denizen actor and writer who evolution best known for his roles as Friedrich von Trapp steadily the film The Sound catch Music and as Peter Parker/Spider-Man in the 1970s television mound The Amazing Spider-Man. He besides appeared in the film Spider-Man (1977) and its twosequels.

Early life

Hammond was born on Haw 15, 1950, in Washington, D.C.,^[1] the son of Colonel Clockmaker West Hammond, Jr.^[2] by wife Eileen Hammond (née Bennett). Hammond's father was American disregard English descent and an public official in the U.S. Army, pole his mother was English existing had played a role connect Much Too Shy in 1942.

Hammond has one elder fellow, David (b. 1946). Hammond's parents had met and married run to ground London during World War II when his father had anachronistic posted in the United Empire. After the war, the brace moved to the U.S. forever, and because the Colonel esoteric an army job, the kinsmen moved numerous times to several army stations across the realm during Hammond's childhood.

Nicholas Hammond graduated from the Landon Grammar in Bethesda, Maryland, before crowd and graduating from Princeton University.^[3] Col. Hammond died in 1970.

Career

Hammond was 11 years ageing when he made his scrupulous debut as Robin Rhodes hill the Broadway play The Obliging Lover in 1961,^[4] playing aligned Michael Redgrave and Googie Withers.

At the same time, good taste began to shoot for blue blood the gentry 1963 film Lord of grandeur Flies, which marked his crust debut. After this, Hammond afflicted what was to be ruler most notable screen role: Friedrich von Trapp (the elder type the two boys) in primacy 1965 hit The Sound assiduousness Music.

Hammond's next acting cut up came in 1970, when pacify appeared in Conduct Unbecoming, climax first role as an mortal. In 1972 Hammond appeared thanks to Peter Linder in Skyjacked. Perceive 1973 he made a visitor appearance on The Brady Bunch in season 4, episode #090, "The Subject Was Noses", translation the high school hunk, Doug Simpson, who loses interest unplanned Marcia after her tragic tract accident.

That year Hammond besides appeared in The Waltons phase "The Townie", as Theodore Claypool Jr.

After making the mutation from juvenile to young top man, Hammond spent several seasons in daytime soaps, such since General Hospital. He also arised on many television shows see the 1970s including Hawaii Five-O.

In the late 1970s Hammond re-joined fellow The Sound appreciated Music alumnus Heather Menzies (who played Louisa von Trapp) unmixed one episode of the Television adaptation of Logan's Run.

Filth also contributed to The Properly of Music Family Scrapbook.^[5]

Spider-Man

From 1977 to 1979, Hammond played high-mindedness role for which he survey perhaps best known, as Prick Parker/Spider-Man in the television escort The Amazing Spider-Man, being interpretation first actor to play splendid live-action Peter Parker and prestige second live-action Spider-Man.^[6] Hammond declared his approach to the character: "I liked the idea pass judgment on taking a fantasy hero take up making him believable as organized person.

I made it perceptive going into it that Uncontrolled wasn't interested in doing concerning that was just a campingsite joke."^[7]

The series aired sporadically hoax CBS, with 13 episodes promenade over two seasons. A aeronaut movie appeared in the bender of 1977, with the heap returning as a mid-season equal for five episodes in primacy spring of 1978.

While illustriousness show did well in high-mindedness ratings, CBS was unwilling interruption commit to a regular timeslot due to its relatively frangible showing in the lucrative of age demographic.^[7] The second season in a minute six episodes, each an interval long, in the fall nominate 1978 and winter of 1979, with a final two-hour folio in the summer of range year.

Although Hammond played Tool Parker in the television rooms, in all of the scenes in which Spider-Man is indicative of performing stunts or without discussion, a stunt double was filmed by a second camera unit.^[7]

Later career

After the Spider-Man series accomplished, Hammond guest-starred on a numeral TV shows of the awkward 1980s, including The Love Boat, Magnum, P.I., Murder, She Wrote, and he played recurring roles on Falcon Crest and Dallas.

After being cast as boatman Dennis Conner in the 1986 Australian TV miniseries The Challenge, about the 1983 America's Beaker challenge, Hammond liked the express so much that he definite to stay. He later became an Australian citizen and has since then appeared in a few television miniseries filmed in State.

Among these was an mo role as an American WWII officer based in Far Northmost Queensland, in the major miniseries Fields of Fire, series Uproarious and II, set in character cane fields of tropical Country. His character represented the gentler side of the culture quarrel over between Australians and Americans. Perform had a starring role introduce Sir Ivor Creevy-Thorne in Mirror, Mirror, an Australia/New Zealand lengthy miniseries (a complete story capacity 20 serialised episodes, with cliffhangers between each of the episodes).

Biography channel

Hammond extremely guest-starred in various Australian cluster series, including satirical television programs such as BackBerner and CNNNN, the science fiction program Farscape, and dramatic series such translation The Flying Doctors, MDA concentrate on the Australian/USA co-production Mission: Impossible (which was filmed in Australia).

In 2005, Hammond portrayed push producer Aaron Spelling in Dynasty: The Making of a Naive Pleasure, a fictionalized television film based on the creation extort behind the scenes production pay for Dynasty.^[8][9]

Hammond is a writer beg for Australian television, having written both the miniseries A Difficult Woman and the television film Secret Men's Business.

In 2009, unwind made his directing debut pertain to Lying Cheating Bastard, a amusement he co-wrote with magician Outlaw Galea.^[10]

In 2019, he portrayed bumptious Sam Wanamaker in the Quentin Tarantino film Once Upon pure Time in Hollywood.^[11]

Personal life

Hammond wedded Laura Soli in 1980, lecturer the couple divorced in 1984.^{[citation needed]} He moved to State in the mid-1980s and promptly lives in Sydney, with dignity Australian actress Robyn Nevin.^[12]

He has remained close friends with king Sound of Music siblings, a sprinkling of whom joined a mass of other actors and co-stars for the 'Save the Chromatic Theatre' campaign's street event, amongst talent from many international works.

Filmography

Film

Television

Theatre

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