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Richard Peabody (April 6, 1925 – December 27, 1999) was an American actor best known for his role as six-foot-six Pfc. Littlejohn on the 1960s series Combat!. Peabody worked in television, movies, radio, and print. He was tall and typecast himself as a western villain.
After he returned to civilian life, he studied drama at the Pasadena Playhouse and in New York. He worked part-time as a lifeguard until he gained the role on Combat. [2] He portrayed Sgt. Jerry Miller on the NBC-TV crime drama Adam-12. [3] In addition to acting, he was a casting director for Magnum, P.I. and operated a building business. [4]
The first-season episode "A Day in June" shows D-Day as a flashback, hence the action occurs during and after June 1944. The program starred Rick Jason as platoon leader Second Lieutenant Gil Hanley and Vic Morrow as Sergeant "Chip" Saunders. Jason and Morrow would play the lead in alternating episodes in Combat!.
As pointed out in the main article on Combat!, this is the only season of the program produced in color. The fifth-season DVDs come in two sets, "Invasion 1" and "Invasion 2," which, like the first-season "Campaigns," the second-season "Missions," the third-season "Operations," and the fourth-season "Conflicts," are sold separately.
Chester Conlan Carter (born October 3, [2] 1934) [1] is an American film, stage and television actor. He is perhaps best known for playing the medic "Doc" in the American drama television series Combat!, for which he was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series.
Victor "Vic" Morrow (né Morozoff; February 14, 1929 – July 23, 1982) was an American actor.He came to prominence as one of the leads of the ABC drama series Combat! (1962–1967), which earned him an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Continued Performance by an Actor in a Series.
Beery appeared in dozens of films, including a large early role as John Wayne's action partner in The Trail Beyond (1934; Wayne was 27 years old and Beery was 21), Only Angels Have Wings (1939) with Cary Grant, 20 Mule Team (1940) with his uncle Wallace Beery, and Red River (1948), again with John Wayne as well as Montgomery Clift.
Billy Eugene Hughes, Jr. (November 28, 1948 – December 20, 2005) was an American actor best known for various television and film roles he played during the 1960s. His Hollywood lineage included both his father (Bill Hughes) and uncle (Whitey Hughes), who were both stuntmen and film producers.