NICHOLAS HAMMOND

:''For the British historian, see Nicholas Hammond (historian).''
'Nicholas Hammond' (born May 15, 1950) is an American actor.

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Early life and career

''Spider-Man

Later career

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Early life and career

The son of actress Eileen Bennett, Hammond was 10 when he made his first movie appearance in ''Lord of the Flies''.
Besides his subsequent work as Spider-Man, Hammond's most visible screen role was as Friedrich von Trapp in the 1965 megahit ''The Sound of Music''. During the filming of ''The Sound of Music'' he grew six inches, from 5ft 3in to 5ft 9in. In 1973, he made a memorable guest appearance on ''The Brady Bunch'' as the high school BMOC Doug Simpson, who loses interest in Marcia after her tragic football accident ("Oh, my nose!"). After making the transition from juvenile to young leading man, he spent several seasons in daytime soaps such as ''General Hospital''.
He remains close friends with all six of his ''Sound of Music'' siblings. In late 1970s, Hammond re-joined fellow ''The Sound of Music'' alumna Heather Menzies (who played Louisa von Trapp) for one episode of the TV adaptation of ''Logan's Run''. Menzies had been co-star of the show as Jessica 5 while Hammond played a sandman who passed on as a runner to lure Jessica and Logan back to the domed city.
Nicholas Hammond is a graduate of Princeton University, where he wrote his senior thesis on the "Great Odes of John Keats" at the same time that he was appearing eight times a week as the lead in a play on Broadway.

''Spider-Man

In 1976, Hammond starred in the ''The Amazing Spider-Man'' TV series from 1977 to early 1978. Hammond was the first actor to portray Peter Parker & Spider-Man in live-action. The ''Electric Company'' aired ''Spidey Super Stories'' starting in 1974, but the series did not feature Peter Parker. Even though Hammond played Peter Parker in the television series, in all of the scenes in which Spider-Man is seen crawling on walls or web-slinging, Spider-Man was portrayed by a stuntman.

Later career

In recent years Nicholas Hammond has appeared in several television mini-series that have been filmed in Australia, including ''Moby Dick'', ''On the Beach'' and ''The Martian Chronicles''. Nicholas Hammond had a starring role, as "Sir Ivor Creevy-Thorne", in ''Mirror, Mirror'', an Australia / New Zealand extended mini-series (a complete story of 20 serialised episodes, with cliffhangers between each of the episodes). Hammond also guest-starred in various Australian television series, including satirical television programs such as ''BackBerner'' and ''CNNNN'', and the science fiction program ''Farscape'', and also dramatic series such as ''The Flying Doctors'', ''MDA'' and the Australian / United States co-production '' (which was filmed in Australia).
Nicholas Hammond is also a successful and talented television writer, having written both the critically acclaimed mini-series ''A Difficult Woman'' and the TV movie, ''Secret Men's Business'', to this day the highest rated show ever aired on television by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

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