Dick Peabody
{{Short description|American actor (1925–1999)}}
{{Infobox person
|name = Dick Peabody
|birth_date = {{birth date|1925|4|6}}
|death_date = {{death date and age|1999|12|27|1925|4|6}}
|birth_place = Kansas City, Missouri
|death_place = Camino, California
|spouse =Tina
}}
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.
Biography
Peabody was a World War II Navy veteran, and had an early career in radio commercial production.COMBAT! '96 Souvenir booklet. Copyright Strange New Worlds, 1996.
He anchored a TV news broadcast, hosted a radio talk show, wrote commercials and, in later years, wrote "Peabody's Place", a weekly newspaper column for the Mountain Democrat in Placerville, California.{{Cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-dec-30-mn-49068-story.html|title=Dick Peabody; 'Littlejohn' in 1960s 'Combat' TV Series|date=30 December 1999|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|access-date=24 July 2022}}
He was in the movies Support Your Local Sheriff! and The Good Guys and the Bad Guys in 1969; both films were directed by Burt Kennedy who worked on Combat!. He also appeared in Your Money or Your Wife in 1972.
His main TV credit was all five seasons of Combat!. He was also in various episodes of Cannon, Gunsmoke, Bonanza, and Daniel Boone.{{Cite web|url=https://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/dick-peabody/credits/3030058482/|title=Dick Peabody|website=TVGuide.com|access-date=24 July 2022}}
Personal life
His wife Tina, a former model, wrote "Young Sarge", a song Dick Peabody recorded in 1965.{{Cite web|url=https://www.discogs.com/release/9008090-Dick-Peabody-Young-Sarge-Captain-Mike|title=Dick Peabody - Young Sarge / Captain Mike|access-date=24 July 2022|website=Discogs.com|date=1965 }}
He died of prostate cancer at the age of 74.{{Cite web |url=http://www.vh1.com/movies/person/49057/bio.jhtml |title=VH1.com : Movies : Person : Dick Peabody : Biography |access-date=2008-08-14 |archive-date=2005-08-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050823012651/http://www.vh1.com/movies/person/49057/bio.jhtml |url-status=dead }}
Filmography
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! Year ! Title ! Role | ||
| 1966
|Bonanza "Destiny's Child" S7 E19 |Sunny | ||
| 1969 | Mackenna's Gold | Avila |
| 1969 | Support Your Local Sheriff! | Luke Danby |
| 1969 | The Good Guys and the Bad Guys | Boyle |
| 1970 | The Moonshine War | Boyd Caswell |
| 1971
|Adam-12 "The Search" S4 E5 |Boone |
See also
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|id=0668676}}
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Category:American male television actors
Category:American male film actors
Category:Deaths from prostate cancer in California
Category:20th-century American male actors
Category:United States Navy personnel of World War II
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