Skip Homeier

Skip Homeier
from the trailer for Boy's Ranch (1946)
Born	George Vincent Homeier 5 October 1930 (1930-10-05) Chicago, Illinois, United States, North America

Skip Homeier (born as George Vincent Homeier on October 5, 1930) is an actor.

Career

Homeier began acting as Skippy Homeier at the age of six, on the radio show Portia Faces Life. From 1943 until 1944 he played the role of Emil in the Broadway play, Tomorrow the World. Cast as a child indoctrinated into Nazism, who is brought to the United States from Germany following the death of his parents, Homeier was praised for his performance. He played the troubled youngster in the 1944 film adaptation and received good reviews playing opposite Fredric March and Betty Field as his American uncle and aunt.^{[citation needed]}

Although Homeier worked frequently throughout his childhood and adolescence, playing wayward youths with no chance of redemption.^{[citation needed]} he did not become a major star, but was able to make a transition from child actor to adult, especially in a range of roles as delinquent youths, common in Hollywood films of the 1950s.

In 1954, he guest starred in an episode of the NBC legal drama Justice, based on cases of the Legal Aid Society of New York. Thereafter, he guest starred on Steve McQueen's Wanted Dead or Alive, a CBS western series. Homeier played a man sought for a crime who is innocent but distrusts the legal system to provide justice. Fleeing from McQueen in the role of bounty hunter Josh Randall, the Homeier character leaps to his death from a cliff.

At the age of twenty, Homeier played the young gunfighter who badgered and shot down Gregory Peck in The Gunfighter (1950). He then appeared in the Westerns The Burning Hills and with Randolph Scott in Budd Boetticher's, The Tall T (1957) and Comanche Station (1960). He played a villain in Day of the Bad Man

He played strong character roles in war films, such as Halls of Montezuma (1950, Beachhead) and Sam Fuller's Fixed Bayonets (1951).

From 1960 to 1961, Homeier starred in the title role in Dan Raven, a crime drama on NBC set on the famous Sunset Strip of West Hollywood, California, with a number of celebrities appearing in guest roles as themselves. Homeier appeared in The Ghost and Mr. Chicken (1966) with Don Knotts. Homeier frequently appeared as a guest star, usually a villain, in all four of Irwin Allen's science-fiction series in the mid to late 1960s. He guest-starred in two episodes of the original Star Trek television series, "Patterns of Force", and "The Way to Eden".

In the 1970–1971 season, Homeier, at forty, co-starred as Dr. Hugh Jacoby in another series, The Interns, which was based on a film of the same name and aired on CBS. His costars were Broderick Crawford as the hospital administrator, Christopher Stone as Dr. Jim Hardin, and Mike Farrell as Dr. Sam Marsh.

External links

• Skip Homeier at the Internet Movie Database
• Skip Homeier at the Internet Broadway Database
• Skip Homeier at Memory Alpha (a Star Trek wiki)