Twilight's Last Gleaming
He served in the United States Merchant Marine from 1944 to 1949, then starred in two of the most remembered war films of 1949: "Battleground" and "Sands of Iwo Jima" with John Wayne. One of Jaeckel's shortest film roles was in "The Gunfighter", in which his character is killed by Gregory Peck's character in the opening scene. He played the role of Turk, the roomer's boyfriend, in the Academy Award-winning 1952 film "Come Back, Little Sheba", with Shirley Booth, Burt Lancaster, and Terry Moore. In 1960, he appeared as Angus Pierce in the western, "Flaming Star", starring Elvis Presley. He played Lee Marvin's able second-in-command, Sgt. Bowren, in the 1967 film "The Dirty Dozen" for director Robert Aldrich, and reprised the role in the 1985 sequel, "". Jaeckel appeared in several other Aldrich films, including "Attack" (1956), "Ulzana's Raid" (1972), and "Twilight's Last Gleaming" (1977).