Nicholas Hammond

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For the British historian, see Nicholas Hammond (historian).

Maria (Julie Andrews) with the children of "The Sound of Music" . (Nicholas Hammond is in the centre, as Friedrich von Trapp, at age 15.)

Nicholas Hammond (born May 15, 1950) is an American actor. The son of actress Eileen Bennett, Hammond was 13 when he made his first movie appearance in Lord of the Flies.

Hammond's most visible screen role was as Friedrich von Trapp in the 1965 megahit The Sound Of Music. During the filming of Sound of Music he grew six inches, from 5ft3 to 5ft9. In 1973 he made a memorable guest appearance on The Brady Bunch as the high school BMOC 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.

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.

In 1978, a pumped-up Nicholas Hammond starred in the brief weekly TV adaptation of The Amazing Spider-Man.

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 Mission: Impossible (which was filmed in Australia). and soon to be joining is his cameo role on the movie Spider-Man 3 in 2007.

Nicholas Hammond is also a successful and talented television writer, having written both the mini-series A Difficult Woman and the TV movie, Secret Men's Business.

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Even though he played Spider-Man in the television series, Hammond is afraid of heights. All of the scenes in which Spider-Man is seen on a rooftop or other high place he is played by a stuntman.
Hammond was the first actor to portray Peter Parker/Spider-Man in live action.