Richard Peabody, or more frequently Dick Peabody, is perhaps best known as Private Littlejohn, the tall yet gentle and amiable soldier in the 1960s black and white TV series Combat!. Born in 1925, Peabody served in the navy during the Second World War and then studied at the University of Kansas City. He started his career as a producer of screen advertising and TV commercials but later, bored with what he was doing, he decided to take up acting. He thought he was a "homely" type and was suitable as a villain in Westerns. His first big break was as Private Littlejohn in Combat!, a series which spanned 100 episodes from 1962 to 1967. Other credits include appearances in Bonanza, Gunsmoke and McKenna's Gold. His appearance in Airwolf came towards the end of his acting career which he was for
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| - Richard Peabody, or more frequently Dick Peabody, is perhaps best known as Private Littlejohn, the tall yet gentle and amiable soldier in the 1960s black and white TV series Combat!. Born in 1925, Peabody served in the navy during the Second World War and then studied at the University of Kansas City. He started his career as a producer of screen advertising and TV commercials but later, bored with what he was doing, he decided to take up acting. He thought he was a "homely" type and was suitable as a villain in Westerns. His first big break was as Private Littlejohn in Combat!, a series which spanned 100 episodes from 1962 to 1967. Other credits include appearances in Bonanza, Gunsmoke and McKenna's Gold. His appearance in Airwolf came towards the end of his acting career which he was for
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| - Richard Peabody as a passenger in the episode Flight 093 is Missing.
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| - Richard Peabody, or more frequently Dick Peabody, is perhaps best known as Private Littlejohn, the tall yet gentle and amiable soldier in the 1960s black and white TV series Combat!. Born in 1925, Peabody served in the navy during the Second World War and then studied at the University of Kansas City. He started his career as a producer of screen advertising and TV commercials but later, bored with what he was doing, he decided to take up acting. He thought he was a "homely" type and was suitable as a villain in Westerns. His first big break was as Private Littlejohn in Combat!, a series which spanned 100 episodes from 1962 to 1967. Other credits include appearances in Bonanza, Gunsmoke and McKenna's Gold. His appearance in Airwolf came towards the end of his acting career which he was forced to withdraw from in 1985 because of back surgery. At other times, Peabody has also been a news anchor, a newspaper columnist and a TV talk show host. He died of prostate cancer in 1999.
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