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Richard Bernard Hammer (July 17, 1930 – October 18, 1999) was an American athlete, firefighter, and actor. Early life and education Born in Long Beach, California, Hammer attended the University of Southern California. Career Hammer was a basketball player at the University of Southern California, and competed in volleyball at the 1964 Summer Olympics. As an actor, he played the role of Captain Richard "Dick" Hammer in the first season of the Jack Webb produced television show Emergency!, which debuted on January 15, 1972. He left the show midway through the first season, because he felt that being a real-life firefighter was more rewarding than playing a fictional one. He returned to the LACoFD and retired with the rank of captain. Hammer portrayed the Marlboro Man in cigarette advertisements in the 1970s. Personal life Hammer's grandson is former University of Southern California starting quarterback and current Minnesota Vikings quarterback Sam Darnold. Hammer's granddaughter, Franki Darnold, is a record holder for the University of Rhode Island women's volleyball team.He died in Long Beach from prostate cancer at the age of 69. Other sources cite the cause of death (as with other former "Marlboro Men") as lung cancer. References External links Dick Hammer at IMDb. Discover the Richard Hammer popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Richard Hammer books.

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  • The Anodyne Necklace synopsis, comments

    The Anodyne Necklace

    Martha Grimes

    The third in the bestselling Richard Jury mystery series by Martha Grimes.A spinster whose passion was birdwatching, a dotty peer who pinched pennies, and a baffling murder made th...

  • Hermit synopsis, comments

    Hermit

    S. R. White

    HE DISAPPEARED FOR 15 YEARS...UNTIL THE DAY OF THE MURDER. THE INTERNATIONAL TOP TEN BESTSELLER'Taut, beautifully observed...with an explosive finish.' PETER MAY'Original, compell...

  • X The Unknown synopsis, comments

    X The Unknown

    Shaun Hutson

    In a quiet field in Buckinghamshire, a huge crack has appeared in the earth's surface. And people are dying. Incinerated beyond recognition. At the same time, hospitals have notice...

  • Double Double synopsis, comments

    Double Double

    Martha Grimes

    “A thoughtful twist on the recovery memoir” (O, The Oprah Magazine) that explains the different ways bestselling author Martha Grimes and her son, Ken Grimes, recognized and overca...

  • The Refuge synopsis, comments

    The Refuge

    Jérôme Loubry

    'Wickedly Twisty.' Laurence, Amazon reviewer'Mindbending.' Tambok, Amazon reviewerWhere to hide when there's nowhere left to run?Sandrine is asked to empty her late grandmother's ...

  • Help the Poor Struggler synopsis, comments

    Help the Poor Struggler

    Martha Grimes

    Around bleak Dartmoor, where the Hound of the Baskervilles once bayed, three children have been brutally murdered. Now Richard Jury of Scotland Yard joins forces with a hottempered...

  • The Dirty Duck synopsis, comments

    The Dirty Duck

    Martha Grimes

    The Dirty Duck is a pub in Shakespeare’s beloved Stratford, and in this pub Miss Gwendolyn Bracegirdle of Sarasota, Florida, fresh from a performance of As You Like It, takes her l...

  • The Missing Pieces of Sophie McCarthy synopsis, comments

    The Missing Pieces of Sophie McCarthy

    Ber M Carroll

    The Missing Pieces of Sophie McCarthy is a gripping, impossibletoputdown exploration of betrayal and revenge.'Intriguing, compelling. Impossible to put down and irresistibly good' ...

  • Biting the Moon synopsis, comments

    Biting the Moon

    Martha Grimes

    The girl’s hair was white below the scarf, now a scarf of snow, and there was a fine rime of ice on her eyebrows. Her mouth was so numb she couldn’t have spoken even if there had b...

  • The Stargazey synopsis, comments

    The Stargazey

    Martha Grimes

    Saturday night. It was not a night to be spending alone, riding a bus. When he was a teenager at the comprehensive, Saturday night without a girl, without a date, without at least ...

  • The Old Contemptibles synopsis, comments

    The Old Contemptibles

    Martha Grimes

    Following a passionate and troubled love affair with a pretty widow named Jane Holdsworth, Jury finds himself, unaccountably, a suspect in a murder investigation. Detained in Londo...

  • Jerusalem Inn synopsis, comments

    Jerusalem Inn

    Martha Grimes

    From the rough but colorful pub that provides the book’s title, to the snowboard Gothic estate nearby, the chilly English landscape has never held more atmosphereor thwarted romanc...

  • The Deer Leap synopsis, comments

    The Deer Leap

    Martha Grimes

    In her latest Richard Jury adventure, Martha Grimes takes us to Ashdown Dean, a little English village where animals are dying in a series of seemingly innocuous accidents. While t...

  • Demonia synopsis, comments

    Demonia

    Kendal Grahame

    Demonia and Sinitia are vampires and can only drink from sexually aroused young humans. When they meet Alex, a descendant of the man who destroyed their coven, they fear a battle. ...

  • The Five Bells and Bladebone synopsis, comments

    The Five Bells and Bladebone

    Martha Grimes

    When a dismembered corpse is found in the compartments of an antique writing bureau, Marshall Trueblood, recipient of the precious piece of furniture, is the first to protest: “I b...

  • The Final Chapter synopsis, comments

    The Final Chapter

    Jérôme Loubry

    Whatever you do, DON'T give away that ending..."Terribly addictive" Three good friends.One tragic summer.A book that tells it all."A tremendously compelling pageturner" Wh...

  • Send Bygraves synopsis, comments

    Send Bygraves

    Martha Grimes

    In Send Bygraves, Martha Grimes has given us her most fascinating book, a dramatic mystery poem that uses the conventions of the traditional British mystery to explore the very nat...

  • The Old Silent synopsis, comments

    The Old Silent

    Martha Grimes

    In the tenth murderous case for Richard Jury, the New Scotland Yard superintendent witnesses a killing in a West Yorkshire inn called the Old Silent, while his highborn, amateur co...

  • The Old Fox Deceived synopsis, comments

    The Old Fox Deceived

    Martha Grimes

    It is a chilly and foggy Twelfth Night, wild with North Sea wind, when a bizarre murder disturbs the outward piece of Rackmoor, a tiny Yorkshire fishing village with a past that pr...

  • Hotel Paradise synopsis, comments

    Hotel Paradise

    Martha Grimes

    A oncefashionable now fading resort hotel. A spinster aunt living in the attic. Dirt roads that lead to dead ends. A house full of secrets and old, dusty furnishings, uninhabited f...

  • The End of the Pier synopsis, comments

    The End of the Pier

    Martha Grimes

    The setting: a small, sleepy American town where secrets are almost impossible to keep. The center of town life: the Rainbow Cafe where Maud Chadwick works as a waitress, hiding be...

  • The Man with a Load of Mischief synopsis, comments

    The Man with a Load of Mischief

    Martha Grimes

    From bestselling author Martha Grimes, Detective Chief Inspector Richard Jury is back on the case in an installment in the Richard Jury Mystery series. Long Piddleton had always be...

  • I Am the Only Running Footman synopsis, comments

    I Am the Only Running Footman

    Martha Grimes

    In a rainy ditch in a Devon wood, a hitchhiker is found dead. Almost a year later, on another rainy night, another murder; this time, however, the victim is found just outside a pu...

  • The Case Has Altered synopsis, comments

    The Case Has Altered

    Martha Grimes

    The sun, smoking behind a haze of cloud, threw off a light of burnished pewter. Mysteriously lit, it was as if the watery, colorless land refused drabness, stood determinedly again...

  • The Horse You Came in On synopsis, comments

    The Horse You Came in On

    Martha Grimes

    The murder is in America, but the call goes out to Scotland Yard superintendent Richard Jury. Accompanied by his aristocratic friend Melrose Plant and by Sargeant Wiggins, Jury arr...