Nicholas Hammond

Nicholas Hammond is an American actor and writer who is perhaps best known for his roles as Friedrich von Trapp in the film The Sound of Music, and as Peter ParkerSpiderMan on the CBS television series The Amazing SpiderMan.

Hammond was born in Washington, D.C., the son of Col. Thomas West Hammond, Jr. by his wife Eileen Hammond, ne Bennett. While Hammonds father was a US citizen and an officer in the US Army, his mother was an Englishwoman who had played a role in a theatre play, namely Much Too Shy, in 1942. Hammond has one elder brother, David . Hammonds parents had met and married in London during the War, when his father had been posted there. After the war, the couple had moved to the US permanently, and since the Colonel had a transferrable army job, the family moved numerous times to various army stations across the country during Hammonds childhood. The Colonel, who Hammond adored, died in 1970.

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