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For the Distinguished Service Cross recipient, see Alexander Nicol. Alex Nicol (January 20, 1916 - July 29, 2001) was an American actor and director. Nicol appeared in many Westerns including The Man from Laramie (1955). He appeared in over forty feature films as well as directing many television shows including The Wild Wild West (1967), Tarzan (1966), and Daniel Boone (1966). He also played many roles on Broadway. He was born Alexander Livingston Nicol Jr., in Ossining, New York, in 1916. When his movie career started thirty-four years later he adjusted the year to 1919. "I was a little... MORE

For the Distinguished Service Cross recipient, see Alexander Nicol. Alex Nicol (January 20, 1916 - July 29, 2001) was an American actor and director. Nicol appeared in many Westerns including The Man from Laramie (1955). He appeared in over forty feature films as well as directing many television shows including The Wild Wild West (1967), Tarzan (1966), and Daniel Boone (1966). He also played many roles on Broadway. He was born Alexander Livingston Nicol Jr., in Ossining, New York, in 1916. When his movie career started thirty-four years later he adjusted the year to 1919. "I was a little older than some of the other people under contract so I thought, 'Well, I'll cure that right now'," he later confessed. His father was the arms keeper at Sing Sing. He studied at the Fagin School of Dramatic Arts before joining Maurice Evans' theatrical company, with whom he made his Broadway debut with a walk-on in Henry IV, Part 1 (1939). Nicol then played Brick in Tennessee Williams's Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. However, it was as a character actor that Nicol spent most of his career. He also directed films, and appeared frequently on television. His acting career was interrupted by a five-year LESS