Charmian Carr – Liesl

 

 

 

Now 71, Chicagoan Carr is a grandmother and has written two books about her experience of making the movie.

 

 

She also became a successful interior designer, once creating a mock sweet shop for Michael Jackson. She was working part-time for a doctor when she auditioned for the film and director Robert Wise got her to change her name from Farnon to Carr. She is thought to have won the role over such famous names as Mia Farrow and the late Sharon Tate.

 

Nicholas Hammond – Friedrich

 

 

Before appearing in ‘The Sound Of Music’, Hammond acted in the brilliant 1963 adaptation of ‘Lord Of The Flies’. Afterwards, he worked consistently on TV, but is otherwise best-known for playing Peter Parker/Spider-Man in the 1977 US series, which was on air for two years and was the first live-action version of the webslinger.

 

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It only lasted for 13 episodes and was disliked on the whole by Spidey fans. Neverthelss, following the success of ‘The Incredible Hulk’, it was almost revived in what would have been an early iteration of The Avengers.