Actor Richard Jaeckel succumbs at the age of 70

Richard Jaeckel, a character actor best known for playing tough guys in films such as "The Dirty Dozen" and "Sands of Iwo Jima," has died. He was 70.

The stocky, baby-faced actor who also played combat cowards and comic foils, died Saturday night at the Motion Picture and Television Hospital in Woodland Hills, nursing supervisor Ann Walsh said Monday. She said she did not know his cause of death.