Born by the Atlantic Ocean, Jeremy Slate now lives with a Pacific Ocean view in Malibu, California. In between oceans, he has traveled the world.
Jeremy attended a Military Academy, joined the Navy at sixteen and was barely eighteen when his Destroyer joined the invasion of Normandy on D-Day.
Aboard that destroyer at Omaha Beach during D-day, Jeremy vowed if he survived the attack he would make his life a never-ending series of adventures. Jeremy has lived up to that promise with adventures of being a lifeguard, a swimming instructor, the first person to swim across the Long Island Sound after the war, a college graduate with honors in English, a prolific writer, a songwriter, screenplay writer, a radio announcer, actor and director.
After the war Jeremy graduated with honors from St. Lawrence University. He was president of the student body, editor of the college literary magazine, football player and backfield coach of the only undefeated freshman team in the school’s history.
A campus radio personality, in his senior year married the queen of his fraternity’s ball. Chosen for the school’s Honor Society, he was a BMOC.
After graduating, he became a professional radio sportscaster and DJ for CBS and ABC affiliates while beginning a family which ultimately included three sons and two daughters.
He was a young man with a growing family and a promising career as a young Public Relations executive with the W.R. Grace and Company. For six years he worked for W.R. Grace as travel manager for its president, J. Peter Grace. He then joined the Grace Steamship Line and moved with his family to Lima, Peru.
While in South America he joined a professional theatre group and became involved with the production of The Rainmaker at the Professional English Language Theatre in Lima. He was awarded the Tiahuanacothe, the Peruvian equivalent of the Tony award, for his portrayal of the character Starbuck.
After a year of training, he left W.R. Grace and was cast in a small, significant role in the Pulitzer Prize winning play, Look Homeward, Angel, on Broadway and did 254 performances.
Known as one of the more talented members of Hollywood's beach boy set of the 1960s, Jeremy Slate sent feminine hearts aflutter as the star of the 1960 TV series The Aquanauts. His career started out with numerous guest-starring roles in popular television programs of the 50's with episodes of Gunsmoke, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, and Perry Mason, to name but a few. From there he has guest-starred in nearly a hundred television shows as well as appearing in twenty feature films.
While about half of his portrayals have been “heavies” Jeremy is equally adept at comedy and has worked with some of Hollywood's best, he was punched out by Elvis, (Girls! Girls! Girls!), had a guitar broken over his head by Frankie Avalon (I’ll Take Sweden), was knocked silly by Van Johnson (Wives and Lovers), was shot by the Duke (True Grit), died spectacularly while trying to save the Duke’s life in The Sons of Katie Elder, hanged on Gunsmoke, was shot between the eyes by Billy Jack (Born Losers), and went up in flames in The Lawnmower Man. Jeremy had an 8-year run as character Chuck Wilson on the ABC daytimedrama, One Life to Live.
Jeremy received critical acclaim for his portrayal of Sgt. Major Patrick O'Neill, a soft-spoken Canadian judo expert, in David Wolper’s The Devil’s Brigade, a WWII saga starring William Holden and Cliff Robertson. During the popularity of “biker films” (which Jeremy defines as “westerns on wheels”), he appeared in The Born Losers as the sadistic leader of a bike gang, Mini-Skirt Mob, Hell’s Belles and wrote the screen story for Hell’s Angels 69. During the filming of Hell’s Angels 69, Jeremy broke his leg, and he never rode a motorcycle again.
He is an accomplished Country and Western songwriter and a BMI member. Jeremy wrote the lyrics to Tex Ritter’s top ten song Just Beyond the Moon and also wrote the lyrics for Every Time I Itch (I Wind Up Scratchin' You) recorded by Glen Campbell on Capitol Records.
