The second actor to play Spider-Man in a live-action production.
He stayed close to all his The Sound of Music (1965) siblings, especially Charmian Carr. She also speaks of him fondly in her autobiography.
Degree in English Literature (Princeton University).
He lives in Sydney, Australia, where he has worked as a screenwriter, director and actor.
Though he is best known for playing Spider-Man, mostly on television, and for his starring role in The Sound of Music, he is also remembered as the shallow jock in The Brady Bunch (1969) who tells Marcia Brady "something suddenly came up" after injuring his nose while breaking a date with her.
Nicholas appeared in a play with his mother, Eileen Bennett. She always accompanied him while he worked, but in 1965 Nicholas did not want her beside him during his play. "The Happiest Millionaire." To be near her son, his mother took a small role in the play but told no one that she was his mother.
At 1.80 meters tall, he became the tallest actor to have played Peter Parker/Spider-Man to date.
In an interview, he stated that he would reprise his television role as Peter Parker/Spider-Man in a proposed 1984 Hulk/Spider-Man TV movie. He added, however, that the studio ultimately cancelled the project because Lou Ferrigno would not be able to reprise his role as the Hulk. Ferrigno, however, denied having been contacted about the project and said he had not known about the proposed project until he learned of it about 20 years later.
He moved to Australia in the mid-1980s.
He is the second actor to play a live-action version of Peter Parker/Spider-Man, a character created before he was born.
His girlfriend, Robyn Nevin, is the artistic director of the Sydney Theatre Company.
He is best known for his role as Friedrich von Trapp, the eldest son among the von Trapp children, in The Sound of Music (1965).
He appeared in two films nominated for the Best Picture Oscar: The Sound of Music (1965) and Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood (2019). The first won the category.
Previous jobs: Waiter, delivery man, sold septic tanks.
He is the son of actress Eileen Bennett.
He played the sons of Michael Redgrave and Walter Pidgeon.
He was supposed to have a small cameo in Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021), but the scene was never shot because the filming schedule ran over.
After playing Friedrich in The Sound of Music, he went to Australia to make the miniseries 'Cyclone Tracey', then did the show The Challenge, about the America's Cup, playing Dennis Connor.
After The Sound of Music, Nicholas went to Australia to make a miniseries called Cyclone Tracy, and then stopped to do a show called The Challenge about the America's Cup, in which he played the role of Dennis Connor.
After The Sound of Music, he went to Australia to make a miniseries, Cyclone Tracey, and then a show called The Challenge about The Americxan Cup, in which he played Dennis Connor.