[2] Later, MGM was searching for an actor to replace Fernando Lamas in the 1953 movie Sombrero and gave the role to Jason, who was earlier released from Columbia Pictures.

[3] In 1956, Jason played the lead in The Fountain of Youth, a half-hour unsold television pilot written and directed by Orson Welles which won the Peabody Award in 1958.

After retiring from screen appearances, Jason kept busy by doing voice-overs for commercials and wrote his autobiography, Scrapbooks of My Mind.

[1] In his personal life, Jason enjoyed playing guitar, painting, sculpting, collecting wines, flying, hunting, photography, and breeding tropical fish.

The book describes Jason growing up in New York during the Great Depression and shares behind-the-scenes stories of his film and tv career.

Concerning Combat!, pop culture scholar Gene Santoro has written: TV's longest-running World War II drama (1962–1967) was really a collection of complex 50-minute movies.

Salted with battle sequences, they follow a squad's travails from D-Day on – a gritty ground-eye view of men trying to salvage their humanity and survive.

Jason was not only a wonderful human being, a devoted husband, and a fine actor, he was one of our best storytellers with links to the "Golden Age" of Hollywood.

[7]Rubin concluded: For we boomers, Rick Jason helped illuminate the legacy of World War II to those of us too young to experience or remember it.

Over those five years of episodes, he brought home every week the sense of fear, sacrifice and the great love soldiers have for each other.