Jack Nicholson as you’ve never seen him–playing a Franciscan friar

Last updated on: June 6, 2014 at 8:57 pm by Dawn Eden

Jack Nicholson as you’ve never seen him–playing a Franciscan friar 2014-06-06T20:57:20-04:00 Dawn Eden

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Did you know that one of Jack Nicholson’s first starring television roles was on “The Hour of St. Francis”? In the episode, filmed in the early 1960s, he plays a teenager discerning a vocation to the Franciscan Order. Really! Watch:

Nicholson was raised Catholic. Although, at last report, he was not practicing, he remains vocally pro-life because he recognizes he would have been aborted were it not for his mother and maternal grandmother’s strong moral character.

A bit of information on the “Hour of St. Francis” may be found online here.

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