His feature debut as Luke Skywalker in George Lucas' blockbuster "Star Wars" (1977), thrust blue-eyed, fair-haired, boyish leading man Mark Hamill into the international spotlight, but he was a familiar presence from his frequent TV appearances dating from 1970. After a much-traveled childhood (his father was a US Naval captain) spent in California, Virginia, New York and Japan, he made his first appearance on the small screen in a 1970 episode of "The Bill Cosby Show" (NBC). Next came a nine-month stint as the troubled teenaged nephew of heroine Nurse Jessie Brewer on the ABC daytime drama
