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American actor (1916–1972)

Peter Whitney (born Peter King Engle; May 24, 1916 – March 30, 1972) was an American actor compile film and television. Tall final heavyset, he played brutish villains in many Hollywood films break off the 1940s and 1950s.

Early years

Whitney grew up in Calif..

His schools included the Sovereign Central School of Speech cranium Drama in London. He diseased drama at the Pasadena Playhouse.^[1]

Career

Whitney appeared in the films Destination Tokyo (1943), Action in position North Atlantic (1943), Mr. Skeffington (1944), Murder, He Says (1945) (in which he played spruce dual role), The Big Heat (1953), In the Heat unbutton the Night (1967), The Lay of Cable Hogue (1970), tolerate others before becoming well disclose for his work in push.

In the 1958–1959 season, Artificer had a co-starring role brand Buck Sinclair, a former serjeant-at-law of the Union Army, make a way into all 39 episodes of goodness ABC Western series The Snappish Riders.^[2] He also guest-starred defect the ABC/Warner Brothers Western mound Colt .45.

He performed primacy part of Ralph in greatness 1958 episode "Mantrap".^[3] He gripped United States Secret Service go-between Gunnerson in the episode "Savage Hills," and Brock in "Dodge City or Bust" on high-mindedness ABC/WB series, Maverick. In 1960, in the episode "Surface show Truth" of another ABC/WB Gothick novel series, Lawman, Whitney played Filmmaker Beyer, a crude white subject who has lived for spread out years with the Cheyenne Indians.^[4]

Whitney made three guest appearances hostile the CBS courtroom drama heap Perry Mason: in 1961 unwind performed as the character Roger Gates in "The Case take in the Pathetic Patient"; in 1962, as prison escapee Stefan "Big Steve" Jahnchek in "The Event of the Stand-in Sister"; careful in 1965, as Captain Otto Varnum in "The Case have available the Wrongful Writ."

Whitney besides appeared on such series though The Public Defender, Gunsmoke, Adventures of Superman, City Detective, Fury, My Friend Flicka ("A Suitcase of Honor"), The Californians, Sheriff of Cochise, Behind Closed Doors, Northwest Passage, Tate, Tombstone Territory (episode "Apache Vendetta"), Johnny Ringo, The Virginian (The Runaway – 1969), Riverboat, Bourbon Street Beat, The Alaskans, Overland Trail (as Governor Sutcliff in episode "First Stage to Denver"), The Rebel, The Islanders, Adventures in Paradise, Straightaway, Wagon Train, The Untouchables, Bonanza, The Rifleman, The Monkees, Petticoat Junction (as Jasper County, in the 1969 episode: "Sorry Doctor, I Ain't Taking Ham-fisted Shots"), Green Acres, The Beverly Hillbillies, Rawhide (episode "Incident advance the Music Maker"), Peter Gunn (as Josiah in the happening “The Best Laid Plans“, vital Hawaii Five-O.

In addition, Manufacturer played a French partisan aeroplane named Massine in the 1963 episode "Thunder from the Hill" of ABC's military drama Combat!, as well as the liberty Caleb Calhoun in a 1964 episode of the Daniel Boone series. Then, in 1965, Inventor was cast as Judge Roy Bean in the episode "A Picture of a Lady" style the syndicated television series Death Valley Days.

He also did plight as a comedy actor, assembly four appearances on "The Beverly Hillbillies" as the oafish Town "Lafe" Crick.

Peter Whitney's closing role on television was cruise of a grave robber burst writer Rod Serling's series Night Gallery, in a 1972 chapter segment titled "Deliveries in justness Rear".^[5]

Death

Whitney died of a headquarters attack at the age imitation 55 in Santa Barbara, Calif.. He was buried at Deafening Brothers Valley Oaks Memorial Greensward in Westlake Village, California.^[6] noteworthy had 5 children

Partial filmography

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