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Peter Brocco

 
Actor: Peter Brocco
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  • Born: 1903 in Reading, Pennsylvania
  • Died: Jan 03, 1993 in Los Angeles, California
  • Occupation: Actor
  • Active: '40s-'70s
  • Major Genres: Comedy, Drama
  • Career Highlights: Twilight Zone: The Movie, The Balcony, Flaming Fury
  • First Major Screen Credit: The Circle (1948)

Biography

Stage actor Peter Brocco made his first film appearance in 1932's The Devil and Deep. He then left films to tour in theatrical productions in Italy, Spain and Switzerland. Returning to Hollywood in 1947, Brocco could be seen in dozens of minor and supporting roles, usually playing petty crooks, shifty foreign agents, pathetic winos and suspicious store clerks. His larger screen roles included Ramon in Spartacus (1960), The General in The Balcony (1963), Dr. Wu in Our Man Flint (1963), and the leading character in the Cincinnati-filmed black comedy Homebodies (1974). The addition of a fuzzy, careless goatee in his later years enabled Brocco to portray generic oldsters in such films as One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1977), The One and Only(1977), Throw Momma From the Train (1989) and War of the Roses (1983). In 1983, Peter Brocco was one of many veterans of the Twilight Zone TV series of the 1950s and 1960s to be affectionately cast in a cameo role in Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983). ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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Peter Brocco
Born January 16, 1903
Reading, Pennsylvania
Died December 20, 1992
Los Angeles, California

Peter Brocco (January 16, 1903 – December 20, 1992) was an American film and TV character actor for nearly 60 years.

He appeared as a criminal type in several episodes of Adventures of Superman. He holds the distinction of having been killed off in two of them, a relative rarity for villains in the series. In the first, The Secret of Superman, he deduces that Kent is Superman, but is killed in a police shootout soon after. In The Clown Who Cried, he falls off a building and Superman is unable to save him. He also appears as a lead-masked gang member in The Phantom Ring. Finally, in that episode, he survives.

He appeared as an Organian council member in the Star Trek episode Errand of Mercy which established the uneasy treaty of peace between the United Federation of Planets and the the Klingon Empire.

For fans of those two series, it is noteworthy that he and Jeff Corey appeared in both series, and that both men were blacklisted for a while during the red scare of the early 1950s.

Brocco played Colonel Matterson, a patient suffering from dementia, in the Academy Award-winning One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975).

He lived for some 40 years in Laurel Canyon, and died in Los Angeles, California from a heart attack on December 20, 1992, aged 89.

He shot his own son on the set of the Twilight Zone.

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