Peter Whitney

• Born: 1916 in Long Branch, New Jersey
• Died: Mar 30, 1972 in Santa Barbara, California
• Occupation: Actor
• Active: '40s-'60s
• Major Genres: Western, Action
• Career Highlights: Buchanan Rides Alone, The Cruel Tower, Valley of the Sun
• First Major Screen Credit: Underground (1941)

Biography

Burly character actor Peter Whitney was under contract to Warner Bros. from 1941 to 1945. Whitney spent much of that time on loan-out, playing a variety of moronic thugs and henchmen. His best-ever screen role (or roles) was as identical twin hillbilly murderers Mert and Bert Fleagle in the 1944 screwball classic Murder He Says. He enjoyed a rare romantic lead in the 1946 horror film The Brute Man (the title character was played by Rondo Hatton). Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, Whitney supported himself by portraying some of TV's most scurrilous and homicidal backwoods villains. Peter Whitney essayed a more comical characterization as rustic free-loader Lafe Crick in several first-season episodes of The Beverly Hillbillies. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

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