Peter Brown

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1935-10-05 (81 years old)

Deathday

2016-03-21

Place of Birth

New York City, New York, USA

Peter Brown

Biography

Peter Brown got into acting when he was in the army by organizing a theater group on base to occupy his spare time while stationed in Alaska. After his discharge he enrolled in the acting program at UCLA, and starting in the mid-1950s found employment in many of the western films and series being turned out at the time (he is especially remembered for his work as eager young deputy Johnny McKay in the classic western series Lawman (1958) and as one of a trio of Texas Rangers in the western action/comedy series Laredo (1965)). Following the end of a contract with Universal Pictures (1965-1972), he switched to soap operas and made-for-TV films,...

Acting

1974

Foxy Brown

as Steve Elias

1962

1964

Ride the Wild Surf

as Chase Colton

1958

Darby's Rangers

as Rollo Burns

1974

1971

1972

Piranha

as Jim Pendrake

2004

Y.M.I.

as Glenn

1969

Backtrack!

as Texas Ranger Chad Cooper (archive footage)

1997

Asylum

as Dr. Frank Meyers

1959

The FBI Story

as FBI Agent at Hearting (voice) (uncredited)

1958

Violent Road

as Marine at Bar

1963

Summer Magic

as Tom Hamilton

1959

Westbound

as Army Sentry Outside Tent (voice) (uncredited)

1970

1968

Three Guns for Texas

as Texas Ranger Chad Cooper

1957

Sayonara

as Second Military Police (voice) (uncredited)

2005

Hell to Pay

as Johnny Behan

1980

2016

My Christmas Dream

as Shopper (uncredited)

1990

Demonstone

as Admiral

1958

Marjorie Morningstar

as Alec (uncredited)

1979

Salvage

as Bill Kelly

1986

1962

Red Nightmare

as Bill Martin

2005

Three Bad Men

as Tom Noland

1964

A Tiger Walks

as Vern Goodman

1958

Gateways to the Mind

as Aristotle's student (uncredited)

1975

Slashed Dreams

as The Professor

1974

Memory of Us

as Winston

2001

Production

1976

Sparkle

as Executive Producer

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