Peter Kastner
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Peter Kastner (1 October, 1943 - 18 September, 2008) was a Canadian-born actor who achieved prominence as a disaffected youth in movies of the 1960s.
Kastner's first leading role was in the 1964 Canadian film Nobody Waved Goodbye, which was a semi-improved, documentary style look at middle-class teenagers. Kastner played an alienated young man, the son of a prosperous automobile dealer, who drifts into petty thievery.
His breakout role was in the title role of the 1967 Francis Ford Coppola comedy You're a Big Boy Now, also starring Rip Torn, Geraldine Page and Elizabeth Hartman. Kastner played an earnest young man who travels to New York City and meets eccentrics.
Kastner played a similar role as a young, earnest advertising man swept up in the era in B.S. I Love You.
Kastner also starred in the 1968-1969 ABC sitcom The Ugliest Girl in Town, where he played Timothy Blair, a man who dressed in drag as a favor to his photographer brother. He also starred in the 1977 CBC Television sitcom Custard Pie as Leo Strauss, the manager of a musical group of that name. [1] It was following Ugliest Girl that Kastner's fortunes took a turn for the worse. No producer would take him on in a leading role, prompting him to take supporting roles in movies and television series. [2] His last movie acting role was Unfinished Business, released in 1984, a sequel to Nobody Waved Goodbye.
Kastner died from a heart attack in Toronto on September 18, 2008 while driving his car in downtown Toronto. [3]
References
- ^ TV North (p.35), by Peter Kenter; Whitecap Books, 2001
- ^ Toronto Star: Peter Kastner, 64: Actor recalled for role as rebel (9/20/2008)
- ^ Toronto Star: Peter Kastner, 64: Actor recalled for role as rebel (9/20/2008)
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