Peter Brocco

Peter Brocco
Born	January 16, 1903 (1903-01-16) Reading, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Died	December 20, 1992(1992-12-20) (aged 89) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1932-1991

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

Career

Brocco 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 appeared as "The Spector" in The Phantom Ring, where the criminals developed a machine that can make them invisible. Finally, in that episode, he survives, albeit rather banged up by Superman. He appeared as Claymare, 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 Klingon Empire.

Brocco displayed a comedic talent portraying "Peter The Waiter" for 8 episodes of The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show on CBS during their 1955-1956 New York City season.

Brocco played Colonel Matterson, a wheelchair-bound patient suffering from dementia, in the Academy Award-winning One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975). He also appeared as the patient in the hospital, Mr. Eagane, in the Happy Days 1974 episode "Hardware Jungle". In 1983 he played Ali MacGraw's father in the epic TV miniseries The Winds of War.

Brocco lived for some 40 years in Laurel Canyon,in a 1920s Spanish style home on Laurel Canyon Blvd. near the Country Store. He had his ceramics studio in the ground floor,a source of income when he was blacklisted for a while during the red scare of the early 1950s. Brocco died from a heart attack in Los Angeles, California, on December 20, 1992, aged 89.

Selected filmography

• Appointment with Murder (1948)
• Search for Danger (1949)
• Flaming Fury (1949)
• The Narrow Margin (1952)
• Elmer Gantry (1960) as Benny - Photographer (uncredited)
• Spartacus (1960) as Ramon
• Let No Man Write My Epitaph (1960) as Salesman at Florist Shop (uncredited)
• Underworld U.S.A. (1961) as Vic Farrar (uncredited)
• Fear No More (1961) as Steve Cresca
• A Public Affair (1962) as Leonard Lohman
• The Three Stooges in Orbit (1962) as Doctor Appleby
• Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man (1962) as Headwaiter (uncredited)
• The Interns (1962) as Arnold Auer (uncredited)
• The Balcony (1963) as Judge
• The Pleasure Seekers (1964) as Arturo (uncredited)
• Dark Intruder (1965) as Chi Zang
• Our Man Flint (1966) as Dr. Wu
• The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming (1966) as Reverend Hawthorne (uncredited)
• Enter Laughing (1967) as Lawyer Peabody
• Games (1967) as Count, Party Guest
• In Enemy Country (1968) as Prisoner at Factory Yard (uncredited)
• Some Kind of a Nut (1969) as Mr. Suzumi
• Hail, Hero! (1969) as Old Man #1
• The Comic (1969) as Minister (uncredited)
• Gaily, Gaily (1969) as Swami (uncredited)
• A Time for Dying (1969) as Seth
• Johnny Got His Gun (1971) as Ancient Prelate
• What's the Matter with Helen? (1971) as Old Man (uncredited)
• Fuzz (1972) as Man with Garbage
• Papillon (1973) as Doctor (uncredited)
• The Killing Kind (1973) as Louise's Father
• Homebodies (1974) as Mr. Blakely
• One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) as Col. Matterson
• Raid on Entebbe (1976) as Mr. Scharf
• The One and Only (1978) as Autograph Hound
• Butch and Sundance: The Early Days (1979) as Old Robber
• Fighting Back (1982) as Donato
• Jekyll and Hyde... Together Again (1982) as Hubert Howes
• Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983) as Mr. Mute (Segment #2)
• Money to Burn (1983) as Harry
• Throw Momma from the Train (1987) as Old Man
• The War of the Roses (1989) as Elderly Mourner
• Other People's Money (1991) as Garfield's Office Valet

External links

• Peter Brocco at IMDb
• Peter Brocco at the Internet Broadway Database
• Peter Brocco at AllMovie
• Peter Brocco at Memory Alpha
• Peter Brocco at Find a Grave