Peter Brocco


Actor
Peter Brocco

About

Also Known As
Peter Andersen
Birth Place
Reading, Pennsylvania, USA
Born
January 16, 1903
Died
December 20, 1992
Cause of Death
Heart Attack

Biography

Veteran character player whose career has spanned over 40 years. Brocco made his first feature appearance in John Sturges' "Alias Mr. Twilight" (1946). He went on to appear in a slew of TV-movies and series including several "Twilight Zone" episodes, "Star Trek," "Alias Smith and Jones" (1971), "The Winds of War" (1983) and Danny DeVito's "The Ratings Game" (1984). Among Brocco's more si...

Biography

Veteran character player whose career has spanned over 40 years. Brocco made his first feature appearance in John Sturges' "Alias Mr. Twilight" (1946). He went on to appear in a slew of TV-movies and series including several "Twilight Zone" episodes, "Star Trek," "Alias Smith and Jones" (1971), "The Winds of War" (1983) and Danny DeVito's "The Ratings Game" (1984). Among Brocco's more significant film credits are Fritz Lang's "House By the River" (1950), Stanley Kubrick's "Spartacus" (1960), "Our Man Flint" (1966), Milos Forman's "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Next" (1975) and Danny DeVito's "The War of the Roses" (1989) which marked the end of a long and distinguished career.

Filmography

 

Cast (Feature Film)

The War of the Roses (1989)
Laguna Heat (1987)
Throw Momma From The Train (1987)
The Ratings Game (1984)
Twilight Zone--The Movie (1983)
Night Partners (1983)
A Time for Dying (1982)
Seth
Butch and Sundance: The Early Days (1979)
The One And Only (1978)
Raid On Entebbe (1977)
Scott Free (1976)
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
The Family Kovack (1974)
Mr Manzak
Homebodies (1974)
Mr Blakely
Jarrett (1973)
Arnheim
Fuzz (1972)
Man with garbage
No Place to Run (1972)
What's the Matter with Helen? (1971)
Wizened old man
Johnny Got His Gun (1971)
Ancient prelate
Alias Smith and Jones (1971)
Pincus
The Priest Killer (1971)
Father Miles
A Time For Dying (1971)
Ed
Some Kind of a Nut (1969)
Mr. Suzumi
Gaily, Gaily (1969)
Swami
Then Came Bronson (1969)
Railroad Clerk
Games (1967)
Count
Enter Laughing (1967)
Lawyer Peabody
The Russians Are Coming The Russians Are Coming (1966)
Reverend Hawthorne
Our Man Flint (1966)
Dr. Wu
Dark Intruder (1965)
Chi Zang
The Pleasure Seekers (1964)
The Balcony (1963)
Judge
The Three Stooges in Orbit (1962)
Dr. Appleby
A Public Affair (1962)
Leonard Lohman
The Interns (1962)
Auer
Fear No More (1961)
Steve Cresca
Underworld U. S. A. (1961)
Vic Farrar
Spartacus (1960)
Ramon
Elmer Gantry (1960)
Benny
Let No Man Write My Epitaph (1960)
Salesman at florist shop
Hot Blood (1956)
Doctor
He Laughed Last (1956)
Al Fusary
Diane (1956)
Court painter
Stranger at My Door (1956)
Saddler
The Racers (1955)
Gatti
The Silver Chalice (1955)
Stall keeper
Wyoming Renegades (1955)
Dawson
I'll Cry Tomorrow (1955)
Doctor
Rogue Cop (1954)
[George] Wrinkles Fallon
The Atomic Kid (1954)
Mr. Mosley
Tobor the Great (1954)
Dr. Gustav
Duffy of San Quentin (1954)
Nealy
El Alamein (1954)
Selim
The Story of Three Loves (1953)
Bartender
The Desert Song (1953)
Old refugee
Ma and Pa Kettle on Vacation (1953)
Adolph Wade
Bandits of Corsica (1953)
Angelo
The Ring (1952)
Barney Williams
Cripple Creek (1952)
Cashier
Harem Girl (1952)
Ameen
Woman in the Dark (1952)
Nick Petzick
Young Man With Ideas (1952)
Head waiter
Mutiny (1952)
Sykes
Actor's Blood and Woman of Sin (1952)
Mr. [Frederick] Herbert
The Prisoner of Zenda (1952)
Johann
Holiday for Sinners (1952)
Father
Radar Men From the Moon (1952)
His Kind of Woman (1951)
Short and thin
The Fat Man (1951)
Clerk
Too Young to Kiss (1951)
Waiter
The Great Caruso (1951)
Father Bronzetti
Belle Le Grand (1951)
Tyler
Roadblock (1951)
Bank heist man
Sirocco (1951)
Barber
Hollywood Story (1951)
Rodale
The Whip Hand (1951)
Nate Garr
The Tall Target (1951)
Fernandina
Drums in the Deep South (1951)
Union corporal
Francis Goes to the Races (1951)
Dr. Marberry
Flame of Stamboul (1951)
Sadik Raschin
Chain of Circumstance (1951)
Clerk
Key to the City (1950)
Waiter
The Gunfighter (1950)
Card player
The Breaking Point (1950)
Macho
Three Secrets (1950)
Stephani
Black Hand (1950)
Roberto Columbo
Jolson Sings Again (1950)
Captain of waiters
House by the River (1950)
Coroner
Gunmen of Abilene (1950)
Henry Turner
Champagne for Caesar (1950)
Fortune teller
Peggy (1950)
Mr. Winters
The Killer That Stalked New York (1950)
Tom
Broken Arrow (1950)
Post Office Investigator (1949)
Bruno Antista
The Reckless Moment (1949)
Bartender
Law of the Barbary Coast (1949)
Johnson
Search for Danger (1949)
Morris Jason
Boston Blackie's Chinese Venture (1949)
Rolfe
Susanna Pass (1949)
Coroner
Flaming Fury (1949)
E. V. Wessman
The Undercover Man (1949)
Johnny
Tension (1949)
Technician
Miss Grant Takes Richmond (1949)
Prison Warden (1949)
White
The Lady Gambles (1949)
Character
The Argyle Secrets (1948)
Scanlon
The Gallant Blade (1948)
Sgt. Jacques
Appointment with Murder (1948)
Giuseppe Donatti
The Countess of Monte Cristo (1948)
Hotel desk clerk
The Vicious Circle (1948)
Dr. Samosch
The Saxon Charm (1948)
Cyril Leatham
The Lone Wolf in Mexico (1947)
Emil
The Swordsman (1947)
Groom
The Return of Monte Cristo (1946)
Clerk
Alias Mr. Twilight (1946)
Brick Robey
Stand by All Networks (1942)
Cab driver

Cast (Special)

The Red Room Riddle (1983)
The Rainbow Girl (1982)
Vitos
Another Part of the Forest (1972)
The Shameful Secrets of Hastings Corners (1970)
Brett Fandango; Pa'S Son

Cast (TV Mini-Series)

The Winds of War (1983)

Life Events

1946

Feature acting debut "Alias Mr. Twilight"

1955

TV acting debut in the series, "Commando Cody"

1989

Final film appearance in "The War of the Roses"

1990

Final TV performance in an episode of "Max Monroe: Loose Cannon"

Videos

Movie Clip

Underworld U.S.A. -- (Movie Clip) Meet Your Maker Tolly, now grown up to be Cliff Robertson, and in jail for 13 years since the murder of his career criminal father, donates blood in order to meet the prison doctor (Henry Norell), just to get at one of his dad's killers, Farrar (Peter Brocco), in writer-producer-director Samuel Fuller's Underworld U.S.A., 1961.
Spartacus (1960) -- (Movie Clip) Have We Learned Nothing? Producer and title character Kirk Douglas is disgusted with his fellow slave gladiators, making their former masters fight after their rebellion, confronting colleague Crixus (John Ireland), looking to inspire action against Rome, planning to find some ships, in Stanley Kubrick’s Spartacus, 1960.
Roadblock (1951) -- (Movie Clip) I Didn't See A Thing The crystalline, clever opening, from the screenplay credited to Steve Fisher and George Bricker from a story by Richard Landau and Daniel Mainwaring, Charles McGraw holds the gun, worrying Peter Brocco, with Louis-Jean Heydt, direction by Harold Daniels, in Roadblock, 1951.
Black Hand (1950) -- (Movie Clip) Old World Terror Richard Thorpe directs, in a style that might be compared to Francis Coppola's, the opening in Little Italy of MGM's noir-ish Mafia drama Black Hand, 1950, Peter Brocco a soon-to-be-martyred lawyer, Eleonora Mendelssohn his wife, and Raymond Malkin the son who will grow up to be Gene Kelly.
Narrow Margin, The (1952) -- (Movie Clip) Don't Take Too Long Detective Brown (Charles McGraw) gets a detailed pitch and some sample cash from gangster Yost (Peter Brocco) while the witness (Marie Windsor) sweats, in Richard Fleischer's The Narrow Margin, 1952.
Underworld U.S.A. -- (Movie Clip) Who's The Guy? Banged-up teen hoodlum Tolly (David Kent) with barkeeper friend Sandy (Beatrice Kay) on New Years Eve, then witnessing the central crime, early in writer-producer-director Samuel Fuller's Underworld U.S.A., 1961.

Trailer

Gaily, Gaily - (Original Trailer) Beau Bridges plays a young man coming of age in corrupt 1910's Chicago in Gaily, Gaily (1969) based on a novel by Ben Hecht (The Front Page).
Racers, The - (Textless Trailer) A man (Kirk Douglas) alienates everyone around him on his goal to become a world-famous race car driver in The Racers (1955).
Sirocco - (Original Trailer) Humphrey Bogart is back in another North African city full of intrigue, Sirocco (1951) co-starring Lee J. Cobb and Zero Mostel.
Prisoner of Zenda, The (1952) - (Original Trailer) An Englishman who resembles the king of a small European nation gets mixed up in palace intrigue when his look-alike is kidnapped in The Prisoner of Zenda (1952), starring Stewart Granger, Deborah Kerr and James Mason.
Our Man Flint - (Original Trailer) When scientists use eco-terrorism to impose their will on the world, top agent Derek Flint (James Coburn) is called in Our Man Flint (1966).
Underworld U.S.A. - (Original Trailer) Cliff Robertson plays the police against the mob to bust open Underworld U.S.A. (1961) directed by Samuel Fuller.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - (Original Trailer) A small-time criminal (Jack Nicholson) fakes insanity in hopes of doing easy time in a mental hospital in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975).
Story Of Three Loves, The - (Original Trailer) A all-star cast on an ocean liner finding and remembering love in The Story Of Three Loves (1953).
Tension - (Original Trailer) A man (Richard Basehart) who had planned to murder his wife's lover becomes the prime suspect when somebody beats him to it in Tension (1949), directed by John Berry, co-starring Audrey Totter.
Rogue Cop - (Original Trailer) Robert Taylor got his first bad-guy role in Rogue Cop (1954) as a corrupt policeman whose brother is targeted by the mob.
Too Young To Kiss - (Original Trailer) A grown woman (June Allyson) poses as a child prodigy to advance her career as a concert pianist in Too Young To Kiss (1951).
Miss Grant Takes Richmond -- (Re-issue Trailer) William Holden hires Lucille Ball as a secretary, thinking she's too daffy to discover he's a bookie.

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