- Peter Brocco
Peter Brocco (
January 16 ,1903 , city-state|Reading|Pennsylvania –December 20 ,1992 , city-state|Los Angeles|California) was an American film and TVcharacter actor for nearly 60 years.He 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 appears as a lead-masked gang member in "The Phantom Ring". Finally, in that episode, he survives.
He appeared as an Organian council member in the "" episode "Errand of Mercy" which established the uneasy treaty of peace between the
United Federation of Planets and the the Klingon Empire.For fans of those two series, it is noteworthy that he and
Jeff Corey appeared in both series, and that both men wereblacklist ed for a while during the red scare of the early 1950s.Brocco played Colonel Matterson, a patient suffering from dementia, in the Academy Award-winning "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" (1975).
He died in
Los Angeles ,California from aheart attack on December 20, 1992, aged 89.External links
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