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Peter Jason, an extremely busy character actor who appeared in nine features for Walter Hill and seven for John Carpenter and portrayed Con Stapleton, a merchant MP, on HBO Dead treeHe died. He was 80 years old.
His death was confirmed by a representative of Vanguard management. The details are not available immediately.
Native to Hollywood has collected more than 275 acting merit only at IMDB during his career on a seven-decade screen that began with a comic sketch on CBS ‘in the mid-1960s’ Red Skelton Showand he yelled in the final movie of Howard Hawks on the big screen, River Vuk (1970), where his character died in John Wayne’s arms.
He was also an actor and production associate for Orson Welles on The other side of the windwhich came out in 2018 after 48 years of development.
After working for Hill u Driver (1978) I. Long riders (1980), a fun Jason singled out as a bartender of order in 48 hours. (1982) and then follow with parts in Hill’s Streets of fire (1984), Brewster’s millions (1985), Red heat (1988), Johnny handsome (1989), Wild account (1995) i Undisputed (2002).
For Carpenter was scientist Paul Leahy in Prince of darkness (1987) and a fighter of resistance Gilbert in They live (1988) Before they reunited for Body bags (1993), In the mouth of the madness (1994), The village of damn (1995), Escape from La -a (1996) i The spirits of Mars (2001).
To x, carpenter called him “One of the great actors in the cinema … He was a dear friend and I will miss him terribly.”
Jason also got a lot of gigs through his lifelong friendship with the producer-Donder Frank Marshall, Spider Horror film Arahnofia (1990) among them.
Appeared as a colorful Stapleton in 33 episodes during all three seasons of David Milch Dead tree From 2004-06.-Hill he directed the pilot, helping him land that role and then returned to the 2019 movie.
He also played the regular role of Captain Skip Gleason in the unique series 1997-98 Mike Hammer, private eye and repeated as an uncle Jim on FX Comedy Baskets From 2017 to 19 years.
While his father, future teacher Pe, fought in World War II, Jason was born in Hollywood on July 2, 1944. He went into acting when played by Sheridan Whiteside in The man who came to dinnerSenior year at Newport Harbor High School.
“When I went out to call for a curtain, they exploded in applause and I left, ‘Oh, I like this, I’ll come back for more, thank you,” he retiring In an interview in 2022.
Jason studied drama in Carnegie Mellon and starred in every show he could, with stopping at Paper Mill Playhouse in Milbren, New Jersey; Work in San Francisco; And, as a member of the founder, the company Repertory Company South Coast at Costa Mesi, California.
Starting in the 1960s, he appeared on such shows as FBI,, Cimarron comic,, Here’s the bride and Daniel Booneand then work on Rifle,, Giants land,, Kung Fu and Hawaii Five-O In the early 70s.
When he lived in the New York area from 1969-77. Jason said he worked at about 300 commercials-he showed nipples in a place for a deodorant right guard that lasted two years and earned “a lot of money”-and he was An excellent baritone that has performed in several stage musicals.
His film summark has turned on Baltimore bullet (1980), Long riders (1980), Dreams (1984), Karate baby (1984), Greben of the heart (1986), Alien nation (1988), Mortal Kombat (1995), Congo (1995), Slimmer Man (1996), Dante’s top (1997), Adaptation (2002), Sea (2003), Alien apocalypse (2005), Milk (2008), Hi, Caesar! (2016) and Jurassic World: Falling Kingdom (2018). There are also several projects in the can.
An enviable tennis player said his career prospects improved when he gave up drinking more than 40 years ago.
Among the survivors are his wife Eileen and daughter Robin Goldwasser, singer, playwright and wife John Flansburg, half an alt band who could be Giants.
