Peter Masterson

Peter Masterson

Born: June 1, 1934
Died: December 18, 2018
in Houston, Texas, USA
Carlos Bee Masterson Jr. was an American actor, director, producer, and writer. Masterson often worked with his cousin, writer Horton Foote. Acting from the mid-1960s to the mid-1980s, including 1975's The Stepford Wives as Walter Eberhart, since then he concentrated mostly on directing and producing. Actress Mary Stuart Masterson is his daughter; she appeared with her father in The Stepford Wives, playing one of his daughters. His other acting credits include roles in Ambush Bay (1966), In the Heat of the Night (1967), Counterpoint (1968), Von Richthofen and Brown (1971), Tomorrow (1972), The Exorcist (1973), Man on a Swing (1974), and Gardens of Stone (1987).

Masterson co-wrote (with Larry L. King) the books for the hit musical The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (1978) and its short-lived sequel The Best Little Whorehouse Goes Public (1994). In 1980, he produced the ABC television movie, "City in Fear" based on an idea by screenwriter William Goldman—an idea that became the well-reviewed 1979 novel "Panic on Page One" by Linda Stewart, and the television script by Albert Ruben. The cast was led by Robert Vaughn and David Janssen in the final role before his death that year. In 1985, he directed The Trip to Bountiful, for which Geraldine Page won the Academy Award for Best Actress. The film also featured his wife, Carlin Glynn who had previously won a Tony Award for her role in 'Whorehouse.' His directing credits additionally include Full Moon in Blue Water (1988), Night Game (1989), Blood Red (1989), Convicts (1991), Arctic Blue (1993), The Only Thrill (1997), Lost Junction (2003), and Whiskey School (2005).

Masterson died at the age of 84 on December 18, 2018, after suffering a fall at his home. He had received a diagnosis of Parkinson's disease 14 years earlier.

Movies for Peter Masterson...

The Stepford Life
Title: The Stepford Life
Character: Himself
Released: January 1, 2001
Type: Movie
A documentary about the making of The Stepford Wives (1975).
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Hello Actors Studio
Title: Hello Actors Studio
Character: Self
Released: November 9, 1988
Type: Movie
After Lee Strasberg’s death in 1982, the most prestigious talents from the Actors Studio assumed the leadership of this exceptional organization. For the first time ever, filmmakers have been allowed to film their work.
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Gardens of Stone
Title: Gardens of Stone
Character: Col. Feld
Released: May 5, 1987
Type: Movie
A sergeant must deal with his desires to save the lives of young soldiers being sent to Vietnam. Continuously denied the chance to teach the soldiers about his experiences, he settles for trying to help the son of an old army buddy.
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Witchfire
Title: Witchfire
Released: January 1, 1986
Type: Movie
When her psychiatrist is killed in an auto accident, his mentally deranged patient and two of her even crazier companions hide out in a house in a rural area where, years ago, the woman had set fire to her parents.
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A Question of Guilt
Title: A Question of Guilt
Character: Lieutenant Tom Wharton
Released: February 21, 1978
Type: Movie
A swinging divorcée is prejudged by a police detective and accused of killing her child.
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The Storyteller
Title: The Storyteller
Character: Lee Gardner
Released: December 5, 1977
Type: Movie
A television writer is troubled by accusations that a young boy's death resulted from actions the boy copied from the writer's teleplay.
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The Quinns
Title: The Quinns
Character: Michael Quinn
Released: July 1, 1977
Type: Movie
A drama about three generations of Irish-American firefighters in the New York City Fire Department, and their careers, romances, and growing pains. This pilot film was not picked up to series.
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Delta County, USA
Title: Delta County, USA
Character: Billy Wingate
Released: May 20, 1977
Type: Movie
Delta County is a staid Southern community caught between the old traditions and a rapidly changing way of life. For teenagers Terry Nicholas, his sister McCain, and Joe Ed, the boy from the wrong side of the tracks that she's attracted to, the old traditions have little meaning in their lives. Their elders, struggling to preserve values of an older day, have personal problems that are sometimes overwhelming, such as the one facing John McCain Jr., an alcoholic whose wife Kate is having a hidden and torrid romance that sets her husband off on a vengeance-seeking spree.
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The Stepford Wives
Title: The Stepford Wives
Character: Walter Eberhart
Released: February 12, 1975
Type: Movie
Joanna Eberhart has come to the quaint little town of Stepford, Connecticut with her family, but soon discovers there lies a sinister truth in the all too perfect behavior of the female residents.
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Man on a Swing
Title: Man on a Swing
Character: Willie Younger
Released: February 24, 1974
Type: Movie
A small-town police chief investigating a murder is offered help by a self-described psychic. However, when the chief discovers that the "psychic" is in possession of information known only to the police, he suspects that the man may be more involved in the case than he lets on.
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The Exorcist
Title: The Exorcist
Character: Dr. Barringer
Released: December 26, 1973
Type: Movie
When a charming 12-year-old girl takes on the characteristics and voices of others, doctors say there is nothing they can do. As people begin to die, the girl's mother realizes her daughter has been possessed by the devil--and that her daughter's only possible hope lies with two priests and the ancient rite of demonic exorcism.
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Pueblo
Title: Pueblo
Character: ENC M.O. Goldman
Released: March 28, 1973
Type: Movie
Dramatization showing the 1968 seizure of the spy ship, Pueblo, by the North Koreans and the treatment of the Pueblo's crew during their year of captivity through flashbacks during the 1969 investigation of the affair.
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Tomorrow
Title: Tomorrow
Character: Lawyer Douglas
Released: April 9, 1972
Type: Movie
A lonely farmer takes in a pregnant woman and looks after her. After she gives birth, tragedy strikes.
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Von Richthofen and Brown
Title: Von Richthofen and Brown
Character: Major Oswald Boelke
Released: June 30, 1971
Type: Movie
Spend time on both sides of World War I, partly with German flying ace Baron Manfred Von Richthofen (John Phillip Law), aka "The Red Baron," and his colorful "flying circus" of Fokker fighter planes, during the time from his arrival at the war front to his death in combat. On the other side is Roy Brown of the Royal Air Force, sometimes credited with shooting Richthofen down.
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Counterpoint
Title: Counterpoint
Character: Sgt. Calloway
Released: December 22, 1967
Type: Movie
In December of 1944, Lionel Evans, an internationally renowned American conductor, is on a USO tour with his 70-piece symphony orchestra in newly-liberated Belgium. While fleeing from a German counterattack, Evans and his orchestra members are captured by a Panzer division and taken to an old chateau in Luxembourg. Despite orders to execute every prisoner, General Schiller, an avid music lover, commands Evans to give a private concert for him.
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In the Heat of the Night
Title: In the Heat of the Night
Character: Fryer
Released: August 2, 1967
Type: Movie
African-American Philadelphia police detective Virgil Tibbs is arrested on suspicion of murder by Bill Gillespie, the racist police chief of tiny Sparta, Mississippi. After Tibbs proves not only his own innocence but that of another man, he joins forces with Gillespie to track down the real killer. Their investigation takes them through every social level of the town, with Tibbs making enemies as well as unlikely friends as he hunts for the truth.
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Ambush Bay
Title: Ambush Bay
Character: Sgt. William Maccone
Released: May 10, 1966
Type: Movie
A Marine unit on a Japanese-held island in the Philippines tries to hook up with local Filipino guerrillas.