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House Peters Jr.(1916-2008)

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House Peters Jr.
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House Peters Jr. spent over 32 years in Hollywood as a well-respected, journeyman character actor and occasional star of B-movies. Beginning his career in 1935's Hot Tip (1935), he went on to portray mostly supporting characters and a host of baddies in a large number of stage roles, films, serials, TV shows and commercials.

House was born into an acting family, the son of silent screen star House Peters and actress Mae King Peters. Affectionately known as "Junior" or "Juny" by friends and relatives, he grew up in Beverly Hills, attended local schools with many children of Hollywood's elite and dove into the acting business upon graduation from Beverly Hills High, with modest success. With his new career put on hold because of WWII, House served in the U.S. Army Air Corps' Air Sea Rescue section as a small-boat operator. Meeting and subsequently marrying Lucy Pickett during his tour in the Phillipines, he returned home after the war and resumed his career. During the late 1940s, 1950s and early 1960s, House found a lot of work in both movies and television, playing such roles as soldiers, police detectives, western outlaws and even as the original Mr. Clean in a popular string of TV commercials. Peters had set himself a goal when he began his acting career that if he didn't achieve star status by age 50, he would leave show business for good. Being true to his word after remaining typed as a perennial supporting player, he left the set after finishing a Lassie (1954) episode in 1965 in which he played a recurring role as county sheriff Jim Simmons, and ended his career. From that day forward House went into the real estate business in the San Fernando Valley and never turned back. When he finally retired from this profession, he and Lucy toured the entire country many times over in their van and travel trailer, fishing, gold prospecting, site seeing and attending every swap meet they could find. He was the recipient of the coveted Golden Boot Award and penned an autobiography, "Another Side of Hollywood," House makes occasional appearances at western film festivals, including the ever-popular gathering at Iverson Ranch in Chatsworth, California. If he had anything to do over again in his entire life, Peters emphatically proclaims that it would be to "change my name!"
BornJanuary 12, 1916
DiedOctober 1, 2008(92)
BornJanuary 12, 1916
DiedOctober 1, 2008(92)
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House Peters Jr. in The Range Rider (1951)
Mae Clarke, James Craven, Don Haggerty, House Peters Jr., David Sharpe, and Tom Steele in King of the Rocket Men (1949)
Johnny Mack Brown, House Peters Jr., and Rebel in Over the Border (1950)
Hugh O'Brian, House Peters Jr., and Hugh Sanders in The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp (1955)
William Bryant, Hugh O'Brian, and House Peters Jr. in The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp (1955)
House Peters Jr. and James Warren in Port Sinister (1953)
Jane Adams, John Doucette, Eddie Parker, Leonard Penn, and House Peters Jr. in Batman and Robin (1949)
Johnny Mack Brown, Phyllis Coates, Dennis Moore, House Peters Jr., and Lyle Talbot in Man from Sonora (1951)
Edward Arnold Jr., Carlyle Blackwell Jr., Donald Briggs, Sumner Getchell, John 'Dusty' King, Herschel Mayall Jr., House Peters Jr., Wallace Reid Jr., and Jean Rogers in The Adventures of Frank Merriwell (1936)
Johnny Mack Brown and House Peters Jr. in Man from Sonora (1951)
Bill Elliott, House Peters Jr., and Peggy Stewart in Kansas Territory (1952)
Tristram Coffin and House Peters Jr. in Lost Planet Airmen (1951)

Known for

Pamela Blake, Bill Elliott, and I. Stanford Jolley in Waco (1952)
Waco
6.5
  • Doctor
  • 1952
Diane Brewster and George Montgomery in Black Patch (1957)
Black Patch
6.0
  • Holman
  • 1957
Paul Cavanagh, House Peters Jr., Lynne Roberts, William Schallert, and James Warren in Port Sinister (1953)
Port Sinister
4.8
  • Jim Garry
  • 1953
Buster Crabbe and Carol Hughes in Flash Gordon (1936)
Flash Gordon
7.0
  • Shark Man [Chs. 3-4]
  • 1936

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  • Jon Provost, Tommy Rettig, Lassie the Dog, and Lassie in Lassie (1954)
    Lassie
    • ...
  • The Great Sioux Massacre (1965)
    The Great Sioux Massacre
  • James Drury, Doug McClure, and John McIntire in The Virginian (1962)
    The Virginian
  • Rio Conchos (1964)
    Rio Conchos
  • Perry Mason (1957)
    Perry Mason
  • Kraft Suspense Theatre (1963)
    Kraft Suspense Theatre
  • Channing (1963)
    Channing
  • Robert Fuller and John Smith in Laramie (1959)
    Laramie
  • Who's Got the Action? (1962)
    Who's Got the Action?
    • (uncredited)
  • Edd Byrnes, Roger Smith, and Efrem Zimbalist Jr. in 77 Sunset Strip (1958)
    77 Sunset Strip
  • Terror at Black Falls (1962)
    Terror at Black Falls
  • John McIntire in Wagon Train (1957)
    Wagon Train
  • Donald May, Dorothy Provine, and Rex Reason in The Roaring 20's (1960)
    The Roaring 20's
  • John Forsythe, Noreen Corcoran, and Sammee Tong in Bachelor Father (1957)
    Bachelor Father
  • Karyn Kupcinet in Death Valley Days (1952)
    Death Valley Days
    • ...

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    • January 12, 1916
    • New Rochelle, New York, USA
    • October 1, 2008
    • Los Angeles, California, USA(pneumonia)
    • February 20, 1946 - October 1, 2008 (his death, 3 children)
    • House Peters
  • (1950s-1960s) TV commercials: Played "Mr. Clean" in a series of commercials for Mr. Clean household cleanser.
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    • 1 Print Biography
    • 1 Article
    • 1 Pictorial

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    During World War II, from 1942-46, he was a member of the Air Corps involved in Air Sea Rescue in the South Pacific.
  • Quotes
    [about director Spencer Gordon Bennet] A real gentleman with a hat, a trenchcoat and a tie. Very quiet and a pretty darned good director.

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