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Peter Jason was born on the 22nd of July in Hollywood, California. He spent the next 18 years on the beaches of southern cal mostly in front of his family home on the ocean in Balboa, Calif. Growing up at the beach helped form his easygoing love of life, people, and his pursuit of happiness. He attended Newport Beach Elementary School, Horace Ensign Junior High, and Newport Harbor High School where he performed in his first play, "The Man Who Came To Dinner" playing the lead Sheridan Whiteside.
Immediately following his curtain call he was "bit" and has not been able to shake the acting bug since. Orange Coast College followed with many parts in many plays his favorite being Harold Hill in the "Music Man". Always active in sports he found he could now bring his physical talents to the stage. From O.C.C. Peter hitched-hiked to Peterborough, N. H. for a season of summer stock at the Peterborough Playhouse. Using his thumb once again he found himself in Pittsburgh, Pa.. Where he entered the drama dept. at Carnegie Institute of Technology He feels that this is where he was given the technique to develop the talents he was born with. After Pittsburgh it was back to Calif.
To help start the South Coast Rep. in his hometown of Newport with roles in "Sergeant Musgraves Dance", "Moon for The Misbegotten", "Playboy of the Western World", "3 Penny Opera", then off to Hollywood with "Red Magic". When the SCR went back to Newport Peter decided to stay on and give Hollywood a try. Finding work immediately on "The Red Skelton Show" he joined AFTRA. Then roles in " Cimmeron Strip", "Gunsmoke", "Judd for the Defense" he landed his first movie "Rio Lobo" starring John Wayne directed by Howard Hawks. And the rest is history. TV shows, movies, plays, 7 years in New York doing mostly commercials (over 300), then back to Hollywood to fill in the last 25 years with 80 plus films and hundreds of television shows, commercials and voiceovers. But what he really does for a living is "change clothes and look for parking" Jason credits his success in the business to the help of 5 very dear friends: Stacy Keach, Walter Hill, John and Sandy Carpenter, and Frank Marshall.
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Deadwood Nuggets
Deadwood received its name from the many burned dead trees early miners found when placer mining first began there in 1876.
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