Peter Jason

Biography

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Peter Edward Ostling (July 22, 1944 - February 20, 2025), also known as Peter Jason, was an American character actor. He has appeared in over one hundred television shows and eighty films. He played Con Stapleton in the series Deadwood. He was a frequent collaborator with Walter Hill and John Carpenter on their films, eight and six times respectively. He voiced Sergeant Dornan in the video game Fallout 2. Jason starred in supporting roles for the films 48 Hrs. and Arachnophobia.

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Known For

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

Walter Gersh

NCIS

Married... with Children

Manager

Castle

Sheriff Sloan

A Different World

Mr. Schmect

Jackie Chan Adventures

Farmer MacDonald (voice)

Desperate Housewives

Jeff

Knots Landing

Security Expert

Filmography

Year	Movie	Role
2024	Barney & Herb	Herb
2022	We Are Gathered Here Today	Henry Stone
2021	Deep in the Forest
2020	The Assent	Father Lambert
2019	Deadwood: The Movie	Con Stapleton
2019	Heavenly Deposit	Steven
2018	They'll Love Me When I'm Dead	Self
2018	The Other Side of the Wind	Grover
2018	Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom	Senator Sherwood
2018	Malevolent: Unearthing John Carpenter's Prince of Darkness	Self
2018	Subversion: Exposing John Carpenter's They Live	Self
2018	Get Married or Die	Frank
2018	High & Outside: A Baseball Noir	Harold
2017	The Terror of Hallow's Eve	Dr. Hamilton
2017	The Nth Ward	Jeffrey
2016	It Takes a Village: The Making of Village of the Damned	Self
2016	Hail, Caesar!	Director
2016	Sister Cities	Dr. Timmins
2014	Return to Zero	Gerry
2014	Merkin Penal	Sargent Sacrifice
2013	Queen City	Bernie Donovan
2013	Willow Creek	Ranger Troy Andrews
2013	Robosapien: Rebooted	Admiral Victor
2012	Heal Thyself	Dennis Hill
2011	Valley of the Sun	Myron McGill
2011	Hopelessly in June	Frankie Flowers
2011	Annie Claus Is Coming to Town	Santa
2011	Son of Morning	Ned Jensen
2011	Little Murder
2011	From the Head	Jim
2010	How to Make Love to a Woman	Mr. Conners
2009	Falling Up	John O'Shea
2009	Mending Fences	Hank Bentley
2008	Crash and Burn	Winston Manny
2008	The Man Who Came Back	The Warden
2007	Planet Raptor	Sgt. Pappy Mathis
2007	Richard III	Ringside Announcer
2007	Harpies	Vorian
2007	Claire	Harry Bannion
2007	Moving McAllister	Mr. Robinson
2006	The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde	Lt. Hamilton
2006	The Christmas Card	Richard
2006	Big John	Self
2006	The Enigma with a Stigma	Bill Herman
2005	Frostbite	Colonel Jaffe
2005	American Black Beauty	Mayor Bart Williams
2005	Alien Apocalypse	President Demsky
2005	Kicking & Screaming	Clark
2005	Confessions of an Action Star	(uncredited)
2004	Employee of the Month	Bill Gartin
2004	Surviving Christmas	Suit
2004	John Carpenter: The Man and His Movies	Self
2004	Los Angeles Plays Itself	Duty Sergeant in Escape From L.A. (archive footage)
2004	Raptor Island	The Captain
2004	Hair High	Coach (voice)
2004	The Perfect Husband: The Laci Peterson Story	Ron Grantski
2004	Patients	Callie's Dad
2003	Detonator	U.S. Attorney Fred Goldenberg
2003	Seabiscuit	Reporter Max
2002	Hard Cash	The Counter Boss
2002	Undisputed	Oakland TV Announcer
2002	13th Child	Coroner
2002	The Rose Technique	Detective Atwood
2002	Adaptation.	Defense Attorney
2002	Almost a Woman	Mr. Fuller
2002	Live from Baghdad	Stu
2001	Out of the Wilderness	Judge Battle
2001	Ghosts of Mars	Engineer McSimms
2001	Cahoots	Eddie
2000	Mystery Kids	Monte Harrington
1997	Dante's Peak	Norman Gates
1996	Escape from L.A.	Duty Sergeant
1996	The Glimmer Man	Millie’s Father
1995	In the Mouth of Madness	Mr. Paul
1995	Village of the Damned	Ben Blum
1995	Rage	Griggs
1995	The Demolitionist	Higgins
1995	Congo	Mr. Janus
1995	Mortal Kombat	Master Boyd
1995	Wild Bill	Dave McCandless
1994	Deconstructing Sarah	Cliff
1993	Body Bags	Gent
1993	Working with Orson Welles	Himself
1990	Arachnophobia	Henry Beechwood
1990	Marked for Death	Pete Stone
1990	The Hunt for Red October	Commander, USS Reuben James (uncredited)
1989	Johnny Handsome	Mr. Bonet
1989	Jack in the Box	Reese
1989	From the Dead of Night
1988	They Live	Gilbert
1988	Red Heat	TV Announcer
1988	Alien Nation	Fedorchuk
1988	Sunset	Frank Coe
1987	The Betty Ford Story	Counselor
1987	Prince of Darkness	Dr. Paul Leahy
1987	Party Camp	Sarge
1986	Heartbreak Ridge	Major G.F. Devin
1986	Hyper Sapien: People from Another Star
1986	Eat or Be Eaten
1986	Amazing Stories	Commander
1985	Command 5	Warden Bryan
1985	Brewster's Millions	Chuck Fleming
1985	A Reason to Live	Dick Biheller
1984	Oxford Blues	Mr. De Angelo
1984	Mister Roberts	Chief Johnson
1984	Dreamscape	Babcock
1984	Streets of Fire	Ardmore Cop Harry
1984	The Karate Kid	Soccer Coach
1984	Impulse	Man in Truck
1984	Angel	The John
1983	Starflight: The Plane That Couldn't Land	Schultie
1982	48 Hrs.	Cowboy Bartender
1982	Some Kind of Hero	Honcho #1
1982	Trick or Treats	Malcolm O'Keefe
1982	Butterfly	Allen
1981	Splendor in the Grass	Coach
1981	Texas Lightning	Frank Whitman
1981	Mommie Dearest	Pepsi Executive #4
1981	Nice Dreams	Det. Drooler
1981	Beyond the Universe
1980	The Golden Moment: An Olympic Love Story	TV Reporter
1980	Alcatraz: The Whole Shocking Story	Lt. Micklin
1980	Enola Gay: The Men, the Mission, the Atomic Bomb
1980	Angel on My Shoulder
1980	The Baltimore Bullet	Bert
1980	The Long Riders	The Pinkertons
1979	The Illegal
1979	Disaster on the Coastliner	LeBoux
1978	With This Ring	Dirk
1978	The Driver	Commuter
1970	Rio Lobo	Lt. Ned Forsythe
1968	Shadow on the Land	Man at Airport (uncredited)
1967	A Bell for Adano	Duty Officer
	Back of Book	Roy Watkins
	Winters' Garden	Louis

Year	TV Show	Role
2016	Baskets	Uncle Jim
2014	Scorpion	General Talbertse
2014	Mixels	Major Nixel, Turg, Wuzzo
2014	Mixels	Major Nixel, Tuth, Sharx
2012	1600 Penn	General Harrigan
2012	Longmire	Abel 'Jenk' Jenkins
2010	Justified	Owen Carnes
2009	Castle	Sheriff Sloan
2008	Gemini Division
2008	Raising the Bar	Rex
2007	Mad Men	Len McKenzie
2007	John from Cincinnati
2007	Dirty Sexy Money	Larry Foundry
2007	Chuck	General Merriweather
2004	Deadwood	Con Stapleton
2004	Desperate Housewives	Jeff
2003	Carnivàle	Lou Edwards
2003	Cold Case	Charlie Gleason
2003	NCIS
2003	Arrested Development	Mr. Jordan
2003	Arrested Development	Storage Dave
2000	Titus
2000	Jackie Chan Adventures	Farmer MacDonald (voice)
2000	CSI: Crime Scene Investigation	Walter Gersh
1999	Batman Beyond	Coach Creagar (voice)
1999	Providence	Frank Moore
1998	Air America	Mark McCormick
1997	Perversions of Science	Priest
1997	Mike Hammer, Private Eye
1997	The New Batman Adventures	Manny (voice)
1996	Women: Stories of Passion	Joan's Husband
1995	Murder One
1995	JAG	Randy Hamill
1995	Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child	The Royal Treasurer (voice)
1995	A Whole New Ballgame
1995	The Naked Truth	Senator Wilburn
1993	Kung Fu: The Legend Continues	Lou
1993	Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman	Travis Stone
1992	Batman: The Animated Series	Mason (voice)
1991	Herman's Head	Fritz
1989	Quantum Leap	Kilpatrick
1989	Coach	Harry Heftler
1988	Roseanne
1988	Annie McGuire
1988	Dear John	Bill Conners
1987	A Different World	Mr. Schmect
1987	Married... with Children	Manager
1985	The Golden Girls	Policeman
1985	Amazing Stories	commander
1984	Murder, She Wrote	Vincent Nader
1984	Cover Up
1983	Scarecrow and Mrs. King
1982	Remington Steele	Foreman
1982	Silver Spoons
1982	Cagney & Lacey	Leonard Nolan
1982	Filthy Rich
1982	Remington Steele	Martin Rome
1979	B. J. and the Bear
1979	Hart to Hart
1979	Knots Landing	Security Expert
1977	The Incredible Hulk
1975	One Day at a Time
1968	Hawaii Five-O	Jack Rigney
1968	Land of the Giants	Mylo
1967	Cimarron Strip
1967	Judd for the Defense
1965	The F.B.I.	Link
1964	Daniel Boone	Clint Bickford
1955	Gunsmoke	Cully Haimes
1955	Gunsmoke	Colt Gentry
1955	Gunsmoke	Pope
	Knights of the Kitchen Table	Rick Stepjack