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Acting
Birthday:
July 22, 1944
Place of Birth:
Hollywood, California, USA
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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
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Barney & Herb | Herb |
| 2022 | We Are Gathered Here Today | Henry Stone |
| 2021 | Deep in the Forest | Mark Goodman |
| 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 |
| 1985 | Izzy & Moe | Bartender |
| 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 | SGM Robert King |
| 2003 | Arrested Development | Mr. Jordan |
| 2003 | Arrested Development | Storage Dave |
| 2000 | Titus | Ridge |
| 2000 | Jackie Chan Adventures | Farmer MacDonald (voice) |
| 2000 | CSI: Crime Scene Investigation | Walter Gersh |
| 1999 | Batman Beyond | Coach Creagar (voice) |
| 1999 | Providence | Frank Moore |
| 1999 | The New Woody Woodpecker Show | Mr. Lux (voice) |
| 1999 | The New Woody Woodpecker Show | Dog Announcer (voice) |
| 1999 | The New Woody Woodpecker Show | Captain Goodlife /Wimpole (voice) |
| 1999 | The New Woody Woodpecker Show | Rock Granite (voice) |
| 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 |
| 1996 | Nash Bridges | Frank |
| 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 |
| 1995 | Murder One | Mr. Sheehy |
| 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 | Brockett |
| 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 | Knots Landing | Security Expert |
| 1979 | Hart to Hart | Policeman |
| 1979 | Hart to Hart | McCoy |
| 1977 | The Incredible Hulk | Bennett |
| 1975 | One Day at a Time | |
| 1975 | Starsky & Hutch | Fred Oates |
| 1972 | Kung Fu | Townsman (uncredited) |
| 1968 | Hawaii Five-O | Jack Rigney |
| 1968 | Land of the Giants | Mylo |
| 1967 | Judd for the Defense | |
| 1967 | Cimarron Strip | Groom |
| 1967 | Cimarron Strip | David Arlyn |
| 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 |