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Peter Mark Richman
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Richman in Michael V. Gazzo's play
A Hatful of Rain (1957)
Born
Marvin Jack Richman

(1927-04-16)April 16, 1927
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Died January 14, 2021(2021-01-14) (aged 93)
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Occupation Actor
Years active 1949–2011
Spouse(s)
Helen Richman
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(m. 1953)​
Children 5, including Lucas Richman

Peter Mark Richman (born Marvin Jack Richman; April 16, 1927 – January 14, 2021) was an American actor in films and on television, who was for many years credited as Mark Richman. He appeared in about 30 films and 130 television series from the 1950s until his retirement in 2011.

Career

Films

Making his feature film debut in William Wyler's 1956 film Friendly Persuasion, Richman was, by that time, a regularly employed television actor, as well as a member of New York's Actors Studio, a resource of which he would avail himself frequently until moving to Los Angeles in 1961. He played Nicholas "Nick" Cain in the 1961 films The Murder Men and The Crimebusters. He reprised his role as Nicholas Cain in the television series Cain's Hundred. Richman's other TV roles were on the soap opera Santa Barbara as Channing Creighton 'C.C.' Capwell (1984), Longstreet as Duke Paige, on the soap opera Dynasty as Andrew Laird (1981–1984), and a recurring role on Three's Company (1978–1979) as Chrissy's father, Rev. Luther Snow. He guest-starred on Beverly Hills, 90210. His other films include Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989), and Vic (2005).

His last film credits were Mysteria and After the Wizard, both released in 2011. Richman sat on the board of trustees of the Motion Picture and Television Fund.

Television

His television credits include Hawaii Five-O, Justice, The Fall Guy, The DuPont Show with June Allyson, Stoney Burke, Breaking Point, The Fugitive, The Outer Limits, Blue Light, The Invaders, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., The Wild Wild West, Bonanza, Daniel Boone, The Silent Force, Get Christie Love!, The Bionic Woman, Knight Rider, The Incredible Hulk, Three's Company, Mission: Impossible, Combat! and Matlock. He had multiple guest roles on The F.B.I. over its nine-year run. He appeared as Ralph Offenhouse in Star Trek: The Next Generation's first season episode "The Neutral Zone". Richman starred in the penultimate filmed episode of The Twilight Zone, titled "The Fear". He voiced The Phantom in the animated series Defenders of the Earth.

Personal life

Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Jewish parents, Richman was the son of Yetta Dora (née Peck) and Benjamin Richman, a painting and paper-hanger contractor. He was married to actress Helen (Landess) Richman from 1953 until his death, and they had five children together, including composer and Grammy Award-winning conductor Lucas Richman. Before his acting career, he started off his career as a pharmacist. "My father died when I was 16 and my brother was kind of a surrogate father," recalled Richman. "He was a pharmacist and I worked in his store as a teenager. He thought I should get a real education so I ended up reluctantly going to pharmacy school. I expected to flunk out after six weeks but stuck it out, graduated, and became a licensed pharmacist in two states."

Richman died of natural causes in Woodland Hills, California, on January 14, 2021, at the age of 93.

Partial filmography

  • Friendly Persuasion (1956) as Gard Jordan
  • The Strange One (1957) as Cadet Colonel Corger
  • Girls on the Loose (1958) as Police Lt. Bill Hanley
  • The Black Orchid (1958) as Noble
  • Cain's Hundred (TV series, 1961-1962) as Nicholas Cain, series lead
    • The Murder Men (1961) as Nick Cain
    • The Crimebusters (1962) as Nicholas Cain
  • The Outer Limits episode "The Borderland" (December 1963) as Professor Ian Fraser
  • Combat!, 2 episodes, "The Hostages" (1964) as Capt. Aptmeyer & "Counterplay" (1966) as Marchand/German Lt.
  • Dark Intruder (1965) as Robert Vandenburg
  • Agent for H.A.R.M. (1966) as Adam Chance
  • Blue Light (1966, TV series) (episode "The Friendly Enemy") as Von Stafenberg
  • The Fugitive, 2 episodes (1964-1966, TV series) as Johnny / Deputy Steel
  • Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, season 2: "The Monster's Web" (1966, TV series) as Gantt
  • The F.B.I. (1965-1974, TV series) in 8 different roles
  • The Invaders, episode 4: "The Leeches" (January 31, 1967, TV series) as Tom Wiley
  • Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, season 4: "Secret of the Deep" (1968, TV series) as John Hendrix
  • For Singles Only (1968) as Gerald Pryor
  • Hawaii Five-O (1969, TV series) (episode "Along Came Joey") as Nick Morgan
  • Lancer (1969, TV series) (episode “Angel Day and Her Sunshine Girls”) as Bolton
  • House on Greenapple Road (1970) as Sal Gilman
  • The Silent Force (1970, TV series) (episode "A Deadly Game of Love")
  • Yuma (1971) as Major Lucas
  • Hawkins (1974, TV series) (episode "Murder in the Slave Trade")
  • Get Christie Love! (1974, TV series) as Young
  • Electra Woman and Dyna Girl, 2 episodes (1976, TV series) as The Pharaoh
  • The Bionic Woman (1977, TV series) (episode "Escape To Love") as Col. Dubnov
  • Vega$ (1978, TV series) (episode "Lost Women")
  • Wonder Woman (1978, TV series) (episode "Gault's Brain") as Dr. Crippin
  • Three's Company, 3 episodes (1977-1979, TV series) as Reverend Snow
  • Blind Ambition (1979, TV series) as Robert Mardian
  • PSI Factor (1980) as Edgar Hamilton
  • Battlestar Galactica 1980 (1980, TV series) episodes "The Night the Cylons Landed" Parts I and II as Colonel Briggs
  • Dynasty, 27 episodes (1981-1984, TV series) as Andrew Laird
  • Hart to Hart (1979-1984, TV series) (in "Murder of Jonathan Hart as Owen Grant and in "Harts at High Noon" as Arthur Horton
  • Knight Rider (1983-1985, TV series) (in "Goliath Returns" as Dr. Klaus Bergstrom and in "Many Happy Returns" as Kleist)
  • Star Trek: The Next Generation (1988, TV series) episode "The Neutral Zone", as Ralph Offenhouse

Murder She Wrote (1988)- Episode titled "Deadline for Murder" as Lamar Bennett

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