Peter Turgeon
Peter Turgeon, born Boyd Higginson Turgeon on December 25, 1919 in Hinsdale, Illinois, was an American film, television, and theatre actor. He is best known for playing the sarcastic passenger Marcus Rathbone in the 1970 film Airport.
Turgeon began acting in 1940 in a touring production of Life With Father. He served in the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II and returned to acting in 1946. On stage, he appeared in Call Me Mister, Brigadoon, The Beggar’s Opera, A Thurber Carnival, and Send Me No Flowers, and he was an assistant stage manager for the Broadway play The Tender Trap in 1954–55.
On television, Turgeon played Jack Peterson in seven episodes of Mister Peepers and appeared in soaps like Dark Shadows, The Edge of Night, and General Hospital. He also guest-starred on The Phil Silvers Show, L.A. Law, The Jeffersons, The Defenders, The Patty Duke Show, and Naked City. His film work includes Muscle Beach Party, Me, Natalie, Some Kind of a Nut, Dear Heart, The World of Henry Orient, and The Possession of Joel Delaney.
After retiring from film and television in 1989, Turgeon worked as an actor, director, and writer at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center in Waterford, Connecticut, and at the John Drew Theatre at Guild Hall in East Hampton, New York. He was married to Virginia Richardson from 1954 until her death in 1993, and they had two children. Peter Turgeon died on October 6, 2000, at the Long Island State Veterans Home in Stony Brook, New York, at age 80.
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