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Carl Peter Brocco (January 16, 1903 – December 20, 1992) was an American screen and stage actor. He appeared in over 300 credits, notably Spartacus (1960) and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), during his career spanning over 60 years.




Early years


Brocco was born in Reading, Pennsylvania. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Brocco.




Career


Brocco acted on stage with the Walter Hampton Players. He debuted on Broadway in Centuries (1927); he also performed in Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor (1938).
Brocco appeared as a criminal type in three episodes of TV's Adventures of Superman. He holds the distinction of having been killed off in two of them, a relative rarity for villains in the series. In the first, The Secret of Superman, he deduces that Kent is Superman, but is killed in a police shootout soon after. In The Clown Who Cried, he falls off a building and Superman is unable to save him. He also appeared as "The Spectre" in The Phantom Ring, where the criminals developed a machine that can make them invisible. Finally, in that episode, he survives, albeit rather banged up by Superman. Brocco was also on two episodes of Combat!, "The Long Walk" in 1964 and "The Flying Machine" in 1966. He appeared as Claymare, an Organian council member, in the Star Trek episode "Errand of Mercy", which established the uneasy treaty of peace between the United Federation of Planets and the Klingon Empire. In 1969, he played an artist on the TV series Adam-12.
Brocco displayed a comedic talent portraying Peter The Waiter for 8 episodes of The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show on CBS during its 1955–1956 season.
Brocco played Colonel Matterson, a patient who used a wheelchair and had dementia, in the Academy Award-winning One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975). He also appeared as the patient in the hospital, Mr. Egan, in the Happy Days 1974 episode "Hardware Jungle". In 1983 he played Ali MacGraw's father in the epic TV miniseries The Winds of War.
Brocco lived for some 40 years in Laurel Canyon, in a 1920s Spanish style home on Laurel Canyon Blvd. near the Country Store. He had his ceramics studio in the ground floor, a source of income when he was blacklisted for a while during the red scare of the early 1950s.




Death


Brocco died from a heart attack in Los Angeles on December 20, 1992, aged 89.




Selected filmography






Television






References






External links


Peter Brocco at IMDb
Peter Brocco at the Internet Broadway Database
Peter Brocco at AllMovie
Peter Brocco at Memory Alpha
Peter Brocco at Find a Grave

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