Peter Turgeon

Birth : 1919-12-25, New York City, New York, USA

Death : 2000-10-06

History

Peter Turgeon was born on December 25, 1919 in New York City, New York, USA as Boyd Higginson Turgeon. He was an actor and writer, known for Hôpital central (1963),Airport (1970) and American Gigolo (1980). He was married to Virginia Wright Richardson Turgeon. He died on October 6, 2000 in Stony Brook, New York.

Movies

American Gigolo
Julian's Lawyer
Julian makes a lucrative living as an escort to older women in the Los Angeles area. He begins a relationship with Michelle, a local politician's wife, without expecting any pay. One of his clients is murdered and Detective Sunday begins pumping him for details on his different clients, something he is reluctant to do considering the nature of his work. Julian begins to suspect he's being framed. Meanwhile Michelle begins to fall in love with him.
Anatomy of a Seduction
Paul
The story of a divorced woman who begins an affair with the college-age son of her best friend, and the effects it has on her relationship with her own son, who is not much younger than her lover.
The Possession of Joel Delaney
Detective Brady
Manhattan socialite begins to fear for her troubled younger brother when he starts behaving bizarrely and he seems to have been friends with a backstreet murderer.
Airport
Marcus Rathbone
Melodrama about a bomber on board an airplane, an airport almost closed by snow, and various personal problems of the people involved.
Some Kind of a Nut
Thomas Allen Defoe
A New York City bank teller becomes a media celebrity when he refuses to comply with his employer's demands that he shave his beard.
Last Summer
Mr. Caudell
During summer vacation on Fire Island, three young people become very close. When an uncool girl tries to infiltrate the trio's newly found relationship, they construct an elaborate plot that has violent results.
De Düva
Uncle Anders
De Düva is a 1968 Oscar-nominated American short film that parodies the films of Swedish director Ingmar Bergman, including Wild Strawberries and The Seventh Seal. The film borrows heavily from the plot lines of some of Bergman's most famous films. The dialogue, seemingly in Swedish, is actually a Swedish-accented fictional language based on English, German, Latin, and Swedish, with most nouns ending in "ska." The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.
Dear Heart
Peterson
A lonely Ohio spinster hopes to find romance when she travels to New York City for a postmasters' convention.
Muscle Beach Party
Theodore
Local beach-goers find that their beach has been taken over by a businessman training a stable of body builders.
The World of Henry Orient
Orchestra Member
A mischievous, adventuresome fourteen-year-old girl and her best friend begin following an eccentric concert pianist around New York City after she develops a crush on him.
The Arena
Humphreys - Reporter
Arriving in Washington, a freshman senator gets an experienced advisor who warns him not to continue a heated feud with his state's senior salon, held over from his father. But later in a drunken jag, he blurts out secret evidence that can end the career of the older man.