Peter Brocco

Peter Brocco

Nascimento : 1903-01-16, Reading, Pennsylvania, USA

Morte : 1992-12-20

Perfil

Peter Brocco

Filmes

A Guerra dos Roses
Elderly Mourner
Ainda jovens, quando se conheceram a paixão foi fulminante e avassaladora. Oliver e Barbara se casaram no momento seguinte. O passar do tempo deixou a relação fria, até que eles iniciaram uma verdadeira guerra pelo divórcio.
Jogue a Mamãe do Trem
Old Man
Owen e Larry são dois homens que querem ser escritores mas não conseguem. O primeiro por falta de talento e o segundo por sofrer uma espécie de bloqueio. Eles têm ainda outra coisa em comum: ambos adorariam ver uma mulher morta. No caso de Owen, ele gostaria que sua mãe morresse por não aguentar mais seu jeito dominador. Já Larry sonha em ver morta sua ex-mulher, que o abandonou levando seus textos. Os dois concluem que a melhor maneira de saírem impunes é trocando os assassinatos entre si.
Laguna Heat
Judge Rubio
Tom Shepard returns to his home town of Laguna Beach to escape his turbulent past. But the tranquility is shattered when he gets involved in the investigation of a series of grisly and bizarre murders.
The Ratings Game
Vic's Tailor
A New Jersey trucker creates a hit TV show with help from his girlfriend in the ratings business.
Night Partners
Katsulas
Elizabeth and Lauren are two Bakersfield housewives who volunteer to help the local police by working with crime victims to help catch criminals.
No Limite da Realidade
Mr. Mute (segment "Kick the Can")
1959. As noites de sexta. Estamos em um tempo diferente, testemunhando reviravoltas surpreendentes, alieníginas, fobias e o medo do desconhecido. E o primeiro viajante para as regiões "Além da Imaginação" foi Rod Serling, criador desta memorável série de TV. Quatro mestres do cinema (John Landis, Steven Spielberg, Joe Dante e George Miller) nos levam de volta a esse fantástico mundo, com histórias baseadas ou inspiradas em episódios clássicos: um homem intolerante recebe uma dose de seu próprio ódio; em um asilo, idosos têm a chance de experimentar um rejuvenescimento mágico; uma criança usa seus poderes para escravizar a família; a neurose de um passageiro que vê um monstro na asa do avião. Prepare-se...
Jekyll and Hyde... Together Again
Hubert Howes
Dr. Jekyll inhales white powder and becomes an obnoxious Southern Californian.
A Juventude de Butch Cassidy
Old Robber
O fora da lei Butch Cassidy encontra o caubói Sundance durante os meses nevosos de inverno e o começo de uma bonita amizade logo vira bebedeira de bar com muitas damas enquanto os dois não conseguem ficar fora de perigo. Unindo-se a eles, temos os rivais LeFors, O.C. Hanks, um ladrão querendo vingança, um guarda de cassino caçando-os com seus parceiros, um açougueiro mesquinho e alguns foras da lei. Butch e Sundance devem encontrar uma maneira de ganhar uma fortuna sem serem pegos, e para eles, isso significa roubar trens.
Um Grande Gozador
Autograph Hound
Na década de 1950, um fracassado chamado Andy Schmidt (Henry Winkler) tenta se tornar uma estrela da Broadway após a graduação da faculdade, mas em vez disso encontra trabalho como um lutador profissional apelidado de "O Amante".
Resgate Fantástico
Mr. Scharf
A operação de resgate dos passageiros e tripulantes de um avião sequestrado por palestinos. Com a velada simpatia do ditador africano Idi Amin Dada, os terroristas permanecem em Uganda, exigindo a libertação de 53 palestinos presos pelos israelenses em troca dos reféns. Baseado em fatos reais.
Scott Free
Rossa
A professional gambler finds himself on the run from the mob, the federal government, and a band of Indians, all of whom have an interest in a piece of land he won in a poker game.
James Thurber’s The Night the Ghost Got In
Grandfather
A scared kid starts all kinds of trouble. Kids' "horror" film based on the story by James Thurber.
Voando Sobre Um Ninho de Cucos
Col. Matterson
Randle P. McMurphy decide fingir que está louco para ser transferido para o hospital psiquiátrico e escapar a uma pena de trabalhos forçados. Imediatamente, o seu contagiante sentido de desordem vai opor-se à monótona rotina da instituição. Em jogo está o destino de todos os doentes da enfermaria.
Homebodies
Mr. Blakely
When a quiet group of pensioners learn that their homes are to be torn down to make way for a block of flats, they decide to take action. What starts as an attempt to discourage the developers soon escalates into wholesale murder of both the developers and the construction workers.
The Family Kovack
Mr. Manzak
A tightly-knit family headed by a beleaguered Chicago widow rallies behind the eldest son when he is charged with bribing a city health department inspector in this pilot for a possible series.
The Killing Kind
Louise's Father
Young Terry Lambert returns home from serving a prison term for a gang-rape he was forced to participate in. He seeks revenge on his lawyer and the girl who framed him. But his real problem is his overbearing mother, whose boarding house he resides in and who keeps bringing him glasses of chocolate milk. One of her boarders, Lori, becomes attracted to him. However, while he was serving his prison sentence, Terry developed an interest in rough, violent sex, and gory death. Now, one by one, some of the town's women pop up dead.
Another Part of the Forest
Gilbert Jugger
A television adaptation of Lillian Hellman's play about the Hubbards, a rich Southern family of greedy, ruthless individuals.
No Place to Run
Old Man #2
An adopted boy's parents are killed, and to keep him from returning to the state's custody, he and his grandfather run away.
Aliados Contra o Crime
Man with Garbage
Police in Boston search for a mad bomber trying to extort money from the city.
Johnny vai à Guerra
Ancient Prelate
Joe, um jovem soldado americano, é atingido por um morteiro no último dia da Primeira Guerra Mundial. Ele repousa em uma cama de hospital em uma situação angustiante. Continua consciente, mas sem conseguir saber se está dormindo ou acordado. Apesar de tudo, não consegue parar de sonhar, rever suas memórias e refletir sobre o que irá acontecer consigo.
A Time for Dying
Seth
Cass Bunning, a farm boy with a talent for shooting, meets up with Nellie, a naive woman from the East, who has been lured West by the promise of a waitressing job which turns out to be in a brothel.
Some Kind of a Nut
Mr. Suzumi
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.
Then Came Bronson
Jim Bronson is a young newspaperman who quits his job following the suicide of his best friend, and sets out on a cross-country trip on his motorcycle in his quest for the meaning of life in which he befriends a runway bride, another searching soul, in this pilot for the TV series of the same name, and theatrically released in some parts of the world including Spain.
Dr. Heidegger's Experiment
Dr. Heidegger
Dr. Heidegger invites four of his respected friends to try out the elixir of youth.
O Terceiro Tiro
Count
A mysterious woman in black moves in with married Manhattan thrill-seekers and helps one trick the other.
Enter Laughing
Lawyer Peabody
David Kolowitz, a nice young man living with his parents in New York City in 1938, works at a machine repair shop. His parents want David to study to become a pharmacist. But what he really wants is to be an actor like his idol, Ronald Colman. One day, at his friend Marvin's suggestion, David tries out for a part in a play, and gets it, despite his obvious lack of acting experience (not to mention ability). True, it's a rather small part in a low-rent production. Leading the troupe is a washed-up, alcoholic actor who hires David at the urging of his actress-daughter, who finds David "cute." To play his part, David must come up with his own costume - a tuxedo - and pay the house five dollars a week, ostensibly for tuition. But it is David's first acting job, one which calls for him to "enter laughing." And if it doesn't work out - well, there's always pharmacy school.
Os Russos Estão Chegando! Os Russos Estão Chegando!
Reverend Hawthorne (uncredited)
Durante a Guerra Fria, quando o capitão de um submarino russo chega muito perto da Ilha Gloucester em Massachusetts, para dar uma olhada na América, o submarino fica encalhado. Uma equipe de nove marinheiros comandados pelo Tenente Rozanov vai para terra em busca de um barco a motor para desencalhar o submarino e chega na casa de verão do escritor nova-iorquino Walt Whittaker, que está passando o fim de semana com sua família em Gloucester. Quando ele percebe que eles são russos, acredita que é uma invasão. Logo a notícia começa a se espalhar, levando a histeria e paranoia os habitantes da pequena cidade. Sem intenção hostil, um submarino soviético encalha ao largo de New England. Marinheiros são enviados em busca de um rebocador, mas muitos dos moradores da pequena cidade chegam a loucura com medo de uma invasão, arriscando começar a 3ª Guerra Mundial.
Flint Contra o Gênio do Mal
Dr. Wu
Catástrofes ecológicas estão acontecendo no mundo. Inundações, atividades vulcânicas, etc. Ninguém sabe porquê nem como. Alguém deve ser encontrado que possa dizer a todos os peritos porquê isto está acontecendo e como deter. O agente Derek Flint será chamado.
Em Busca do Prazer
Arturo (uncredited)
A trio of gorgeous American tourists hope to find love while vacationing in Spain. Secretary Maggie Williams falls hard for a married newsman named Paul Barton while fighting off the advances of one of his employees. Singer Fran Hobson sets her sights on a handsome European doctor. And coed Susie Higgins receives an unexpected proposal from smooth-talking womanizer Emilio Lacaya.
The Balcony
Judge
Shelley Winters is the madam of a house where customers play out their erotic fantasies, oblivious to a revolution that is sweeping the country. When her old friend, the chief of police (Peter Falk), asks her to impersonate the missing queen in order to reassure the people and halt the revolution, she offers instead three of her customers to play the general, bishop, and chief justice, all of whom have died in the revolution.
Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man
Headwaiter (uncredited)
Young and restless Nick Adams, the only son of a domineering mother and a weak but noble doctor father, leaves his rural Michigan home to embark on an eventful cross-country journey. He is touched and affected by his encounters with a punch-drunk ex-boxer, a sympathetic telegrapher, and an alcoholic advanceman for a burlesque show. After failing to get a job as reporter in New York, he enlists in the Italian army during World War I as an ambulance driver. His camaraderie with fellow soldiers and a romance with a nurse he meets after being wounded propel him to manhood.
A Public Affair
Leonard Lohman
Expository internal affairs drama which brings to light the often unprincipled tactics used in negative "smear" campaigning, and its effects within the political arena.
Fear No More
Steve Cresca
Accused of killing a woman on a train, Sharon Carlin runs home to find another corpse there too!
A Lei dos Marginais
Vic Farrar
A bitter young man sets out to get back at the gangsters who murdered his father.
Algemas Partidas
Salesman at Florist Shop (uncredited)
Nick Romano lives in a poor tenement building on the south side of Chicago with his well-meaning but drug-addicted mother, Nellie. She encourages him to pursue his piano-playing talent in hopes that it will bring him a better life. Nellie's neighbors, like the alcoholic ex-lawyer who secretly loves her, help her in keeping Nick away from Louie, the resident drug dealer. But a chance meeting between Nick and Louie could change things forever.
Spartacus
Ramon
Spartacus, um homem que nasceu escravo, labuta para o Império Romano enquanto sonha com o fim da escravidão. Ele foi condenado à morte por morder um guarda em uma mina na Líbia. Mas seu destino foi mudado por um lanista (negociante e treinador de gladiadores), que o comprou para ser treinado nas artes de combate e se tornar um gladiador. Até que um dia, dois poderosos patrícios chegam de Roma, um com a esposa e o outro com a noiva. As mulheres pedem para serem entretidas com dois combates até à morte e Spartacus, é escolhido para enfrentar um gladiador negro, que vence a luta mas se recusa a matar seu opositor, atirando seu tridente contra a tribuna onde estavam os romanos. Este nobre gesto custa a vida do gladiador negro e enfurece Spartacus, de tal maneira que ele acaba liderando uma revolta de escravos, que atinge metade da Itália.
Tales of Frankenstein
Gottfried
In this pilot for a series that was never picked up, Dr. Frankenstein has just finished rebuilding his creation, but the monster is unresponsive. He needs to try something different to make it work, perhaps some new parts. Enter a terminally ill sculptor and his assertive wife…
Oeste Selvagem
Harper
A New Mexico Town Marshal, Clay Morgan, known as 'Black Patch' since he had lost an eye in the Civil War, takes his job seriously, especially after an old friend, Hank Danner, arrives in ...
Stranger at My Door
Notorious outlaw Clay Anderson and gang rob the town bank and flee in separate directions. Riding hard, Clay's horse goes lame and he is forced to pull-up at a nearby farm. He soon discovers that the place belongs to local preacher Hollis Jarret, his new wife, and a son from a previous marriage. Clay, posing as a weary traveler, tries to insinuate himself into a secure hideout, but the reverend isn't fooled. He agrees to allow Clay to remain at the farm for a few days, but his motive isn't the preservation of his family's safety. Hollis reasons that, with time, patience and a lot of faith, he can convince the outlaw to turn over a new leaf. But Clay's criminal tendencies may run deeper than the preacher had imagined
Hot Blood
Stephen Torino (Wilde), who is tricked by his brother Marco (Adler) into an arranged marriage with tempestuous Annie Caldash (Russell). Annie is willing to give the union a go, but Torino wants none of it.
Diane
Court Painter (uncredited)
Asked by Francis I to tutor his son, Diane de Poitiers becomes the future King Henry II's mistress in 1500s France.
Man On A Bus
third prisoner
Six people who have emigrated to Israel from different countries are all on a bus traveling through the Negev Desert. They find themselves stranded overnight in the bus. To pass the time, each begins to tell the story behind their emigration to Israel.
Pecado e Redenção
George 'Wrinkles' Fallon
A police detective on the take tries to catch his brother's killer.
Duffy of San Quentin
Nealy
San Quentin's new warden crusades for reform and for a framed inmate who loves a nurse.
El Alaméin
Selim
A small group of men and a tank stave off a German attack in a Bedouin desert during World War II.
Os invasores de Marte
Brainard (bit)
Numa noite de tempestade, não podendo dormir por causa dos trovões e relâmpagos, o menino David MacLean, vê um disco voador aterrar atrás de uma colina próxima à sua casa. Seu pai, cientista, vai investigar. Ao regressar, comporta-se de maneira diferente, fria e hostil. O menino percebe uma marca incomum na nuca do pai e gradativamente se vai apercebendo que pessoas desaparecem atrás da colina, apresentam o mesmo comportamento estranho e a marca que seu pai. Isso o leva a concluir que há uma invasão alienígena acontecendo. A polícia o prende e chama a Dra. Pat Blake , do Departamento de Saúde, para cuidar dele. Ela o ouve e, ao presenciar o encontro do menino com seus pais, compreende que ele pode estar falando a verdade. Ela consegue contato com o astrônomo Dr. Stuart Kelston (Arthur Franz)que acredita na história e contata o exército.
Dois Caipiras em Paris
Adolph Wade
The Kettles are in Paris along with their daughter-in-law's parents the Parkers. Pa tries to buy racy postcards. He also gets in big trouble when he is given a letter to deliver to Adolph Wade, a spy who gets killed by spies Inez and Cyrus Kraft.
A História de Três Amores
Bartender
Passengers on an ocean liner recall their greatest loves.
A Volta dos Irmãos Corsos
Angelo
Siamese twins separated at birth retain a psychic link; each feels the other's pain and happiness.
Woman in the Dark
Nick Petzik
A pastry-shop girl (Penny Edwards) sees a priest's (Ross Elliott) and a lawyer's (Rick Vallin) brother take part in a jewel heist.
O Prisioneiro de Zenda
Johann
An Englishman vacationing in Ruritania is recruited to impersonate his cousin, the soon-to-be-crowned king after the monarch is drugged and kidnapped.
The Ring
Barney Williams
A young Mexican/American learns about life both inside and out of the ring when he takes up boxing.
Actors and Sin
Mr. Herbert
Two-part story--the first is about a washed-up Broadway actor and his tough daughter, who is a bigger star than he is; the second is about a literary agent whose newest client--a nine-year-old boy--is the author of a borderline pornographic book.
Rumo ao Inferno
Vincent Yost (uncredited)
Uma mulher que vai testemunhar contra um chefão da Máfia deve ser protegida contra seus assassinos na viagem de trem de Chicago para Los Angeles.
Young Man with Ideas
Butler (uncredited)
A Montana lawyer gets distracted after moving to California with his wife and children.
Mutiny
Sykes, Gunner
Early in the War of 1812, Captain James Marshall is commissioned to run the British blockade and fetch an unofficial war loan from France. As first mate, Marshall recruits Ben Waldridge, a cashiered former British Navy captain. Waldridge brings his former gun crew...who begin plotting mutiny as soon as they learn there'll be gold aboard. The gold duly arrives, and with it Waldridge's former sweetheart Leslie, who's fond of a bit of gold herself. Which side is Waldridge really on?
Radar Men from the Moon
Krog
Commando Cody, 'Sky Marshal of the Universe', works with American scientists Joan Gilbert and Ted Richards in the development of a flying suit and a rocket to the Moon. When the nation's defences are being sabotaged and destroyed, Cody learns that an atomic-gun is being used and that the men on the moon are the culprits.
Too Young to Kiss
Waiter (uncredited)
Eric Wainwright, a busy impresario, is besieged by hordes of wannabe concert stars, eager for their big break. One of them is Cynthia Potter, a talented pianist... but she can't get in to see him. When she learns that Wainwright is auditioning young musicians for a children's concert tour, Cynthia dons braces and bobby sox and passes herself off as a child prodigy.
Cruéis Dominadores
Nate Garr
A small-town reporter investigates a mysterious group holed up in a country lodge.
Roadblock
Bank Heist Man (uncredited)
An insurance agent's greedy girlfriend with a taste for mink leads him to a life of crime.
Conspiração
Fernandina (uncredited)
Detetive embarca em trem que leva centenas de pessoas para o primeiro discurso de Abraham Lincoln como presidente dos Estados Unidos por suspeitar de conspiração para assassiná-lo. Durante a viagem, evidências parecem confirmar a suspeita.
Sirocco
Barber (uncredited)
A mysterious American gets mixed up with gunrunners in Syria.
Hollywood Story
Charles Rodale (uncredited)
A producer takes over a small film studio and - sensing that it'll be a good movie- begins investigating an old murder of a silent film director shot in his office years ago. He finds that his life is threatened as he digs deeper into the mystery.
Três Segredos
Stephani (uncredited)
A five-year-old boy is the sole survivor of a devastating plane crash in the mountains of California. When the newspapers reveal the boy was adopted and that the crash occurred on his birthday, three women begin to ponder if it's the son each gave up for adoption. As the three await news of his rescue at a mountain cabin, they recall incidents from five years earlier and why they were forced to give up their son.
Redenção Sangrenta
Macho (uncredited)
Um pescador com problemas financeiros aluga seu barco para transportar criminosos.
Cidade Apavorada
Tom the Wino (uncredited)
In New York, Sheila Bennet and her spouse, Matt Krane, are trying to unload a trove of rare jewels they smuggled into America from Cuba, but the police are hot on the couple's trail. Meanwhile, government officials begin a desperate search for an unknown individual who is infecting the city with smallpox.
Peggy
Bob Winters
Professor Brookfield along with daughters Peggy and Susan move to small town Pasadena, California. Their new neighbor Mrs. Fielding helps them move in, and urges the girls to participate in the annual Rose Bowl beauty pageant. Meanwhile Mrs. Fielding's son Tom makes eyes at Peggy but she's smitten with a famous football star so she tries to redirect his interest to Susan.
O Matador
Card Player (uncredited)
Jimmy Ringo é o gatilho mais rápido do oeste, mas ele está ficando cansado de tudo e gostaria de se aposentar. Mas onde quer que vá, há sempre algum garoto durão que quer tentar vencê-lo num duelo.
Champanhe Para César
Fortune Teller
When jobless genius Beauregard Bottomley interviews with Burnbridge Waters for a position at Waters' soap company, the owner rudely turns Bottomley down. As revenge, Bottomley enters a TV quiz show that Waters' company sponsors, with the goal of winning until he bankrupts the businessman. When Bottomley keeps acing the questions, becoming a media sensation, Waters desperately calls on vixen Flame O'Neal to uncover Bottomley's area of weakness.
Maldição
Harry - coroner chairing inquest
Wealthy writer Stephen Byrne tries to seduce the family maid, but when she resists, he kills her. Long jealous of his brother John, Stephen does his best to pin the blame for the murder on his sibling. Also affected by Stephen's arrogant dementia is his long-suffering wife Marjorie.
Gunmen of Abilene
Henry Turner
Abilene gunmen are bent on terrorizing the town of Blue Valley and massacring its inhabitants. They have been hired by local druggist Henry Turner, who has discovered gold beneath the town and wishes complete possession.
Na Teia do Destino
Pete the Bartender (uncredited)
Após a morte acidental do amante indesejável de sua filha, Lucia Harper (Joan Bennett) esconde o corpo para proteger sua família. Após um tempo, o parceiro do morto (James Mason) aparece e começa a chantageá-la. O conforto e a segurança de seu mundo está em perigo, logo tudo começa a desmoronar.
Post Office Investigator
Bruno Antista
A mailman leads PO-men to a pistol-packing stamp thief and her gang.
Flaming Fury
E. V. Wessman
A Los Angeles fire captain (Roy Roberts) sends an arson-squad rookie (George Cooper) undercover.
Susanna Pass
The bad guys dynamite a fish hatchery. They're trying to put the hatchery out of business so they can get possession of oil underneath the lake. Roy is a game warden investigating the dynamiting.
Search for Danger
Morris Jason
The murders of a suspected thief and a rival private eye draw the attention of The Falcon.
O Czar Negro
Frank Warren is a treasury agent assigned to put an end to the activities of a powerful mob crime boss. Frank works undercover, posing as a criminal to seek information, but is frustrated when all he finds are terrified witnesses and corrupt police officers.
Appointment with Murder
Giuseppe Donatti
The second Falcon film to feature actor/magician John Calvert sees the Falcon dealing with art thieves.
The Argyle Secrets
Scanlon
A framed reporter and the crooks on his trail scramble to locate a book containing the names of American war profiteers and traitors who collaborated with the Nazis during the war.
Leben des Galilei
Old Cardinal
Galileo, an eminent professor and scientist in the 17th century Venetian Republic, is short of money. A prospective student tells him about a novel invention, the telescope, that is being sold in Amsterdam.
Alias Mr. Twilight
Brick Robey
Geoffrey Holden (Lloyd Corrigan) is an elderly con-man who is a lovable old man when providing his beloved granddaughter (Gigi Perreau) with the simple luxuries of life, yet has no qualms when working a racket devised to relieve his victims of their property. Trudy Marshall is the governess of the granddaughter, and is in love with a detective (Michael Duane) who is about to expose the old man's unsuspected activities.
Roar of the Dragon
Wireless Operator
A boatload of Westerners is trapped in Manchuria as bandits led by Russian renegade Voronsky ravage the area. Seeking refuge in a fortified inn, the group is led by the boat's Captain Carson, who becomes involved with a woman who "belongs" to Voronsky. Carson must contend with the bandits outside and the conflicting personalities of those trapped inside the inn, as well as dealing with spies among the inn's personnel.