Peter Jason

Born: 1944-07-22 in Hollywood, California, USA

Died: 2025-02-20

Known For: Acting

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Peter Edward Ostling (July 22, 1944 - February 20, 2025), also known as Peter Jason, was an American character actor. He has appeared in over one hundred television shows and eighty films. He played Con Stapleton in the series Deadwood. He was a frequent collaborator with Walter Hill and John Carpenter on their films, eight and six times respectively. He voiced Sergeant Dornan in the video game Fallout 2. Jason starred in supporting roles for the films 48 Hrs. and Arachnophobia. Description above from the Wikipedia article Peter Jason, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

2020

The Assent as Father Lambert

2019

Deadwood: The Movie as Con Stapleton
Heavenly Deposit as Steven

2018

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom as Senator Sherwood
The Other Side of the Wind as Grover
They'll Love Me When I'm Dead as Self
High & Outside: A Baseball Noir as Harold
Get Married or Die as Frank
Malevolent: Unearthing John Carpenter's Prince of Darkness as Self
Subversion: Exposing John Carpenter's They Live as Self

2017

The Terror of Hallow's Eve as Dr. Hamilton
The Nth Ward as Jeffrey

2016

Baskets as Uncle Jim
Hail, Caesar! as Director
Sister Cities as Dr. Timmins
It Takes a Village: The Making of Village of the Damned as Self

2014

Scorpion as General Talbertse
Mixels as Major Nixel, Tuth, Sharx
Return to Zero as Gerry
Merkin Penal as Sargent Sacrifice

2013

Robosapien: Rebooted as Admiral Victor
Willow Creek as Ranger Troy Andrews
Queen City as Bernie Donovan

2012

Longmire as Abel 'Jenk' Jenkins
1600 Penn as General Harrigan
Heal Thyself as Dennis Hill

2011

Little Murder as Captain
Son of Morning as Ned Jensen
Annie Claus Is Coming to Town as Santa
Valley of the Sun as Myron McGill
From the Head as Jim
Hopelessly in June as Frankie Flowers

2010

Justified as Owen Carnes
How to Make Love to a Woman as Mr. Conners

2009

Castle as Sheriff Sloan
Falling Up as John O'Shea
Mending Fences as Hank Bentley

2008

Raising the Bar as Rex
Gemini Division
Crash and Burn as Winston Manny
The Man Who Came Back as The Warden

2007

Mad Men as Len McKenzie
Chuck as General Merriweather
Dirty Sexy Money as Larry Foundry
John from Cincinnati as Car Salesman
Planet Raptor as Sgt. Pappy Mathis
Moving McAllister as Mr. Robinson
Harpies as Vorian
Richard III as Ringside Announcer
Claire as Harry Bannion

2006

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde as Lt. Hamilton
The Christmas Card as Richard
The Enigma with a Stigma as Bill Herman
Big John as Self

2005

Kicking & Screaming as Clark
Confessions of an Action Star as (uncredited)
Alien Apocalypse as President Demsky
Frostbite as Colonel Jaffe
American Black Beauty as Mayor Bart Williams

2004

Desperate Housewives as Jeff
Deadwood as Con Stapleton
Surviving Christmas as Suit
Employee of the Month as Bill Gartin
John Carpenter: The Man and His Movies as Self
Hair High as Coach (voice)
The Perfect Husband: The Laci Peterson Story as Ron Grantski
Patients as Callie's Dad
Raptor Island as The Captain

2003

NCIS as Robert King
Arrested Development as Mr. Jordan
Cold Case as Charlie Gleason
Carnivàle as Lou Edwards
Mister Sterling
Seabiscuit as Reporter Max
Detonator as U.S. Attorney Fred Goldenberg

2002

Adaptation. as Defense Attorney
Undisputed as Oakland TV Announcer
Hard Cash as The Counter Boss
Live from Baghdad as Stu
13th Child as Coroner
The Rose Technique as Detective Atwood
Almost a Woman as Mr. Fuller

2001

Ghosts of Mars as Engineer McSimms
Cahoots as Eddie
Red Desert Nights: Making Ghosts of Mars as Self
Out of the Wilderness as Judge Battle

2000

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation as Walter Gersh
Jackie Chan Adventures as Farmer MacDonald (voice)
Titus as Ridge
Mystery Kids as Monte Harrington
Murder in the Mirror as Clark Snowdon

1999

Batman Beyond as Coach Creagar (voice)
The New Woody Woodpecker Show as Mr. Lux (voice)
Providence as Frank Moore
Batman Beyond: The Movie as Coach Creagar (voice)

1998

Air America as Mark McCormick

1997

The New Batman Adventures as Manny (voice)
Dante's Peak as Norman Gates
Perversions of Science as Priest
Mike Hammer, Private Eye
Murder One: Diary of a Serial Killer as Mr. Sheehy
Java Heads: The Movie

1996

Nash Bridges as Frank
Arli$$ as Marty Polk
Escape from L.A. as Duty Sergeant
The Glimmer Man as Millie’s Father
Women: Stories of Passion as Joan's Husband
Valley Girls as Cop

1995

JAG as Randy Hamill
Murder One as Mr. Sheehy
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child as The Royal Treasurer (voice)
The Naked Truth as Senator Wilburn
Mortal Kombat as Master Boyd
In the Mouth of Madness as Mr. Paul
Congo as Mr. Janus
Village of the Damned as Ben Blum
Wild Bill as Dave McCandless
A Whole New Ballgame
The Demolitionist as Higgins
Rage as Griggs

1994

Deconstructing Sarah as Cliff

1993

Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman as Travis Stone
Kung Fu: The Legend Continues as Lou
Body Bags as Gent
Working with Orson Welles as Himself

1992

Batman: The Animated Series as Mason (voice)

1991

Herman's Head as Fritz

1990

The Hunt for Red October as Commander, USS Reuben James (uncredited)
Arachnophobia as Henry Beechwood
Marked for Death as Pete Stone

1989

Coach as Harry Heftler
Quantum Leap as Kilpatrick
Johnny Handsome as Mr. Bonet
From the Dead of Night
Jack in the Box as Reese

1988

Dear John as Bill Conners
They Live as Gilbert
Red Heat as TV Announcer
Roseanne
Alien Nation as Fedorchuk
Sunset as Frank Coe
Annie McGuire

1987

Married... with Children as Manager
A Different World as Mr. Schmect
Prince of Darkness as Dr. Paul Leahy
Party Camp as Sarge
The Betty Ford Story as Counselor
Laguna Heat as Chief Hanover

1986

1985

The Golden Girls as Policeman
Amazing Stories as commander
Brewster's Millions as Chuck Fleming
Izzy & Moe as Bartender
Command 5 as Warden Bryan
A Reason to Live as Dick Biheller

1984

Murder, She Wrote as Vincent Nader
The Karate Kid as Soccer Coach
Cover Up
Streets of Fire as Ardmore Cop Harry
Angel as The John
Dreamscape as Babcock
Oxford Blues as Mr. De Angelo
Impulse as Man in Truck
Mister Roberts as Chief Johnson

1983

Scarecrow and Mrs. King as Brockett
Starflight: The Plane That Couldn't Land as Schultie

1982

Cagney & Lacey as Leonard Nolan
Remington Steele as Foreman
Silver Spoons as Agent McConnell
48 Hrs. as Cowboy Bartender
Filthy Rich
Butterfly as Allen
Some Kind of Hero as Honcho #1
Trick or Treats as Malcolm O'Keefe

1981

Mommie Dearest as Pepsi Executive #4
Nice Dreams as Det. Drooler
Splendor in the Grass as Coach
Texas Lightning as Frank Whitman
Beyond the Universe

1980

The Long Riders as The Pinkertons
The Baltimore Bullet as Bert
Alcatraz: The Whole Shocking Story as Lt. Micklin
The Golden Moment: An Olympic Love Story as TV Reporter
Enola Gay: The Men, the Mission, the Atomic Bomb
Angel on My Shoulder

1979

Knots Landing as Security Expert
Hart to Hart as Policeman
B. J. and the Bear as Ansel
Disaster on the Coastliner as LeBoux
The Illegal

1978

The Driver as Commuter
With This Ring as Dirk

1977

The Incredible Hulk as Bennett

1975

One Day at a Time
Starsky & Hutch as Fred Oates

1972

Kung Fu as Townsman (uncredited)

1970

Rio Lobo as Lt. Ned Forsythe

1968

Hawaii Five-O as Jack Rigney
Land of the Giants as Mylo
Shadow on the Land as Man at Airport (uncredited)

1967

1965

The F.B.I. as Link

1964

Daniel Boone as Clint Bickford

1955

Gunsmoke as Cully Haimes