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Peter Mark Richman
Richman in Michael V. Gazzo's play A Hatful of Rain (1957)
Born	Marvin Jack Richman (1927-04-16)April 16, 1927
Died	January 14, 2021(2021-01-14) (aged 93) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1949–2011
Spouse	Helen Richman ​(m. 1953)​
Children	5, including Lucas Richman
Relatives	Julia Lester (granddaughter)
Website	petermarkrichman.com

Peter Mark Richman (born Marvin Jack Richman; April 16, 1927 – January 14, 2021) was an American actor in films and on television, who was for many years credited as Mark Richman. He appeared in about 30 films and 130 television series from the 1950s until his retirement in 2011.

Career

Films

Making his feature film debut in William Wyler's 1956 film Friendly Persuasion, Richman was, by that time, a regularly employed television actor, as well as a member of New York's Actors Studio, a resource of which he would avail himself frequently until moving to Los Angeles in 1961. He played Nicholas "Nick" Cain in the 1961 films The Murder Men and The Crimebusters. He reprised his role as Nicholas Cain in the television series Cain's Hundred. His other films include Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989), and Vic (2005). His last film credits were Mysteria and After the Wizard, both released in 2011. Richman sat on the board of trustees of the Motion Picture and Television Fund.

Television

His television credits include Hawaii Five-O, Justice, The Fall Guy, The DuPont Show with June Allyson, Stoney Burke, Breaking Point, The Fugitive, The Outer Limits, Blue Light, The Invaders, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., The Wild Wild West, Bonanza, Daniel Boone, The Silent Force, Get Christie Love!, The Bionic Woman, Knight Rider, The Incredible Hulk, Mission: Impossible, Combat! and Matlock. He had multiple guest roles on The F.B.I. over its nine-year run. He appeared as Ralph Offenhouse in Star Trek: The Next Generation's first season episode "The Neutral Zone". Richman starred in the penultimate filmed episode of The Twilight Zone, titled "The Fear". He voiced The Phantom in the animated series Defenders of the Earth. Richman's other TV roles were on the soap opera Santa Barbara as Channing Creighton 'C.C.' Capwell (1984), Longstreet as Duke Paige, on the soap opera Dynasty as Andrew Laird (1981–1984), and a recurring role on Three's Company (1978–1979) as Chrissy's father, Rev. Luther Snow. He guest-starred on Beverly Hills, 90210.

Personal life

Richman was married to actress Helen (Landess) Richman from 1953 until his death, and they had five children together, including composer and Grammy Award-winning conductor Lucas Richman. Before his acting career, he started off his career as a pharmacist. "My father died when I was 16 and my brother was kind of a surrogate father," recalled Richman. "He was a pharmacist and I worked in his store as a teenager. He thought I should get a real education so I ended up reluctantly going to pharmacy school. I expected to flunk out after six weeks but stuck it out, graduated, and became a licensed pharmacist in two states."

Richman died of natural causes in Woodland Hills, California, on January 14, 2021, at the age of 93.

Partial filmography

Television

Film

References

1. Dick Kleiner: "He Added Peter to Make His Mark," The Meriden Morning Record TV News (Saturday, October 30, 1971), p. ONE-A. "For years, Mark Richman was a successful actor around town... Suddenly, about a year ago, the name Peter Mark Richman began popping up in credits. It took a while for the public to realize they were one and the same. The reason for adding Peter goes back to Richman's belief in the Eastern philosophy, Subud. 'I came to believe that Mark wasn't right for me. I took the name Peter - it means a great deal to me, it means, I like to think, that I am a good person.'"
2. Mark Richman at the Wisconsin Historical Society's Actors Studio audio collection
3. NANA: "Mark Richman Finds Retreat," The Vancouver Sun (Saturday, November 4, 1961), p. 5. "Mark Richman, who chases nasties ... five days a week in TV's Cain's Hundred, has moved his wife and two children out from New york. They have set up headquarters high on a quiet isolated hill in Pacific Palisades."
4. Nick Thomas (April 7, 2016). "Peter Mark Richman: The Pharmacist-Turned-Actor". TheSpectrum.com. USA Today. Retrieved April 5, 2020.
5. Saperstein, Pat (January 14, 2021). "Peter Mark Richman, Actor in 'Beverly Hills 90210,' 'Three's Company,' Dies at 93". Variety.
6. ^ "Peter Mark Richman (visual voices guide)". Behind The Voice Actors. Retrieved May 31, 2024. A green check mark indicates that a role has been confirmed using a screenshot (or collage of screenshots) of a title's list of voice actors and their respective characters found in its credits or other reliable sources of information.

External links

• Official website
• Peter Mark Richman at IMDb
• Peter Mark Richman at the Internet Broadway Database
• Peter Mark Richman at the Internet Off-Broadway Database
• Mark Richman at the University of Wisconsin's Actors Studio audio collection
• Peter Mark Richman Interview (Ft. Wayne News-Sentinel, 2014)
• 2018 Fox News interview
• Peter Mark Richman at Find a Grave

• 1927 births
• 2021 deaths
• 20th-century American male actors
• 21st-century American male actors
• American male film actors
• American male soap opera actors
• American male stage actors
• American male television actors
• American male voice actors
• Male actors from Los Angeles