Peter Lawford
Acting
Biography
Peter Sydney Ernest Lawford (né Aylen; 7 September 1923 – 24 December 1984) was an English-American actor. He was a member of the "Rat Pack" and the brother-in-law of US president John F. Kennedy and senators Robert F. Kennedy and Edward Kennedy. From the 1940s to the 1960s, he was a well-known celebrity and starred in a number of highly acclaimed films. In later years, he was noted more for his off-screen activities as a celebrity than for his acting; it was said that he was "famous for being famous". Description above from the Wikipedia article Peter Lawford, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Born: September 7, 1923
Place of Birth: London, England, UK
Known For
Rat Pack
In the 1950s, a small group of artists monopolized the attention of the cameras and the public. Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Joey Bishop and Peter Lawford together form the "rat pack": they sing the most popular hits of the moment, star in the most profitable Hollywood films and are already making a splash on television . This documentary, produced by a recognized specialist in the history of Hollywood, recounts the exceptional destiny of this informal group which flirted with the greats of this world, notably through Sinatra, personal friend of American President Kennedy.
Ellery Queen: Don't Look Behind You
Detective Ellery Queen has to solve a series of murders where the victims were killed in numerically descending ages, the male victims were strangled with blue cords and the female victims with pink ones.
The Judy Garland Show
The Judy Garland Show is an American musical variety television series that aired on CBS on Sunday nights during the 1963-1964 television season. Despite a sometimes stormy relationship with Judy Garland, CBS had found success with several television specials featuring the star. Garland, who for years had been reluctant to commit to a weekly series, saw the show as her best chance to pull herself out of severe financial difficulties. Production difficulties beset the series almost from the beginning. The series had three different producers in the course of its 26 episodes and went through a number of other key personnel changes. With the change in producers also came changes to the show's format, which started as comedy/variety but switched to an almost purely concert format. While Garland herself was popular with critics, the initial variety format and her co-star, Jerry Van Dyke, were not. The show competed with Bonanza, then the fourth most popular program on television, and consistently performed poorly in the ratings. Although fans rallied in an attempt to save the show, CBS cancelled it after a single season. TV Guide included the series in their 2013 list of 60 shows that were "Cancelled Too Soon".
Bewitched
Samantha Stephens is a seemingly normal suburban housewife who also happens to be a genuine witch, with all the requisite magical powers. Her husband Darrin insists that Samantha keep her witchcraft under wraps, but situations invariably require her to indulge her powers while keeping her bothersome mother Endora at bay.
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
A continuation of the anthology series “Alfred Hitchcock Presents”, hosted by the master of suspense and featuring thrillers and mysteries.
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
This documentary, hosted by actor Burgess Meredith, explores the life and career of movie director Otto Preminger, whose body of work includes such memorable films as Anatomy of a Murder, Exodus, Laura, Forever Amber, Advise and Consent, In Harm's Way, The Moon Is Blue, The Man with the Golden Arm, and many other movies made from the '30s through the '70s. Interviews with actors Frank Sinatra, Vincent Price, James Stewart, Michael Caine, and others who worked with the flamboyant and sometimes control-obsessed director add information and insight to the story.
The Carol Burnett Show
The Carol Burnett Show is an American variety/sketch comedy television show starring Carol Burnett, Harvey Korman, Vicki Lawrence, Lyle Waggoner, and Tim Conway. It originally ran on CBS from September 11, 1967, to March 29, 1978, for 278 episodes and originated from CBS Television City's Studio 33. The series won 25 prime time Emmy Awards, was ranked No. 16 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time in 2002 and in 2007 was listed as one of Time magazine's "100 Best TV Shows of All Time."
The Longest Day
The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses being established as part of the Reich's Atlantic Wall, notes to his officers that when the Allied invasion comes they must be stopped on the beach. "For the Allies as well as the Germans, it will be the longest day"
The Wild Wild West
The Wild Wild West is an American television series. Developed at a time when the television western was losing ground to the spy genre, this show was conceived by its creator, Michael Garrison, as "James Bond on horseback." Set during the administration of President Ulysses Grant, the series followed Secret Service agents James West and Artemus Gordon as they solved crimes, protected the President, and foiled the plans of megalomaniacal villains to take over all or part of the United States. The show also featured a number of fantasy elements, such as the technologically advanced devices used by the agents and their adversaries. The combination of the Victorian era time-frame and the use of Verne-esque style technology have inspired some to give the show credit for the origins of the steam punk subculture.
Filmography
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive photos)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
as (archive footage)
as actor 'Advise and 'Consent' (archive footage) (uncredited)
as Montague Chippendale
as Big Man
as Gordon Duvall
as Burke
as Teddy Smith
as Grant Baines
as Slapstick Star
as Lord Carter
as Host - Self
as Himself - Host / Narrator
as Self - Host / Narrator
as Roger Cross
as Self - Host
as Lee Campbell
as Ellery Queen
as Mason
as Government Agent
as Art Stoyer
as Self
as Prince Solomon
as Christopher Pepper / Lord Sydney Pepper
as Dr. Scott Carter
as Ted Gunther
as Papá Baroni
as The Senator
as Justin Young
as Dr. Peter Lawrence
as Kenneth Kirk
as Christopher Pepper
as Self - Guest
as Self (uncredited)
as Self
as Self
as Stephen Daine
as Ned Pine
as Manny
as Steve Marks
as Larry Carter
as Paul Bern
as Frederic Summers
as Harrison Woolcott
as Self (uncredited)
as Tony Collins
as Self
as Self
as Self - Guest Host
as Self
as Lord Lovat
as Ernie Mullett
as Ben Hunter
as Senator Lafe Smith
as Self - Host
as Larry Barrett
as Self - Co-Host
as Self
as Peter Lawford
as Maj. Caldwell
as Jimmy Foster
as Self - Singer
as Capt. Grey Travis, Doctor
as Nick Charles
as Willis Wayde
as Self - Announcing Next Week's Show
as Self
as Self
as Self - Singer
as Self - Guest
as Self - The Thin Man
as Charles 'Charlie' Ffolliot Raymond
as Tom Welles
as Bill Hastings
as Evan Adams III
as Capt. Dion Lenbridge
as John
as Nicholas Revel
as Tony Brown
as Richard Connor
as Mark MacLene IV
as Lord John Brindale
as Jeremy Taylor
as Self
as Self - Panelist
as Major John 'Twingo' McPhimister
as Theodore "Laurie" Laurence
as Ritchie Lorgan
as Jonathan Harrow III
as Self
as Lt. Lawrence Y. Kingslee
as Tommy Marlowe
as Jamie Shellgrove
as John S. Penrose
as Lawrence Tyburt Patterson Jr.
as Andrew Carmel
as Joe Carraclough
as David Stone
as Lord Thornley
as Anthony de Canterville
as John Ashwood II as a Young Man
as Pierrot (uncredited)
as Naval Officer
as British Soldier (uncredited)
as Young Sailor at Bar
as Jerry Winston
as Joe Downes
as Mr. Jones
as Naval Commander (uncredited)
as British Soldier
as Student (Uncredited)
as Soldier
as Percy - Soldier on Train (uncredited)
as Cadet Wilbur
as English Cadet (uncredited)
as Ronnie Kenvil
as Pilot (uncredited)
as Pilot
as Benny Potter
as Horace