by Jeff Rovin, TV Babylon, Signet, New York, 1984, pp. 60-62
With a slight stretch of the imagination, the fate of some suicide victims, such as Brenda Benet, can be regarded as a happy ending. Not so the demise of Peter Duel. He wasn’t a lost and saddened figure like Brenda, didn’t have Nick Adams’s bad luck, or Inger Stevens’s fatal sense of isolation. He was simply a young man full of high ambition. Like so many actors before him, Duel’s plan had always been to suffer through the TV pap [lacking in substance] in order to make a name for … Read More
by Roma Wheaton; Forever Young (book), date unknown
Success came easily to Peter Deuel (he later dropped the first e in his surname to avoid confusion), a dark-haired, handsome young man with an engaging personality. In the mid sixties, he could be found in nearly every successful American television series.
For a short time, he even had his own sitcom, Love on a Rooftop. He cared passionately about every aspect of his life, his work and the quality of it, the world we live in and the way we abuse it. An ardent campaigner for political rights, he was a perfectionist, always … Read More
by Bridget Byrne; Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, February 27, 1970
Pete Duel wanted to talk about the problems of population and pollution, but the crowded gossip-filled atmosphere of the Hollywood Brown Derby was not the ideal place for such a discussion.
Throughout the interview, Duel, the star of that nice young movie Generation, who revealed that he was 30 that day, was restless. He looked as though he should have been sprawled out on some sea cliff kicking up the earth with the heel of his boots rather than crammed in a booth, unable to stretch.
In town to do some looping on his … Read More
Teen Life, January 1972
Pete Duel grew up in the small town of Penfield, New York, a suburb of Rochester. His dad was the town’s only doctor and his mother was the nurse. Pete’s whole family tree was filled with doctors, but he never really considered the medical profession himself. The one thing he wanted to do from the time he was two years old was become an airplane pilot.
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During Pete’s early boyhood days, his dad introduced him to the wonders of the outdoors. Since Penfield was a rural town, there were plenty of woods and fields around for … Read More
by Judy Hugg; Dallas Morning News, February 11, 1971
“I’m not really an ecology nut or a fanatic on preserving the environment,” said Pete Duel, “but I grew up in a beautiful country and I’d like it to stay that way.” Pete, who co-stars with Ben Murphy on ABC’s Alias Smith and Jones series, was born in Penfield, NY. His interest in the out-of-doors started as soon as he was old enough to walk.
“My father started taking me camping in the woods when I was just a little fellow,” he recalled. “In those days, Penfield was a real country town with … Read More
Altoona Mirror, December 6, 1966, page 22, by Dick Kleiner
Peter Deuel, the party of the masculine part on ABC’s Love on a Rooftop, is taking up skydiving. I asked him whether the studio would allow such a valuable property to risk his valuable neck. Peter says so far they haven’t said a word, but he’s rehearsed the dialogue when—and if—they do.
“‘We want you to stop skydiving,’ they’ll say. ‘Nuts,’ I’ll say. ‘O.K., we’ll take away your dressing room.’ ‘Then I won’t work.’ ‘Then you’re fired.’ ‘You can’t fire me—I’m in a series.’ ‘You’re right. But we want you to stop … Read More
by Dora Albert; TV Picture Life, June 1967
With startling candor, Peter reveals why he won’t marry Jill Andre, the lovely divorcee he admittedly loves. Handsome Peter Deuel, who plays a happy husband so convincingly in Love on a Rooftop, has been described as strictly a love ’em and leave ’em type, a man who kisses girls and makes them cry.
However, Peter recently admitted that for the past year-and-a-half, he has been deeply in love with one woman—the lovely, sandy-haired, blue-eyed actress and former model, Jill Andre. Jill is a divorcee who lives in a pleasant cottage in West Hollywood with … Read More