Unknown Source, 1971 When actor Pete Duel wants to get away from it all, he really does. Star of the ABC Television Network's new western-adventure series, Alias Smith and Jones, jumps into a special four-wheel drive truck with a camping unit attached and heads into California's High Sierras. There, in a setting so wild and natural it would even impress his rough and ready character, Pete fishes and enjoys nature in the rough. "I think the purest form of pleasure is to get out and camp, to discover new country far away from the freeways," Pete explained recently. As soon as he was old ... Read More

by Vernon Scott; Unknown Source, 1966 or 1967 HOLLYWOOD (UPI) — Newcomer Peter Deuel is a newly-wed in Love on a Rooftop series, but he's a bachelor in private life who takes his romance where he finds it. A native of Penfield, N.Y. (near Rochester), Peter expected to become a doctor. His father, grandfather and great grandfather were physicians. But he prefers the carefree life of an actor. And carefree it is. He lives in a garage apartment in West Hollywood, paying only $65 a month rent. On moving in, he threw out all the furniture and went shopping for heavy antiques that he ... Read More

by Wanda Redding; Movie Mirror, 1969 or early 1970 In the past three years, Kim's been married, had a baby, divorced, made four films — and fallen in love again. She feels like she's been riding a merry-go-round, and just hopes that she and boyfriend Peter Duel can make their romance last! People fall in love for any number of reasons — some sensible, some foolish, some unexplainable. But none could be wackier than the reason Kim Darby gives for falling in love with Peter Duel: "George Schaefer told me to," she says wide-eyed, as though that explains everything. So the reader won't ... Read More

by Dick Kleiner, D&C-Newspaper Enterprise Association; Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, June 8, 1969 Hollywood — Generation is a film about the generation gap and you can see the difference between the generations on the set at Warner Bros.-Seven Arts. David Janssen, between shots, retires to his trailer and reads. He was reading Carlos Baker's new biography of Ernest Hemingway. "I read all day," he says. "I get up at 6:30 and read. I read between set-ups. I read when I go home at night." But the younger cast members — Peter Deuel, whose home is in Penfield, N.Y., and Kim Darby — are ... Read More

Photo TV Land, June 1967 ...How they spend their time, their views about dating, their thoughts on marriage. If you happen to be one of Hollywood's popular actors and a bachelor — what do you do with your time? Silly question, you say? You say that you'd keep yourself busy night and day dating some of the beautiful actresses, going to all the "in" places in town, and really live it up? Well, that's the answer we'd expect. In fact, isn't that everyone's concept of the Hollywood bachelor life? We thought we'd ask 10 of TV's big name stars what they do ... Read More

TV-Movie Pin-Ups, July 1971 Peter Duel: Pete, the star of Alias Smith and Jones, really digs nature. When he came to Hollywood, he drove across the country and slept in a tent whenever he felt tired. But he did have one big disappointment. In the Rockies, he waited ten days for the rain to stop and then gave up — it was so overcast he didn't even see the mountains. This handsome bachelor is planning to buy land in the High Sierras section above Sonora, California. He now lives in a garage flat in Hollywood Hills.