REMEMBERING PETE DUEL
Thank you to everyone who leaves such poignant and heartfelt expressions in The Memorial Book—and for all your kind words about this site. Your kinship is extremely appreciated. —Laura
Please post your thoughts below. The previous Memorial Book was receiving too much spam, so I had to close it and start this page instead. The previous memorial page also had hundreds of remembrances. I hope to someday transfer them here.
There may be a delay between when you leave your thoughts below and when your post appears, but rest assured, the post will eventually be published. Please keep in mind that many questions still remain about Peter’s state of mind in those final days of his life. One recent question is how much of a role the anti-seizure drug, Dilantin, played on his thoughts. Perhaps Pete was a victim of a pharmaceutical drug and not so much of self-inflicted depression. Also note that Geoffrey Deuel sometimes visited this page. Thank you.
I became a huge fan of Alias Smith and Jones a year before Pete’s death. I had a big poster of him in my room across from my Easy Rider on the opposite wall. He had a big effect on me in my aldolesence years, middle school etc. I remember most all episodes he and Ben did and when Roger Davis took over the role. I’ll never forget the night it was reported on the local news announcement of his death. Yes he had an effect on me along when Dan Blocker aka Hoss Cartwright died. But Pete was and still is an interesting person. What career he could of had and great rolls that could been his. I still think about him and the time when I was growing up. Also have the Volume Video Set Library of Alias Smith and Jones. Gone but not forgotten. RIP Pete.
Peace and Ecology Now and Forever!
It’s been a while since I visited this website but I’ll never forget Pete Duel, that tragedy, so awful. He was so talented and wonderful in many ways, he had it all coming, and why he gave it up. It is so sad!!! I wonder what he would have looked like today, a handsome elderly man! I miss him and I hope he is happy where he is. I love you forever Pete, and will never forget you.
Lots of love from Agneta, Sweden
I have just been watching vidios of Pete on YouTube but the one that made me so sad was the fan at Pete’s grave with the song remember when. There are so many moving tributes including who you’d be today with the lovely pictures of this darling man who I cannot remove from my mind and never want to things may take my mind away from him or a while but hr always comes back with the memories I will always treasure of him. He must have been a very special person to us fans to never be forgotten. Thankyou so very much laura for these lovely moving vidios you have done for us all to see and cry overxx.
Ann Yarwood – June 19, 2017, 7:35 pm
I was 21years old when I found out what happened to Pete.
I was so shocked, I find it hard to believe even now that Pete did this to himself.
I sit and watch the clips of him over and over, for a short time it’s like he is still with us.
I am now 66 years old and I am still hurting, over his loss.
I hope Pete knows now just how many people’s hearts he enriched over his short time with us.