Peter Masterson

Personal Info

Known For

Directing

Known Credits

0.8332

Gender

Male

Birthday

01-Jun-1934

Age

(92 years old)

Place of Birth

Houston, Texas, USA

Also Known As
  • Pete Masterson
  • Carlos Bee Masterson Jr.

Peter Masterson

Biography

Carlos Bee Masterson Jr. was an American actor, director, producer, and writer. Masterson often worked with his cousin, writer Horton Foote. Acting from the mid-1960s to the mid-1980s, including 1975's The Stepford Wives as Walter Eberhart, since then he concentrated mostly on directing and producing. Actress Mary Stuart Masterson is his daughter; she appeared with her father in The Stepford Wives, playing one of his daughters. His other acting credits include roles in Ambush Bay (1966), In the Heat of the Night (1967), Counterpoint (1968), Von Richthofen and Brown (1971), Tomorrow (1972), The Exorcist (1973), Man on a Swing (1974), and Gardens of Stone (1987). Masterson co-wrote (with Larry L. King) the books for the hit musical The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (1978) and its short-lived sequel The Best Little Whorehouse Goes Public (1994). In 1980, he produced the ABC television movie, "City in Fear" based on an idea by screenwriter William Goldman—an idea that became the well-reviewed 1979 novel "Panic on Page One" by Linda Stewart, and the television script by Albert Ruben. The cast was led by Robert Vaughn and David Janssen in the final role before his death that year. In 1985, he directed The Trip to Bountiful, for which Geraldine Page won the Academy Award for Best Actress. The film also featured his wife, Carlin Glynn who had previously won a Tony Award for her role in 'Whorehouse.' His directing credits additionally include Full Moon in Blue Water (1988), Night Game (1989), Blood Red (1989), Convicts (1991), Arctic Blue (1993), The Only Thrill (1997), Lost Junction (2003), and Whiskey School (2005). Masterson died at the age of 84 on December 18, 2018, after suffering a fall at his home. He had received a diagnosis of Parkinson's disease 14 years earlier.


Credits

The Stepford Life The Stepford Life (2001) Character: Himself
A documentary about the making of The Stepford Wives (1975).
The Storyteller The Storyteller (1977) Character: Lee Gardner
A television writer is troubled by accusations that a young boy's death resulted from actions the boy copied from the writer's teleplay.
The Quinns The Quinns (1977) Character: Michael Quinn
A drama about three generations of Irish-American firefighters in the New York City Fire Department, and their careers, romances, and growing pains. This pilot film was not picked up to series.
Witchfire Witchfire (1986) Character: N/A
When her psychiatrist is killed in an auto accident, his mentally deranged patient and two of her even crazier companions hide out in a house in a rural area where, years ago, the woman had set fire to her parents.
Delta County, USA Delta County, USA (1977) Character: Billy Wingate
Delta County is a staid Southern community caught between the old traditions and a rapidly changing way of life. For teenagers Terry Nicholas, his sister McCain, and Joe Ed, the boy from the wrong side of the tracks that she's attracted to, the old traditions have little meaning in their lives. Their elders, struggling to preserve values of an older day, have personal problems that are sometimes overwhelming, such as the one facing John McCain Jr., an alcoholic whose wife Kate is having a hidden and torrid romance that sets her husband off on a vengeance-seeking spree.
Pueblo Pueblo (1973) Character: ENC M.O. Goldman
Dramatization showing the 1968 seizure of the spy ship, Pueblo, by the North Koreans and the treatment of the Pueblo's crew during their year of captivity through flashbacks during the 1969 investigation of the affair.
A Question of Guilt A Question of Guilt (1978) Character: Lieutenant Tom Wharton
A swinging divorcée is prejudged by a police detective and accused of killing her child.
Hello Actors Studio Hello Actors Studio (1988) Character: Self
After Lee Strasberg’s death in 1982, the most prestigious talents from the Actors Studio assumed the leadership of this exceptional organization. For the first time ever, filmmakers have been allowed to film their work.
Counterpoint Counterpoint (1967) Character: Sgt. Calloway
In December of 1944, Lionel Evans, an internationally renowned American conductor, is on a USO tour with his 70-piece symphony orchestra in newly-liberated Belgium. While fleeing from a German counterattack, Evans and his orchestra members are captured by a Panzer division and taken to an old chateau in Luxembourg. Despite orders to execute every prisoner, General Schiller, an avid music lover, commands Evans to give a private concert for him.
Ambush Bay Ambush Bay (1966) Character: Sgt. William Maccone
A Marine unit on a Japanese-held island in the Philippines tries to hook up with local Filipino guerrillas.
Man on a Swing Man on a Swing (1974) Character: Willie Younger
When a young schoolteacher is found dead in her car in a parking lot in broad daylight, police chief Lee Tucker can find no clues pointing to her killer. Flamboyant self-proclaimed psychic Franklin Wills offers his help to the skeptical policeman, and, when his supposed visions about the case begin to reveal clues and information that only the killer could possibly have known, he becomes a suspect himself.
Gardens of Stone Gardens of Stone (1987) Character: Col. Feld
At Arlington National Cemetery during the Vietnam era, veteran sergeant Clell Hazard trains young soldiers while mourning those lost in combat. Unable to return to war himself, he mentors Jackie Willow—the idealistic son of a fallen comrade—hoping to prepare him for the realities of Vietnam and the cost of duty.
The Stepford Wives The Stepford Wives (1975) Character: Walter Eberhart
Joanna Eberhart comes to the town of Stepford, Connecticut with her family, but soon discovers there lies a sinister truth in the all too perfect behavior of the female residents.
Tomorrow Tomorrow (1972) Character: Lawyer Douglas
A lonely farmer takes in a pregnant woman and looks after her. After she gives birth, tragedy strikes.
In the Heat of the Night In the Heat of the Night (1967) Character: Fryer
African-American Philadelphia police detective Virgil Tibbs is arrested on suspicion of murder by Bill Gillespie, the racist police chief of tiny Sparta, Mississippi. After Tibbs proves not only his own innocence but that of another man, he joins forces with Gillespie to track down the real killer. Their investigation takes them through every social level of the town, with Tibbs making enemies as well as unlikely friends as he hunts for the truth.
The Exorcist The Exorcist (1973) Character: Dr. Barringer
When a mysterious entity possesses a young girl, her mother seeks the help of two Catholic priests to save her life.
Von Richthofen and Brown Von Richthofen and Brown (1971) Character: Major Oswald Boelke
Spend time on both sides of World War I, partly with German flying ace Baron Manfred Von Richthofen (John Phillip Law), aka "The Red Baron," and his colorful "flying circus" of Fokker fighter planes, during the time from his arrival at the war front to his death in combat. On the other side is Roy Brown of the Royal Air Force, sometimes credited with shooting Richthofen down.



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