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Peter

Breck

13 March 1929

74

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Male

Athletic

Salt and Pepper

Haverhill, Massachusetts

American

White

The Big Valley

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Joseph Peter Breck (born March 13, 1929 in Rochester, New York) is an American prolific character actor of stage, who has played roles on television and in film. The rugged, dark-haired Breck gained fame as Doc Holiday on the series "Maverick", but is best known for his role as Victoria Barkley's (Barbara Stanwyck) hot-tempered, middle son Nick in the popular 1960s Western, The Big Valley.

Actor/Actress

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Joseph Peter Breck (born March 13, 1929 in Haverhill, Massachusetts) is an American prolific character actor of stage, who has played roles on television and in film. The brown-headed Breck is best known for his role as Victoria Barkley`s (played by Barbara Stanwyck) second hot-tempered son, Nick Barkley, in the popular 1960s Western, The Big Valley. When Robert Mitchum saw him in George Bernard Shaw`s play The Man of Destiny in Washington, D.C. he offered Breck a role as a rival driver in 1958`s Thunder Road. Mitchum set Breck up in Los Angeles and as Breck did not have his own car, Mitchum lent him his own Jaguar. Mitchum introduced Breck to Dick Powell who contracted him to Four Star Productions where he appeared in Dick Powell`s Zane Grey Theater. He also appeared with fellow guest star Diane Brewster in the 1958 episode "The Lady Gambler" of the ABC western series Tombstone Territory, starring Pat Conway and Richard Eastham. In the 1959–1960 season, he starred as a gunfighter-turned-lawyer lead in the NBC western Black Saddle. Breck was later a contract star with Warner Brothers Television where he appeared as Doc Holliday on the series Maverick, a part that had been played twice earlier in the series by Gerald Mohr and by Adam West on Lawman (TV series). Breck appeared in several other Warners series of the time such as 77 Sunset Strip, The Roaring Twenties, and The Gallant Men. The first movie in which Breck was the top-billed star was Lad, A Dog (1962). The next year, he played the leading roles in both Samuel Fuller`s Shock Corridor and the science-fiction horror film The Crawling Hand. During this time, he also appeared on episodes of several more TV shows, such as The Outer Limits, Bonanza, Perry Mason, and The Virginian. Most of his roles in the 1970s and 1980s were more TV guest-starring performances, on series such as Alias Smith and Jones, Mission: Impossible, McMillan and Wife, S.W.A.T., The Six Million Dollar Man (with Lee Majors), The Incredible Hulk, and Dukes of Hazzard, as well as roles as himself on Fantasy Island, and The Fall Guy which also starred former television "brother" Lee Majors. In the mid-1980s, Breck moved to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, with his wife Diane and their son Christoper. He was asked by a casting director to teach one class a week to young actors on film technique. That one-a-week class became a full time acting school - The Breck Academy - which he ran for ten years. In 1990 Breck appeared in the Canadian cult film Terminal City Ricochet. His most recent TV performance was on an episode of John Doe in 2002. In recent years, most of his film performances have been in undistributed films that are shown only at film festivals. In June 2010, Breck`s wife Diane announced on his official website that the actor has been suffering from dementia and can no longer sign autographs for fans, although he still reads and enjoys their letters. Despite this diagnosis, she says he is still physically healthy and doesn`t require medication.

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