The life and career of actor Pete Duel will be the subject this week on TV CONFIDENTIAL, Tuesday, Oct. 7 beginning at 10:30pm ET, 7:30pm PT on Share-a-Vision Radio, KSAV.org.
Best known for playing amiable outlaw Hannibal Heyes in the short-lived but long remembered comic Western Alias Smith and Jones (ABC, 1971-1973), Pete Duel led an unpredictable and often tumultuous life that ended suddenly on Dec. 31, 1971, when he took his life at the height of his success. Join Frankie Montiforte and me, along with our guests Paul Green, author of Pete Duel: A Biography, and Emmy and Golden Globe nominated actress Kim Darby, one of Duel’s closest friends, as we remember the life of this talented yet troubled young actor. We’ll talk about Duel’s many roles in film and television, including Alias Smith and Jones, Love on a Rooftop, Generation (the 1969 movie in which he co-starred with Darby and David Janssen), plus a whole lot more.
If you’re a fan of Pete Duel, if you have a favorite memory or favorite role of his, we invite you to join our conversation this Tuesday, Oct. 7 beginning at 10:30pm ET, 7:30pm PT on KSAV.org. Phone number is (800) 407-KSAV (5728), email address is talk@tvconfidential.net.
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April 13, 2009 at 11:41 pm
Hey,When I was thirteen, I got my first infatuation-a nontangible one. There has never been a pool since, that I could happily drown in as those brown Deuel eyes. That was thirty-seven years ago. And I can still drown in them. My heart still beats young, so I can say, the infatuation I had is still warm. Everything surrounding him, feels like a breath of fresh air-his family,his home town, and what he prepresented in himself. It feels like home in a strange way. I lost a son four years ago. Jason was twenty-six. I knew him as a man. I think now, of pete’s mother. Bless her heart! There is nothing more painful for a mother to endure. Hope remains-we will see them again. Peter, without ever knowing it, has been important in my little uninteresting life, and I am grateful that I was able to see his smile, his eyes, and hear his voice and laughter. It touched me when I was a little girl, and still, yet I am a grown woman. I hope one day I will see him, and tell him what an amazing job he did capturing a little girls dream.