Peter Mamakos (1918 - 2008) بيتر ماماكوس

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An American actor, born in Somerville, Massachusetts, USA. He got married and had a daughter born in 1955 and a son born in 1957. He is known for Batman (1966), Adventures of Superman (1953), and The Ten Commandments (1956). He was of Greek descent, and his father owned a...Read more chain of restaurants in New England. He was sent to California to discover new locations for restaurants, but he loved Hollywood so much that he decided to stay there. He refused his father's offer of $50,000 in cash and a quarter-million-dollar nightclub and didn't return to Boston. He played the roles of Greek, Indian, Spanish, French, Italian, and Middle Eastern villains from the 1940s to the 1990s. He started out in theater in 1939 and moved to cinema and television in the late 1940s. In his first seven months in Hollywood, he appeared in eight films, including Trail of the Yukon (1949) and Tuna Clipper (1949). He worked in more than a hundred TV series, and he also wrote several TV episodes. He died in Paso Robles, California, USA on April 27, 2008.


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  • An American actor, born in Somerville, Massachusetts, USA. He got married and had a daughter born in 1955 and a son born in 1957. He is known for Batman (1966), Adventures of...Read more Superman (1953), and The Ten Commandments (1956). He was of Greek descent, and his father owned a chain of restaurants in New England. He was sent to California to discover new locations for restaurants, but he loved Hollywood so much that he decided to stay there. He refused his father's offer of $50,000 in cash and a quarter-million-dollar nightclub and didn't return to Boston. He played the roles of Greek, Indian, Spanish, French, Italian, and Middle Eastern villains from the 1940s to the 1990s. He started out in theater in 1939 and moved to cinema and television in the late 1940s. In his first seven months in Hollywood, he appeared in eight films, including Trail of the Yukon (1949) and Tuna Clipper (1949). He worked in more than a hundred TV series, and he also wrote several TV episodes. He died in Paso Robles, California, USA on April 27, 2008.

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  • Nationality:
  • US

  • Birth Name:
  • Peter John Mamakos


  • Birth Country:
  • US

  • Birth City:
  • Massachusetts


  • Death Country:
  • US

  • Death City:
  • California



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