Biographies: Peter Hansen - Actor

Biographies

 [1 Content]

---

An American actor born in Oakland, California, USA on December 5, 1921 as Peter Franklin Hansen and died in Santa Clarita, California, USA on April 9, 2017. He won the 1968 CINDY Award for Outstanding Lifetime Achievement and the 1979 Television Emmy. He married Florence ElizabethMoe (1943-1993); they got three children and she remained with him until her death. His most important works are When Worlds Collide (1951), Dragonfly (2002), General Hospital (1965-2018), and The War of the Roses (1989). He played supporting roles in film and television, and his career spanned from the fifties until the beginning of the new millennium. He joined the University of Michigan and served in the US Marine Corps during World War II. He got trained to become a combat pilot in the South Pacific front, and after the war and his move to Hollywood, he joined the famous Pasadena Theater in 1946 to study acting for 3 years. He met Alan Ladd during his participation in the movie Branded (1950), signed a contract with Paramount, and presented several films. He spent 3 years in the Plymouth Car Company as its spokesperson and participated in its advertising in the sixties as commercial advertisements, in addition to his work in cinema and television. He died in 2017 at the age of 95.

• 26 October 2021
• Christina Aziz