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Feb 24, 2021 · Duel's younger siblings, actor Geoffrey Deuel and actress/singer Pamela Deuel, have retained the original spelling of their family's surname. As Geoffrey recalls, Pete Duel had a "good working relationship" with Murphy. Murphy, like Duel, was also contracted with Universal, and was subsequently called in to audition for Smith and Jones.
Pete Duel (February 24, 1940 – December 31, 1971) was born in Rochester, New York, the eldest of three children born to Dr. Ellsworth and Lillian Deuel (née Ellstrom). He had a younger brother, Geoffrey, who also became an actor, and a sister, Pamela. He attended Penfield High School, where he worked on the yearbook staff, campaigned for student government, and was a member of the National ...
Dec 31, 2006 · PETE DUEL (PETER E. DEUEL) February 24, 1940-December 31,1971 With Love Always From His Fans At The Alias Smith And Jones Collection Board. To plant trees in memory, please visit the Sympathy ...
I designed the Pete Duel Memorial Site (PDMS) in 2004 to celebrate the life and talent of this remarkable man. PDMS contains more than 500 pictures of Pete Duel (many of them from original sources), and roughly 5,000 video captures, along with more than 100 video clips and performances—and with more to be uploaded and presented.
Generally, Peter Ellstrom Deuel’s life mirrored the tenor of his times. Born February 24, 1940, in Rochester in upstate New York and raised in nearby Penfield, he eventually became a troublesome high school student just as the moody teen rebel appeared in movies. “I thrived on trouble,” he once said.
Dec 1, 2011 · by Fenton Bresler; Pageant, January 1975. On the night of December 30th, 1971, handsome, 31-year-old Pete Duel left his girlfriend in bed, walked naked into the front room of his house–and blew out his brains. “Cerebral destruction,” are the grim words of the police report that I read in the office of the local coroner.
Dec 29, 2011 · by Iain Calder; National Enquirer, April 26, 1972. TV star Ben Murphy says he was shocked at how quickly ABC replaced Pete Duel as his co-star on Alias Smith & Jones after Duel’s suicide. “Pete’s body was hardly cold when they had an identical costume fitted out for Roger Davis,” said the 30-year old Murphy.
