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Peter Strauss |
Peter Strauss at the premiere of
F.I.S.T (April 1978) |
| Born |
February 20, 1947 (1947-02-20)
(age 62)
Croton-on-Hudson, New
York |
Peter Strauss (born February 20, 1947) is an American television
and movie actor, perhaps best known for his roles in several
television miniseries
in the 1970s and 1980s. Notably, as Abel Roznovski in Kane and
Abel, the TV miniseries from Jeffrey Archer's Book of the same
title. He won an Emmy
Award for his role on the 1979 made-for-television movie
The Jericho Mile. His other noted television miniseries
credits include roles in Rich Man, Poor
Man, the sequel Rich Man, Poor Man Book
II, and Masada. Strauss also played Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. in the
1977 TV movie Young Joe, the Forgotten
Kennedy.
He also starred in the films Soldier Blue (1970) and
Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone (1983), and
has appeared in several others. He voiced the character of Justin,
Captain of the Guard, in the 1982 animated film The Secret of
NIMH, alongside the late Elizabeth Hartman and the late Paul Shenar, and
subsequently named his son Justin, for the character. He also
starred as an abused husband in the television movie Men Don't
Tell, alongside Judith Light. A more recent film is
XXX: State of the Union (2005). He also has appeared in
commercials for Miracle-Gro. He was the voice of Moses in the animated series K10C:
Kids' Ten Commandments. He married the actress Rachel Ticotin on
December 31, 1998. Peter starred in the shortlived series Body & Soul as Dr. Isaac Braun in
2002. The series was filmed in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.
Strauss also runs a successful citrus production business and is
on the advisory board of the Los Angeles
Arboretum. He sold a ranch property to the Santa Monica Mountains
Conservancy.[1] The
ranch has since been acquired by the National Park Service as the Peter
Strauss Ranch.
Strauss graduated from Northwestern University in
1969.
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