Peter Mark Richman obit

Peter Mark Richman, Actor in ‘Beverly Hills 90210,’ ‘Three’s Company,’ Dies at 93

 

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Peter Mark Richman, who made numerous film and TV appearances including recurring roles in “Beverly Hills 90210” and “Three’s Company,” and toplined the early 1960s series “Cain’s Hundred,” died Thursday in Woodland Hills, Calif. He was 93.

Richman was born in Philadelphia and worked as a pharmacist before joining the Actors Studio in New York. Starting his career onstage, he appeared in “End as a Man,” “A Hatful of Rain,” “Masquerade” and “The Zoo Story.”

He moved to Hollywood to appear in William Wyler’s “The Friendly Persuasion,” going on to appear in films including “Black Orchid,” “The Strange One,” “Naked Gun 2” and “Friday the 13th Part 8.”

In “Cain’s Hundred,” he starred as Nick Cain, a former underworld lawyer gone straight. Though it only ran for one season, the series led to hundreds more TV gigs on shows including “The Twilight Zone,” “The Outer Limits,” “Murder She Wrote,” “Fantasy Island,” and “Star Trek the Next Generation.”

On “Three’s Company,” he played the Reverend Snow, while on “Beverly Hills 90210” he had co-starring roles on “Dynasty” and “Longstreet.”

His television credits include Hawaii Five O, Justice, The Fall Guy, The DuPont Show with June Allyson, Stoney Burke, Breaking Point, The Fugitive, The Outer Limits, Blue Light, The Invaders, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, The Man From U.N.C.L.E., The Wild Wild West, Bonanza, Daniel Boone, The Silent Force, Get Christie Love!, The Bionic Woman, Knight Rider, The Incredible Hulk, Three's Company, Barnaby Jones and Matlock. He was often seen on Mission: Impossible and Combat!, as well as other shows of that era. He appeared as Ralph Offenhouse in Star Trek: The Next Generation's first season episode "The Neutral Zone". Richman starred in the penultimate filmed episode of The Twilight Zone, titled "The Fear". He voiced The Phantom in the animated series Defenders of the Earth.

Richman continued working in theater, including mounting his own works, “4 Faces” and “A Medal for Murray.” He also wrote novels, short stories, and was an accomplished painter.

The Motion Picture and Television Fund awarded the Silver Medallion to Richman for his charitable work, and he also received the Sybil Brand Humanitarian Award from the Jeffrey Foundation.

He is survived by his wife of 67 years, Helen Richman; five children, Howard Richman and his wife, Cherie, Kelly Lester and her husband, Loren, Lucas Richman and his wife, Debbie, Orien Richman and his wife, Alevé, and Roger Richman; as well as six grandchildren, Jenny, Lily, Max, Julia, Oliver and Danica.

Partial filmography

 

    Friendly Persuasion (1956) as Gard Jordan

    The Strange One (1957) as Cadet Colonel Corger

    Girls on the Loose (1958) as Police Lt. Bill Hanley

    The Black Orchid (1958) as Noble

    The Murder Men (1961) as Nick Cain

    The Crimebusters (1962) as Nicholas Cain

    The Borderland, The Outer Limits (December 1963) as Professor Ian Fraser)

    Combat!, 2 episodes, "The Hostages" (1964) as Capt. Aptmeyer & "Counterplay" (1966) as Marchand/German Lt.

    Dark Intruder (1965) as Robert Vandenburg

    Agent for H.A.R.M. (1966) as Adam Chance

    Blue Light (1966, TV series) (episode "The Friendly Enemy") as Von Stafenberg

    The Fugitive, 2 episodes (1964-1966, TV series) as Johnny / Deputy Steel

    Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, season 2: "The Monster's Web" (1966, TV series) as Gantt

    The Invaders, episode 4: "The Leeches" (January 31, 1967, TV series) as Tom Wiley

    Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, season 4: "Secret of the Deep" (1968, TV series) as John Hendrix

    For Singles Only (1968) as Gerald Pryor

    Hawaii Five-O (1969, TV series) (episode "Along Came Joey") as Nick Morgan

    House on Greenapple Road (1970) as Sal Gilman

    The Silent Force (1970, TV series) (episode "A Deadly Game of Love")

    Yuma (1971) as Major Lucas

    Get Christie Love! (1974, TV series) as Young

    Electra Woman and Dyna Girl, 2 episodes (1976, TV series) as The Pharaoh

    The Bionic Woman (1977, TV series) (episode "Escape To Love") as Col. Dubnov

    Wonder Woman (1978, TV series) (episode "Gault's Brain") as Dr. Crippin

    Three's Company, 3 episodes (1977-1979, TV series) as Reverend Snow

    Blind Ambition (1979, TV series) as Robert Mardian

    PSI Factor (1980) as Edgar Hamilton

    Battlestar Galactica 1980 (The Night the Cylons Landed Parts I and II) (1980, TV series) as Colonel Briggs

    Dynasty, 27 episodes (1981-1984, TV series) as Andrew Laird

    Knight Rider (1983-1985, TV series) (in "Goliath Returns" as Dr. Klaus Bergstrom and in "Many Happy Returns" as Kleist)

    "The Neutral Zone", Star Trek: The Next Generation (1988, TV series) as Ralph Offenhouse

    Judgement Day (1988) as Priest

    Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989) as Charles McCulloch

    The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear (1991) as Arthur Dunwell

    Spider-Man: The Animated Series (1996, TV series) as voice of old Peter Parker / Spider-Man

    Poolhall Junkies (2002) as Phillip

    Vic (2005) as Paul Marcus

    After the Wizard (2011) as Charles Samuel Williams

    Mysteria (2011) as Senator Mitchell