Peter John Helm Jr. (born December 22, 1941) is a Canadian-American film and television actor.

Career

Helm was born in

Toronto, Ontario Toronto ( , locally pronounced or ) is the List of the largest municipalities in Canada by population, most populous city in Canada. It is the capital city of the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Ontario. With a p ...

. Helm began his acting career in 1959, appearing in the television

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''Too Young to Go Steady''. In 1960 he appeared in the Broadway play ''There Was a Little Girl''. He guest-starred in television programs including '' Rawhide'', '' The Farmer's Daughter'', '' Ironside'', '' Wagon Train'', '' Mr. Novak'', '' Tales of Wells Fargo'', '' Naked City'', '' The Donna Reed Show'', ''

Bonanza ''Bonanza'' is an American Western television series that ran on NBC from September 12, 1959, to January 16, 1973. Lasting 14 seasons and 431 episodes, ''Bonanza'' is NBC's longest-running Western, the second-longest-running Western series on ...

'', '' Dr. Kildare'', '' My Three Sons'', '' Perry Mason'', '' Kraft Suspense Theatre'', and '' The Fugitive''. Helm's film appearances included '' The Longest Day'', '' Inside Daisy Clover'', and ''

The Andromeda Strain ''The Andromeda Strain'' is a 1969 novel by American writer Michael Crichton, his first novel under his own name and his sixth novel overall. It documents the outbreak of a deadly extraterrestrial microorganism in Arizona and the team of scie ...

''. "... credit did not appear onscreen..."

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Helm, Peter 1941 births Living people Male actors from Toronto Canadian emigrants to the United States American male film actors American male television actors Canadian male film actors Canadian male television actors 20th-century American male actors 20th-century Canadian male actors Western (genre) television actors