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Peter Whitney, (May 24, 1916 – March 30, 1972) was an American actor in film and television. Born as Peter King Engle in Long Branch, New Jersey, Whitney's corpulent, heavy build qualified him to play villains in many Hollywood movies in the 1940s and 1950s. From the late 1950s, he was more prolific playing character roles in many television series, including The Public Defender, Gunsmoke, Combat!, City Detective, My Friend Flicka ("A Case of Honor"), Sheriff of Cochise, Behind Closed Doors, Northwest Passage, Tombstone Territory (episode "Apache Vendetta"), Overland Trail (as Governor... MORE

Peter Whitney, (May 24, 1916 – March 30, 1972) was an American actor in film and television. Born as Peter King Engle in Long Branch, New Jersey, Whitney's corpulent, heavy build qualified him to play villains in many Hollywood movies in the 1940s and 1950s. From the late 1950s, he was more prolific playing character roles in many television series, including The Public Defender, Gunsmoke, Combat!, City Detective, My Friend Flicka ("A Case of Honor"), Sheriff of Cochise, Behind Closed Doors, Northwest Passage, Tombstone Territory (episode "Apache Vendetta"), Overland Trail (as Governor Sutcliff in episode "First Stage to Denver"), Wagon Train, The Rifleman (nine times), Bonanza, The Monkees, Perry Mason, The Beverly Hillbillies, and Hawaii Five-O. From 1958-1959, Whitney had a co-starring role as Buck Sinclair, a former sergeant of the Union Army, in all thirty-nine episodes of the ABC western series The Rough Riders. One of his The Rifleman appearances was in "Mail Order Groom" (1960), in which Whitney portrayed John Jupiter, a man of great physical strength being harassed by two townsmen, played by John Anderson and Sandy Kenyon, who had quarreled with Whitney's intended spinster LESS