
Peter Jason
Biography
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Peter Edward Ostling (July 22, 1944 - February 20, 2025), also known as Peter Jason, was an American character actor. He has appeared in over one hundred television shows and eighty films. He played Con Stapleton in the series Deadwood. He was a frequent collaborator with Walter Hill and John Carpenter on their films, eight and six times respectively. He voiced Sergeant Dornan in the video game Fallout 2. Jason starred in supporting roles for the films 48 Hrs. and Arachnophobia.
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Known For
Acting History
2025
Christmas at Mistletoe Manor as Louis
2025The Cowboy Killer as Paul
2024Barney & Herb as Herb
2022We Are Gathered Here Today as Henry Stone
2021Deep in the Forest as Mark Goodman
2020The Assent as Father Lambert
2019Deadwood: The Movie as Con Stapleton
2019Heavenly Deposit as Steven
2018The Other Side of the Wind as Grover
2018Subversion: Exposing John Carpenter's They Live as Self
2018Malevolent: Unearthing John Carpenter's Prince of Darkness as Self
2018They'll Love Me When I'm Dead as Self
2018Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom as Senator Sherwood
2018High & Outside: A Baseball Noir as Harold
2018Get Married or Die as Frank
2017The Nth Ward as Jeffrey
2017The Terror of Hallow's Eve as Dr. Hamilton
2016Sister Cities as Dr. Timmins
2016It Takes a Village: The Making of Village of the Damned as Self
2016Hail, Caesar! as Director
2016Baskets as Uncle Jim
2014Scorpion as General Talbertse
2014Return to Zero as Gerry
2014Mixels as Major Nixel, Turg, Wuzzo
2014Mixels as Major Nixel, Tuth, Sharx
2014Merkin Penal as Sargent Sacrifice
2013Willow Creek as Ranger Troy Andrews
2013Queen City as Bernie Donovan
2013Robosapien: Rebooted as Admiral Victor
20121600 Penn as General Harrigan
2012Longmire as Abel 'Jenk' Jenkins
2012Heal Thyself as Dennis Hill
2011Annie Claus Is Coming to Town as Santa
2011From the Head as Jim
2011Hopelessly in June as Frankie Flowers
2011Son of Morning as Ned Jensen
2011Little Murder
2011Valley of the Sun as Myron McGill
2010How to Make Love to a Woman as Mr. Conners
2010Justified as Owen Carnes
2009Falling Up as John O'Shea
2009Mending Fences as Hank Bentley
2009Castle as Sheriff Sloan
2008Raising the Bar as Rex
2008Gemini Division
2008Crash and Burn as Winston Manny
2008The Man Who Came Back as The Warden
2007Dirty Sexy Money as Larry Foundry
2007Chuck as General Merriweather
2007Moving McAllister as Mr. Robinson
2007Claire as Harry Bannion
2007Planet Raptor as Sgt. Pappy Mathis
2007Mad Men as Len McKenzie
2007Harpies as Vorian
2007Richard III as Ringside Announcer
2007John from Cincinnati
2006Big John as Self
2006The Christmas Card as Richard
2006The Enigma with a Stigma as Bill Herman
2006The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde as Lt. Hamilton
2005American Black Beauty as Mayor Bart Williams
2005Kicking & Screaming as Clark
2005Alien Apocalypse as President Demsky
2005Frostbite as Colonel Jaffe
2005Confessions of an Action Star as (uncredited)
2004Desperate Housewives as Jeff
2004Surviving Christmas as Suit
2004Patients as Callie's Dad
2004Los Angeles Plays Itself as Duty Sergeant in Escape From L.A. (archive footage)
2004Raptor Island as The Captain
2004Hair High as Coach (voice)
2004John Carpenter: The Man and His Movies as Self
2004Deadwood as Con Stapleton
2004Employee of the Month as Bill Gartin
2004The Perfect Husband: The Laci Peterson Story as Ron Grantski
2003Arrested Development as Mr. Jordan
2003Arrested Development as Storage Dave
2003Cold Case as Charlie Gleason
2003NCIS as SGM Robert King
2003Carnivàle as Lou Edwards
2003Seabiscuit as Reporter Max
2003Detonator as U.S. Attorney Fred Goldenberg
2003Mister Sterling
2002Live from Baghdad as Stu
2002Adaptation. as Defense Attorney
2002Almost a Woman as Mr. Fuller
200213th Child as Coroner
2002Undisputed as Oakland TV Announcer
2002The Rose Technique as Detective Atwood
2002Hard Cash as The Counter Boss
2001Ghosts of Mars as Engineer McSimms
2001Cahoots as Eddie
2001Out of the Wilderness as Judge Battle
2000CSI: Crime Scene Investigation as Walter Gersh
2000Jackie Chan Adventures as Farmer MacDonald (voice)
2000Titus as Ridge
2000Mystery Kids as Monte Harrington
1999The New Woody Woodpecker Show as Mr. Lux (voice)
1999The New Woody Woodpecker Show as Dog Announcer (voice)
1999The New Woody Woodpecker Show as Captain Goodlife /Wimpole (voice)
1999The New Woody Woodpecker Show as Rock Granite (voice)
1999Batman Beyond as Coach Creagar (voice)
1999Batman Beyond: The Movie as Coach Creagar (voice)
1999Providence as Frank Moore
1998Air America as Mark McCormick
1997Mike Hammer, Private Eye
1997The New Batman Adventures as Manny (voice)
1997Perversions of Science as Priest
1997Murder One: Diary of a Serial Killer as Mr. Sheehy
1997Dante's Peak as Norman Gates
1996The Glimmer Man as Millie’s Father
1996Women: Stories of Passion as Joan's Husband
1996Escape from L.A. as Duty Sergeant
1996Nash Bridges as Frank
1995Wild Bill as Dave McCandless
1995Rage as Griggs
1995JAG as Randy Hamill
1995Murder One as Mr. Sheehy
1995The Naked Truth as Senator Wilburn
1995Mortal Kombat as Master Boyd
1995Congo as Mr. Janus
1995Village of the Damned as Ben Blum
1995Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child as The Royal Treasurer (voice)
1995The Demolitionist as Higgins
1995In the Mouth of Madness as Mr. Paul
1995A Whole New Ballgame
1994Deconstructing Sarah as Cliff
1993Body Bags as Gent
1993Kung Fu: The Legend Continues as Lou
1993Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman as Travis Stone
1993Working with Orson Welles as Himself
1992Batman: The Animated Series as Mason (voice)
1991Herman's Head as Fritz
1990Marked for Death as Pete Stone
1990Arachnophobia as Henry Beechwood
1990The Hunt for Red October as Commander, USS Reuben James (uncredited)
1989Johnny Handsome as Mr. Bonet
1989Jack in the Box as Reese
1989Quantum Leap as Kilpatrick
1989Coach as Harry Heftler
1989From the Dead of Night
1988They Live as Gilbert
1988Annie McGuire
1988Roseanne
1988Alien Nation as Fedorchuk
1988Dear John as Bill Conners
1988Red Heat as TV Announcer
1988Sunset as Frank Coe
1987Prince of Darkness as Dr. Paul Leahy
1987A Different World as Mr. Schmect
1987Party Camp as Sarge
1987Married... with Children as Manager
1987The Betty Ford Story as Counselor
1986Heartbreak Ridge as Major G.F. Devin
1986Hyper Sapien: People from Another Star
1986Amazing Stories as Commander
1986Eat or Be Eaten
1985Amazing Stories as commander
1985Izzy & Moe as Bartender
1985The Golden Girls as Policeman
1985Command 5 as Warden Bryan
1985Brewster's Millions as Chuck Fleming
1985A Reason to Live as Dick Biheller
1984Murder, She Wrote as Vincent Nader
1984Impulse as Man in Truck
1984Cover Up
1984Oxford Blues as Mr. De Angelo
1984Dreamscape as Babcock
1984The Karate Kid as Soccer Coach
1984Streets of Fire as Ardmore Cop Harry
1984Angel as The John
1984Mister Roberts as Chief Johnson
1983Scarecrow and Mrs. King as Brockett
1983Starflight: The Plane That Couldn't Land as Schultie
198248 Hrs. as Cowboy Bartender
1982Trick or Treats as Malcolm O'Keefe
1982Remington Steele as Foreman
1982Remington Steele as Martin Rome
1982Silver Spoons
1982Filthy Rich
1982Some Kind of Hero as Honcho #1
1982Cagney & Lacey as Leonard Nolan
1982Butterfly as Allen
1981Splendor in the Grass as Coach
1981Mommie Dearest as Pepsi Executive #4
1981Nice Dreams as Det. Drooler
1981Texas Lightning as Frank Whitman
1981Beyond the Universe
1980Enola Gay: The Men, the Mission, the Atomic Bomb
1980Alcatraz: The Whole Shocking Story as Lt. Micklin
1980The Golden Moment: An Olympic Love Story as TV Reporter
1980The Long Riders as The Pinkertons
1980Angel on My Shoulder
1980The Baltimore Bullet as Bert
1979Knots Landing as Security Expert
1979Disaster on the Coastliner as LeBoux
1979Hart to Hart as Policeman
1979Hart to Hart as McCoy
1979The Illegal
1979B. J. and the Bear
1978The Driver as Commuter
1978With This Ring as Dirk
1977The Incredible Hulk as Bennett
1975One Day at a Time
1975Starsky & Hutch as Fred Oates
1972Kung Fu as Townsman (uncredited)
1970Rio Lobo as Lt. Ned Forsythe
1968Shadow on the Land as Man at Airport (uncredited)
1968Land of the Giants as Mylo
1968Hawaii Five-O as Jack Rigney
1967A Bell for Adano as Duty Officer
1967Judd for the Defense
1967Cimarron Strip as Groom
1967Cimarron Strip as David Arlyn
1965The F.B.I. as Link
1964Daniel Boone as Clint Bickford
1955Gunsmoke as Cully Haimes
1955Gunsmoke as Colt Gentry
1955Gunsmoke as Pope
—Back of Book as Roy Watkins
—Knights of the Kitchen Table as Rick Stepjack









