12 Facts About Peter Brocco

Carl Peter Brocco was an American screen and stage actor.

Peter Brocco appeared in over 300 credits, notably Spartacus and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, during his career spanning over 60 years.

Peter Brocco was the son of Mr and Mrs Peter Brocco.

Peter Brocco debuted on Broadway in Centuries ; he performed in Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor.

Peter Brocco holds the distinction of having been killed off in two of them, a relative rarity for villains in the series.

Peter Brocco appeared as "The Spectre" in The Phantom Ring, where the criminals developed a machine that can make them invisible.

Peter Brocco appeared as Claymare, an Organian council member, in the Star Trek episode "Errand of Mercy", which established the uneasy treaty of peace between the United Federation of Planets and the Klingon Empire.

Peter Brocco played Colonel Matterson, a patient who used a wheelchair and had dementia, in the Academy Award-winning One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

Peter Brocco appeared as the patient in the hospital, Mr Egan, in the Happy Days 1974 episode "Hardware Jungle".

Peter Brocco lived for some 40 years in Laurel Canyon, in a 1920s Spanish style home on Laurel Canyon Blvd.

Peter Brocco had his ceramics studio in the ground floor, a source of income when he was blacklisted for a while during the red scare of the early 1950s.

Peter Brocco died from a heart attack in Los Angeles on December 20,1992, aged 89.