Peter Barton
Birthday: Born in 1956-07-19 in Valley Stream, Long Island, New York, USA
Deathday: Alive
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Peter Thomas Barton (born July 19, 1956) is an American actor. He was a graduate of Valley Stream North High School, where he played soccer and wrestled. He also attended Nassau Community College. In the 1980s and 1990s, he starred in several TV series, including Shirley, with Shirley Jones; The Powers of Matthew Star, with Louis Gossett, Jr.; Burke's Law with Gene Barry; and the soap operas Sunset Beach and The Young and the Restless. His other acting work has included films such as the 1981 horror film Hell Night, the 1984 horror movie Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter, and the 2005 film Repetition. He has also appeared on many TV shows and on the cover of many early 80's teen magazines like Tiger Beat. He was a hearthrob in the 1980's. Description above from the Wikipedia article Peter Barton (actor), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
TV Credits
Sunset Beach
Character:
Sunset Beach is an American television soap opera that aired on NBC from January 6, 1997 to December 31, 1999. The show follows the loves and lives of the people living in the Orange County coastal area named Sunset Beach, on the coast of California. Although there is a town in California called Sunset Beach, the show's beach scenes were shot on nearby Seal Beach. The show was co-produced by NBC and Spelling Television. Sunset Beach won two Daytime Emmy Awards and was nominated another eleven t...
The Ray Bradbury Theater
Character: Listener's Assistant
A Canadian-produced fantastic anthology series scripted by famed science-fiction author Ray Bradbury. Many of the teleplays were based upon Bradbury's novels and short stories....
The Young and the Restless
Character: Dr. Scott Grainger
The rivalries, romances, hopes and fears of the residents of the fictional Midwestern metropolis, Genoa City. The lives and loves of a wide variety of characters mingle through the generations, dominated by the Newman, Abbott, Baldwin and Winters families....
Sunset Beach
Character: Eddie Connors
Sunset Beach is an American television soap opera that aired on NBC from January 6, 1997 to December 31, 1999. The show follows the loves and lives of the people living in the Orange County coastal area named Sunset Beach, on the coast of California. Although there is a town in California called Sunset Beach, the show's beach scenes were shot on nearby Seal Beach. The show was co-produced by NBC and Spelling Television. Sunset Beach won two Daytime Emmy Awards and was nominated another eleven t...
Burke's Law
Character: Peter Burke
Burke's Law, a revival of the 1960s cop television series of the same name, aired on CBS from 1994 to 1995. The series centers on Amos Burke, a senior Los Angeles police officer and millionaire, and his son, Peter, who is a detective under his command....
The Powers of Matthew Star
Character: Matthew Star (E'Hawke)
The Powers of Matthew Star is an American sci-fi television series that aired from September 17, 1982 through April 8, 1983, on NBC. It starred Peter Barton as the title character, alien prince Matthew ‘E’Hawke’ Star of the planet Quadris. Also starring were Amy Steel as Pam Elliot, Matthew’s girlfriend at Crestridge High, and Louis Gossett, Jr. as Matthew’s guardian Walt ‘D’hai’ Shepherd. In 2002, The Powers of Matthew Star was ranked #22 on the list of TV Guide's "50 Worst TV Shows of All Tim...
Pacific Blue
Character: Greg 'Dingo' Vernon
Pacific Blue is an American crime drama series about a team of police officers with the Santa Monica Police Department who patrolled its beaches on bicycles. The show ran for five seasons on the USA Network, from March 2, 1996 to April 9, 2000, with a total of one hundred and one episodes. Often compared as "Baywatch on bikes," the series enjoyed a popular run among the Network's viewers, and was popular in France, Israel, Sweden, Bulgaria, Norway, Spain, Russia, Austria, Germany, Italy, South A...
Movie Credits
Hell Night
Character: Jeff Reed
As an initiation rite into Alpha Sigma Rho fraternity, four pledges must spend a night in Garth Manor, twelve years to the day after the previous resident murdered his entire family....
Leadfoot
Character: Murph
Tommy just bought his first car with his own money. He enjoys driving it fast regardless of the speed limit. He ignores several warnings and not even a speeding ticket can change his way of driving. And then one night Tommy's beloved car is sideswiped, and Tommy makes a reckless decision that leads to tragedy....
Visions of Christmas Past
Character: Bill Miller
A 95-minute TV movie spin-off from the short-lived TV series Shirley (1979), starring Shirley Jones. Shirley is caught up in memories of her late husband as she sets off in a snow storm to buy a Christmas tree for her family....
The First Time
Character: Steve Kingsley
An emotionally troubled teenage girl drops out of high school and travels with her boyfriend to San Diego, while the girl's mother enlists the help of an old U.S. Navy friend to help find her daughter....
Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter
Character: Doug
After his revival in a hospital morgue, Jason fixes his vengeful attention on the Jarvis family and a group of hitherto carefree teenagers....
A Man Is Mostly Water
Character: Jack
The lives of two unambitious duplex neighbors, divorced father, hot-tempered, blues-obsessed documentarian Roper and wealthy golf-playing wastrel Andy, are compared. Both have loved ones who want them to do something with their lives....