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March 13, 1929 - February 6, 2012

Happy Birthday to a great actor that has only been gone a short time.  His career was long and accomplished and he had many wonderful credits to his name.  Some of his most memorable work came as Clay Culhane on "Black Saddle" from 1959 to 1960 and as Doc Holliday on "Maverick" (he played the role on a recurring basis from 1960 to 1962). 

The role that totally made him really solid in everyone's memory was when he played Nick Barkley on "The Big Valley" from 1965 to 1969 opposite Barbara Stanwyck, Lee Majors, Richard Long and Linda Evans as his television family.  In 1984 he reprised the role of Nick Barkley in an episode of "The Fall Guy."

Some (this is limited) of his guest work includes "77 Sunset Strip", "Bonanza", "Gunsmoke", "Perry Mason", "The Virginian" and "Mission: Impossible."  

He is one of only six actors to appear on both versions of "The Outer Limits" (1963 and 1995)...the others are Leonard Nimoy, David McCallum, Cliff Robertson, Barbara Rush and Dabbs Greer.  

This fine man actually first came to my attention in 1998 when he provided the voice of the wacky mad scientist Farmer Brown on an episode of "The New Batman Adventures."  

On his birthday, 

In Memoriam Remembers:
Peter Breck  

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