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A Salute to House Peters, Jr.
4 October 2008 4:19 PM, PDT
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We here at ComicMix pride ourselves on being not only a comic book site, but also a pop culture site and so we cannot let the passing of House Peters, Jr. go by without noting it. The actor, born January 12, 1916, died from pneumonia on October 1.
Who you might wonder? The actor was the model for Proctor & Gamble’s Mr. Clean, an icon that has gone largely unchanged.
The actor also had an early role as a Sharkman in the original 1936 Flash Gordon serial.
His son Jon Peters said in a release, "he always played the heavy. Even though he wasn't happy about being cast in those roles, he worked really hard at it."
Peters’ credits include roles in The Twilight Zone (1960), Target Earth (1954), Port Sinister (1953), Red Planet Mars (1952), The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951), King of the Rocket Men (1949), and Batman and Robin (1949). It wasn’t until he starred in
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