Peter Helm, the actor from Toronto who appeared on such 1960 reveals as Bare Metropolis, Wagon Practice and Ironside and in movies together with The Longest Day, Inside Daisy Clover and The Andromeda Pressure, has died. He was 84.
Helm died Thursday in his sleep at his house in West Hills, his buddy David Timmerman informed The Hollywood Reporter.
Survivors embrace his sister, actress Anne Helm (Comply with That Dream, The Magic Sword, The Iron Maiden), and a daughter, actress Tiffany Helm (Friday the thirteenth: A New Starting).
The colourful Helm appeared alongside Jane Fonda, Dean Jones and Joey Heatherton on Broadway in 1960 within the Josh Logan-directed There Was a Little Lady, a drama about rape, then acted onstage with Myrna Loy in a 1962 manufacturing of James Kirkwood’s There Should Be a Pony that aimed for Broadway however missed.
He and Heatherton would take pleasure in a fantastic friendship whereas touring the world collectively through the years, and he or she informed THR that he was “a great actor and a great person, top of the world.” The pair additionally labored with George Carlin initially of his profession, and the comic as soon as known as Helm one of many funniest males he had ever met.
On the large display screen, Helm portrayed an ill-fated G.I. within the Darryl F. Zanuck-produced The Longest Day (1962) and the social climber Milton Hopwood reverse Natalie Wood in Robert Mulligan’s Inside Daisy Clover (1965), then despatched the sci-fi plot in movement as one of many two Air Power officers who spot a U.S. satellite tv for pc happening in Robert Smart’s The Andromeda Pressure (1971).
Peter John Helm Jr. was born on Dec. 22, 1941. After the demise of his banker father, John, his mom, Isabel, introduced his older sister to New York in 1952 to assist her ballet ambitions, and he and his half-brother, David, got here alongside.
Helm made his onscreen debut on a 1959 episode of the NBC sitcom Too Younger to Go Regular, then confirmed up as fresh-faced sorts on such sequence as Dr. Kildare, The Donna Reed Present, Tales of Wells Fargo, Bare Metropolis, Rawhide, The Fugitive, Fight!, Mr. Novak, The Farmer’s Daughter, Perry Mason and Bonanza by the mid-Sixties.
His remaining onscreen credit score got here on a 1971 episode of The Smith Household.
In 1991, Helm based Vancouver-based GeoMediapro, working as a director and producer, and he taught on the Vancouver Movie Faculty and was a Teamster for greater than 20 years. Away from present enterprise, he was an enthusiastic aviation photographer and the founder of a Ferrari club in L.A. who preferred to drive quick.
His first spouse was actress Brooke Bundy (two Nightmare on Elm Road movies); they have been married from 1962 till their 1966 divorce. His survivors embrace one other daughter, Brandee, and 7 grandchildren. His son, Dustin, died of issues from a bike accident in 2014.
