Peter Strauss
Gender: Male
Born: 20th February 1947 (currently 65 years old)
Nationality: United States of America
TV programs: Masada, Moloney, Body and Soul (US), Rich Man, Poor Man, The Way, Kane & Abel, Rich Man, Poor Man Book II, Tracey Ullman's State of the Union, Murder on the Orient Express
Movies: Peter Gunn, Soldier Blue, Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone, XXX: State of the Union / XXX: The Next Level, The Secret of NIMH, Murder on the Orient Express, Kids Ten Commandments: Toying with the Truth, Kids Ten Commandments: Stolen Jewels, Stolen Hearts, Kids Ten Commandments: Rest is Yet to Come, Kids Ten Commandments: The Not So Golden Calf, Kids Ten Commandments: Life and Seth Situation, Young Joe, the Forgotten Kennedy, License to Wed, Masada, Keys to Tulsa, The Last Tycoon, Nick of Time, Hail, Hero!, In the Lake of the Woods, 83 Hours 'Til Dawn, Love on the Land, Death in the Shadows, A Father's Choice, Sergeant Klems, Strange Frequency 2, Joan of Arc, The Jericho Mile
Peter Strauss (born February 20, 1947) is an American television and movie actor, known for his roles in several television miniseries in the 1970s and 1980s.
Strauss was born in Croton-on-Hudson, New York to a Jewish family. His father, who immigrated from Germany, was a wine importer. Strauss graduated from the Hackley School in 1965 and Northwestern University in 1969.
He married actress Rachel Ticotin on December 31, 1998. He had been married twice before, with his second marriage producing two children.
Notably, he plays Abel Roznovski in Kane and Abel, the TV miniseries from Jeffrey Archer's book of the same title. He won an Emmy Award for his role on the 1979 made-for-television movie The Jericho Mile, and he starred in a television remake of the classic 1946 film Angel on My Shoulder in 1980. His other noted television miniseries credits include starring roles in Rich Man, Poor Man, its sequel Rich Man, Poor Man Book II, and Masada. Strauss plays Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. in the 1977 TV movie Young Joe, the Forgotten Kennedy.
Strauss starred in the films Soldier Blue (1970) and Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone (1983), and has appeared in several others. He voiced
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