", Once filming began, Murphy says he and Duel "never had a discussion about acting or how we were going to play a certain scene. Its utterly destructive.. The small screen answer to the 1969 Paul Newman/Robert Redford feature film, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Alias Smith and Jones combined a seriocomic premise and tone, entertaining stories, witty dialogue, ground-breaking cinematography, and likable performances. His most recent big screen role was in the 2001 baseball comedy, 108 Stitches. ", "It was an impossible situation," he says. Although the show earned good ratings, ABC decided not to bring it back after its first season. As Geoffrey recalls, Pete Duel had a "good working relationship" with Murphy. Love watching Smith & Jones reruns. Through an actor friend, I made contact with Petes younger brother 30-year-old Geoffrey Deuel. Geoffrey Deuel Death Fact Check Geoffrey is alive and kicking and is currently 80 years old. [15], Duel's funeral was held at the Self-Realization Fellowship Temple on January 2, 1972, in Pacific Palisades. This month Peter Deuel tells what catches his Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, June 17, 1968 Pinellas County School District from 1987-1996. WebPamela Deuel is known for Fugitive Lovers (1975) and E! For all the difficulties associated with having to step into circumstances that were extremely tragic, looking back, Alias Smith and Jones was a time that I now consider almost too good to be true.". He is an actor, known for Chisum (1970), Terminal Island (1973) and Toma (1973). At about one a.m., my telephone rang, Harold said. A contract means you get paid every week, not per show. WebGeoffrey Alec Deuel, 30, passed away Wednesday, August 31, 2016. He is an actor, known for Chisum (1970), Terminal Island (1973) and Toma (1973). Ill never forget the date, Dec 31, 1971. During the hiatus between the first and second seasons, he starred in the television production of Percy MacKayes 1908 play The Scarecrow. Shooting proceeded as usual. He just had so much love that he wanted to spread it. He was completely smashed. I also feel the way you do, that nothing is worth killing yourself over. I suppose it was the drink., I have been to the house where Pete Duel died. He liked the horses, scenery, trains, and the characters struggle that things did not always go their way. WebGeoffrey Jacob Deuel is an American actor born in Lockport, New York, on January 17, 1943, and is also a writer, teacher, and U.S. veteran. This was Larson's show now. He loved people in general, everybody. 4.00 GPA, 1987; Strong background in American History, World History, Political Science, Geography; Assisted Professor as Student-Helper, International Studies course: Americas Role In the World, 1984. Dr. Deuel quietly passed away, at 10:00pm, December 11, 2013. I was going to have dinner with the family that weekend, Egbert Swackhamer had told me. I could not have asked for a better friend. She said she went to bed in the small houses only bedroom. An hour-long show is shot in only six days. Duel was reportedly suffering from depression and had been drinking heavily that fateful New Year's Eve. Geoffrey currently lives in Florida with his wife, Jacqueline, and their beloved dog, Lilly. We are lucky that we are not that type of people. Pete was born in a small country town near Rochester, New York. I was 10 and 11 when Alias Smith and Jones was on. If he said No this time, the studio moguls would almost certainly put him on suspension which meant he would get no money and be unable to work elsewhere. So I just want to say today Pete its still missed and the wonderful things that he couldve done but I still think he is where he is today . For more than a decade, Geoffrey was also a teacher, specializing in theater, but he also taught math, science, and social studies. Yes, he got tied up, said Geoffrey Deuel. ", As such, Murphy juxtaposed himself to that and made the creative decision to temper his pace with a more reserved performance opposite Duel. Geoffrey Alec Deuel. Please come to the front. And the show's engaging scripts percolated with a unique banter between its leading characters that was ahead of its time. I remember that one of my close friends called me to tell me that Peter Duel was dead, she was crying. We also took a picture. Website content Television Academy.EMMY, EMMYS, and the Emmy Statuette are registered trademarks and/or copyrights Of ATAS and NATAS.TELEVISION ACADEMY and ACADEMY OF TELEVISION ARTS & SCIENCES are registered trademarks of ATAS. Hes also extremely interested in U.S. politics and regrets not having gone to law school as his father had hoped he would. The end was drawing near. Only hours later, Huggins contacted Davis and asked him to step into the role of Hannibal. [1] "I love competitive tennis," he says of the sport that takes him all over the world. From individual photo windows, use the back button of your browser to return to photos list. At times, its as if the world has turned against you. With a semi-Wild Bunch sensibility, and in another nod to Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, the Newman/Redford roles in that film were once part of the Hole in the Wall Gang, while they eventually decided to go incognito as characters they named "Smith" and "Jones.". My grandmother had a hotel on the border of Oregon and California on 101 on the coast .The hotel only had six rooms but when me and my sisters faught to watch tv I would have to find another TV to watch my favorite show if there was a vacancy my grandma would allow me to watch in a vacant room . It's an art to me like acting was. I firmly believe on any other given night he would not have killed himself. Mysteries & Scandals 8.1 TV Series Self 1999 1 ep Credits Edit Actress1 Self1 IMDbPro Collapse below Actress Previous 1 Pete did not like it, Harold told me. That is what a successful Hollywood television film-making studio is today. Duel's younger siblings, actor Geoffrey Deuel and actress/singer Pamela Deuel, have retained the original spelling of their family's surname. I never even knew him personally. It needed the chemistry of Pete and Ben..I still watched the program, but it was not the same. Webgeoffrey deuel obituarydoes keegan allen have a child 26th February 2023 / in west warwick viewpoint / by / in west warwick viewpoint / by They do it in such a way as to deliberately hurt the people they most love. Today, I was flipping through the channels and saw, The Day They Hanged Kid Curry was on, starring Peter Duel and Ben Murphy. While Barefoot in the Park starred Redford and Jane Fonda, Rooftop eventually teamed Duel with Judy Carne, whom he dated shortly before the actress-comedienne found her best success on NBC's Laugh-In. For over an hour he talked to me reluctantly at first about Pete. Deuel returned to his hometown, establishing his family medical practice in 1944, when there was no other physician in Penfield. This article about a United States film and television actor born in the 1940s is a stub. My dad and I would watch Alias Smith and Jones together. I was lucky to watch it each week probably due to my excitement! According to Geoffrey, as noble and dedicated as any brother could be, Duel periodically felt confined by the grind that comes with the territory of working on a weekly series like Smith and Jones. I think it all blew in his mind as he sat there in the front room of his country-style house, a drink in his hand and his girlfriend asleep in his bed behind. We were the big kids and my sister and younger brother were the little kids. All rights reserved. Liked wnen he was in the love story role!! What was the use of it all? You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. Also an actor, he has the same easy good looks, the same ready smile. "What could be more thrilling than watching those wonderful movies and its legendary actors like Henry Fonda, John Wayne, and Montgomery Clift?". "I don't see why I can't function like anyone else, if I want to, as a political activist, or as an individual who is Gidget's Brotherly Brother-in-Law As Geoffrey recalls, Pete Duel had a "good working relationship" with Murphy. A friend of mine met her down in Acapulco a few months ago. He was fined $1,000 for dangerous driving, put on probation for two years and disqualified from driving for two years. Drink can often intensify happy moods and can, very easily, magnify depressing moods. Pete Duel was handsome with his smile, laugh, the confident air he played as Hannibal Heyes. It stays the same; it is a personality., Pete became even more outspokenly bitter about his work. [11] He attended the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, and witnessed the violence that erupted. And in the leading man department, Alias Smith and Jones struck gold and lightningthrice. I also sat by our only TV about ten minutes before Alias Smith and Jones started so my sisters or mother wouldnt be able to watch their programs. and dramas such as Channing, Combat!, and Bonanza. Family and friends must say goodbye to their beloved Geoffrey Deuel (Malad City, Idaho), who passed away at the age of 30, on August 31, 2016. Ben Murphy, Pete Duels co-star, went ahead and worked. Often the problem with a romantic and an idealist is that he is too hard on himself.. He could Im sure have gone on to be a very successful serious actor, and it is one of the great tragedys that he ended his own life. When is Pete going to be back? He was crazy about ecology and hated pollution. An illusion that the hand that pulls the trigger, overdoses on the drug, ties the noose, or wants to create the final goodbye note is sensitive enough and in turmoil enough to know deep inside is the grand illusion that he or she has been knowingly collaborative in propagating, when having wanted nothing more pure and desperate and innocent in life than to have remained steadfast towards only this: TO THINE OWN SELF BE TRUE, and all but unknown and worthless to anyone except ones own personal and private heart and soul. Burial will follow in the Malad City Cemetery. The cameras rolled. A revolver was lying beside him. Family and friends must say goodbye to their beloved Geoffrey Deuel (Malad City, Idaho), who passed away at the age of 30, on August 31, 2016. Other times, Geoffrey says, "Peter loved it," especially the episodes with Burl Ives, with whom Duel became close friends. WebDr. I never did pursue acting, Petes death has always stuck with me. Into the mix, was Larson's top-notch production skills and Huggins' words that transferred from page to screen with a sophisticated twist and turn of colloquial terms and phrases. It is what it is. Pete became admired and famous among millions of people all over the world. And the video of him eating an ice cream cone, as I went outside to the backyard to cry. I was madly in love with Pete Duel and vividly remember hearing the noon news broadcast of his death. Alias Smith and Jones was a hit across the board because hit a chord that sparked and captured the audience. Dr. Deuel is survived by his son Geoffrey and daughter-in-law, Jacqueline, of St Petersburg, Florida; his daughter, Pamela, of Valley Forge, Pennsylvania and his granddaughter, Jennifer Seymour, of Wisconsin. WebGeoffrey Deuel was born on January 17, 1943 and is 80 years old now. I met Ben Murphy years later at a celebrity tennis tournament in Maui. WebGeoffrey Deuel was born on 17 January 1943 in Rochester, New York, USA. Big money was at stake. All three children are the offspring of Dr. Elsworth Shault Deuel and Lillian Marcella Ellstrom. A contract means you get paid every week, not per show. In the pre-COVID period since the series ended, Davis and Murphy have made periodic personal appearances at celebrity live events. But that never happened because Universal wouldn't make the deal. WebGeoffrey Alec Deuel, 30, passed away Wednesday, August 31, 2016. Duel had so much going for him. Cerebral destruction, are the grim words of the police report that I read in the office of the local coroner. "Historically, from the 18th Century forward," observes Davis, who once taught English and literature at UCLA, "the British always understood that the essence of wit is what makes for great humor.". He was into everything drugs, booze, you name it. Why did he do it? Archived from the original on August 19, 2019. I had boyhood dreams of meeting Pete and getting an acting carreer, though I had never mentioned this to my dad. "I loved that movie," he says. But just as they found their seats, and right before the plane departed, a voice was heard over the loudspeaker: "Is there a Roger Davis on board? After Gidget's cancellation, Duel was quickly offered the starring role of Dave Willis, a newlywed apprentice architect, in the romantic comedy series Love on a Rooftop. Pete wast that easy going with himself. Ms. Deuel was born on March 3, 1922 to G ", "I cherish that response from the fans," Murphy intones, "and I honor them for it.". He's designed and built hotels, high-rises, and six of the most state-of-the-art contemporary homes in the history of the Hollywood Hills. He could go for a year without a drink but when he did things he often did them to an extreme. WebGeoffrey Deuel was born on January 17, 1943 and is 80 years old now. [8][9] In Tarantino's novelization of the movie, Duel and Dalton worked together, "enjoyed each other's company" and were both "undiagnosed bipolar. by Brenda Marshall; TV Radio Mirror, May 1966 He was a member of the schools Varsity Soccer, Baseball, and Wrestling teams, as well as the National Honor Society. ", Swerling said, "Universal didn't hesitate for a second to instruct us to stay in production. Around 1970, he changed the spelling of his last name from Deuel to Duel.[7]. [12], In the early hours of Friday, New Years Eve 1971, Duel died at his Hollywood Hills home of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. His father was a local doctor, his mother a nurse. Alias Smith and Jones is available on DVD. I have been watching the old series Alias Smith and Jones and started thinking about Pete Deuel and Ben. When in July 1967, Universal, the most successful motion picture studio in Hollywood, offered him an exclusive 7-year contract, he accepted it. ", After a lengthy pause, Huggins said, "RogerPete is dead.". WebGeoffrey Jacob Deuel (born January 17, 1943) is an American actor. He preferred "being in the great outdoors and around horses than playing a lawyer, say in a courtroom. and the Bear, and Knight Rider, CBS's original Magnum P.I. Demetria Fulton; preview of Deuels role on Barnaby Jones in the episode titled The Last Contract (12/31/1974). I was only 7 when he shot himself. According to Davis, Huggins said, "RogerI have terrible news. He didn't come off as a phony. The characters based loosely on the Paul Newman-Robert Redford team in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid were affable, friendly guys who laughed and joked, and did not like killing. Live with it. WebGeoffrey Deuel & Pamela Deuel Hart Gallery 1 Click on the thumbnail to see a larger, better resolution version of the photo. For two years, from 1959 to 1961, he was a young drama student in that brash, exciting skyscraper city. [13][14], According to police, Duel's friends and family said he was depressed about his drinking problem. Malad City, ID. Biography [ edit] Deuel is best known for playing Billy the Kid in the movie Chisum (1970). We just did it.". Dr. Deuel is survived by his son Geoffrey and daughter-in-law, Jacqueline, of St Petersburg, Florida; his daughter, Pamela, of Valley Forge, Pennsylvania and his granddaughter, Jennifer Seymour, of Wisconsin. I remembered watching the series when I was young, so I turned it on. There are no events at this time. The following New Year's Eve, Duel's charismatic wide-winning grin was gone. Alias Smith and Jones did not long survive the death of Pete Duel. Geoffrey says Duel "always enjoyed interacting with fans and loved signing autographs. She had resided in Ocean Springs Nursing Center for the past year. He was an instinctive actor. Funeral services will be held on Saturday, September 10, in Salt Lake City, Utah. Pete auditioned at the American Theater Wing school in New York and got in. In May 1971, while Alias Smith and Jones was still being churned out at the Universal factory, Pete Duels drunken driving case came up in court. Pete wrote to the judge: In recalling my feelings on that night, shame and terror were in my mind. With both Yuma and The Young Country out of the picture, Huggins switched gears to executive producer and episodic scribe for a similar Western concept that was ultimately rebooted by producer Glen A. Larson as Alias Smith and Jones. ", Of his craft and career, in general, Pete Duel himself once said, "I just sort of fell into something I lovethe only thing I really liked doing." I asked him for his autograph and got it. But ABC refused to do that and was very clear on their position. He did not watch much television, but worked all the time. Duel wished to move from sitcoms to more serious roles. An actor who wants to expand, to develop, finds himself trapped in a hit. And that smile and those dimples say it all. Thank you for the body of work. All three children are the offspring of Dr. Elsworth Shault Deuel and Lillian Marcella Ellstrom. But I was asleep. Yet girls, as such, did not come near to the center of his being. So, we contacted everybody, including Ben, and told them to come back in. WebPamela Deuel is known for Fugitive Lovers (1975) and E! WebGeoffrey Deuel Obituary. My brother was my best friend. I loved everything about the series, the horses and the cowboys and all of the characters each week. In addition to his schooling, Geoffrey served in the United States Army for six months, during which time he received Honors recognition for superior academic achievement. While peers, friends, and fans dearly missed Duel's presence on the show, the comradery that he and Murphy shared so perfectly well was reintegrated with a similar, if slightly different, rapport between Murphy and Davis. My grandma before she passed away always talked about how I would always say grandma I want to watch Smith and Jones , it was such a joy until that day when Pete was gone and I lost interest because it wasnt the same and it never ever could be . He wanted to do other things for people that he considered more meaningful and he wanted to have better parts. "By Sunday, I knew I got the part. WebLooking for Geoffrey Deuel online? He was the real star. Who knows why he decided to do that on that early morning. He was only 15. Mysteries & Scandals (1998). 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