Peter Masterson

Peter Masterson

1934-06-01 Houston, Texas, USA 30 Credits

Biography

Carlos Bee Masterson Jr. was an American actor, director, producer, and writer. Masterson often worked with his cousin, writer Horton Foote. Acting from the mid-1960s to the mid-1980s, including 1975's The Stepford Wives as Walter Eberhart, since then he concentrated mostly on directing and producing. Actress Mary Stuart Masterson is his daughter; she appeared with her father in The Stepford Wives, playing one of his daughters. His other acting credits include roles in Ambush Bay (1966), In the...

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Whiskey School

2005

Director

6.0
Directing

Leopold De Angeli is a talented playwright, but like many scribes he fancies the drink a little too much. In the hopes of saving Leopold's life, his t...

Lost Junction

Lost Junction

2003

Director

4.3
Directing

A hitchhiker gets a ride with an oddball woman who has her husband's body in the trunk of the car.

The Stepford Life

The Stepford Life

2001

as Himself

6.0
Acting

A documentary about the making of The Stepford Wives (1975).

Mermaid

Mermaid

2000

Director

6.5
Directing

Four year old Desi learns to accept the death of her father by sending him a letter on a balloon to which she receives a reply. Based on a true story.

The Only Thrill

The Only Thrill

1997

Executive Producer, Director

4.9
Producing Directing

A small-town store owner with a comatose wife shares a long-term relationship with his seamstress.

Lily Dale

Lily Dale

1996

Director

2.0
Directing

In 1910, 19-year-old Horace Robedaux, still bitter toward his stepfather, goes to Houston to be reunited with his mother, Corella, and his sister, Lil...

Arctic Blue

Arctic Blue

1993

Director

4.5
Directing

Eric Desmond, a committed environmentalist, is accidentally involved in the transfer of Ben Corbett, a ruthless killer, from an isolated Alaskan villa...

Convicts

Convicts

1991

Director

5.5
Directing

In 1902, 13-year-old Horace toils on a run-down plantation in rural Texas to buy a tombstone for the father he lost a year earlier. Soll, the crusty o...

Night Game

Night Game

1989

Director

4.3
Directing

A police detective tracks a serial killer who is stalking young women on a beach front after each game that a baseball pitcher wins.

Blood Red

Blood Red

1989

Director

4.6
Directing

Set in the Napa Valley in 1895, an immigrant family struggles to keep their vineyards from industrialists.

Full Moon in Blue Water

Full Moon in Blue Water

1988

Director

6.1
Directing

Floyd, the owner of a bar on the Texas coast, has been depressed for a year after his wife disappeared in a swimming accident. He lives with his senil...

Hello Actors Studio

Hello Actors Studio

1988

as Self

6.0
Acting

After Lee Strasberg’s death in 1982, the most prestigious talents from the Actors Studio assumed the leadership of this exceptional organization. For ...

Gardens of Stone

Gardens of Stone

1987

as Col. Feld

6.2
Acting

A sergeant; stationed in Arlington, Virginia in the late 1960s; must deal with his desires to save the lives of young soldiers being sent to Vietnam. ...

Witchfire

Witchfire

1986

2.3
Acting

When her psychiatrist is killed in an auto accident, his mentally deranged patient and two of her even crazier companions hide out in a house in a rur...

The Trip to Bountiful

The Trip to Bountiful

1985

Director

7.3
Directing

Carrie Watts is living the twilight of her life trapped in an apartment in 1940s Houston, Texas with a controlling daughter-in-law and a hen-pecked so...

The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas

The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas

1982

Screenplay, Musical

6.2
Writing

When a big TV crusader Melvin P. Thorpe threatens to expose the Chicken Ranch to public scandal and close it down, Miss Mona doesn't go down without a...

City in Fear

City in Fear

1980

Executive Producer, Story

5.1
Producing Writing

A psycho-on-the-loose story, about a burned-out newspaper columnist and his circulation-hungry publisher who wants him to turn the killer into Page On...

A Question of Guilt

A Question of Guilt

1978

as Lieutenant Tom Wharton

6.2
Acting

A swinging divorcée is prejudged by a police detective and accused of killing her child.

The Storyteller

The Storyteller

1977

as Lee Gardner

Acting

A television writer is troubled by accusations that a young boy's death resulted from actions the boy copied from the writer's teleplay.

The Quinns

The Quinns

1977

as Michael Quinn

Acting

A drama about three generations of Irish-American firefighters in the New York City Fire Department, and their careers, romances, and growing pains. T...

Delta County, USA

1977

as Billy Wingate

Acting

Delta County is a staid Southern community caught between the old traditions and a rapidly changing way of life. For teenagers Terry Nicholas, his sis...

The Stepford Wives

The Stepford Wives

1975

as Walter Eberhart

6.7
Acting

Joanna Eberhart has come to the quaint little town of Stepford, Connecticut with her family, but soon discovers there lies a sinister truth in the all...

Man on a Swing

Man on a Swing

1974

as Willie Younger

5.8
Acting

When a young schoolteacher is found dead in her car in a parking lot in broad daylight, police chief Lee Tucker can find no clues pointing to her kill...

The Exorcist

The Exorcist

1973

as Dr. Barringer

7.7
Acting

When a charming 12-year-old girl takes on the characteristics and voices of others, doctors say there is nothing they can do. As people begin to die, ...

Pueblo

Pueblo

1973

as ENC M.O. Goldman

5.7
Acting

Dramatization showing the 1968 seizure of the spy ship, Pueblo, by the North Koreans and the treatment of the Pueblo's crew during their year of capti...

Tomorrow

Tomorrow

1972

as Lawyer Douglas

6.7
Acting

A lonely farmer takes in a pregnant woman and looks after her. After she gives birth, tragedy strikes.

Von Richthofen and Brown

Von Richthofen and Brown

1971

as Major Oswald Boelke

6.2
Acting

Spend time on both sides of World War I, partly with German flying ace Baron Manfred Von Richthofen (John Phillip Law), aka "The Red Baron," and his c...

Counterpoint

Counterpoint

1967

as Sgt. Calloway

6.2
Acting

In December of 1944, Lionel Evans, an internationally renowned American conductor, is on a USO tour with his 70-piece symphony orchestra in newly-libe...

In the Heat of the Night

In the Heat of the Night

1967

as Fryer

7.7
Acting

African-American Philadelphia police detective Virgil Tibbs is arrested on suspicion of murder by Bill Gillespie, the racist police chief of tiny Spar...

Ambush Bay

Ambush Bay

1966

as Sgt. William Maccone

5.0
Acting

A Marine unit on a Japanese-held island in the Philippines tries to hook up with local Filipino guerrillas.