Peter Horton

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Peter Horton (born August 20, 1953) is an American actor and director. He is perhaps best known for his role as Prof. Gary Shepherd on the popular television series "thirtysomething". He left the series in 1991 to pursue an interest in directing.

Biography

Career

During his run on "thirtysomething", "People" magazine named him one of the "50 Most Beautiful People". As an actor, Horton appeared in a number of television shows including "St. Elsewhere", "The White Shadow", "Dallas", "Eight Is Enough", "The Geena Davis Show", and played the lead in the short-lived series "Brimstone", and played Crane McFadden in the one season series (1982-1983) "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers". He also appeared in the 1997 TV movie version of the Jon Krakauer book "Into Thin Air", playing Scott Fischer, the leader of the disastrous 1996 climb on Mount Everest. As a director, he has worked on a number of television series including "The Shield", "thirtysomething", "The Wonder Years", "Once and Again", and "Grey's Anatomy". To date, he has only directed one feature film, 1995's "The Cure".

He appeared in "Who Killed the Electric Car?" and is on the board of directors of the Environmental Alliance. [ [http://environmentalalliance.net File Not Found ] ] He can also be sighted in a very old Coca-Cola commercial from the late 1980's where he's seen walking through numerous areas around a city drinking one while coincidentally passing by a mysterious woman eveywhere he goes that turns out to be his daughter's ballet teacher, who he sees one last time when arriving to pick his daughter up from ballet practice surprising her with a Coca-Cola of her own at the end.

He is currently appearing on the HBO series "In Treatment" as the father of Sophie.

Personal life

Horton was born in Bellevue, Washington to a father who worked in the shipping business. [ [http://www.filmreference.com/film/52/Peter-Horton.html Peter Horton Biography (1953-) ] ] He attended Redwood High School and Principia College. [ [http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1800016609/bio Peter Horton Biography - Yahoo! Movies ] ] Despite internet rumors to the contrary, he was never married to Linda Hamilton.cite web |url=http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0510/14/lkl.01.html |title=CNN Larry King Live Interview with Linda Hamilton (transcript) |publisher=cnn.com |date=2005-10-14 |accessdate=2008-01-02 |quote=I was not married to Peter Horton, which is sort of all over the Web site that I've been married three times, so I look like -- but for some reason that's false information. I was never married to Peter Horton.] He was married to Michelle Pfeiffer (1981–1988), and has been married to Nicole Deputron since 1995. Horton and Deputron have two children. Their daughter Lily was born in October 2000.

His brother-in-law is Egil Krogh, a former White House plumbers member who was implicated in the Watergate scandal.

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