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Dark, brooding, ruggedly handsome Philadelphia-born actor who went from being broke and driving a taxi to landing the co-starring role of the pompadour-wearing wife abuser and murderer "Lee Webber" on TV's "Peyton Place" (1964). His character was killed off after two seasons. During the run of "Peyton Place" (1964) he married his on-screen wife Lana Wood (she portrayed waitress Sandy Webber) but the marriage lasted a scant six weeks. He subsequently wed a former Miss Iceland, Anna Geirstottir, but that marriage too folded after a few months, and later actress Andrea Cyrill who played girlfriend Ginger Alden in the Elvis docudrama This Is Elvis (1981). Displaying a bad guy animal magnetism, he tended to play rough-and-tumble biker types such as in the cheapjack films Motor Psycho (1965),Angels from Hell (1968), Werewolves on Wheels (1971), Fugitive Lovers (1975), and _Cycle Psycho (1975)_. He was one of five children born to a garage mechanic in Philadelphia.
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