Peter Jason

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Peter Edward Ostling (July 22, 1944 – February 20, 2025), also known as Peter Jason, was an American character actor. He has appeared in over one hundred television shows and eighty films. He played Con Stapleton in the series Deadwood. He was a frequent collaborator with Walter Hill and John Carpenter on their films, eight and six times respectively. He voiced Sergeant Dornan in the video game Fallout 2. Jason starred in supporting roles for the films 48 Hrs. and Arachnophobia.

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Known For

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom

2018

The Karate Kid Not in library

The Karate Kid

1984

Scorpion Not in library

Scorpion

2014

Hail, Caesar! Not in library

Hail, Caesar!

2016

The Hunt for Red October Not in library

The Hunt for Red October

1990

They Live Not in library

They Live

1988

Adaptation. Not in library

Adaptation.

2002

Mortal Kombat Not in library

Mortal Kombat

1995

NCIS Not in library

NCIS

2003

Castle Not in library

Castle

2009

Acting

2025 Christmas at Mistletoe Manor as Louis
2025 The Cowboy Killer as Paul
2024 Barney & Herb as Herb
2022 We Are Gathered Here Today as Henry Stone
2021 Deep in the Forest as Mark Goodman
2020 The Assent as Father Lambert
2019 Deadwood: The Movie as Con Stapleton
2019 Heavenly Deposit as Steven
2018 They'll Love Me When I'm Dead as Self
2018 The Other Side of the Wind as Grover
2018 Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom as Senator Sherwood In Library
2018 Malevolent: Unearthing John Carpenter's Prince of Darkness as Self
2018 Subversion: Exposing John Carpenter's They Live as Self
2018 Get Married or Die as Frank
2018 High & Outside: A Baseball Noir as Harold
2017 The Terror of Hallow's Eve as Dr. Hamilton
2017 The Nth Ward as Jeffrey
2016 It Takes a Village: The Making of Village of the Damned as Self
2016 Hail, Caesar! as Director
2016 Sister Cities as Dr. Timmins
2016 Baskets as Uncle Jim (5 episodes)
2014 Return to Zero as Gerry
2014 Merkin Penal as Sargent Sacrifice
2014 Scorpion as General Talbertse (1 episode)
2014 Mixels as Major Nixel, Turg, Wuzzo (1 episode)
2014 Mixels as Major Nixel, Tuth, Sharx (1 episode)
2013 Queen City as Bernie Donovan
2013 Willow Creek as Ranger Troy Andrews
2013 Robosapien: Rebooted as Admiral Victor
2012 Heal Thyself as Dennis Hill
2012 1600 Penn as General Harrigan (3 episodes)
2012 Longmire as Abel 'Jenk' Jenkins (1 episode)
2011 Valley of the Sun as Myron McGill
2011 Hopelessly in June as Frankie Flowers
2011 Annie Claus Is Coming to Town as Santa
2011 Son of Morning as Ned Jensen
2011 Little Murder as Captain
2011 From the Head as Jim
2010 How to Make Love to a Woman as Mr. Conners
2010 Justified as Owen Carnes (1 episode)
2009 Falling Up as John O'Shea
2009 Mending Fences as Hank Bentley
2009 Castle as Sheriff Sloan (1 episode)
2008 Crash and Burn as Winston Manny
2008 The Man Who Came Back as The Warden
2008 Gemini Division
2008 Raising the Bar as Rex (1 episode)
2007 Planet Raptor as Sgt. Pappy Mathis
2007 Richard III as Ringside Announcer
2007 Harpies as Vorian
2007 Claire as Harry Bannion
2007 Moving McAllister as Mr. Robinson
2007 Mad Men as Len McKenzie (1 episode)
2007 John from Cincinnati
2007 Dirty Sexy Money as Larry Foundry (1 episode)
2007 Chuck as General Merriweather (1 episode)
2006 The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde as Lt. Hamilton
2006 The Christmas Card as Richard
2006 Big John as Self
2006 The Enigma with a Stigma as Bill Herman
2005 Frostbite as Colonel Jaffe
2005 American Black Beauty as Mayor Bart Williams
2005 Alien Apocalypse as President Demsky
2005 Kicking & Screaming as Clark
2005 Confessions of an Action Star as (uncredited)
2004 Employee of the Month as Bill Gartin
2004 Surviving Christmas as Suit
2004 John Carpenter: The Man and His Movies as Self
2004 Los Angeles Plays Itself as Duty Sergeant in Escape From L.A. (archive footage)
2004 Raptor Island as The Captain
2004 Hair High as Coach (voice)
2004 The Perfect Husband: The Laci Peterson Story as Ron Grantski
2004 Patients as Callie's Dad
2004 Deadwood as Con Stapleton (25 episodes)
2004 Desperate Housewives as Jeff (2 episodes)
2003 Detonator as U.S. Attorney Fred Goldenberg
2003 Seabiscuit as Reporter Max
2003 Carnivàle as Lou Edwards (1 episode)
2003 Cold Case as Charlie Gleason (1 episode)
2003 NCIS as SGM Robert King (2 episodes)
2003 Arrested Development as Mr. Jordan (1 episode)
2003 Arrested Development as Storage Dave (3 episodes)
2003 Mister Sterling
2002 Hard Cash as The Counter Boss
2002 Undisputed as Oakland TV Announcer
2002 13th Child as Coroner
2002 The Rose Technique as Detective Atwood
2002 Adaptation. as Defense Attorney
2002 Almost a Woman as Mr. Fuller
2002 Live from Baghdad as Stu
2001 Out of the Wilderness as Judge Battle
2001 Ghosts of Mars as Engineer McSimms
2001 Cahoots as Eddie
2000 Mystery Kids as Monte Harrington
2000 Titus as Ridge (2 episodes)
2000 Jackie Chan Adventures as Farmer MacDonald (voice) (1 episode)
2000 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation as Walter Gersh (1 episode)
1999 Batman Beyond: The Movie as Coach Creagar (voice)
1999 Batman Beyond as Coach Creagar (voice) (1 episode)
1999 Providence as Frank Moore (1 episode)
1999 The New Woody Woodpecker Show as Mr. Lux (voice) (1 episode)
1999 The New Woody Woodpecker Show as Dog Announcer (voice) (1 episode)
1999 The New Woody Woodpecker Show as Captain Goodlife /Wimpole (voice) (1 episode)
1999 The New Woody Woodpecker Show as Rock Granite (voice) (1 episode)
1998 Air America as Mark McCormick (1 episode)
1997 Dante's Peak as Norman Gates
1997 Murder One: Diary of a Serial Killer as Mr. Sheehy
1997 Perversions of Science as Priest (1 episode)
1997 Mike Hammer, Private Eye
1997 The New Batman Adventures as Manny (voice) (2 episodes)
1996 Escape from L.A. as Duty Sergeant
1996 The Glimmer Man as Millie’s Father
1996 Valley Girls as Cop
1996 Women: Stories of Passion as Joan's Husband (1 episode)
1996 Nash Bridges as Frank (3 episodes)
1996 Arli$$ as Marty Polk (1 episode)
1995 In the Mouth of Madness as Mr. Paul
1995 Village of the Damned as Ben Blum
1995 Rage as Griggs
1995 The Demolitionist as Higgins
1995 Congo as Mr. Janus
1995 Mortal Kombat as Master Boyd
1995 Wild Bill as Dave McCandless
1995 JAG as Randy Hamill (1 episode)
1995 Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child as The Royal Treasurer (voice) (1 episode)
1995 A Whole New Ballgame
1995 The Naked Truth as Senator Wilburn (1 episode)
1995 Murder One as Mr. Sheehy (1 episode)
1994 Deconstructing Sarah as Cliff
1993 Body Bags as Gent
1993 Working with Orson Welles as Himself
1993 Kung Fu: The Legend Continues as Lou (1 episode)
1993 Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman as Travis Stone (1 episode)
1992 Batman: The Animated Series as Mason (voice) (1 episode)
1991 Herman's Head as Fritz (1 episode)
1990 Arachnophobia as Henry Beechwood
1990 Marked for Death as Pete Stone
1990 The Hunt for Red October as Commander, USS Reuben James (uncredited)
1989 Johnny Handsome as Mr. Bonet
1989 Jack in the Box as Reese
1989 From the Dead of Night
1989 Quantum Leap as Kilpatrick (1 episode)
1989 Coach as Harry Heftler (1 episode)
1988 They Live as Gilbert
1988 Red Heat as TV Announcer
1988 Alien Nation as Fedorchuk
1988 Sunset as Frank Coe
1988 Roseanne
1988 Annie McGuire
1988 Dear John as Bill Conners (1 episode)
1987 The Betty Ford Story as Counselor
1987 Prince of Darkness as Dr. Paul Leahy
1987 Party Camp as Sarge
1987 A Different World as Mr. Schmect (1 episode)
1987 Married... with Children as Manager (1 episode)
1986 Heartbreak Ridge as Major G.F. Devin
1986 Hyper Sapien: People from Another Star
1986 Eat or Be Eaten
1986 Amazing Stories as Commander
1985 Command 5 as Warden Bryan
1985 Brewster's Millions as Chuck Fleming
1985 A Reason to Live as Dick Biheller
1985 Izzy & Moe as Bartender
1985 The Golden Girls as Policeman (1 episode)
1985 Amazing Stories as commander (1 episode)
1984 Oxford Blues as Mr. De Angelo
1984 Mister Roberts as Chief Johnson
1984 Dreamscape as Babcock
1984 Streets of Fire as Ardmore Cop Harry
1984 The Karate Kid as Soccer Coach
1984 Impulse as Man in Truck
1984 Angel as The John
1984 Murder, She Wrote as Vincent Nader (1 episode)
1984 Cover Up
1983 Starflight: The Plane That Couldn't Land as Schultie
1983 Scarecrow and Mrs. King as Brockett (1 episode)
1982 48 Hrs. as Cowboy Bartender
1982 Some Kind of Hero as Honcho #1
1982 Trick or Treats as Malcolm O'Keefe
1982 Butterfly as Allen
1982 Remington Steele as Foreman (1 episode)
1982 Silver Spoons as Agent McConnell (1 episode)
1982 Cagney & Lacey as Leonard Nolan (1 episode)
1982 Filthy Rich
1982 Remington Steele as Martin Rome (1 episode)
1981 Splendor in the Grass as Coach
1981 Texas Lightning as Frank Whitman
1981 Mommie Dearest as Pepsi Executive #4
1981 Nice Dreams as Det. Drooler
1981 Beyond the Universe
1980 The Golden Moment: An Olympic Love Story as TV Reporter
1980 Alcatraz: The Whole Shocking Story as Lt. Micklin
1980 Enola Gay: The Men, the Mission, the Atomic Bomb
1980 Angel on My Shoulder
1980 The Baltimore Bullet as Bert
1980 The Long Riders as The Pinkertons
1979 The Illegal
1979 Disaster on the Coastliner as LeBoux
1979 B. J. and the Bear
1979 Knots Landing as Security Expert (1 episode)
1979 Hart to Hart as Policeman (1 episode)
1979 Hart to Hart as McCoy (1 episode)
1978 With This Ring as Dirk
1978 The Driver as Commuter
1977 The Incredible Hulk as Bennett (1 episode)
1975 One Day at a Time
1975 Starsky & Hutch as Fred Oates (2 episodes)
1972 Kung Fu as Townsman (uncredited) (1 episode)
1970 Rio Lobo as Lt. Ned Forsythe
1968 Shadow on the Land as Man at Airport (uncredited)
1968 Hawaii Five-O as Jack Rigney (1 episode)
1968 Land of the Giants as Mylo (1 episode)
1967 A Bell for Adano as Duty Officer
1967 Judd for the Defense
1967 Cimarron Strip as Groom (1 episode)
1967 Cimarron Strip as David Arlyn (1 episode)
1965 The F.B.I. as Link (1 episode)
1964 Daniel Boone as Clint Bickford (1 episode)
1955 Gunsmoke as Cully Haimes (1 episode)
1955 Gunsmoke as Colt Gentry (1 episode)
1955 Gunsmoke as Pope (1 episode)
Back of Book as Roy Watkins
Knights of the Kitchen Table as Rick Stepjack (1 episode)

Production

2011 Hopelessly in June Co-Producer
1995 Village of the Damned Casting Director