Peter Jason was born on the 22nd of July in Hollywood, California. He spent the next 18 years on the beaches of southern cal mostly in front of his family home on the ocean in Balboa, Calif. Growing up at the beach helped form his easygoing love of life, people, and his pursuit of happiness. He attended Newport Beach Elementary School, Horace Ensign Junior High, and Newport Harbor HighSchool where he performed in his first play, "The Man Who Came To Dinner" playing the lead Sheridan Whiteside.Immediately following his curtain call he was "bit" and has not been  able to shake the acting bug since. Orange Coast College followed with many parts in many plays his favorite being Harold Hill in the "Music Man". Always active in sports he found he could now bring his physical talents to the stage. From O.C.C. Peter hitched-hiked to Peterborough, New Hampshire for a season of summer stock at the Peterborough Playhouse. Using his thumb once again he found himself in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he entered the drama department at Carnegie Institute  of Technology.  He feels that this is where he was given the technique to develop the talents he was born with.  After Pittsburgh, it was back to California to help start the South Coast Repertory Company in his hometown of Newport, where he played roles in "Sergeant Musgrave's Dance", "Moon for The Misbegotten", "Playboy of the Western World", and "Three Penny Opera." Then he was off to Hollywood with "Red Magic." When the SCRC went back to Newport Peter decided to stay on and give Hollywood a try. Finding work immediately on "The Red Skelton Show," he joined AFTRA. After more television roles in " Cimmeron Strip", "Gunsmoke" and "Judd for the Defense," he landed his first movie, "Rio Lobo," starring John Wayne and directed by Howard Hawks. The rest is history. TV shows, movies, plays, seven years in New York doing mostly commercials (over 300), then back to Hollywood to fill in the last 25 years with 100 plus films and hundreds of television shows, commercials and voiceovers. But what he really does for a living is "change clothes and look for parking." Peter credits his success in the business to the help of five very dear friends: Stacy Keach, Walter Hill, John and Sandy Carpenter, and Frank Marshall.