Peter Barton
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Peter Thomas Barton is an American actor. In the 1980s and 1990s, he starred in The Powers of Matthew Star
, with Louis Gossett, Jr.
; Burke's Law
with Gene Barry
; and the soap opera
Sunset Beach
. Named one of the 10 sexiest guys in soaps by Playgirl
, Barton is probably best known as Dr. Scott Grainger on the daytime drama The Young and the Restless
.
from One Hundred and One Dalmatians
(1961). He was a graduate of Valley Stream North High School
, where he played soccer and wrestled. After graduation he attended Nassau Community College
and was later accepted into St. John's University's medical school. But, just before signing up for classes, he got cold feet and instead decided to pursue a career in modeling and acting.
, Shirley, starring Shirley Jones
, Rosanna Arquette
, and Tracey Gold
. The show only ran for 13 episodes, but was great family entertainment. The studio connected him with prominent acting coach Vincent Chase
, and when the series ended, he was cast as the lead in another NBC series, The Powers of Matthew Star
. He beat out Tom Cruise
for the role.
In the 1980s, teen magazines were looking for the next big cover and he was that hearthrob. He was on the cover of every teen magazine available, typicallly in some sort of sexy pose without his shirt on. He has also appeared on many TV shows and daytime soap operas like the Young and the Restless.
Dr. Scott Grainger showed up on the scene in Genoa City in the late 80′s and fell in love with one of his patient’s daughters. They became engaged until they discovered that he was her half-brother. Gross. Scott moved on and married Lauren but also messed around with crazy nurse Sheila. Slut. Both women became pregnant with Scott’s child. Crazy Sheila’s baby was born stillborn so of course she stole Lauren’s baby and pretended it was her own. Scott married Sheila and then he eventually died. Scott Grainger is still mentioned from time to time on The Young & the Restless.
His other acting work has included films such as the 1981
horror film Hell Night
, the 1984
horror movie Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter
, and the 2005
film Repetition.
and The Love Boat
.
By the end of '83, it had all dried up. That whole experience - I was going up and down, like on a roller coaster. I was on such an incredible high - no drugs, just high - that when I came out the other side I crashed. That's when I wanted to give up acting, and that's when The Final Chapter came along. I had just been talked into doing this movie called Hell Night, with Linda Blair
. I didn't even want to do it - they had to get me drunk to convince me. So it was a miserable time, and it was a great time. I wouldn't exchange the experience of making Hell Night, even though I was petrified all the way through it. So when The Final Chapter was offered to me, I was like, 'I don't really want to do Friday the 13th.' Eventually, I only did it because of Amy Steel - she talked me into it. And I thought it was really cool because it was The Final Chapter. In my mind, I thought, 'Oh, I'll be in the last one. That's kind of cool. These things are famous.' Little did I know." p.102
The Powers of Matthew Star
The Powers of Matthew Star is an American sci-fi television series that aired from September 17, 1982 through April 8, 1983, on NBC. It starred Peter Barton The Powers of Matthew Star is an American sci-fi television series that aired from September 17, 1982 through April 8, 1983, on NBC. It...
, with Louis Gossett, Jr.
Louis Gossett, Jr.
Louis Cameron Gossett, Jr. is an American actor best known for his role as Gunnery Sergeant Emil Foley in the 1982 film An Officer and a Gentleman and Fiddler in the 1970s television miniseries Roots...
; Burke's Law
Burke's Law
Burke's Law is a detective series that ran on ABC from 1963 to 1965 and was revived on CBS in the 1990s. The show starred Gene Barry as Amos Burke, millionaire captain of Los Angeles police homicide division, who was chauffeured around to solve crimes in his Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud...
with Gene Barry
Gene Barry
Gene Barry was an American stage, screen, and television actor. Barry is best remembered for his leading roles in the films The Atomic City and The War of The Worlds and for his portrayal of the title character in the TV series Bat Masterson, among many roles.-Personal life:Barry was born...
; and the soap opera
Soap opera
A soap opera, sometimes called "soap" for short, is an ongoing, episodic work of dramatic fiction presented in serial format on radio or as television programming. The name soap opera stems from the original dramatic serials broadcast on radio that had soap manufacturers, such as Procter & Gamble,...
Sunset Beach
Sunset Beach (TV series)
Sunset Beach was an American television soap opera, first broadcast in the United States on NBC on January 6, 1997, and last airing on December 31, 1999. The show followed the loves and lives of the people living in a fictional coastal city named Sunset Beach, on the coast of California...
. Named one of the 10 sexiest guys in soaps by Playgirl
Playgirl
Playgirl is a print quarterly adult magazine published in the United States that is marketed mainly to heterosexual women, but has also gained a considerable gay following...
, Barton is probably best known as Dr. Scott Grainger on the daytime drama The Young and the Restless
The Young and the Restless
The Young and the Restless is an American television soap opera created by William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell for CBS. The show is set in a fictional Wisconsin town called Genoa City, which is unlike and unrelated to the real life village of the same name, Genoa City, Wisconsin...
.
Early life
Originally from Valley Stream, Long Island, as a youngster, he was terrified of Cruella De VilCruella de Vil
Cruella de Vil is a fictional character and the iconic villain in Dodie Smith's 1956 novel The Hundred and One Dalmatians, Disney's 1961 animated film adaptation One Hundred and One Dalmatians, and Disney's live-action film adaptations 101 Dalmatians and 102 Dalmatians. In all her incarnations,...
from One Hundred and One Dalmatians
One Hundred and One Dalmatians
One Hundred and One Dalmatians, often abbreviated as 101 Dalmatians, is a 1961 American animated film produced by Walt Disney and based on the novel The Hundred and One Dalmatians by Dodie Smith...
(1961). He was a graduate of Valley Stream North High School
Valley Stream North High School
Valley Stream North High School is a public junior and senior high school in the hamlet of Franklin Square, New York in southwest Nassau County. It is part of the Valley Stream Central High School District. As of 2006, the school principal is Mr. Clifford Odell. The assistant principals are...
, where he played soccer and wrestled. After graduation he attended Nassau Community College
Nassau Community College
Nassau Community College is a two-year college. It is located in East Garden City, New York, USA. The school is in Nassau County on Long Island. NCC maintains a nationwide reputation for academic excellence and ease of transferability to four-year institutions.- History :Created as part of the...
and was later accepted into St. John's University's medical school. But, just before signing up for classes, he got cold feet and instead decided to pursue a career in modeling and acting.
Career
Even though he had no formal acting training, in 1979 he starred as Bill Miller in the short-lived TV seriesTelevision program
A television program , also called television show, is a segment of content which is intended to be broadcast on television. It may be a one-time production or part of a periodically recurring series...
, Shirley, starring Shirley Jones
Shirley Jones
Shirley Mae Jones is an American singer and actress of stage, film and television. In her six decades of television, she starred as wholesome characters in a number of well-known musical films, such as Oklahoma! , Carousel , and The Music Man...
, Rosanna Arquette
Rosanna Arquette
Rosanna Lauren Arquette is an American actress, film director, and producer.-Early life:Arquette was born in New York City, the daughter of Brenda Olivia "Mardi" , an actress, poet, theater operator, activist, acting teacher, and therapist, and Lewis Arquette, an actor and director. Her paternal...
, and Tracey Gold
Tracey Gold
Tracey Gold is an American actress and former child star best known for playing Carol Seaver on the 1980s sitcom Growing Pains. In early 2009, she co-hosted with Fred Roggin on the live show GSN Live.-Early life:...
. The show only ran for 13 episodes, but was great family entertainment. The studio connected him with prominent acting coach Vincent Chase
Vincent Chase
Vincent "Vince" Chase is a fictional character on the comedy-drama television series Entourage. He is played by Adrian Grenier.-Personal life:...
, and when the series ended, he was cast as the lead in another NBC series, The Powers of Matthew Star
The Powers of Matthew Star
The Powers of Matthew Star is an American sci-fi television series that aired from September 17, 1982 through April 8, 1983, on NBC. It starred Peter Barton The Powers of Matthew Star is an American sci-fi television series that aired from September 17, 1982 through April 8, 1983, on NBC. It...
. He beat out Tom Cruise
Tom Cruise
Thomas Cruise Mapother IV , better known as Tom Cruise, is an American film actor and producer. He has been nominated for three Academy Awards and he has won three Golden Globe Awards....
for the role.
In the 1980s, teen magazines were looking for the next big cover and he was that hearthrob. He was on the cover of every teen magazine available, typicallly in some sort of sexy pose without his shirt on. He has also appeared on many TV shows and daytime soap operas like the Young and the Restless.
Dr. Scott Grainger showed up on the scene in Genoa City in the late 80′s and fell in love with one of his patient’s daughters. They became engaged until they discovered that he was her half-brother. Gross. Scott moved on and married Lauren but also messed around with crazy nurse Sheila. Slut. Both women became pregnant with Scott’s child. Crazy Sheila’s baby was born stillborn so of course she stole Lauren’s baby and pretended it was her own. Scott married Sheila and then he eventually died. Scott Grainger is still mentioned from time to time on The Young & the Restless.
His other acting work has included films such as the 1981
1981 in film
-Events:*January 19 - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer acquires beleaguered concurrent United Artists. UA was humiliated by the astronomical losses on the $40,000,000 movie Heaven's Gate, a major factor in the decision of owner Transamerica to sell it....
horror film Hell Night
Hell Night
Hell Night is a 1981 American independent horror film . Tom DeSimone directed the film, which was written by Randy Feldman and stars Linda Blair. The film depicts a night of fraternity hazing set in an old manor, during which a deformed maniac terrorizes and murders many of the college students...
, the 1984
1984 in film
-Events:* The Walt Disney Company founds Touchstone Pictures to release movies with subject matter deemed inappropriate for the Disney name.* Tri-Star Pictures, a joint venture of Columbia Pictures, HBO, and CBS, releases its first film....
horror movie Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter
Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter
Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter is a 1984 slasher film. It is the fourth film in the Friday the 13th film series. Though it was billed as "The Final Chapter," there have been many further sequels in the franchise. The popularity and financial success of the film, which grossed over $32 million,...
, and the 2005
2005 in film
- Highest-grossing films :Please note that following the tradition of the English-language film industry, these are the top-grossing films that were first released in the United States in 2005...
film Repetition.
Quote From Peter Barton
"I started acting in 1979. By the end of '80, I was under contract with NBC. Then the teen magazines were so hungry for the next heartthrob that they pummeled me. I was on the cover of Tiger Beat, 16 Magazine, all of them. And here I was, twenty-two years old and NBC was saying I'm only nineteen. Then, just as my contract was running out, under obligation, they cast me in a series called The Powers of Matthew Starr. Amy Steel was in it. Then I did some guest spots on The Fall GuyThe Fall Guy
The Fall Guy is an American action/adventure television program produced for ABC and originally broadcast from November 4, 1981 to May 2, 1986. It starred Lee Majors, Douglas Barr, and Heather Thomas. Majors and Barr are the only two actors to appear in all 112 episodes of the series...
and The Love Boat
The Love Boat
The Love Boat is an American television series set on a cruise ship, which aired on the ABC Television Network from September 24,1977, until May 24,1986.The show starred Gavin MacLeod as the ship's captain...
.
By the end of '83, it had all dried up. That whole experience - I was going up and down, like on a roller coaster. I was on such an incredible high - no drugs, just high - that when I came out the other side I crashed. That's when I wanted to give up acting, and that's when The Final Chapter came along. I had just been talked into doing this movie called Hell Night, with Linda Blair
Linda Blair
Linda Denise Blair is an American actress. Blair is best known for her role as the possessed child, Regan, in the 1973 film The Exorcist, for which she was nominated for an Academy Award and two Golden Globes, winning one. She reprised her role in 1977's Exorcist II: The Heretic.-Biography:Blair...
. I didn't even want to do it - they had to get me drunk to convince me. So it was a miserable time, and it was a great time. I wouldn't exchange the experience of making Hell Night, even though I was petrified all the way through it. So when The Final Chapter was offered to me, I was like, 'I don't really want to do Friday the 13th.' Eventually, I only did it because of Amy Steel - she talked me into it. And I thought it was really cool because it was The Final Chapter. In my mind, I thought, 'Oh, I'll be in the last one. That's kind of cool. These things are famous.' Little did I know." p.102
Filmography
| Film | |||
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| Year | Film | ||
| 1980 | Stir Stir - Formation and major label signing :Stir was founded in 1994 as a three piece band at the University of Missouri, and consisted of lead vocalist and guitarist Andy Schmidt, bassist Kevin Gagnepain, and drummer Brad Booker... |
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| 1981 | Hell Night Hell Night Hell Night is a 1981 American independent horror film . Tom DeSimone directed the film, which was written by Randy Feldman and stars Linda Blair. The film depicts a night of fraternity hazing set in an old manor, during which a deformed maniac terrorizes and murders many of the college students... |
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| 1984 | Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter is a 1984 slasher film. It is the fourth film in the Friday the 13th film series. Though it was billed as "The Final Chapter," there have been many further sequels in the franchise. The popularity and financial success of the film, which grossed over $32 million,... |
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| 2001 | A Man Is Mostly Water | ||
| 2005 | Repetition | ||
Television
| Year | Show |
|---|---|
| 1979 | Shirley |
| 1982 | The Powers of Matthew Star The Powers of Matthew Star The Powers of Matthew Star is an American sci-fi television series that aired from September 17, 1982 through April 8, 1983, on NBC. It starred Peter Barton The Powers of Matthew Star is an American sci-fi television series that aired from September 17, 1982 through April 8, 1983, on NBC. It... |
| 1982 | The First Time First Time (TV series) First Time was a Philippine teen drama series developed by Kit Langit and directed by Andoy Ranay. The series premiered on GMA Network on February 8, 2010 starring Barbie Forteza and Joshua Dionisio, who were previously paired in Stairway to Heaven and Dear Friend: My Christmas List... |
| 1987 | Vanity Fair Vanity Fair (1987 TV serial) Vanity Fair was a BBC Pebble Mill Production consisting of 16 half-hour episodes. Shot on location and in studio. Locations included Winchester and Thetford. Virtually all the interiors where shot in Studio A at Pebble Mill.... |
| 1987 - 1983 | The Young and the Restless The Young and the Restless The Young and the Restless is an American television soap opera created by William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell for CBS. The show is set in a fictional Wisconsin town called Genoa City, which is unlike and unrelated to the real life village of the same name, Genoa City, Wisconsin... |
| 1993 | The Bold and the Beautiful The Bold and the Beautiful The Bold and the Beautiful is an American television soap opera created by William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell for CBS Daytime. It premiered on March 23, 1987.... |
| 1994 | Burke's Law Burke's Law Burke's Law is a detective series that ran on ABC from 1963 to 1965 and was revived on CBS in the 1990s. The show starred Gene Barry as Amos Burke, millionaire captain of Los Angeles police homicide division, who was chauffeured around to solve crimes in his Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud... |
| 1997 - 1998 | Sunset Beach Sunset Beach (TV series) Sunset Beach was an American television soap opera, first broadcast in the United States on NBC on January 6, 1997, and last airing on December 31, 1999. The show followed the loves and lives of the people living in a fictional coastal city named Sunset Beach, on the coast of California... |
Television Guest Appearances
| Year | Show |
|---|---|
| 1983 | Battle of the Network Stars XIV |
| 1984 | The Love Boat The Love Boat The Love Boat is an American television series set on a cruise ship, which aired on the ABC Television Network from September 24,1977, until May 24,1986.The show starred Gavin MacLeod as the ship's captain... |
| 1985 | The Fall Guy The Fall Guy The Fall Guy is an American action/adventure television program produced for ABC and originally broadcast from November 4, 1981 to May 2, 1986. It starred Lee Majors, Douglas Barr, and Heather Thomas. Majors and Barr are the only two actors to appear in all 112 episodes of the series... |
| 1987 | Rags to Riches Rags To Riches Rags to Riches is an American musical comedy drama series that was broadcast on NBC for two seasons from 1987 to 1988. Set in the 1960s, the series tells the story of Nick Foley, a self-made millionaire who adopts five orphan girls... |
| 1988 | The Ray Bradbury Theatre |
| 1993 | Family Feud Family Feud Family Feud is an American television game show created by Mark Goodson and Bill Todman. Two families compete against each other in a contest to name the most popular responses to a survey question posed to 100 people... |
| 1995 | University Hospital University hospital A university hospital is an institution which combines the services of a hospital with the education of medical students and with medical research. These hospitals are typically affiliated with a medical school or university... |
| 1996 | Pacific Blue Pacific Blue (TV series) Pacific Blue is an American crime drama series about a team of police officers with the Santa Monica Police Department who patrolled its beaches on bicycles. The show ran for five seasons on the USA Network, from March 2, 1996 to April 9, 2000, with a total of one hundred and one episodes... |
| 1998 | Love Boat: The Next Wave |
| 1999 | Baywatch Baywatch Baywatch is an American action drama series about the Los Angeles County Lifeguards who patrol the beaches of Los Angeles County, California, starring David Hasselhoff. The show ran in its original title and format from 1989 to 1999, sans the 1990-1991 season, of which it was not in production... |