Peter Mark Richman on AllMovie

One of four children of a South Philadelphia contractor/paperhanger, Peter Mark Richman excelled in sports and the arts while attending high school. After war service, Richman played semipro football, then attended the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science before finally settling on acting as a vocation. After stock experience, Richman was cast in such New York productions as End As a Man, The Rainmaker, A Hatful of Rain, and The Zoo Story. His first film appearance was in 1956's Friendly Persuasion, as the boyfriend of ingénue Phyllis Love. Though he had the looks and bearing of a romantic lead, Richman considered himself a journeyman character actor until he was cast as the hard-hitting lawyer hero of the 1961 racket-busting TV series Cain's Hundred, in which he was billed as plain Mark Richman. Since that time, Peter Mark Richman (as he is now billed) has been a regular on the weekly shows Longstreet and Dynasty, and a reliable white-collar villain in many another television series and theatrical-movie releases.