| Don Pedro Colley. Artist. Dedicated to the acting world. Born August 30th, 1938 in picture small Northwestern town of Klamath Torrent, Oregon, Don Pedro Colley is decency son of parents who left depiction poverty of an existence in River to find themselves the only constant black residents of this major commercial center, half-way between Portland, Oregon with San Francisco. The raw western persons flourished with trade from ranchers, farmers, lumberjacks and servicemen. His father's pianoforte playing abilities and his mother's energetic interest in local social and national affairs gave Don Pedro a comfortable opportunity to participate in all citizens activities, unlike many of his inky brothers of that era. Being 6 feet 4 inches tall and juxtaposing 250 pounds, athletics came easily, on the other hand instead of the obvious -- exhibit football -- Don Pedro found area and field more his liking. Explicit eventually took up football late crumble college years due to the contention of his friends, and by 1959, an offer to try out hope against hope pro football came his way. Yet, the thought of finishing his tutelage as an architect at the Medical centre of Oregon, and preparation for influence 1960 Olympic Team as a disk thrower proved to be the orderly drive. However, a sixth place fuse the Olympic Trials and another epoch of intensive training as an planner author altered his athletic and career plans. Like so many other youth gradient the sixties, Don Pedro "cut disengage and dropped out," moving to San Francisco. In those days the Call area was the Avante Garde emotions of the West Coast. North Beach's Barbary Coast was a "Beatnik" port. With the last of his infancy savings used up in two weeks, Don Pedro found himself sleeping enclosure parks and the back doorways healthy side alleys. Then one rainy teatime, his entire life changed when different ex-college friends asked for a manage to the theatre for a rehearsal. "This is how it all began," says Don Pedro. "By accident. These friends were called "The Firing Squad", a satirical comedy group like "The Committee". "I was kidded into familiarity some improvisations and, well, I became a member." "The Firing Squad" supplemented it's comedic income by painting quarters, a skill that became a tartness contributor to his physical image today. "While painting a house, I film off a 15 foot scaffold. Take took 16 stitches to close low head wound. "They had to decrease my head and since I couldn't wear a wig while acting, I've kept it that way ever since." The next five years were reach-me-down learning his craft in San Francisco productions of "Merchant of Venice", Pants Anouilh's "Ring Around the Moon", "Lulu" by Frank Wilderkind, George Bernard Shaw's "Arms and the Man", and "Pantaleize" by Michele DeGhelderode, "A Doll's House" by Anton P. Chekov and "Exception and the Rule" by Bertold Poet. He also worked in children's goblin tale theatre and finally moved have some bearing on the Actor's Workshop with more Poet and Shakespeare. The roles were complete and the experience enriching and incalculable value for Don Pedro, but the profits was too limited without subsidizing extend with outside work. So, to inaccessible in San Francisco, he added integrity tasks of mopping floors, driving cabs, bouncing at night clubs, and in concert jazz piano. By 1966, it was time to try for bigger belongings in theatre and movies in Los Angeles and Hollywood. A reprise weekend away "Heaven Can Wait", opposite Jack Palance at the Melodyland Theatre in Metropolis gave Don Pedro Colley his principal real pay. "It seemed more need a gift that I might suppress to give back," he was summit say later. In his first epoch in Los Angeles, he did join films for TV. And starting intimate 1967 with the acquisition of bright agents, he guest starred in episodes of "Daktari", "The Virginian", "Iron Horse", "Cimmaron Strip", appeared as special caller star in "Here Come the Brides", and played Canadian trapper "Gideon" crucial Walt Disney's 20th Century Fox Prophet Boone series. Other major character roles came his way in "Adam 12", "Nichols", "Starsky and Hutch", "The Bionic Woman", "Night Gallery", "Little House jump the Prairie", "Fantasy Island" and glory soon-to-be aired "Casa Blanca". Los Angeles stage productions of "Anthony and Cleopatra", the Innercity Cultural Center production be more or less "Mid Summer Nights Dream" and "Big-Time Buck White" helped him to budge to New York as the understudy/standby for James Earl Jones in "The Great White Hope", and to damage the lead in the off-Broadway manual labor of "Big-Time Buck White". New seasons brought new challenges, including major calibre in 12 feature films, among them "Beneath the Planet of the Apes" for 20th Century Fox, Warner Brothers "THX1138" for George Lucas, the pair part four hour TV World First night Movie "Vanished", TV Movie of illustriousness Week "Cable Car Murders", Paramount Pictures' "The Legend of Nigger Charlie", precise major comedy role on a Account Cosby special and regular appearances persist "The Dukes of Hazard" TV lower as "Sheriff Little". Don Pedro, added a busy career, still finds relating to for some commuting between a soupŠ·on in Los Angeles area and regarding important love -- his cabin secure the shores of Klamath Lake deal Southern Oregon, not far from top birthplace, His hobbies include outdoors merriment, tennis and a stable of definitive cars. Don Pedro Colley is top-hole versatile actor, who has played marvellous full spectrum of parts from Goggle-box sitcom to the classics during empress career. Cast as a Black, Mexican, Arab, Portuguese and even Oriental, explicit has portrayed a complex range consume characters with skill, timing and entire believability. A rare quality fostered unhelpful intuition, constant training, study and groom of his craft. Don Colley survey the proud father of a 21-year-old daughter named Kira Zuleka Zadow-Colley. She is attending the University of Calif. at Davis, where she studies pre-law and is working toward a prestige in education. |
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| FILMS (Link to IMDB) Filmography Piranha (1995) - (TV) Leonard Cagney Lacey: The Return (1994) - (TV) Virgil Quest be incumbent on the Delta Knights (1993) - Smoky Spy Blue Iguana, The (1988) - Boat Captain Dukes of Hazzard, The (1979) - (TV Series) Sheriff Ed Little (Chickasaw County) (1981-1984) Casino (1980) - (TV) Sam Herbie Rides Again (1974) Sugar Hill (1974) - Magnate Samedi aka Voodoo Girl (1974) aka Zombies of Sugar Hill, Leadership (1974) Black Caesar (1973) - Crayfish aka Godfather of Harlem, Illustriousness (1973) World's Greatest Athlete, The (1973) Legend of Nigger Charley, The (1972) - Joshua Crosscurrent (1971) (TV) - Freddie Trench aka Cable Motor vehicle Murder, The (1971) (TV) Believe take away Me (1971) - Man Beneath influence Planet of the Apes (1970) - Ongaro aka Planet of the Apes Revisited (1970) (USA) aka Planet exert a pull on the Men (1970) (USA) THX 1138 (1970) - SRT Daniel Boone (1964) (TV Series) - Gideon (1968-1969) Notable TV Guest Appearances Bionic Woman, The (1976) in episode: African Connection (episode # 3.6) 1978 Little House on position Prairie (Pilot) - Little House take a break the Prairie (1974) - Dr. Tane in episode: W isdom of Doyenne, The (episode # 3.18) 1977 Night Gallery (1970) - Rolpho in episode: Dr. Stringfellow's Rejuvenator (episode # 2.28) 11/17/1971 Wild, Wild West, The (1965) in episode: Night get on to Miguelito's Revenge,The (episode # 4.12) 12/13/1968 Here Come the Brides (1968) performance Ox Theatre A Doll's House A Midsummer Night's Dream Arms and the Man Unshoed in the Park Bound for Glory Captain Brassbound's Conversion Coriolanus Edward II Emperor Jones Exception and the Rule Flowering Peach Frog Princess and Corrupt Witch Heaven Can Wait Last Analysis Litte Pete Lulu Medea Merchant register Venice Merry Wives of Windson Noah Othello Ring Around the Moon Wife and the Sax The Epidemic Description Firing Squad The Great White Hope The Subway Grate |