From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Peter Jason, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

• 2026The Cowboy Killer — Paul
• 2025Christmas at Mistletoe Manor — Louis
• 2024Barney & Herb — Herb
• 2022We Are Gathered Here Today — Henry Stone
• 2021Deep in the Forest — Mark Goodman
• 2020The Assent — Father Lambert
• 2019Deadwood: The Movie — Con Stapleton
• 2019Heavenly Deposit — Steven
• 2018Get Married or Die — Frank
• 2018High & Outside: A Baseball Noir — Harold
• 2018Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom — Senator Sherwood
• 2018The Other Side of the Wind — Grover
• 2017The Nth Ward — Jeffrey
• 2017The Terror of Hallow's Eve — Dr. Hamilton
• Baskets — Uncle Jim
• 2016Hail, Caesar! — Director
• 2016Sister Cities — Dr. Timmins
• 2015Welcome to Forever — Spokesman
• 2014Merkin Penal — Sargent Sacrifice
• Mixels — Major Nixel, Tuth, Sharx, Major Nixel, Turg, Wuzzo
• 2014Return to Zero — Gerry
• Scorpion — General Talbertse
• 2013Queen City — Bernie Donovan
• 2013Robosapien: Rebooted — Admiral Victor
• 2013Willow Creek — Ranger Troy Andrews
• 1600 Penn — General Harrigan
• 2012Heal Thyself — Dennis Hill
• Longmire — Abel 'Jenk' Jenkins
• 2011Annie Claus Is Coming to Town — Santa
• 2011From the Head — Jim
• 2011Hopelessly in June — Frankie Flowers, Co-Producer
• 2011Little Murder — Captain
• 2011Son of Morning — Ned Jensen
• 2011Valley of the Sun — Myron McGill
• 2010How to Make Love to a Woman — Mr. Conners
• Justified — Owen Carnes
• Castle — Sheriff Sloan
• 2009Falling Up — John O'Shea
• 2009Mending Fences — Hank Bentley
• 2008Crash and Burn — Winston Manny
• Gemini Division
• Raising the Bar — Rex
• 2008The Man Who Came Back — The Warden
• Chuck — General Merriweather
• 2007Claire — Harry Bannion
• Dirty Sexy Money — Larry Foundry
• 2007Harpies — Vorian
• John from Cincinnati — Car Salesman
• Mad Men — Len McKenzie
• 2007Moving McAllister — Mr. Robinson
• 2007Planet Raptor — Sgt. Pappy Mathis
• 2007Richard III — Ringside Announcer
• 2006The Christmas Card — Richard
• 2006The Enigma with a Stigma — Bill Herman
• 2006The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde — Lt. Hamilton
• 2005Alien Apocalypse — President Demsky
• 2005American Black Beauty — Mayor Bart Williams
• 2005Confessions of an Action Star — (uncredited)
• 2005Frostbite — Colonel Jaffe
• 2005Kicking & Screaming — Clark
• Deadwood — Con Stapleton
• Desperate Housewives — Jeff
• 2004Employee of the Month — Bill Gartin
• 2004Hair High — Coach (voice)
• 2004Patients — Callie's Dad
• 2004Raptor Island — The Captain
• 2004Surviving Christmas — Suit
• 2004The Perfect Husband: The Laci Peterson Story — Ron Grantski
• Arrested Development — Mr. Jordan, Storage Dave
• Carnivàle — Lou Edwards
• Cold Case — Charlie Gleason
• 2003Detonator — U.S. Attorney Fred Goldenberg
• Mister Sterling
• NCIS — Robert King
• 2003Seabiscuit — Reporter Max
• 200213th Child — Coroner
• 2002Adaptation. — Defense Attorney
• 2002Almost a Woman — Mr. Fuller
• 2002Hard Cash — The Counter Boss
• 2002Live from Baghdad — Stu
• 2002The Rose Technique — Detective Atwood
• 2002Undisputed — Oakland TV Announcer
• 2001Cahoots — Eddie
• 2001Ghosts of Mars — Engineer McSimms
• 2001Out of the Wilderness — Judge Battle
• CSI: Crime Scene Investigation — Walter Gersh
• Jackie Chan Adventures — Farmer MacDonald (voice)
• 2000Murder in the Mirror — Clark Snowdon
• 2000Mystery Kids — Monte Harrington
• Titus — Ridge
• Batman Beyond — Coach Creagar (voice)
• 1999Batman Beyond: The Movie — Coach Creagar (voice)
• Providence — Frank Moore
• The New Woody Woodpecker Show — Mr. Lux (voice), Dog Announcer (voice), Captain Goodlife /Wimpole (voice), Rock Granite (voice)
• Air America — Mark McCormick
• 1997Dante's Peak — Norman Gates
• 1997Java Heads: The Movie
• Mike Hammer, Private Eye
• 1997Murder One: Diary of a Serial Killer — Mr. Sheehy
• Perversions of Science — Priest
• The New Batman Adventures — Manny (voice)
• Arli$$ — Marty Polk
• 1996Escape from L.A. — Duty Sergeant
• Nash Bridges — Frank
• 1996The Glimmer Man — Millie’s Father
• 1996Valley Girls — Cop
• Women: Stories of Passion — Joan's Husband
• A Whole New Ballgame
• 1995Congo — Mr. Janus
• Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child — The Royal Treasurer (voice)
• 1995In the Mouth of Madness — Mr. Paul
• JAG — Randy Hamill
• 1995Mortal Kombat — Master Boyd
• Murder One — Mr. Sheehy
• 1995Rage — Griggs
• 1995The Demolitionist — Higgins
• The Naked Truth — Senator Wilburn
• 1995Village of the Damned — Ben Blum, Casting Director
• 1995Wild Bill — Dave McCandless
• 1994Deconstructing Sarah — Cliff
• 1993Body Bags — Gent
• Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman — Travis Stone
• Kung Fu: The Legend Continues — Lou
• Batman: The Animated Series — Mason (voice)
• Herman's Head — Fritz
• 1990Arachnophobia — Henry Beechwood
• 1990Marked for Death — Pete Stone
• 1990The Hunt for Red October — Commander, USS Reuben James (uncredited)
• Coach — Harry Heftler
• 1989From the Dead of Night
• 1989Jack in the Box — Reese
• 1989Johnny Handsome — Mr. Bonet
• Quantum Leap — Kilpatrick
• 1988Alien Nation — Fedorchuk
• Annie McGuire
• Dear John — Bill Conners
• 1988Red Heat — TV Announcer
• Roseanne
• 1988Sunset — Frank Coe
• 1988They Live — Gilbert
• A Different World — Mr. Schmect
• 1987Laguna Heat — Chief Hanover
• Married... with Children — Manager
• 1987Party Camp — Sarge
• 1987Prince of Darkness — Dr. Paul Leahy
• 1987The Betty Ford Story — Counselor
• 1986Amazing Stories — Commander
• 1986Eat or Be Eaten
• 1986Heartbreak Ridge — Major G.F. Devin
• 1986Hyper Sapien: People from Another Star
• 1985A Reason to Live — Dick Biheller
• Amazing Stories — commander
• 1985Brewster's Millions — Chuck Fleming
• 1985Command 5 — Warden Bryan
• 1985Izzy & Moe — Bartender
• The Golden Girls — Policeman
• 1984Angel — The John
• Cover Up
• 1984Dreamscape — Babcock
• 1984Impulse — Man in Truck
• 1984Mister Roberts — Chief Johnson
• Murder, She Wrote — Vincent Nader
• 1984Oxford Blues — Mr. De Angelo
• 1984Streets of Fire — Ardmore Cop Harry
• 1984The Karate Kid — Soccer Coach
• Scarecrow and Mrs. King — Brockett
• 1983Starflight: The Plane That Couldn't Land — Schultie
• 198248 Hrs. — Cowboy Bartender
• 1982Butterfly — Allen
• Cagney & Lacey — Leonard Nolan
• Filthy Rich
• Remington Steele — Foreman, Martin Rome
• Silver Spoons — Agent McConnell
• 1982Some Kind of Hero — Honcho #1
• 1982Trick or Treats — Malcolm O'Keefe
• 1981Beyond the Universe
• 1981Mommie Dearest — Pepsi Executive #4
• 1981Nice Dreams — Det. Drooler
• 1981Splendor in the Grass — Coach
• 1981Texas Lightning — Frank Whitman
• 1980Alcatraz: The Whole Shocking Story — Lt. Micklin
• 1980Angel on My Shoulder
• 1980Enola Gay: The Men, the Mission, the Atomic Bomb
• 1980The Baltimore Bullet — Bert
• 1980The Golden Moment: An Olympic Love Story — TV Reporter
• 1980The Long Riders — The Pinkertons
• B. J. and the Bear — Ansel
• 1979Disaster on the Coastliner — LeBoux
• Hart to Hart — Policeman, McCoy
• Knots Landing — Security Expert
• 1979The Illegal
• 1978The Driver — Commuter
• 1978With This Ring — Dirk
• The Incredible Hulk — Bennett
• One Day at a Time
• Starsky & Hutch — Fred Oates
• Kung Fu — Townsman (uncredited)
• 1970Rio Lobo — Lt. Ned Forsythe
• Hawaii Five-O — Jack Rigney
• Land of the Giants — Mylo
• 1968Shadow on the Land — Man at Airport (uncredited)
• 1967A Bell for Adano — Duty Officer
• Cimarron Strip — Groom, David Arlyn
• Judd, for the Defense
• The F.B.I. — Link
• Daniel Boone — Clint Bickford
• Gunsmoke — Cully Haimes, Colt Gentry, Pope
• Back of Book — Roy Watkins
• Knights of the Kitchen Table — Rick Stepjack

Appearances as themselves (8)

• 2018Malevolent: Unearthing John Carpenter's Prince of Darkness — Self
• 2018Subversion: Exposing John Carpenter's They Live — Self
• 2018They'll Love Me When I'm Dead — Self
• 2016It Takes a Village: The Making of Village of the Damned — Self
• 2006Big John — Self
• 2004John Carpenter: The Man and His Movies — Self
• 2001Red Desert Nights: Making Ghosts of Mars — Self
• 1993Working with Orson Welles — Himself