Lost Actor Found: Who Was Peter Carpenter?

Peter Carpenter
July 25, 1939 - April 02, 1996

(This is my second rumination on actor Peter Carpenter. If you'd like, you can click here to read the other one first)

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"Whatever happened to Peter Carpenter," I still wonder. 

Unfortunately, what happened to actor-singer-dancer-producer-writer Peter Carpenter has never been one of Hollywood's more infamous, hotly discussed unsolved mysteries. He was just a handsome aspiring entertainer of a certain era who acted in a few films. Then he was never heard from again.

Lost Actor: What Happened to Peter Carpenter?

Peter Carpenter in BLOOD MANIA (1970)

Peter Carpenter was a young-ish actor who starred in two exploitation classics—Blood Mania (1970) and Point of Terror (1971)—before vanishing from the face of the earth—leaving behind very few hard facts in regard to his life and death.

"Whatever happened to Peter Carpenter?" I often wonder.

Well, not that often. But every now and then, I check in with my sources to find out if any new light has been shed on this enigmatic, obscure star of yesteryear.