Geoffrey Deuel, greatest identified for portraying famed outlaw Billy the Child within the 1970 John Wayne car Chisum, died Dec. 22 at age 81, per an official obituary.
The information was moreover confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter by spouse Jacqueline Deuel. The performer, youthful brother to Peter Duel (who grew to become identified for portraying Hannibal Heyes/Joshua Smith on the favored ABC Western Alias Smith and Jones previous to his suicide), died in hospice care in Florida following a battle with persistent obstructive pulmonary illness.
“He and Peter had been very shut,” Jacqueline Deuel instructed THR. “They actually liked one another and took care of one another.”
Deuel, who was born Jan. 17, 1943, largely appeared on tv in a wide range of sequence stretching from the late ’60s to mid-’70s. Amongst these credit are The Monkees, The Invaders, The F.B.I., The Manhunter, Medical Heart, Barnaby Jones, Mannix, Adam-12, The Mod Squad, Mission: Inconceivable, The Streets of San Francisco, Ironside, Cannon, The Younger and the Stressed, To Rome With Love and extra.
Born in Lockport, New York to a health care provider father and nurse mom, he was raised in close by Penfield. After attending Penfield Excessive College, Ithaca School and Syracuse College, Deuel adopted in his brother’s footsteps, starting his profession in Hollywood in 1965. The next yr, he appeared in an episode of ABC’s 12 O’Clock Excessive. Deuel and Duel, who was three years his senior, labored alongside each other on a 1971 episode of NBC’s The Title of the Sport.
Within the Nineteen Eighties, Deuel acted in performs in Tampa, Fla. and returned to increased schooling to earn a grasp’s diploma from the College of South Florida. Thereafter, he grew to become a substitute instructor.
He’s survived by his spouse — whom he married in 2017 after 4 a long time collectively — and youthful sister Pamela.
