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Acting

Peter Lawford

Career: Active from 1931 to 2026, with a break from 1985 to 2025, busiest in 1952 and 1968 with 4 main titles each.

Leading roles: 35
top three billing

Average score: 59/100

Highest rated: It Should Happen to You
86/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 71 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Peter Lawford Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Contemporary Realism
3.0, average 5.4
Violence
2.7, average 4.1
Psychological
4.2, average 5.5
Scare
1.3, average 2.6

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Character-Driven 6
Romantic Comedy 5
Social Commentary 4
Historical Drama 4
Character Study 4
Classic Hollywood 4
Romance 3
Political Intrigue 3
Class Conflict 3
Classic Cinema 3
Witty Dialogue 3
Nostalgic Charm 3

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

108

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

2020s

1 title

Marilyn and the Mob

TV show · as archive footage

1990s

2 titles

The Rat Pack

TV show · as (archive footage)

Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker

as actor 'Advise and 'Consent' (archive footage) (uncredited)

1980s

2 titles · average score 45

Where Is Parsifal?

as Montague Chippendale

Body and Soul

45

as Big Man

1970s

18 titles · average score 48

Supertrain

50

TV show · as Quentin Fuller

The Love Boat

53

TV show · as Teddy Smith

Fantasy Island

73

as Grant Baines

Rosebud

42

as Lord Carter

The Jeffersons

80

TV show

The Phantom of Hollywood

55

as Roger Cross

Born Free

69

TV show · as John Forbes

A Step Out of Line

as Art Stoyer

Ellery Queen: Don't Look Behind You

as Ellery Queen

The Deadly Hunt

as Mason

One More Time

20

as Christopher Pepper / Lord Sydney Pepper

Togetherness

as Prince Solomon

1960s

30 titles · average score 58

Hook, Line and Sinker

45

as Dr. Scott Carter

The April Fools

47

as Ted Gunther

The Doris Day Show

44

TV show · as Dr. Peter Lawrence

Salt & Pepper

45

as Christopher Pepper

Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell

65

as Justin Young

How I Spent My Summer Vacation

56

as Ned Pine

Dead Run

as Stephen Daine

Dead Ringer

69

as Tony Collins

Bewitched

69

TV show · as Harrison Woolcott

Advise & Consent

79

as Senator Lafe Smith

Ocean's Eleven

59

as Jimmy Foster

Exodus

67

as Maj. Caldwell

1950s

18 titles · average score 64

Never So Few

44

as Capt. Grey Travis, Doctor

The Thin Man

73

TV show · as Nick Charles

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

86

TV show · as Charles 'Charlie' Ffolliot Raymond

as Tom Macy

It Should Happen to You

86

as Evan Adams III

Dear Phoebe

TV show · as Bill Hastings

Rogue's March

60

as Capt. Dion Lenbridge

Kangaroo

41

as Richard Connor

The Hour of 13

62

as Nicholas Revel

Just This Once

59

as Mark MacLene IV

You for Me

58

as Tony Brown

Royal Wedding

78

as John Brindale

1940s

35 titles · average score 66

Little Women

69

as Theodore "Laurie" Laurence

The Red Danube

66

as Major John 'Twingo' McPhimister

Easter Parade

83

as Jonathan Harrow III

On an Island with You

54

as Lawrence Kingslee

Julia Misbehaves

65

as Ritchie Lorgan

Good News

64

as Tommy Marlowe

It Happened in Brooklyn

71

as Jamie Shellgrove

My Brother Talks to Horses

68

as John S. Penrose

Cluny Brown

84

as Andrew Carmel

Two Sisters from Boston

61

as Lawrence Tyburt Patterson Jr.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

75

as David Stone

Son of Lassie

63

as Joe Carraclough

1930s

2 titles · average score 56

Lord Jeff

56

as Benny Potter

Poor Old Bill

as Horace