Peter Masterson, Actor, Director and ‘Best Little Whorehouse in Texas’ Writer, Dies at 84

Peter Masterson, the actor, director and writer from Houston known for his wide-ranging work on The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, The Trip to Bountiful, The Exorcist and The Stepford Wives, has died.

He was 84.Masterson suffered from Parkinson’s disease and died Wednesday at his home in Kinderhook, New York, after a fall, the Houston Chronicle reported.In The Stepford Wives (1975), Masterson portrayed Walter Eberhart, the husband of Katharine Ross’ character, and his real-life daughter, Mary Stuart Masterson, played 8-year-old Kim.In the Chronicle article, the actress called Masterson “the best father imaginable and a real inspiration to me creatively,…

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