Jeffrey Deuel, best known for portraying the famous outlaw Billy the Kid in the 1970 John Wayne vehicle Chisumdied on December 22 at the age of 81, according to an official obituary.
The news has also been confirmed to Hollywood Reporter From wife Jacqueline Deuel. Performer, younger brother of Peter Duel (who is best known for portraying Hannibal Hayes/Joshua Smith on the popular ABC Western Alias Smith and Jones Before his suicide), he died in a nursing home in Florida after a struggle with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
“He and Peter were very close,” Jacqueline Deuel said. THR. “They really loved each other and took care of each other.”
Deuel, who was born on January 17, 1943, appeared on television in a variety of series spanning the late 1960s to the mid-1970s. Among those credits Monkeys, Invaders, FBI, The hunter, Medical Center, Barnaby Jones, Manx, Adam-12, Mod band, Mission: impossible, Streets of San Francisco, Ironside, cannon, The young and the restless, To Rome with love And more.
He was born in Lockport, New York, to a doctor father and a nurse mother, and grew up in nearby Penfield. After attending Pennfield High School, Ithaca College and Syracuse University, Deuel followed in his brother's footsteps and began his career in Hollywood in 1965. The following year, he appeared in an episode of the ABC show. It's 12 o'clock high. Deuel and Doyle, who was three years his senior, worked side by side on a 1971 episode of the NBC show. Name of the game.
In the 1980s, Deuel acted in plays in Tampa, Florida, then returned to higher education to earn a master's degree from the University of South Florida. After that, he became a substitute teacher.
He is survived by his wife – whom he married in 2017 after four decades together – and his younger sister Pamela.
