---
name: "Peter Elbling"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/peter-elbling"
fi1m_id: "peter-elbling"
imdb_id: "nm0253004"
tmdb_id: 68382
wikidata_id: "Q25907637"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "29 November 1943"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-24T03:29:05.636675+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Peter Elbling

## Identity

Peter Elbling

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/peter-elbling
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** peter-elbling
- **IMDb ID:** nm0253004
- **TMDB ID:** 68382
- **Wikidata ID:** Q25907637
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q25907637, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0253004/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/68382

Actor. Born 29 November 1943 in London, England, UK.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 29 November 1943, London, England, UK
- **Also known as:** Times Square Two
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q25907637, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0253004/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/68382

## Biography

Peter Elbling is a British actor and writer. Born on 29 November 1943 in London, he moved to Canada at the age of 19 and began performing as a folk singer before forming the comedy duo The Times Square Two with Michel Choquette in 1963. The act appeared on television programmes including The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, The Dean Martin Show and The Johnny Carson Show.

In the early 1970s Elbling joined the improvisational troupes The Second City and The Committee. He appeared in numerous television series such as Taxi, WKRP in Cincinnati, Laverne & Shirley, Rhoda and The A-Team, and in films including Phantom of the Paradise (1974), in which he also worked as choreographer, The Man with Two Brains (1983) and Once Bitten (1985). He has received Primetime Emmy nominations for writing.

Elbling co-wrote the screenplay for Honey, I Blew Up the Kid (1992) and has written satirical books and children’s stories. He has continued to act in later television episodes, including NCIS and Criminal Minds.

*Sources: imdb.com, peterelbling.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Phantom of the Paradise* (1974), Fi1m 82, as The Juicy Fruits / The Beach Bums / The Undeads — [page](https://film.one/film/phantom-of-the-paradise.md)

## Complete filmography (43)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Paper* (2025), series, Actor
- *Waking Karma* (2023), as Older Man
- *Agreeable damage* (2020), Actor
- *Liza on Demand* (2018), series, as Old Salesman
- *NCIS* (2003), series, as Gentleman / Samuel Colpepper — Fi1m 66, [page](https://film.one/tv/ncis.md)
- *Barstow 2008* (2001), as Nigel
- *Honey, I Blew Up the Kid* (1992), Screenplay
- *Rock 'n' Roll High School Forever* (1991), as Biology Teacher
- *Police Academy 6: City Under Siege* (1989), as Store Manager
- *Memories of Me* (1988), as Director
- *Sid & Marty Krofft's Redeye Express* (1988), Writer
- *Baby Boom* (1987), as Maitre'd
- *Once Bitten* (1985), as Bookseller
- *The Golden Girls* (1985), series, as Desk Clerk — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-golden-girls.md)
- *Motown Returns to the Apollo* (1985), Writer
- *Crazy like a Fox* (1984), series, Actor
- *Donald Duck's 50th Birthday* (1984), Writer
- *V* (1984), series, as Oswald
- *Be Somebody... or Be Somebody's Fool!* (1984), Writer, Associate Producer
- *Blue Thunder* (1984), series, as Ed Lang
- *The Man with Two Brains* (1983), as Morgue Attendant
- *Doctor Detroit* (1983), as Guptor
- *The A-Team* (1983), series, as Morey Moran
- *E.T. and Friends: Magical Movie Visitors* (1982), Writer
- *Cheers* (1982), series, as Murray Treadwell — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/tv/cheers.md)
- *Private Lessons* (1981), as Waiter
- *Magnum, P.I.* (1980), series, as Emile
- *Brave New World* (1980), as Darwin Bonaparte
- *Knots Landing* (1979), series, as Al Tuna
- *Disco Beaver from Outer Space* (1979), as Dragula · Writer
- *WKRP in Cincinnati* (1978), series, as Blood
- *Taxi* (1978), series, as Mascha — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/tv/taxi.md)
- *The Bastard* (1978), series, as General
- *Rabbit Test* (1978), as Monya
- *The World's Greatest Lover* (1977), as Robert Drake
- *The Absent-Minded Waiter* (1977), Actor
- *Demon Seed* (1977), as Scientist
- *Six Characters in Search of An Author* (1976), as Rudy
- *Laverne & Shirley* (1976), series, as Bum
- *Mr. & Ms. and the Bandstand Mystery* (1975), as Harold Oblong
- *Barney Miller* (1975), series, as Fresh Talker, Jordan Heath
- *Phantom of the Paradise* (1974), as The Juicy Fruits / The Beach Bums / The Undeads — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/phantom-of-the-paradise.md)
- *Fuzz* (1972), as Detective

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