Broadway Veteran Wally Peterson Has Died

The Boston-born Peterson began his performing career at the age of 15, singing on a local radio program, and was eventually given his own weekly radio series. During World War II, he enlisted in the armed forces, where he produced variety performances for fellow soldiers throughout Europe. Following the war, he appeared in London productions of Oklahoma and South Pacific, among others, and Peterson also wrote and performed shows for the BBC and Radio Luxembourg.

He appeared on Broadway in A Passage to India (1962) and Dinner at Eight (1966), and also worked on Broadway as a stage manager on numerous shows, including Never Too Late, American Buffalo, Arsenic and Old Lace, and Shadowlands.

Peterson also toured a solo show, Tin Pan Alley and the Silver Screen throughout the U.S., and performed it at the Arts Theater in London in 1992.

He is survived by two daughters, a son, two grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.