Brian Peck
Brian Peck is an actor, born 1960.
This record has to be stated plainly, because it is the reason most people arrive at the name. Brian Peck is a convicted sex offender. In 2004 he was convicted of sexually assaulting Drake Bell in 2001, when Bell was fifteen. He was working in children's television at the time.
The rest of the page is the career that surrounded that. He began as a bit-part actor in horror comedies, playing the punk Scuz in The Return of the Living Dead in 1985 and returning to the series in both sequels. He directed one film of his own, the 1990 horror anthology The Willies. Small parts followed in Children of the Corn III, Good Burger, Holes and Bitch Slap, none of them larger than a scene or two.
From the late 1990s to the mid-2000s his main employment was behind the camera as a dialogue coach on children's programming for Nickelodeon and Disney Channel, including The Amanda Show, All That and The Suite Life of Zack & Cody, where he also voiced the talking mirror. The conviction belongs to that period of his life rather than to the film work, and it is the fact the name now carries.
Movies (15)
- The Return of the Living Dead (1985)
- Holes (2003)
- Good Burger (1997)
- Return of the Living Dead III (1993)
- The Last American Virgin (1982)
- Love Wrecked (2005)
- Return of the Living Dead Part II (1988)
- Bitch Slap (2009)
- Forever Strong (2008)
- Jack and the Beanstalk (2009)
- Freaks of Nature (2015)
- Like Father Like Son (1987)
- An Open Secret (2014)
- Children of the Corn III: Urban Harvest (1995)
- The Willies (1990)
TV (4)
Where to start with Brian Peck
The horror comedies are the only durable thing here. The Return of the Living Dead is a genuinely good film, sharp and fast and far better than its reputation as a Romero knock-off, and his punk is a small piece of a very well-cast ensemble. Return of the Living Dead Part II and Return of the Living Dead III follow it down in quality, the third being the one with real ambition and no money.
The Willies is the curiosity, a children's horror anthology he directed himself, and it is exactly as rough as that description suggests.
Everything else is a walk-on: Holes, Good Burger, Children of the Corn III: Urban Harvest. An Open Secret, the documentary about the abuse of young performers in the American entertainment industry, is also listed among these credits, and is the more relevant film to this page than any of the horror.