Career
While continuing his service with law enforcement, he began taking small acting assignments, which gradually increased in importance until, in the late 1950s, he could be spotted in various installments of television programs. In 1959, Oreck portrayed the lead in the episode "Gringo Pete" of Rex Allen"s syndicated western series, Frontier Doctor. In the story line, Gringo Pete is an outlaw who pledges to surrender his gang in exchange for parole.
Instead, he resumes his life of lawlessness and dares the authorities.
Ted de Corsia was cast in this episode in the role of Charlie Breen. Don Oreck died in Los Angeles at the age of seventy-five of a degenerative brain disease.
