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He was born in Cleveland, Ohio.
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Peter Bergman
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Yale University.
Career
He played Lieutenant Bradshaw in the Nick Danger series. The Firesign Theatre was formed as a result of Bergman"s show Radio Free Oz on KPFK. According to Bergman, "I started July 24th, 1966 on KPFK. I had some very interesting people around me, which those folks became The Firesign Theatre: David Ossman was connected with the station, Philosophy Austin was connected with the station, and Philosophy Proctor came out to do a show and we connected in Los Angeles and that was really the genesis of that whole happening."
Bergman also coined the word "love-in" in 1967, and organized the first such event in April 1967 in Los Los Angeles
Bergman was a graduate of Yale University and taught economics there as a Carnegie Fellow.
As an undergraduate, he contributed to campus humor magazine The Yale Record. He also attended the Yale School of Drama as a Eugene O"Neill Playwriting Fellow and was a Woodrow Wilson Scholar.
He worked with Tom Stoppard, Derek Marlowe, Piers Paul Read, and Spike Milligan. Stage versions of Don"t Crush That Dwarf, Hand Maine The Pliers, The Further Adventures of Nick Danger, Third Eye, Waiting Foreign The Electrician, or Someone Like Him, and Temporarily Humboldt County are published Broadway Play Publishing Incorporated.
Peter Bergman died on March 9, 2012, at age 72, from complications involving leukemia.
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