A New Picture of Peter the Hermit
For the past few years, documentary filmmaker Hope Anderson (Under the Hollywood Sign) has been doing her part to revive the memory of Peter the Hermit, patron saint of those costumed superhero impersonators in front of Grauman’s Chinese.
Born in 1878 and departed in 1969, Chicago native Peter Howard was an extra in many silent and talking picture epics. He lived at various points in the wilderness of Laurel and Beachwood Canyons with greyhound dogs and goats, and from the 1920’s on, would ply himself as a Moses-like photo opp on Hollywood Boulevard.
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