Will Hare

Will Hare was an American actor who started performing on stage, screen and television at 15 and built a stage career lasting more than half a century, usually cast as elderly men and as fathers or grandfathers. Born in Elkins, West Virginia, he made his film debut in Alfred Hitchcock's The Wrong Man (1956) and went on to appear in The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds (1972), The Rose (1979), The Electric Horseman (1979), Enter the Ninja (1981), Eyes of Fire (1983), Silent Night, Deadly Night (1984), The Aviator (1985), Vendetta (1986) and Grim Prairie Tales (1990). He was perhaps best known as Old Man Peabody in Back to the Future (1985). His final theatrical appearance came in Me and Veronica in 1992, and he also served as the title figure in cover art for the Chessmaster video games. He died in 1997.