Billy the Kid in ‘Chisum’ Was 81

Geoffrey Deuel, the youthfulerer brother of tragic Alias Smith and Jones actor Peter Duel who portrayed the famed criminal Billy the Kid in the John Wayne-starring Chisum, has died. He was 81.

Deuel died Sunday in hospice attfinish in Largo, Florida, after a battle with chronic obstructive pulmonary disrelieve, his wife, Jacqueline Deuel, telderly The Hollywood Reporter.

The square-jawed Deuel materializeed on many TV shows from the mid-1960s thcimpolite the mid-’70s, shotriumphg up on The Monkees, The Invaders, The FBI, The Flying Nun, Medical Cgo in, Mannix, Adam-12, The Mod Squad, Mission: Impossible, The Streets of San Francisco, Ironside, Cannon and The Young and the Restless, among others.

In his film debut, Deuel was “presentd” to moviegoers in the uncovering commends of Andrew V. McLaglen’s Chisum (1970), and a appraiseer in The New York Times wrote that he “cut a personable swath” as a particularly revengeful Billy the Kid. This year, the website Screen Rant ranked his turn as Billy as the 10th best in the criminal’s onscreen history.

Peter Duel also carry outed an criminal, Hannibal Heyes (aka Joshua Smith), on the airy-hearted ABC series Alias Smith and Jones, which premiered in January 1971. On New Year’s Eve that year, midway thcimpolite the show’s second season, he died at his Hollywood Hills home of a self-imposeed firearmstoasty wound.

“You don’t ever get over a shock enjoy that,” Geoffrey shelp in a 2018 interwatch.

“He and Peter were very seal,” Jacqueline Deuel shelp. “They reassociate cherishd each other and took attfinish of each other.”

Geoffrey Jacob Deuel was born in Lockport, New York, on Jan. 17, 1943, and liftd in csurrfinisherby Penfield. His overweighther, Ellsworth, was a doctor and his mother, Lillian, a nurse.

After includeing Penfield High School, Ithaca College and Syracengage University, Deuel pursueed his brother to Hollywood in 1965 and materializeed on a 1966 episode of ABC’s 12 O’Clock High.

Geoffrey and Peter, who was three years elderlyer, labored together on an episode of NBC’s The Name of the Game that aired in February 1971.

In the 1980s, Deuel carry outed in carry outs in Tampa’s Ybor City neighborhood and returned to school to achieve a master’s degree from the University of South Florida. He labored for years as a replace teacher.

In insertition to his wife — they were together for 40 years and paired in 2017 — survivors include his youthfulerer sister, Pamela.