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Ed Peck guest-starred on dozens of television series including "The Untouchables", "Perry Mason", "The Fugitive", "Get Smart", "" (Tomorrow Is Yesterday, 1967), "Benson", "Cannon", and "Bonanza", as well as films such as "Heaven Can Wait", "Bullitt", "Cheech and Chong's Next Movie", and "The Prisoner of Second Avenue". He played a rabbi in an episode of "The Dick Van Dyke Show". On January 20, 1952, Peck married advertising copywriter Phyllis Houston in New York. Peck died of a heart attack on September 12, 1992, in Los Angeles, California, at the age of 75. His remains were donated to medical science. Ed Peck Ed