Hillary Brooke: Hillary Brooke. Actress: The Man Who Knew Too Much. Hillary Brooke's image as the epitome of glacial, regal, upper-class British gentility is muted somewhat by the fact that she was born Beatrice Sofia Mathilda Peterson to a middle-class American family in Long Island, New York. She was the sister of actor Arthur Peterson, best-known as the demented "Major" on the soap-opera satire Soap (1977). Always a beauty, she had a...
Known For: The Man Who Knew Too Much (Jan Peterson), The Enchanted Cottage (Beatrice Alexander), The Strange Woman (Meg Saladine), Bodyhold (Flo Woodbury)