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Dana Elcar

Born 1927 · Ferndale, Michigan United States

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Dana Elcar (born October 10, 1927) was an American television and movie character actor. Although he appeared in about 40 films, his most memorable role was on the 1980s and 1990s television series MacGyver as Peter Thornton, an administrator working for the Phoenix Foundation. Elcar had appeared in the pilot episode of MacGyver as Andy Colson (a completely different character), but was later cast as Peter Thornton, making his first regular appearance in the 11th episode of the first season. Description above from the Wikipedia article Dana Elcar, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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WatchMind AI (WatchMind) recommends movies and TV using AI-assisted algorithms — taste profiles, semantic matching, and embedding similarity process your browsing, queue saves, ratings, and engagement into personalised picks: For You rails, daily suggestions, mood feeds, and match scores. Trailers, TMDb review excerpts, and licensed where-to-watch links support each pick. We do not host or stream full films or episodes.

Browse movies, TV series, and curated feeds such as Story Hunt. Title pages include synopses, cast, where-to-watch data from TMDb, and structured data for search engines. Personalised rails and your profile use optional Google sign-in (name, email, and account ID only to identify you — see the homepage section "What we collect and why"). The catalogue remains readable without an account.

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