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- Birth nameBurnell Yates Sitterley
- Peter Burnell is best known for his role as Mike Powers on the soap opera "The Doctors", a role Armand Assante took over when Burnell left the series. Burnell was an accomplished classical actor. During his career, he appeared as Shannon in Night of the Iguana, Edmund in Long Day's Journey into Night and the Gentleman Caller in Glass Menagerie, all at the Provincetown Playhouse; and regional productions of Cyrano de Bergerac (as Christian), Butley, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, off-Broadway in Dancing for the Kaiser; many others.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Maria Ciaccia
- Was the original Teddy Wheeler in the 1977 mini-series, "The Best of Families," but he was replaced thereon by Victor Garber.
- Longtime companion of writer Gerald Mast.
- Won Theater World Award in 1975 for "In Praise of Love ".
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