| LC control no. | no2004052486 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Tork, Peter |
| Variant(s) | Thorkelson, Peter Halsten |
| See also | Corporate body: Monkees (Musical group) |
| Located | Storrs (Conn.) Mansfield (Conn. : Town) |
| Birth date | 1942-02-13 |
| Death date | 2019-02-21 |
| Place of birth | Washington (D.C.) |
| Place of death | Connecticut |
| Field of activity | Singing Television acting |
| Profession or occupation | Singers Television actors and actresses |
| Found in | Hey, hey we're the Monkees [VR] 2002: container (Peter Tork) Internet Movie Database, May 6, 2004 (Peter Tork, born Feb. 13, 1942, Washington, D.C.; sometimes credited as Peter H. Thorkelson) Wikipedia.org, via WWW, 21 May 2015 (Peter Tork. Peter Tork (born Peter Halsten Thorkelson, February 13, 1942) is an American musician and actor, best known as the keyboardist and bass guitarist of the Monkees. Tork was born at Doctor's Hospital, in Lanham, Maryland, a northeastern suburb of Washington, D.C. Although he was born in Maryland in 1942, many news articles incorrectly report him as born in 1944 in New York City, which was the date and place given on early Monkees press releases. New York times WWW site, viewed Feb. 21, 2019 (Peter Tork; b. Peter Halsten Thorkelson, Feb. 13, 1942, Washington; the family moved to Connecticut, where Peter graduated from high school in Storrs; d. Thursday [Feb. 21, 2019], aged 77, at a family home in eastern Connecticut; lived in Mansfield; struggling musician who became an overnight teenage idol in the 1960s with the Monkees) |
| Associated language | eng |
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