Pete Webster

Pete Webster was born on October 11, 1905 in Waco, Texas, USA as Belton O'Neal Webster. In his very first role he played a "rifle boy" in the movie Gunga Din (1939). In his first sepia movie he played the President of La-Tex-Okla Oil Company in Midnight Shadow (1939). He went on to play the romantic lead in Broken Strings (1940) and the lead role in Four Shall Die (1940), where he played a Sherlock Holmes type character, with Mantan Moreland playing as his Dr. Watson. This movie starred a young Dorothy Dandridge in her first starring role in a sepia film. He went on to enlist in the Army in 1941, and served with distinction in the European Theater. He was decorated for bravery and was wounded in the Battle of St. Vith (more commonly known as the "Battle of the Bulge"). He was married to Lucie Dlugi and had four children. He died on August 25, 1988 in Loma Linda, California, USA.