The Cast of Peter Gunn

Craig Stevens as Peter Gunn (private detective for hire)

Lola Albright as Edie Hart (singer at Mother’s jazz club and Gunn’s girlfriend)

Herschel Bernardi as Lieutenant Jacoby (police detective)

Hope Emerson as Mother (Season 1; owner of Mother’s)

Minerva Urecal as Mother (Season 2: owner of Mother’s)

James Lanphier as Leslie (Season 3; Maître D' at Edie’s Supper Club)



SELECTED RECURRING CAST MEMBERS

Bill Chadney as Emmett (jazz pianist at Mother’s and Edie’s Supper Club)

Byron Kane as Barney (Seasons 1 and 2: bartender at Mother’s)

Morris D. Erby as Sergeant Lee Davis (police)

Billy Barty as Babby (a dwarf pool hustler and informant for Gunn)

Herbert Ellis as Wilbur (beatnik bistro owner, sculptor, and informant for Gunn)

Capri Candela as Capri (Wilbur’s girlfriend)

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