Peter Yarrow(1938-2025)

Producer
Composer
Actor

A middle-aged couple's career and marriage are overturned when a disarming young couple enters their lives.

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While We're Young (2014)

Peter Yarrow was born on 31 May 1938 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA. He was a producer and composer, known for Meet the Parents (2000), Good Morning, Vietnam (1987) and Airplane! (1980). He was married to Mary Elizabeth McCarthy. He died on 7 January 2025 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.

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Nominated for 1 Primetime Emmy
- 5 wins & 12 nominations total

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Known for

Meet the Parents

7.0

Soundtrack

2000

Good Morning, Vietnam

7.3

Soundtrack

1987

Airplane!

7.7

Soundtrack

1980

Meet the Fockers

6.4

Soundtrack

2004

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Producer

Concert for Newtown
TV Special
- concert producer
- producer
- 2013
Peter, Bethany & Rufus: Spirit of Woodstock
TV Special
- producer
- 2008
Puff and the Incredible Mr. Nobody
7.6
TV Movie
- producer
- 1982
Puff the Magic Dragon in the Land of the Living Lies
7.4
TV Movie
- producer
- 1979
Puff the Magic Dragon
7.5
TV Movie
- producer
- 1978
You Are What You Eat
5.8
- producer
- 1968

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Alternative names
- Peter Paul and Mary
Height
- 5′ 9″ (1.75 m)
Born
- May 31, 1938
- Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
Died
- January 7, 2025
- Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA(bladder cancer)
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Other works
(Saturday, March 9, 2019 8pm) He performed at the Pollak Theatre at Monmouth University in West Long Branch, New Jersey with Lonesome Traveler in the cast.
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Trivia
In 1965, Newsweek published an article claiming that "Puff, the Magic Dragon" was actually a song about drugs, containing secret code words: "Puff" = smoke; "lived by the sea" = C (cocaine); "mist" = smoke; "Hohna Lee" = another name for hashish; "Little Jackie Paper" = used to wrap joints. Yarrow insists to this day that the song was simply about the loss of childhood innocence, and has no drug connections whatsoever.

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[on the impact of 'The March'] It changed the course of our lives. It gave us not only an internal sense of what we believed in being validated, but it gave us the sense of the community of commitment that was to change America. Not only in terms of African Americans, but to be able to say that ordinary human beings can gather together in large numbers, and if they gather together with heart and strength, they can change the course of history.