Don Pedro Colley was born in Klamath Falls, Oregon to Muriel and Pete Colley. He attended Klamath Union High School and actively played football and athletics which led to an unsuccessful try-out for the 1960 olympics in the discuss event. He later attended the University of Oregon studying architecture.

Then one day, his life changed when some college friends asked for a ride to the theatre to go to a rehearsal. He was tricked into doing some improvisations and then became a theatre member. He then spent the next five years learning his craft in various productions in San Francisco.

In some of his better known roles, he played Gideon in "Daniel Boone", as Ongaro in "Beneath the Planet of the Apes", as SRT in George Lucas' "THX 1138" and as Sheriff Little in the 1980's TV series "Dukes of Hazard".

Don Pedro also has a daughter Kira Zuleka Zadow-Colley and is now semi-retired although makes guest appearances at various conventions across the world.

Filmography

Piranha (1995) - (TV) Leonard
Cagney & Lacey: The Return (1994) - (TV) Virgil
Quest of the Delta Knights (1993) - Black Spy
Blue Iguana, The (1988) - Boat Captain
Dukes of Hazzard, The (1979) - (TV Series)
Sheriff Ed Little (Chickasaw County) (1981-1984)
Casino (1980) - (TV) Sam
Herbie Rides Again (1974)
Sugar Hill (1974) - Baron Samedi
Black Caesar (1973) - Crawdaddy
World's Greatest Athlete, The (1973)
Legend of Nigger Charley, The (1972) - Joshua
Crosscurrent (1971) (TV) - Freddie Trench
aka Cable Car Murder, The (1971) (TV)
Believe in Me (1971) - Man
Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970) - Ongaro
aka Planet of the Apes Revisited (1970) (USA)
aka Planet of the Men (1970) (USA)
THX 1138 (1970) - SRT
Daniel Boone (1964) (TV Series) - Gideon (1968-1969)
The Dukes of Hazzard is an American television series that originally aired on the CBS television network from 1979 to 1985. ... Herbie Rides Again (1974) is the second in a series of movies made by Walt Disney Productions starring Herbie the Love Bug, a white Volkswagen racing Beetle with a mind of its own. ... Sugar Hill is a 1974 zombie film released by AIP, who had previously combined the horror and blaxploitation genres with Blacula and its sequel, Scream Blacula Scream. ... Black Caesar is a 1973 blaxploitation film, starring Fred Williamson and Gloria Hendry. ... THX 1138 was George Lucas first full length movie. ...