Biography of Peter Barton

Peter Thomas Barton (born July 19, 1956) is an American retired actor. He starred in The Powers of Matthew Star, with Louis Gossett Jr.; Burke's Law with Gene Barry; and the soap opera Sunset Beach. Named one of the 10 sexiest guys in soaps by Playgirl, Barton is probably best known as Scott Grainger on the daytime drama The Young and the Restless.

He was badly burned when a stunt went wrong on the set of his series The Powers of Matthew Star (1982). Production on the series was delayed a year while the star healed. He beat out Tom Cruise for this title role.

When he first started out in Hollywood, he was occasionally mis-identified in the media as Donny Osmond, due to his resemblance to the singer at that particular time.