I think I may have just fund the orignal model for Peter Parker...  

Tim Considine!

http://www.jonprovost.com/images/timc.jpg


I saw him in an episode of THE UNTOUCHABLES where his mother complained that he "looked like an adult, acted like an adult, he never was a kid!"


At the end of the story, his father gets killed in a shoot-out, and for the first time, he cries.