Peter Bartell

 was a central character featured in the 1964 film The Flesh Eaters. He was played by actor Martin Kosleck.

Biography
Professor Peter Bartell was an American marine biologist who worked in the service of the United States government during World War II. The US sent Bartell to Nazi-occupied Germany in the hopes of infiltrating the scientific community to steal their secrets. Armed with knowledge of the Nazi's experiments, he returned from the war and set up his own private laboratory on a deserted island. He cultivated a group of carnivorus spores that had the ability to grow and consume the flesh off a living animal in the span of seconds. Using his own particular form of electrolysis, Bartell was able to increase the size and strength of his creations. In 1964, an airplane carrying aging actress Laura Winters and pilot Grant Murdoch touched down on the island and learned about Bartell and his experiments. Before long however, his flesh-eating microbes grew beyond his control and Bartell was killed by the very things he helped to create.