Acting
Peter Friedman
EN cinema · 51 credits
Born
24 April 1949 (age 77)
Birthplace
New York City, New York, USA
Peter Friedman (born April 24, 1949) is an American stage, screen, and television actor. Born in New York City, Friedman graduated from Hofstra University before making his Broadway debut in The Great God Brown in 1972. Additional theatre credits include The Visit (1973), Piaf and A Soldier's Play (both 1981), The Heidi Chronicles (1989), Ragtime (1998), and Twelve Angry Men (2004). He has been nominated for the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Musical, Outstanding Actor in a Play, and Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play. On television, Friedman starred as patriarch George Silver in Brooklyn Bridge, has made numerous guest appearances in such series as Miami Vice, Law & Order, NYPD Blue, Without a Trace, Ghost Whisperer, and Damages, and had a featured role in Perfect Murder, Perfect Town: JonBenét and the City of Boulder. Friedman's many feature film credits include Prince of the City, Daniel, The Seventh Sign, Single White Female, I'm Not Rappaport, I Shot Andy Warhol, Safe, Freedomland, The Savages, and I'm Not There. Friedman married actress Joan Allen in 1990. The couple divorced in 2002. They have one daughter, Sadie, born in March 1994.
Known for
Filmography
Governors Island
as Robin
Farther Along
as Harvey Mitchum
Jim Henson Idea Man
as Self (archive footage)
Carmen & Moony
as Louis
Daddy's Girl
as Robert
She Said
as Lanny Davis
Good Grief
as Uncle Harold
5 Doctors
as Dr. Lipman
Keep in Touch
as Dallen Parcel
Side Effects
as Banks' Partner #1
Harvest
as Carmine Monopoli
Coming Up Roses
as Charles
Love & Other Drugs
as California Man
Breaking Upwards
as Alan
The Messenger
as Mr. Cohen
Spinning Into Butter
as Jay Salter
Synecdoche, New York
as Emergency Room Doctor
I'm Not There
as Morris Bernstein / Barker
The Savages
as Larry
Freedomland
as Lt. Gold
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
as Scoop Rosenbaum (segment "The Heidi Chronicles")
Unconscious
as Father William
Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards
as Tateh (segment "Ragtime") (archive footage)
King of the Corner
as Arthur Wexler
Paycheck
as Attorney General Brown
Two Against Time
as Robert Portman
Power and Beauty
as Sam Giancana
Someone Like You...
as Stephen, Alice's Husband
I'm Not Rappaport
as Young Nat's Father
I Shot Andy Warhol
as Alan Burke
Safe
as Peter Dunning
The Heidi Chronicles
as Scoop Rosenbaum
Blink
as Dr. Ryan Pierce
Single White Female
as Graham Knox
Guilty Until Proven Innocent
as Richard Emery
The Seventh Sign
as Father Lucci
Finnegan Begin Again
as John Jewell
Piaf
as 'Papa' Leplée / American Sailor
Daniel
as Ben Cohen
Prince of the City
as Goldman
Christmas Evil
as Mr. Grosch