Name
Peter Friedman
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1949-04-24 (77 years old)
Place of Birth
New York City, New York, USA
Biography
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.
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- 1996 I'm Not Rappaport as Young Nat's Father
- 2007 I'm Not There as Morris Bernstein / Barker
- 1988 The Seventh Sign as Father Lucci
- 2021 Good Grief as Uncle Harold
- 2007 The Savages as Larry
- 1995 Safe as Peter Dunning
- 2001 Someone Like You... as Stephen, Alice's Husband
- 1992 Single White Female as Graham Knox
- 2006 Freedomland as Lt. Gold
- 2003 Paycheck as Attorney General Brown
- 2010 Love & Other Drugs as California Man
- 1995 The Heidi Chronicles as Scoop Rosenbaum
- 2011 Harvest as Carmine Monopoli
- 2013 Side Effects as Banks' Partner #1
- 2011 Coming Up Roses as Charles
- 2002 Two Against Time as Robert Portman
- 2000 Perfect Murder, Perfect Town: JonBenét and the City of Boulder as Peter Hofstrom
- 1993 Blink as Dr. Ryan Pierce
- 2023 Carmen & Moony as Louis
- 2022 Daddy's Girl as Robert
- 2024 Ragtime, The Musical: All-Star Reunion Concert as Tateh
- 2015 Keep in Touch as Dallen Parcel
- 2022 She Said as Lanny Davis
- 2009 Breaking Upwards as Alan
- 1991 Guilty Until Proven Innocent as Richard Emery
- 1980 Christmas Evil as Mr. Grosch
- 1985 Finnegan Begin Again as John Jewell
- 2008 Synecdoche, New York as Emergency Room Doctor
- 2009 The Messenger as Mr. Cohen
- 2019 Sundowners
- 2005 Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards as Tateh (segment "Ragtime") (archive footage)
- 2006 The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays as Scoop Rosenbaum (segment "The Heidi Chronicles")
- 1984 Piaf as 'Papa' Leplée / American Sailor
- 1975 The Rules of the Game
- 1983 Daniel as Ben Cohen
- 2002 Power and Beauty as Sam Giancana
- 2006 Unconscious as Father William
- 1981 Prince of the City as Goldman
- 1996 I Shot Andy Warhol as Alan Burke
- 2004 King of the Corner as Arthur Wexler
- 1997 In the Presence of Mine Enemies as Kohn
- 2024 The Variable
- 2025 Marina
- 2025 King Hamlet as Self
- 2009 Spinning Into Butter as Jay Salter
- 1998 Creating Ragtime as Tateh
- 2024 Jim Henson Idea Man as Self (archive footage)
- Soon Elderwood
- Soon Governors Island as Robin
- 2016 5 Doctors as Dr. Lipman
- 2026 Farther Along as Harvey Mitchum
- 2005 Ghost Whisperer ( 1 episode ) as Steve Burris
- 2006 Heist ( 1 episode ) as Rabbi
- 2002 Without a Trace ( 1 episode ) as Damon
- 1976 The Muppet Show ( 1 episode ) as Crocodile / Banana (voice)
- 2007 Damages ( 1 episode ) as District Attorney
- 1991 Brooklyn Bridge ( 33 episodes ) as George Silver
- 1990 Law & Order ( 1 episode ) as Nolan Farber
- 2017 The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel ( 6 episodes ) as George
- 1983 Rage of Angels ( 2 episodes ) as Larry
- 2011 Person of Interest ( 1 episode ) as Lawrence Szilard
- 1976 The Muppet Show ( 1 episode ) as Pa (voice)
- 1976 The Muppet Show ( 1 episode ) as Lead Mop (voice)
- 1976 The Muppet Show ( 1 episode ) as Andre the Artist (voice)
- 1976 The Muppet Show ( 1 episode ) as Additional Muppets (voice)
- 1990 Law & Order ( 1 episode ) as William Goodwin
- 1990 Law & Order ( 1 episode ) as Defense Attorney Harold Jensen
- 1987 The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd ( 1 episode ) as Harry
- 2020 Stars in the House ( 1 episode ) as Self
- Soon Masters of Doom ( 1 episode ) as Al Vekovius
- 2018 Succession ( 39 episodes ) as Frank Vernon
- 1984 Miami Vice ( 1 episode ) as Morgan
- 2012 Made in Jersey ( 1 episode ) as Henry Sohn
- 1971 Great Performances ( 1 episode )
- 2002 Baby Bob ( 1 episode ) as Peter
- 1988 Hothouse ( 2 episodes ) as David
- 2014 The Affair ( 3 episodes ) as Robert
- 2012 666 Park Avenue ( 1 episode ) as Samuel Steinberg
