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Known For
Acting
Birthday
April 24, 1949
Place of Birth
New York City, New York, USA
Peter Friedman
0.7 Popularity
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.
Known For
Credits
King Hamlet
as Self
2025
0.0
🎬
Marina
2025
0.0
The Variable
2024
0.0
Jim Henson Idea Man
as Self (archive footage)
2024
7.8
Ragtime Reunion Concert
as Tateh
2024
0.0
Carmen & Moony
as Louis
2023
0.0
She Said
as Lanny Davis
2022
7.2
Daddy's Girl
as Robert
2022
4.0
Good Grief
as Uncle Harold
2021
0.0
Stars in the House
as Self
2020
0.0
Sundowners
2019
0.0
Succession
as Frank Vernon
2018
8.3
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
as George
2017
8.1
Keep in Touch
as Dallen Parcel
2015
5.4
Side Effects
as Banks' Partner #1
2013
6.6
Made in Jersey
as Henry Sohn
2012
6.8
Coming Up Roses
as Charles
2011
5.0
Person of Interest
as Lawrence Szilard
2011
8.1
Harvest
as Carmine Monopoli
2011
4.8
Love & Other Drugs
as California Man
2010
7.0
The Messenger
as Mr. Cohen
2009
6.8
Breaking Upwards
as Alan
2009
5.4
Synecdoche, New York
as Emergency Room Doctor
2008
7.5
The Savages
as Larry
2007
6.9
I'm Not There
as Morris Bernstein / Barker
2007
6.5
Damages
as District Attorney
2007
7.4
Spinning Into Butter
as Jay Salter
2007
5.4
Unconscious
as Father William
2006
6.0
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
as Scoop Rosenbaum (segment "The Heidi Chronicles")
2006
0.0
Heist
2006
6.8
Freedomland
as Lt. Gold
2006
5.2
Ghost Whisperer
as Steve Burris
2005
8.1
Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards
as Tateh (segment "Ragtime") (archive footage)
2005
7.2
King of the Corner
as Arthur Wexler
2004
5.7
Paycheck
as Attorney General Brown
2003
6.2
Without a Trace
as Damon
2002
7.2
Power and Beauty
as Sam Giancana
2002
6.7
Two Against Time
as Robert Portman
2002
3.0
Baby Bob
as Peter
2002
10.0
Someone Like You...
as Stephen, Alice's Husband
2001
5.9
Perfect Murder, Perfect Town: JonBenét and the City of Boulder
as Peter Hofstrom
2000
5.6
Creating Ragtime
as Tateh
1998
0.0
In the Presence of Mine Enemies
as Kohn
1997
4.8
I'm Not Rappaport
as Young Nat's Father
1996
5.6
I Shot Andy Warhol
as Alan Burke
1996
6.1
The Heidi Chronicles
as Scoop Rosenbaum
1995
7.5
Safe
as Peter Dunning
1995
7.0
Blink
as Dr. Ryan Pierce
1993
6.1
Single White Female
as Graham Knox
1992
6.3
Guilty Until Proven Innocent
as Richard Emery
1991
6.9
Brooklyn Bridge
as George Silver
1991
7.5
Law & Order
as Nolan Farber
1990
7.4
Law & Order
as William Goodwin
1990
7.4
Law & Order
as Defense Attorney Harold Jensen
1990
7.4
Hothouse
as David
1988
5.0
The Seventh Sign
as Father Lucci
1988
6.0
The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd
as Harry
1987
6.0
Finnegan Begin Again
as John Jewell
1985
6.3
Miami Vice
as Morgan
1984
7.5
Piaf
as 'Papa' Leplée / American Sailor
1984
0.0
Daniel
as Ben Cohen
1983
6.6
Rage of Angels
as Larry
1983
5.5
Prince of the City
as Goldman
1981
7.0
Christmas Evil
as Mr. Grosch
1980
5.4
The Muppet Show
as Crocodile / Banana (voice)
1976
8.0
The Muppet Show
as Additional Muppets (voice)
1976
8.0
The Muppet Show
as Lead Mop (voice)
1976
8.0
The Muppet Show
as Andre the Artist (voice)
1976
8.0
The Muppet Show
as Pa (voice)
1976
8.0
The Rules of the Game
1975
0.0
Great Performances
1971
5.8
🎬
Masters of Doom
as Al Vekovius
N/A
0.0