Peter Friedman
49 movies · 20 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Apr 24, 1949 (age 77)
- 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.
Profiles IMDb
Known for
Peter Friedman: movies and TV shows
Acting (69)
- Upcoming
- Upcoming Governors Island
as Robin
- Upcoming
- 2026 Farther Along
as Harvey Mitchum
- 2025
- 2024
- 2024
- 2023 Carmen & Moony
as Louis
- 2022 She Said
as Lanny Davis
- 2022 Daddy's Girl
as Robert
- 2021 Good Grief
as Uncle Harold
- 2019
- 2018
- 2017
- 2016 5 Doctors
as Dr. Lipman
- 2015 Keep in Touch
as Dallen Parcel
- 2014
- 2013 Side Effects
as Banks' Partner #1
- 2012
- 2012
- 2011 Coming Up Roses
as Charles
- 2011
- 2011 Harvest
as Carmine Monopoli
- 2010 Love & Other Drugs
as California Man
- 2009 The Messenger
as Mr. Cohen
- 2009 Spinning Into Butter
as Jay Salter
- 2009 Breaking Upwards
as Alan
- 2008 Synecdoche, New York
as Emergency Room Doctor
- 2007 The Savages
as Larry
- 2007 I'm Not There
as Morris Bernstein / Barker
- 2007
- 2006 Unconscious
as Father William
- 2006 The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
as Scoop Rosenbaum (segment "The Heidi Chronicles")
- 2006
- 2006 Freedomland
as Lt. Gold
- 2005
- 2005 Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards
as Tateh (segment "Ragtime") (archive footage)
- 2004 King of the Corner
as Arthur Wexler
- 2003 Paycheck
as Attorney General Brown
- 2002
- 2002 Power and Beauty
as Sam Giancana
- 2002 Two Against Time
as Robert Portman
- 2002
- 2001 Someone Like You...
as Stephen, Alice's Husband
- 2000 Perfect Murder, Perfect Town: JonBenét and the City of Boulder
as Peter Hofstrom
- 1998 Creating Ragtime
as Tateh
- 1997 In the Presence of Mine Enemies
as Kohn
- 1996 I'm Not Rappaport
as Young Nat's Father
- 1996 I Shot Andy Warhol
as Alan Burke
- 1995 The Heidi Chronicles
as Scoop Rosenbaum
- 1995 Safe
as Peter Dunning
- 1993 Blink
as Dr. Ryan Pierce
- 1992 Single White Female
as Graham Knox
- 1991 Guilty Until Proven Innocent
as Richard Emery
- 1991
- 1990
- 1988
- 1988 The Seventh Sign
as Father Lucci
- 1987
- 1985 Finnegan Begin Again
as John Jewell
- 1984
- 1984 Piaf
as 'Papa' Leplée / American Sailor
- 1983 Daniel
as Ben Cohen
- 1983
- 1981 Prince of the City
as Goldman
- 1980 Christmas Evil
as Mr. Grosch
- 1976 The Muppet Show · TV
as Crocodile / Banana (voice) / Additional Muppets (voice) / Lead Mop (voice) / Andre the Artist (voice) / Pa (voice) · 5 episodes
- 1975
- 1971
Talk shows and appearances (3)
- 2025
- 2024
- 2020 Stars in the House
1 episode