
Peter Friedman
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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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Love & Other Drugs (2010)
as California Man

Side Effects (2013)
as Banks' Partner #1

Paycheck (2003)
as Attorney General Brown

Synecdoche, New York (2008)
as Emergency Room Doctor

She Said (2022)
as Lanny Davis

Freedomland (2006)
as Lt. Gold

Someone Like You... (2001)
as Stephen, Alice's Husband

I'm Not There (2007)
as Morris Bernstein / Barker

The Seventh Sign (1988)
as Father Lucci

Single White Female (1992)
as Graham Knox

The Messenger (2009)
as Mr. Cohen

The Savages (2007)
as Larry

Safe (1995)
as Peter Dunning

Daniel (1983)
as Ben Cohen

Jim Henson Idea Man (2024)
as Self (archive footage)

Prince of the City (1981)
as Goldman

Blink (1993)
as Dr. Ryan Pierce

I Shot Andy Warhol (1996)
as Alan Burke

Christmas Evil (1980)
as Mr. Grosch

I'm Not Rappaport (1996)
as Young Nat's Father

Piaf (1984)
as 'Papa' Leplée / American Sailor

Keep in Touch (2015)
as Dallen Parcel

The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays (2006)
as Scoop Rosenbaum (segment "The Heidi Chronicles")

Ragtime, The Musical: All-Star Reunion Concert (2024)
as Tateh

Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards (2005)
as Tateh (segment "Ragtime") (archive footage)

Breaking Upwards (2009)
as Alan

Perfect Murder, Perfect Town: JonBenét and the City of Boulder (2000)
as Peter Hofstrom

King of the Corner (2004)
as Arthur Wexler

King Hamlet (2025)
as Self

Spinning Into Butter (2009)
as Jay Salter

The Heidi Chronicles (1995)
as Scoop Rosenbaum

Harvest (2011)
as Carmine Monopoli

Guilty Until Proven Innocent (1991)
as Richard Emery

Two Against Time (2002)
as Robert Portman

Good Grief (2021)
as Uncle Harold

Coming Up Roses (2011)
as Charles

Sundowners (2019)
Actor
Marina (2025)
Actor

Power and Beauty (2002)
as Sam Giancana

Finnegan Begin Again (1985)
as John Jewell

In the Presence of Mine Enemies (1997)
as Kohn

Unconscious (2006)
as Father William

The Rules of the Game (1975)
Actor

Creating Ragtime (1998)
as Tateh

Daddy's Girl (2022)
as Robert

The Variable (2024)
Actor

Carmen & Moony (2023)
as Louis





