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.
Known for
Credits
Love & Other Drugs (2010)
as California Man
She Said (2022)
as Lanny Davis
Paycheck (2003)
as Attorney General Brown
Synecdoche, New York (2008)
as Emergency Room Doctor
Freedomland (2006)
as Lt. Gold
I'm Not There (2007)
as Morris Bernstein / Barker
Someone Like You... (2001)
as Stephen, Alice's Husband
Single White Female (1992)
as Graham Knox
Jim Henson Idea Man (2024)
as Self (archive footage)
Side Effects (2013)
as Banks' Partner #1
The Seventh Sign (1988)
as Father Lucci
Piaf (1984)
as 'Papa' Leplée / American Sailor
The Messenger (2009)
as Mr. Cohen
Safe (1995)
as Peter Dunning
The Savages (2007)
as Larry
Governors Island (—)
as Robin
Unconscious (2006)
as Father William
Ragtime, The Musical: All-Star Reunion Concert (2024)
as Tateh
Prince of the City (1981)
as Goldman
Christmas Evil (1980)
as Mr. Grosch
Blink (1993)
as Dr. Ryan Pierce
I'm Not Rappaport (1996)
as Young Nat's Father
I Shot Andy Warhol (1996)
as Alan Burke
Farther Along (2026)
as Harvey Mitchum
Guilty Until Proven Innocent (1991)
as Richard Emery
Two Against Time (2002)
as Robert Portman
Sundowners (2019)
Actor
Keep in Touch (2015)
as Dallen Parcel
Daddy's Girl (2022)
as Robert
Elderwood (—)
Actor
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays (2006)
as Scoop Rosenbaum (segment "The Heidi Chronicles")
Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards (2005)
as Tateh (segment "Ragtime") (archive footage)
Daniel (1983)
as Ben Cohen
The Heidi Chronicles (1995)
as Scoop Rosenbaum
Perfect Murder, Perfect Town: JonBenét and the City of Boulder (2000)
as Peter Hofstrom
In the Presence of Mine Enemies (1997)
as Kohn
King of the Corner (2004)
as Arthur Wexler
The Variable (2024)
Actor
Breaking Upwards (2009)
as Alan
The Rules of the Game (1975)
Actor
Spinning Into Butter (2009)
as Jay Salter
Creating Ragtime (1998)
as Tateh
Finnegan Begin Again (1985)
as John Jewell
Harvest (2011)
as Carmine Monopoli
Power and Beauty (2002)
as Sam Giancana
Carmen & Moony (2023)
as Louis
King Hamlet (2025)
as Self
Coming Up Roses (2011)
as Charles
Marina (2025)
Actor
5 Doctors (2016)
as Dr. Lipman
Good Grief (2021)
as Uncle Harold