Portrait of Peter Friedman

Peter Friedman

Acting

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. ​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Born: April 24, 1949

Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA

Filmography

2025
2023
2022
She Said

as Lanny Davis

2022
Daddy's Girl

as Robert

2021
Good Grief

as Uncle Harold

2018
Succession

as Frank Vernon

2015
Keep in Touch

as Dallen Parcel

2013
Side Effects

as Banks' Partner #1

2012
Made in Jersey

as Henry Sohn

2011
Coming Up Roses

as Charles

2011
Person of Interest

as Lawrence Szilard

2011
Harvest

as Carmine Monopoli

2010
Love & Other Drugs

as California Man

2009
The Messenger

as Mr. Cohen

2009
2008
Synecdoche, New York

as Emergency Room Doctor

2007
The Savages

as Larry

2007
I'm Not There

as Morris Bernstein / Barker

2007
Damages

as District Attorney

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
Ghost Whisperer

as Steve Burris

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

2001
Someone Like You...

as Stephen, Alice's Husband

1996
I'm Not Rappaport

as Young Nat's Father

1996
I Shot Andy Warhol

as Alan Burke

1995
Safe

as Peter Dunning

1993
Blink

as Dr. Ryan Pierce

1992
Single White Female

as Graham Knox

1991
1991
Brooklyn Bridge

as George Silver

1990
Law & Order

as Nolan Farber

1990
Law & Order

as William Goodwin

1990
Law & Order

as Defense Attorney Harold Jensen

1988
The Seventh Sign

as Father Lucci

1985
Finnegan Begin Again

as John Jewell

1984
Miami Vice

as Morgan

1984
Piaf

as 'Papa' Leplée / American Sailor

1983
Daniel

as Ben Cohen

1983
1981
1980
Christmas Evil

as Mr. Grosch

1976
The Muppet Show

as Crocodile / Banana (voice)

1976
The Muppet Show

as Lead Mop (voice)

1976
The Muppet Show

as Andre the Artist (voice)

1976
The Muppet Show

as Pa (voice)

1976
The Muppet Show

as Additional Muppets (voice)