Peter Friedman
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Apr 24, 1949 (age 77)
- Place of birth
- New York City, New York, USA
- Credits
- 72
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
Filmography
Farther Along
2026Movie
Harvey Mitchum
King Hamlet
2025Movie
Self
Marina
2025Movie
The Variable
2024Movie
Jim Henson Idea Man
2024Movie
Self (archive footage)
Ragtime, The Musical: All-Star Reunion Concert
2024Movie
Tateh
Carmen & Moony
2023Movie
Louis
She Said
2022Movie
Lanny Davis
Daddy's Girl
2022Movie
Robert
Good Grief
2021Movie
Uncle Harold
Stars in the House
2020TV
Self
Sundowners
2019Movie
Succession
2018TV
Frank Vernon
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
2017TV
George
5 Doctors
2016Movie
Dr. Lipman
Keep in Touch
2015Movie
Dallen Parcel
The Affair
2014TV
Robert
Side Effects
2013Movie
Banks' Partner #1
666 Park Avenue
2012TV
Samuel Steinberg
Made in Jersey
2012TV
Henry Sohn
Coming Up Roses
2011Movie
Charles
Person of Interest
2011TV
Lawrence Szilard
Harvest
2011Movie
Carmine Monopoli
Love & Other Drugs
2010Movie
California Man
The Messenger
2009Movie
Mr. Cohen
Spinning Into Butter
2009Movie
Jay Salter
Breaking Upwards
2009Movie
Alan
Synecdoche, New York
2008Movie
Emergency Room Doctor
The Savages
2007Movie
Larry
I'm Not There
2007Movie
Morris Bernstein / Barker
Damages
2007TV
District Attorney
Unconscious
2006Movie
Father William
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
2006Movie
Scoop Rosenbaum (segment "The Heidi Chronicles")
Heist
2006TV
Rabbi
Freedomland
2006Movie
Lt. Gold
Ghost Whisperer
2005TV
Steve Burris
Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards
2005Movie
Tateh (segment "Ragtime") (archive footage)
King of the Corner
2004Movie
Arthur Wexler
Paycheck
2003Movie
Attorney General Brown
Without a Trace
2002TV
Damon
Power and Beauty
2002Movie
Sam Giancana
Two Against Time
2002Movie
Robert Portman
Baby Bob
2002TV
Peter
Someone Like You...
2001Movie
Stephen, Alice's Husband
Perfect Murder, Perfect Town: JonBenét and the City of Boulder
2000Movie
Peter Hofstrom
Creating Ragtime
1998Movie
Tateh
In the Presence of Mine Enemies
1997Movie
Kohn
I'm Not Rappaport
1996Movie
Young Nat's Father
I Shot Andy Warhol
1996Movie
Alan Burke
The Heidi Chronicles
1995Movie
Scoop Rosenbaum
Safe
1995Movie
Peter Dunning
Blink
1993Movie
Dr. Ryan Pierce
Single White Female
1992Movie
Graham Knox
Guilty Until Proven Innocent
1991Movie
Richard Emery
Brooklyn Bridge
1991TV
George Silver
Law & Order
1990TV
Nolan Farber, William Goodwin, Defense Attorney Harold Jensen
Hothouse
1988TV
David
The Seventh Sign
1988Movie
Father Lucci
The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd
1987TV
Harry
Finnegan Begin Again
1985Movie
John Jewell
Miami Vice
1984TV
Morgan
Piaf
1984Movie
'Papa' Leplée / American Sailor
Daniel
1983Movie
Ben Cohen
Rage of Angels
1983TV
Larry
Prince of the City
1981Movie
Goldman
Christmas Evil
1980Movie
Mr. Grosch
The Muppet Show
1976TV
Crocodile / Banana (voice), Lead Mop (voice), Andre the Artist (voice), Pa (voice), Additional Muppets (voice)
The Rules of the Game
1975Movie
Great Performances
1971TV
Governors Island
Movie
Robin
Elderwood
Movie
Masters of Doom
TV
Al Vekovius