

Peter Friedman
ActorPeter 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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- Marina
Marina
2025

King Hamlet
2025
Self

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

The Variable
2024

Jim Henson Idea Man
2024
Self (archive footage)

Carmen & Moony
2023
Louis

Daddy's Girl
2022
Robert

She Said
2022
Lanny Davis

Good Grief
2021
Uncle Harold

Sundowners
2019

Keep in Touch
2015
Dallen Parcel

Side Effects
2013
Banks' Partner #1

Harvest
2011
Carmine Monopoli

Coming Up Roses
2011
Charles

Love & Other Drugs
2010
California Man

Breaking Upwards
2009
Alan

The Messenger
2009
Mr. Cohen

Spinning Into Butter
2009
Jay Salter

Synecdoche, New York
2008
Emergency Room Doctor

I'm Not There
2007
Morris Bernstein / Barker

The Savages
2007
Larry

Freedomland
2006
Lt. Gold

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

Unconscious
2006
Father William

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

King of the Corner
2004
Arthur Wexler

Paycheck
2003
Attorney General Brown

Two Against Time
2002
Robert Portman

Power and Beauty
2002
Sam Giancana

Someone Like You...
2001
Stephen, Alice's Husband

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

Creating Ragtime
1998
Tateh

In the Presence of Mine Enemies
1997
Kohn

I'm Not Rappaport
1996
Young Nat's Father

I Shot Andy Warhol
1996
Alan Burke

Safe
1995
Peter Dunning

The Heidi Chronicles
1995
Scoop Rosenbaum

Blink
1993
Dr. Ryan Pierce

Single White Female
1992
Graham Knox

Guilty Until Proven Innocent
1991
Richard Emery

The Seventh Sign
1988
Father Lucci

Finnegan Begin Again
1985
John Jewell

Piaf
1984
'Papa' Leplée / American Sailor

Daniel
1983
Ben Cohen

Prince of the City
1981
Goldman

Christmas Evil
1980
Mr. Grosch

The Rules of the Game
1975
- Elderwood
Elderwood





