Peter Friedman
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.
Personal Details
Movies (40)
King Hamlet
as Self
2025
Marina
2025
The Variable
2024
Jim Henson Idea Man
as Self (archive footage)
2024
Ragtime Reunion Concert
as Tateh
2024
Carmen & Moony
as Louis
2023
She Said
as Lanny Davis
2022
Daddy's Girl
as Robert
2022
Good Grief
as Uncle Harold
2021
Sundowners
2019
Keep in Touch
as Dallen Parcel
2015
Side Effects
as Banks' Partner #1
2013
Coming Up Roses
as Charles
2011
Harvest
as Carmine Monopoli
2011
Love & Other Drugs
as California Man
2010
The Messenger
as Mr. Cohen
2009
Breaking Upwards
as Alan
2009
Synecdoche, New York
as Emergency Room Doctor
2008
The Savages
as Larry
2007
I'm Not There
as Morris Bernstein / Barker
2007
Spinning Into Butter
as Jay Salter
2007
Unconscious
as Father William
2006
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
as Scoop Rosenbaum (segment "The Heidi Chronicles")
2006
Freedomland
as Lt. Gold
2006
Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards
as Tateh (segment "Ragtime") (archive footage)
2005
King of the Corner
as Arthur Wexler
2004
Paycheck
as Attorney General Brown
2003
Power and Beauty
as Sam Giancana
2002
Two Against Time
as Robert Portman
2002
Someone Like You...
as Stephen, Alice's Husband
2001
Perfect Murder, Perfect Town: JonBenét and the City of Boulder
as Peter Hofstrom
2000
Creating Ragtime
as Tateh
1998
In the Presence of Mine Enemies
as Kohn
1997
I'm Not Rappaport
as Young Nat's Father
1996
I Shot Andy Warhol
as Alan Burke
1996
The Heidi Chronicles
as Scoop Rosenbaum
1995
Safe
as Peter Dunning
1995
Blink
as Dr. Ryan Pierce
1993
Single White Female
as Graham Knox
1992
Guilty Until Proven Innocent
as Richard Emery
1991
TV Shows (10)
Stars in the House
as Self
2020
Succession
as Frank Vernon
2018
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
as George
2017
Made in Jersey
as Henry Sohn
2012
Person of Interest
as Lawrence Szilard
2011
Damages
as District Attorney
2007
Heist
2006
Ghost Whisperer
as Steve Burris
2005
Without a Trace
as Damon
2002
Baby Bob
as Peter
2002