Peter Friedman
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.
Acting
Movie
Love & Other Drugs
as California Man
2010
Movie
Side Effects
as Banks' Partner #1
2013
TV
Person of Interest
as Lawrence Szilard
2011
Movie
Paycheck
as Attorney General Brown
2003
TV
Ghost Whisperer
as Steve Burris
2005
TV
Succession
as Frank Vernon
2018
Movie
Synecdoche, New York
as Emergency Room Doctor
2008
TV
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
as George
2017
Movie
I'm Not There
as Morris Bernstein / Barker
2007
Movie
She Said
as Lanny Davis
2022
Movie
Single White Female
as Graham Knox
1992
TV
Law & Order
as Nolan Farber
1990
TV
Law & Order
as William Goodwin
1990
TV
Law & Order
as Defense Attorney Harold Jensen
1990
TV
Miami Vice
as Morgan
1984
Movie
The Messenger
as Mr. Cohen
2009
Movie
The Savages
as Larry
2007
Movie
Someone Like You...
as Stephen, Alice's Husband
2001
TV
The Affair
as Robert
2014
Movie
The Seventh Sign
as Father Lucci
1988
Movie
Freedomland
as Lt. Gold
2006
Movie
Safe
as Peter Dunning
1995
TV
The Muppet Show
as Crocodile / Banana (voice)
1976
TV
The Muppet Show
as Pa (voice)
1976