Peter Friedman
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- April 24, 1949
- Birthplace
- New York City, New York, USA
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.
Filmography
Governors Island TBA
as Robin
- Elderwood
Elderwood TBA
Actor
Farther Along 2026
as Harvey Mitchum
King Hamlet 2025
as Self
- Marina
Marina 2025
Actor
The Variable 2024
Actor
Jim Henson Idea Man 2024
as Self (archive footage)
Ragtime, The Musical: All-Star Reunion Concert 2024
as Tateh
Carmen & Moony 2023
as Louis
She Said 2022
as Lanny Davis
Daddy's Girl 2022
as Robert
Good Grief 2021
as Uncle Harold
Sundowners 2019
Actor
5 Doctors 2016
as Dr. Lipman
Keep in Touch 2015
as Dallen Parcel
Side Effects 2013
as Banks' Partner #1
Coming Up Roses 2011
as Charles
Harvest 2011
as Carmine Monopoli
Love & Other Drugs 2010
as California Man
The Messenger 2009
as Mr. Cohen
Spinning Into Butter 2009
as Jay Salter
Breaking Upwards 2009
as Alan
Synecdoche, New York 2008
as Emergency Room Doctor
The Savages 2007
as Larry
I'm Not There 2007
as Morris Bernstein / Barker
Unconscious 2006
as Father William
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays 2006
as Scoop Rosenbaum (segment "The Heidi Chronicles")
Freedomland 2006
as Lt. Gold
Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards 2005
as Tateh (segment "Ragtime") (archive footage)
King of the Corner 2004
as Arthur Wexler
Paycheck 2003
as Attorney General Brown
Power and Beauty 2002
as Sam Giancana
Two Against Time 2002
as Robert Portman
Someone Like You... 2001
as Stephen, Alice's Husband
Perfect Murder, Perfect Town: JonBenét and the City of Boulder 2000
as Peter Hofstrom
Creating Ragtime 1998
as Tateh
In the Presence of Mine Enemies 1997
as Kohn
I'm Not Rappaport 1996
as Young Nat's Father
I Shot Andy Warhol 1996
as Alan Burke
The Heidi Chronicles 1995
as Scoop Rosenbaum
Safe 1995
as Peter Dunning
Blink 1993
as Dr. Ryan Pierce
Single White Female 1992
as Graham Knox
Guilty Until Proven Innocent 1991
as Richard Emery
The Seventh Sign 1988
as Father Lucci
Finnegan Begin Again 1985
as John Jewell
Piaf 1984
as 'Papa' Leplée / American Sailor
Daniel 1983
as Ben Cohen
Prince of the City 1981
as Goldman
Christmas Evil 1980
as Mr. Grosch
The Rules of the Game 1975
Actor
Credits from TMDB.