Biography
Peter Riegert is an American stage and screen actor, writer, and director, best known for his portrayal of crooked New Jersey State Assemblyman Ronald Zellman on the HBO television series "The Sopranos".
Known For
Complete Filmography
Sly
2023
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
His love of film began as an escape from a rocky childhood. From underdog to Hollywood legend, Sylvester Stallone tells his story in this documentary.
Extra Innings
2019
as Pete
A reporter interviews the manager of the Boston Red Sox in an attempt to uncover secrets from his past.
American Pastoral
2016
as Lou Levov
Set in postwar America, a man watches his seemingly perfect life fall apart as his daughter's new political affiliation threatens to destroy their fam...
At Middleton
2013
as Boneyard Sims
George is an uptight surgeon with a rebellious teenage son. Edith is a free spirit with an overachieving teenage daughter. When they meet during an ad...
Sholem Aleichem: Laughing In The Darkness
2012
as Tevye
A riveting portrait of the great writer whose stories became the basis of the Broadway musical Fiddler on the Roof. Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in the D...
We Bought a Zoo
2011
as Delbert McGinty
Benjamin has lost his wife and, in a bid to start his life over, purchases a large house that has a zoo – welcome news for his daughter, but his son i...
Oka!
2011
as Dr. Maguire
The story of Louis Sarno, an American ethno-musicologist who lived among the Bayaka Pygmies in Central Africa for 25 years.
White Irish Drinkers
2011
as Whitey
A coming of age story set in 1975 working-class Brooklyn, in which two teenage brothers living with their abusive father and their well-meaning but in...
The Chosen One
2010
as Bob
Paul is an ordinary man who is at the end of his rope. He hates his job, his beautiful wife has left him, and his mother and gay, Buddhist-monk brothe...
Love Conquers Paul
2009
as Mr. Feigenbaum
Paul has a chance encounter with a free-spirited artist named Esoterica that provides the spark that ignites his first passionate relationship. She ch...
Animal House: The Inside Story
2008
as Self
Documentary about the making of Animal House
The Response
2008
as Colonel Jefferson
THE RESPONSE is a courtroom drama based on the actual transcripts of the Guantanamo Bay military tribunals. Conceived in the vein of "12 Angry Men", t...
Starz Inside: In the Gutter
2008
as Self
From the moment Shakespeare wrote his first fart joke, audiences have loved gross-out humor. In this 'Starz Inside' documentary, take a trip through t...
Surrender, Dorothy
2006
as Mel
When her daughter Sara unexpectedly passes away, Natalie retreats to the summer home where she and Sara used to visit. Time with her best friends and ...
Back When We Were Grownups
2004
as Zeb
A 53-year-old widow believes she's turned into the wrong person in this bittersweet tale based on Anne Tyler's best-seller. Beck's (Blythe Danner) pla...
King of the Corner
2004
as Leo Spivak
Leo Spivak is drifting through life without a compass. His father is aging fast, his teenage daughter is rebelling, his protégé is after his job and h...
King of the Corner
2004
Director, Writer
Leo Spivak is drifting through life without a compass. His father is aging fast, his teenage daughter is rebelling, his protégé is after his job and h...
How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog
2002
as Larry
The story of Peter McGowan, a chain-smoking, impotent, insomniac playwright who lives in Los Angeles. Once very successful, he is now in the tenth yea...
Bleacher Bums
2001
as Decker
They're known as the Bleacher Bums, a loud and proud group of fans who watch their team's games from the stadium's cheap seats. Most of them have been...
Club Land
2001
as Rabbi
A father and son work together as agents.
By Courier
2001
Director
By Courier is a 2000 English language short film adapted from a story by O. Henry and directed by Peter Riegert, starring Garret Dillahunt, Claire La...
Bojangles
2001
as Marty
The life of Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, African-American tap-dancing star of stage and screen. In 1916, Robinson was a successful vaudeville performer ...
Traffic
2000
as Attorney Michael Adler
An exploration of the United States of America's war on drugs from multiple perspectives. For the new head of the Office of National Drug Control Poli...
In the Weeds
2000
as Barry
It's Martha's first night as a waitress in an upscale New York restaurant. Veteran Chloe shows her the ropes and introduces her to the lives of the re...
Passion of Mind
2000
as Dr. Peters, the New York Psychiatrist
A psychological romantic thriller where fantasy and reality become indistinguishable for a woman leading a double life in her dreams.
Scandalous Me: The Jacqueline Susann Story
1998
Drugs, alcohol and controversy mark the author's life.
Jerry and Tom
1998
as Stanley
Tom and Jerry are two hit men, they work by day at a third-rate second-hand car dealership. Tom is a veteran and Jerry is a novice in their business, ...
Hi-Life
1998
as Minor
Jimmy needs $900 to clear a gambling debt but a series of lies leads to Ray trying to raise the cash from friends who owe him money.
The Yearbook: An Animal House Reunion
1998
as Self - Boone
This documentary, created for the Animal House (1978) collector's edition DVD, is composed of a collection of new interviews with the cast and crew be...
The Baby Dance
1998
as Richard Luckman
Six months pregnant and living in a beat-up tiny mobile home, Wanda LeFauve thinks she has found the solution to her problems when she agrees to meet ...
Face Down
1997
as Lt. Coop Cooper
When blonde bombshell Meredith Lake breezes into his office, New York private eye Bob Signorelli can't resist giving her "personal" attention. But the...
North Shore Fish
1997
as Porker
Sal (Tony Danza) has been the foreman at North Shore Fish, a frozen fish factory, for years. He and Flo (Mercedes Ruehl), the "batter" person on the a...
Infinity
1996
as Mel Feynman
Story of the early life of genius and Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman.
Burt Lancaster: Daring to Reach
1996
as Self
He went from street-wise tough to art-collector liberal-activist, from circus-acrobat hunk to Academy Award winner. Burton Stephen Lancaster — later B...
Pie in the Sky
1996
as Dad Dunlap
A young man obsessed with traffic patterns attempts to reunite with his first love.
An Element of Truth
1995
as Sidney Wiltz
A beautiful woman uses her charms to dupe her new sweetheart and his buddies.
Bleeding Hearts
1995
as Doctor
An ill-fated, tender romance between an adult white male tutor and his 17-year-old African-American female student.
Coldblooded
1995
as Steve
Cosmo, an affectless mob bookie who lives in the basement of a retirement home, is promoted to hitman. He learns his new trade from Steve, a seasoned ...
The Infiltrator
1995
In the early 1990s, an Israeli freelance journalist travels to Germany and uncovers a dangerously pervasive underground Neo-Nazi faction intent on bri...
The Mask
1994
as Mitch Kellaway
When timid bank clerk Stanley Ipkiss discovers a magical mask containing the spirit of the Norse god Loki, his entire life changes. While wearing the ...
Gypsy
1993
as Herbie Sommers
Rose Hovick lives to see her daughter June succeed on Broadway by way of vaudeville. When June marries and leaves, Rose turns her hope and attention t...
Barbarians at the Gate
1993
as Peter Cohen
F. Ross Johnson decides to buyout his own tobacco firm RJR Nabisco after the plans of the launch of his new product, a smokeless cigarette Premier, fa...
Passed Away
1992
as Peter Syracusa
Thrown for a loop by the unexpected news that Dad has suddenly gone to his reward, the grieving eccentric Scanian clan are drawn together in a test of...
Utz
1992
as Marius Fisher
Hugh Whitemore adapted Bruce Chatwin's novel for this tale of a New York antique dealer who travels to Prague to buy the porcelain collection of the l...
Oscar
1991
as Aldo
Angelo "Snaps" Provolone made his dying father a promise on his deathbed: he would leave the world of crime and become an honest businessman. Despite ...
The Object of Beauty
1991
as Lawrence "Larry" Oates
American couple Jake and Tina are living in an expensive London hotel above their means, incurring a sizeable debt. When they are asked to pay a lavis...
The Runestone
1991
as Capt. Gregory Fanducci
A New York detective takes the case of a bulletproof monster sprung to life from Viking legend.
Beyond the Ocean
1990
as Eric
A big-time businessman throws in the towel on his company and high-tails it out to Bali just as its stock is about to be publicly offered. There, he t...
A Shock to the System
1990
as Robert Benham
Madison Avenue executive Graham Marshall has paid his dues. A talented and devoted worker, he has suffered through mounting bills and a nagging wife w...
W. Eugene Smith: Photography Made Difficult
1989
as W. Eugene Smith
The war in the South Pacific, a country doctor in Colorado, victims of industrial pollution in a Japanese village — all were captured in unforgettable...
That's Adequate
1989
as Adult Baby Elroy
This mockumentary about fictional movie studio Adequate Pictures boasts an interesting cast. Tony Randall hosts, and James CoCo (practically on his de...
Crossing Delancey
1988
as Sam Posner
Thirty-something Isabelle spends her time going from her tiny, solitary West Side apartment to that of her grandmother on the Lower East Side. While h...
The Stranger
1987
as Dr. Harris Kite
Bonnie Bedilia stars in this psychological thriller about a woman who witnesses a murder and then flees. During her escape, she has a car accident. Sh...
A Man in Love
1987
as Michael Pozner
An American film-star and an unknown British actress meet on set in Rome. She is angry when he refuses to speak to her journalist father, but later th...
News at Eleven
1986
as Eric Ross
When television news director Eric Ross pressures esteemed senior anchor Frank Kenley to sensationalize the news, Kenley isn't pleased -- and the conf...
The City Girl
1984
as Tim
A female photographer who is engaged to a businessman investigates a cult in the local club scene. By living out some of her sexual fantasies, she fac...
The Making of a 'Local Hero' (With a Little Help from His Friends)
1983
as Self
Documentary for Scottish television about the making of Bill Forsyth's 1983 film "Local Hero."
Le Grand Carnaval
1983
as Walter Giammanca, le boss américain
The story follows Americans in Algeria at the time of the Allied invasion of North Africa in 1942.
The South Bank Show: 'Local Hero'
1983
as Self
A documentary about the making of Bill Forsyth's 1983 film "Local Hero."
Local Hero
1983
as "Mac" MacIntyre
An American oil company sends a man to Scotland to buy up an entire village where they want to build a refinery. But things don't go as expected.
National Lampoon's Movie Madness
1982
as Jason Cooper ("Growing Yourself")
A parody of film genres composed of three shorts, spoofing personal growth films, glossy soap operas, and police stories.
Chilly Scenes of Winter
1979
as Sam
Charles is a bored civil servant struggling through a harsh Utah winter. He spends most of his time reflecting on his romance with Laura, a coworker w...
Americathon
1979
as Eric McMurkin
In a story told in narrative flashbacks, a young TV consultant is hired by the President of a bankrupt USA to organize a telethon in order to prevent ...
Animal House
1978
as Donald 'Boon' Schoenstein
At a 1962 College, Dean Vernon Wormer is determined to expel the entire Delta Tau Chi Fraternity, but those troublemakers have other plans for him.