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 A...
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Marina
2025
Strange leaks start dripping from the ceiling of the house where Marina works as the caregiver for her aging father.

The Variable
2024
An “ethnically ambiguous” actor struggles to adjust to stereotypes projected onto him during the audition process.

Ragtime Reunion Concert
2024
as Tateh
This special event celebrates the 25th anniversary of the Broadway production. Ragtime weaves an electrifying tapestry of three families from vastly d...

Carmen & Moony
2023
as Louis
A romantic comedy about a semi-recovered kleptomaniac who goes home for the holidays and invites an unlikely guest to her family dinner.

She Said
2022
as Lanny Davis
New York Times reporters Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor break one of the most important stories in a generation — a story that helped launch the #MeToo ...

Daddy's Girl
2022
as Robert
A young woman’s charming but overbearing father helps her move out of her wealthy older boyfriend’s apartment.

Good Grief
2021
as Uncle Harold
On a road trip to scatter her dad’s ashes, Nora’s family does a substandard job of paying their respects.

Sundowners
2019
Ali and her father cook, drink, and ignore what's going on in the next room.

Keep in Touch
2015
as Dallen Parcel
After a major crisis, a man attempts to track down his long-lost first love, only to discover that she was killed in a car accident many years prior. ...

Side Effects
2013
as Banks' Partner #1
A woman turns to prescription medication as a way of handling her anxiety concerning her husband's upcoming release from prison.

Coming Up Roses
2011
as Charles
A drama centered on a former actress who subjects her 15-year-old daughter to a series of depressed small towns, money woes, failed love affairs, and ...

Harvest
2011
as Carmine Monopoli
Gathered one summer in a beautiful shoreline town, three generations are drawn together by their patriarch. With endearing moments of humor and uplift...

Love & Other Drugs
2010
as California Man
Maggie is an alluring free spirit who won't let anyone – or anything – tie her down. But she meets her match in Jamie, whose relentless and nearly inf...

The Messenger
2009
as Mr. Cohen
Will Montgomery, a U.S. Army Staff Sergeant who has returned home from Iraq, is assigned to the Army’s Casualty Notification service. Montgomery is pa...

Breaking Upwards
2009
as Alan
'Breaking Upwards' explores a young, real-life New York couple who, four years in and battling codependency, decide to intricately strategize their ow...

Synecdoche, New York
2008
as Emergency Room Doctor
A theater director struggles with his work, and the women in his life, as he attempts to create a life-size replica of New York inside a warehouse as ...

The Savages
2007
as Larry
A sister and brother face the realities of familial responsibility as they begin to care for their ailing father.

I'm Not There
2007
as Morris Bernstein / Barker
Six actors portray six personas of music legend Bob Dylan in scenes depicting various stages of his life, chronicling his rise from unknown folksinger...

Unconscious
2006
as Father William
Six different people all believe an unconscious and unidentified man in a hospital is their missing person. A film about being unconscious . . . or no...

The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
2006
as Scoop Rosenbaum (segment "The Heidi Chronicles")
The Great White Way comes into your living room via this disc of rare performances from some of Broadway's brightest luminaries. Culled from clips fro...

Freedomland
2006
as Lt. Gold
A black police detective must solve a strange case of a kidnapped boy and deal with a big racial protest.

Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards
2005
as Tateh (segment "Ragtime") (archive footage)
Broadway royalty and Tony-winners Tommy Tune, Carol Channing, Robert Goulet, and Harvey Fierstein are your hosts for this third compilation of great m...

King of the Corner
2004
as Arthur Wexler
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...

Paycheck
2003
as Attorney General Brown
Michael Jennings is a genius who's hired – and paid handsomely – by high-tech firms to work on highly sensitive projects, after which his short-term m...

Power and Beauty
2002
as Sam Giancana
A woman claims she had an affair with John F. Kennedy.

Two Against Time
2002
as Robert Portman
This film finds a mother and her teen daughter both being diagnosed with cancer. This discovery helps to overcome the longtime antagonistic relationsh...

Someone Like You...
2001
as Stephen, Alice's Husband
Jane Goodale has everything going for her. She's a producer on a popular daytime talk show, and is in a hot romance with the show's dashing executive ...

Perfect Murder, Perfect Town: JonBenét and the City of Boulder
2000
as Peter Hofstrom
About the infamous murder of six year old child beauty pageant contestant JonBenét Ramsey and the hysterical media coverage that made the investigatio...

In the Presence of Mine Enemies
1997
as Kohn
In the Warsau ghetto of 1943, one man's struggle to keep his family together leads him to the ultimate crisis of faith and one final chance at redempt...

I'm Not Rappaport
1996
as Young Nat's Father
Old Nat Moyer is a talker, a philosopher, and a troublemaker with a fanciful imagination. His companion is Midge Carter, who is half-blind, but still ...

I Shot Andy Warhol
1996
as Alan Burke
Based on the true story of Valerie Solanas who was a 1960s radical preaching hatred toward men in her "Scum" manifesto. She wrote a screenplay for a f...
The Heidi Chronicles
1995
as Scoop Rosenbaum
Unusual relationships, a feminist awakening and a career in art history mark a baby boomer's life, ages 16 through 46.

Safe
1995
as Peter Dunning
Carol White, a Los Angeles housewife in the late 1980s, comes down with a debilitating illness with no clear diagnosis.

Blink
1993
as Dr. Ryan Pierce
Emma is an attractive girl in her 20s who has been blind for 20 years. A new type of eye operation partially restores her sight, but she is having pro...

Single White Female
1992
as Graham Knox
Attractive Manhattanite Allison Jones has it all: a handsome beau, a rent-controlled apartment, and a promising career as a fashion designer. When boy...

Guilty Until Proven Innocent
1991
as Richard Emery
A teenage high school drop-out Bobby McLaughlin is accused of the murder of a local drug dealer he says he didn’t commit. When he is convicted with li...

The Seventh Sign
1988
as Father Lucci
Abby is a pregnant woman with a curious new boarder in the apartment over her garage. Turns out he's heaven-sent and is speeding along the Apocalypse ...

Finnegan Begin Again
1985
as John Jewell
A schoolteacher in her early 40s, involved in a dead-end love affair with a married mortician, drifts into a relationship with an aging newspaperman.

Piaf
1984
as 'Papa' Leplée / American Sailor
Piaf is a play by Pam Gems that focuses on the life and career of French chanteuse Édith Piaf. This recording presents the Tony Award-winning stage pl...

Daniel
1983
as Ben Cohen
The fictionalized story of Daniel, the son of Paul and Rochelle Isaacson, who were executed as Soviet spies in the 1950s. As a graduate student in New...

Prince of the City
1981
as Goldman
New York City detective Daniel Ciello agrees to help the United States Department of Justice help eliminate corruption in the police department, as lo...

Christmas Evil
1980
as Mr. Grosch
Garbed in his red suit, Harry, a toy factory worker, decides that the only thing he can do to save the spirit of Christmas is to become Santa Claus hi...

The Rules of the Game
1975
Dramatist Luigi Pirandello's mordant comedy of manners tells the tale of upper-crust Italians Silia Gala and her sneering spouse, Leone, who finds his...