Peter Friedman

Peter Friedman

1949-04-24 New York City, New York, USA 43 Credits

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

Acting

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

The Variable

The Variable

2024

Acting

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

Ragtime Reunion Concert

Ragtime Reunion Concert

2024

as Tateh

Acting

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

Carmen & Moony

Carmen & Moony

2023

as Louis

Acting

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

She Said

2022

as Lanny Davis

7.2
Acting

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

Daddy's Girl

2022

as Robert

4.0
Acting

A young woman’s charming but overbearing father helps her move out of her wealthy older boyfriend’s apartment.

Good Grief

Good Grief

2021

as Uncle Harold

Acting

On a road trip to scatter her dad’s ashes, Nora’s family does a substandard job of paying their respects.

Sundowners

Sundowners

2019

Acting

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

Keep in Touch

Keep in Touch

2015

as Dallen Parcel

5.4
Acting

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

Side Effects

2013

as Banks' Partner #1

6.6
Acting

A woman turns to prescription medication as a way of handling her anxiety concerning her husband's upcoming release from prison.

Coming Up Roses

Coming Up Roses

2011

as Charles

5.0
Acting

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

Harvest

2011

as Carmine Monopoli

4.8
Acting

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

Love & Other Drugs

2010

as California Man

7.0
Acting

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

The Messenger

2009

as Mr. Cohen

6.8
Acting

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

Breaking Upwards

2009

as Alan

5.4
Acting

'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

Synecdoche, New York

2008

as Emergency Room Doctor

7.6
Acting

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

The Savages

2007

as Larry

6.9
Acting

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

I'm Not There

I'm Not There

2007

as Morris Bernstein / Barker

6.5
Acting

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

Unconscious

2006

as Father William

6.0
Acting

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

The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays

2006

as Scoop Rosenbaum (segment "The Heidi Chronicles")

Acting

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

Freedomland

2006

as Lt. Gold

5.2
Acting

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

Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards

2005

as Tateh (segment "Ragtime") (archive footage)

7.2
Acting

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

King of the Corner

2004

as Arthur Wexler

5.7
Acting

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

Paycheck

2003

as Attorney General Brown

6.2
Acting

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

Power and Beauty

2002

as Sam Giancana

6.7
Acting

A woman claims she had an affair with John F. Kennedy.

Two Against Time

Two Against Time

2002

as Robert Portman

3.0
Acting

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...

Someone Like You...

2001

as Stephen, Alice's Husband

6.0
Acting

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

Perfect Murder, Perfect Town: JonBenét and the City of Boulder

2000

as Peter Hofstrom

5.6
Acting

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

In the Presence of Mine Enemies

1997

as Kohn

4.8
Acting

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

I'm Not Rappaport

1996

as Young Nat's Father

5.6
Acting

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

I Shot Andy Warhol

1996

as Alan Burke

6.2
Acting

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

7.5
Acting

Unusual relationships, a feminist awakening and a career in art history mark a baby boomer's life, ages 16 through 46.

Safe

Safe

1995

as Peter Dunning

7.0
Acting

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

Blink

Blink

1993

as Dr. Ryan Pierce

6.2
Acting

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

Single White Female

1992

as Graham Knox

6.3
Acting

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

Guilty Until Proven Innocent

1991

as Richard Emery

6.9
Acting

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

The Seventh Sign

1988

as Father Lucci

6.0
Acting

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

Finnegan Begin Again

1985

as John Jewell

6.3
Acting

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

Piaf

1984

as 'Papa' Leplée / American Sailor

Acting

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

Daniel

1983

as Ben Cohen

6.6
Acting

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

Prince of the City

1981

as Goldman

7.0
Acting

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

Christmas Evil

1980

as Mr. Grosch

5.4
Acting

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

The Rules of the Game

1975

Acting

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...