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Peter Killian Gallagher (born August 19, 1955) is an American actor. Description above from the Wikipedia article Peter Gallagher, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Complete Filmography

Humane
2024
as Charles York
In the wake of an environmental collapse that has forced humanity to shed 20% of its population, a family dinner erupts into chaos when a father's pla...

The Day the Music Died: The Story of Don McLean's "American Pie"
2022
as Self
With a narrative running deeper than a catchy tune and cryptic verses, “American Pie” is a musical phenomenon woven deep into the history of American ...

Zoey's Extraordinary Christmas
2021
as Mitch Clarke
On her first holiday without her father, Zoey attempts to create a magical Christmas for her family just like the ones Mitch used to do.

One December Night
2021
as Mike
Two music managers must put their history aside to oversee the televised reunion performance of their rock star fathers with a fractured past.

One Night Only: The Best of Broadway
2020
as Self
Tina Fey is set to host One Night Only: The Best of Broadway, an unforgettable night of music celebrating the incredible and resilient Broadway commun...

Palm Springs
2020
as Howard
When carefree Nyles and reluctant maid of honor Sarah have a chance encounter at a Palm Springs wedding, things get complicated when they find themsel...

After
2019
as Ken Scott
Tessa Young is a dedicated student, dutiful daughter and loyal girlfriend to her high school sweetheart. Entering her first semester of college, Tessa...

Stepdaddy
2019
Patricia goes to Wyatt’s house for dinner. They eat soggy spaghetti and she gets too drunk. She asks him for a personal favor, he deals her a personal...
Something in the Air: Making "sex, lies, and videotape"
2018
as Self
Produced for the Criterion Collection in 2018, the documentary features actors Peter Gallagher, Andie MacDowell, and Laura San Giacomo discussing thei...

Broadway: The Next Generation
2017
as Self
A look at the past, present and future of the Great White Way.

A Bad Moms Christmas
2017
as Hank Mitchell
Amy, Kiki and Carla – three under-appreciated and over-burdened women – rebel against the challenges and expectations of the Super Bowl for mothers: C...

Literally, Right Before Aaron
2017
as Orson Schwartzman
Still reeling from his breakup with college sweetheart Allison, Adam's world is thrown into further chaos when he’s surprisingly invited to attend her...

Center Stage: On Pointe
2016
as Jonathan Reeves
Jonathan Reeves is tasked with infusing more contemporary styles and modernism into the American Ballet Academy, and enlists his top choreographers Ch...

Cruel Intentions
2016
as Edward Valmont
Fifteen years after the death of her brother, villainous Kathryn Merteuil seeks to manipulate her nephew, Bash, and gain control of the family busines...

Hello, My Name Is Doris
2015
as Willy Williams
A self-help seminar inspires a sixty-something woman to romantically pursue her younger co-worker.

In a Relationship
2015
as The Interviewer (voice)
In a Relationship is a spirited yet achingly tender look at modern love. Shot mockumentary style, this short film follows two young couples in opposit...

Step Up Revolution
2012
as Mr. Anderson
Emily arrives in Miami with aspirations to become a professional dancer. She sparks with Sean, the leader of a dance crew whose neighborhood is threat...

Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You
2012
as Paul Sveck
Precocious yet sensitive teenager James has a deep perception of the world but no idea how to live in it. Finding no help from his divorced parents no...

Burlesque
2010
as Vince Scali
Ali leaves behind a troubled life and follows her dreams to Los Angeles, where she lands a job as a cocktail waitress at the Burlesque Lounge, a once-...

Conviction
2010
as Barry Scheck
When Betty Anne Waters' older brother Kenny is arrested for murder and sentenced to life in 1983, Betty Anne, a Massachusetts wife and mother of two, ...

GasHole
2010
as Narrator (voice)
Documentary film about the history of Oil prices and the future of alternative fuels. The film takes a wide, yet detailed examination of our dependenc...

Adam
2009
as Marty Buchwald
Adam, a lonely man with Asperger's Syndrome, develops a relationship with his upstairs neighbor, Beth.

The War Boys
2009
as Slater
David, George, and Greg, best friends since high school, are “The War Boys”. They used to perch on the US-Mexican border, waiting to spot illegal immi...

Center Stage: Turn It Up
2008
as Jonathan Reeves
All self-taught dancer Kate Parker has ever wanted to do was perform with the American Academy of Ballet. But when she doesnt make it after auditionin...

Broadway's Lost Treasures II
2004
as Sky Masterson (segment "Guys & Dolls")
The annual Tony Award broadcast provides the only filmed record of Broadway's best for audiences to experience as if they were front-row-center on ope...

Comedy Central Roast of Denis Leary
2003
as Self
Caustic comic Denis Leary gets a taste of his own medicine when Comedy Central hosts a celebrity roast in his honor, emceed by Jeff Garlin. Dishing ou...

The Adventures of Tom Thumb and Thumbelina
2003
as The Mole King (voice)
Voiced by Elijah Wood, Jennifer Love Hewitt, and others, this film features Tom Thumb and Thumbelina, the tiny, famed fairy-tale favorites, who are to...

How to Deal
2003
as Len Martin
Halley is convinced true love doesn't exist based on the crazy relationships around her. Her mother is divorcing her father who is dating a younger wo...

A Tale of Two Wives
2003
Bill Goodman is a slick, wealthy, celebrated psychiatrist, who leads a double life. He has a wife and daughter in New York. At the same time, the biga...

Magic Time: A Tribute to Jack Lemmon
2002
as Self
Documentary on Jack Lemmon featuring interviews with those who knew him and worked with him.

Page to Screen: 'The Silence of the Lambs'
2002
as Host
Documentary about the adaptation of the 1988 novel by Thomas Harris into the 1991 film directed by Jonathan Demme. Originally presented in two parts o...

Mr. Deeds
2002
as Chuck Cedar
When Longfellow Deeds, a small-town pizzeria owner and poet, inherits $40 billion from his deceased uncle, he quickly begins rolling in a different ki...

Feast of All Saints
2001
as Philippe Ferronaire
Set in nineteenth-century New Orleans, the story depicts the gens de couleur libre, or the Free People of Colour, a dazzling yet damned class caught b...

Protection
2001
as Ted
A mobster moves to a new town as a protected witness and tries to start over, only to find he can't escape his old ways

Perfume
2001
as Guido
A week in the lives of a group of models, photographers, agents, reporters, publicists and other characters during a wild modeling show in New York Ci...

My Favorite Broadway: The Love Songs
2001
as Self
Live from Carnegie Hall and hosted by Julie Andrews, a host of glittering Broadway stars sing Broadway's best and most enduring love songs. This prod...

The Last Debate
2000
as Tom Chapman
A presidential debate, unconfirmed rumors and four reporters who take the political process into their own hands. With the election only a week away, ...

American Beauty: Look Closer...
2000
as Self
A promotional short documentary on the making of the film American Beauty, directed by Sam Mendes and written by Alan Ball.

Jesus Christ Superstar
2000
as First Priest
Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's Jesus Christ Superstar first exploded onto the West End stage in 1971 and it was clear that the musical world would...

Center Stage
2000
as Jonathan Reeves
A group of 12 teenagers from various backgrounds enroll at the American Ballet Academy in New York to make it as ballet dancers and each one deals wit...

Cupid & Cate
2000
as Harry
Cate has a small boutique where she sells vintage clothes. She is dating some snob whose mother thinks that Cate is a second-class citizen because of ...

Other Voices
2000
as Jordin
Phil and Anna are a young, married couple, who begin to suspect one other of an affair. When a shady private investigator gets involved in their relat...

Brotherhood of Murder
1999
as Bob Matthews
Set against the backdrop of the true story of the largest cash robbery in the history of the USA.

House on Haunted Hill
1999
as Donald W. Blackburn, M.D.
An amusement park mogul offers a random group of diverse people $1 million to spend the night in a decrepit former mental institution.

American Beauty
1999
as Buddy Kane
Lester Burnham, a depressed suburban father in a mid-life crisis, decides to turn his hectic life around after developing an infatuation with his daug...

Brave New World
1998
as Bernard Marx
In a futuristic totalitarian utopian society, babies are created through genetic engineering, everyone has a predestined place in society and their mi...

Virtual Obsession
1998
as Dr. Joe Messenger
If you were a brilliant young scientist diagnosed with only months to live, what choices would you make? To have faith that you were taken early for a...

Johnny Skidmarks
1998
as Johnny Scardino
Johnny Scardino is working for blackmailers, photographing wealthy guys in seedy motels. One such assignment turns the wrong way and blackmailers die ...

The Man Who Knew Too Little
1997
as James Ritchie
An American gets a ticket for an audience participation game in London, then gets involved in a case of mistaken identity. As an international plot un...

Cafe Society
1997
as Jack Kale
New York 1952. Mickey Jelke inherits a big sum of money and spends his nights in Manhattan, painting the city red. Night after night, he can be found ...

Path to Paradise: The Untold Story of the World Trade Center Bombing
1997
as John Anticev
The incredible story of the events leading up to the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center in New York and the capture of the terrorists.

Cannes Man
1997
as Self
Film producer Sy Lerner makes a bet with a fellow film executive that he can turn any nobody into a star at the Cannes Film Festival. A New York cab d...

The Trial of Adolf Eichmann
1997
as Gideon Hausner (voice)
David Brinkley hosts this shattering two-hour documentary about the trial of the man whose role in deporting the Jews of Europe for extermination made...

To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday
1996
as David Lewis
David loves his wife, Gillian. Unfortunately, she died two years ago. David deals with his grief by continuing his romance with Gillian during walks w...

Last Dance
1996
as John Hayes
Upon taking a new job, young lawyer Rick Hayes is assigned to the clemency case of Cindy Liggett, a woman convicted of first degree murder and sentenc...
The Great Irish Famine
1996
as narrator
This documentary examines the Irish famine of 1845, caused by a blight that devastated the potato crop, the main source of food for the poor in rural ...

The Underneath
1995
as Michael Chambers
A recovering gambling addict attempts to reconcile with his family and friends but finds trouble and temptation when caught between feelings for his e...

While You Were Sleeping
1995
as Peter Callaghan
A transit worker pulls commuter Peter off railway tracks after he's mugged, but—while he's in a coma—his family mistakenly thinks she's Peter's fiancé...
Everybody Just Stay Calm
1994
as Self
Comedic documentary about trials and tribulations of indie filmmaking.

Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle
1994
as Alan Campbell
Dorothy Parker remembers the heyday of the Algonquin Round Table, a circle of friends whose barbed wit, like hers, was fueled by alcohol and flirted w...

White Mile
1994
as Jack Robbins
An ad-agency boss (Alan Alda) leads a white-water-rafting trip into danger.

The Hudsucker Proxy
1994
as Vic Tenetta
A naive business graduate is installed as president of a manufacturing company as part of a stock scam.

Short Cuts
1993
as Stormy Weathers
Many loosely connected characters cross paths in this film, based on the stories of Raymond Carver. Waitress Doreen Piggot accidentally runs into a bo...

Mother's Boys
1993
as Robert Madigan
Sexy but unstable wife and mother Jude walked out on her family three years ago. Now, just as suddenly, she is back. But her husband, Robert, has fall...

Malice
1993
as Atty. Dennis Riley
A tale about a happily married couple who would like to have children. Tracy teaches infants, Andy's a college professor. Things are never the same af...

Watch It
1993
as John
Mike, Danny, and Rick are grown men who share a house in Chicago. They take on a fourth house mate, John, who is Mike's estranged first cousin. John's...

Luck, Trust & Ketchup: Robert Altman in Carver Country
1993
as Self
A documentary insight behind the scenes of Roberts Altman's Short Cuts.

Guys and Dolls: Off the Record
1992
as Himself / Sky Masterson
A behind-the-scenes look at the cast-album recording session of the 1992 Tony-winning Broadway revival of the Frank Loesser musical. Originally broad...

Bob Roberts
1992
as Dan Riley
Millionaire conservative Bob Roberts launches an insurgent campaign against incumbent senator Brickley Paiste, firing up crowds at his rallies by sing...

Buying a Landslide
1992
as Philip Kautsky
Republican Senator Walter Partin trails Democrat Philip Kautsky in the polls and will shortly face him in a televised debate. Drafted to play Kautsky ...

The Player
1992
as Larry Levy
A Hollywood studio executive is being sent death threats by a writer whose script he rejected - but which one?

Robert Altman's Players
1992
as Self
Behind-the-scenes documentary about a fundraiser which was staged for Robert Altman's film "The Player" (1992).

The Cabinet of Dr. Ramirez
1991
as Matt
Featuring music instead of any dialogue and set in a near Kafkaesque future, this loose remake of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari follows a bureaucrat who...

The Cabinet of Dr. Ramirez
1991
Story
Featuring music instead of any dialogue and set in a near Kafkaesque future, this loose remake of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari follows a bureaucrat who...

Late for Dinner
1991
as Bob Freeman
Two young men, one in need of medical attention, are cryogenically frozen in the early 1960s. The two are preoccupied with the fact that the police ar...

Milena
1991
as Pollak
Prague, 1920. Milena's father wants her to follow in his footsteps and be one of the first female doctors in Czechoslovakia, but she is determined to ...

Tune in Tomorrow...
1990
as Richard Quince
Martin works at the local radio station, which just hired a new scriptwriter with a reputation for great drama, Pedro Carmichael. Martin’s aunt Julia,...

Love and Lies
1990
as David West
Fact-based story of real-life detective Kim Paris who was assigned to work undercover to find the murderers of an elderly couple who were shot in thei...

sex, lies, and videotape
1989
as John Mullany
Ann, a frustrated wife, enters into counseling due to a troubled marriage. Unbeknownst to her, her husband John has begun an affair with her sister. W...

I'll Be Home for Christmas
1988
as Aaron Copler
The Bundy family try to have a good family Christmas, despite World War II.

High Spirits
1988
as Brother Tony
When a hotelier attempts to fill the chronic vacancies at his castle by launching an advertising campaign that falsely portrays the property as haunte...

The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial
1988
as Lt. Cmdr. John Challee
A full-length adaptation, originally staged as a play, of the court-martial segment from the novel "The Caine Mutiny".

Long Day's Journey Into Night
1987
as Edmund Tyrone
Originally staged (with these actors) in 1986 at Broadway’s Broadhurst Theater (appearing first on Showtime cable television in April 1987, and then f...

My Little Girl
1986
as Kai
A young girl agrees to work in a center for girls who can't stay with their parents. She gets wrapped up in the plights of several of the girls, and t...

Dreamchild
1985
as Jack Dolan
Eighty-year-old Alice Hargreaves is about to visit Columbia University to attend a reception in honor of author Lewis Carroll. As a child, Alice had a...

Terrible Joe Moran
1984
as Nick
A wheelchair-bound, former boxer deals with his long estranged granddaughter whom is seeking financial help for her writing career and helping her los...

Summer Lovers
1982
as Michael Pappas
Michael Pappas and his girlfriend, Cathy, are enjoying the white sand beaches of a Greek island as well as the freewheeling nature of the locals. When...

The Idolmaker
1980
as Caesare
Based on the life of rock promoter/producer Bob Marucci, who discovered, among others, Frankie Avalon and Fabian.

Skag
1980
as John Skagska
Pete "Skag" Skagska is a 56-year-old union foreman of a Pittsburgh steel mill until a crippling stroke forces him to stay home and try to put his life...