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Peter Friedman

Acting · Born April 24, 1949 · 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.

Movies with Peter Friedman

• Love & Other Drugs (2010) — California Man
• She Said (2022) — Lanny Davis
• Side Effects (2013) — Banks' Partner #1
• The Messenger (2009) — Mr. Cohen
• Paycheck (2003) — Attorney General Brown
• Synecdoche, New York (2008) — Emergency Room Doctor
• The Seventh Sign (1988) — Father Lucci
• I'm Not There (2007) — Morris Bernstein / Barker
• Someone Like You... (2001) — Stephen, Alice's Husband
• Jim Henson Idea Man (2024) — Self (archive footage)
• Single White Female (1992) — Graham Knox
• The Savages (2007) — Larry

TV shows with Peter Friedman

• Succession (2018) — Frank Vernon
• The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (2017) — George
• Brooklyn Bridge (1991) — George Silver