Peter Gerety
Peter Gerety (born May 17, 1940) is an American actor. On television, he played officer, later detective, Stuart Gharty on Homicide: Life on the Street (1996–1999), Judge Daniel Phelan in The Wire (2002–2008), and Otto Bernhardt in Sneaky Pete (2015–2019).
In film, Gerety has appeared in notable films such as K-Pax, People I Know, The Curse of the Jade Scorpion, Hollywood Ending, Wolf, Charlie Wilson's War, Surviving Picasso, War of the Worlds, Things That Hang from Trees, Inside Man, and Changeling. He is also an accomplished stage actor, appearing in numerous plays on and off-Broadway.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 1.737 |
| Birthday | 1940-05-17 |
| Place of Birth | Providence, Rhode Island, USA |
| Also Known As |
2001
K-PAX
7.207/2728
Prot is a patient at a mental hospital who claims to be from a far away planet. His psychiatrist tries to help him, only to begin to doubt his own exp...
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K-PAX
2005
Syriana
6.426/1485
The Middle Eastern oil industry is the backdrop of this tense drama, which weaves together numerous story lines. Bennett Holiday is an American lawyer...
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Syriana
2006
Inside Man
7.404/6318
When an armed, masked gang enter a Manhattan bank, lock the doors and take hostages, the detective assigned to effect their release enters negotiation...
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Inside Man
1994
Wolf
6.138/1002
An aging publisher becomes a demon wolf and, with this newfound youthful vigor, fights to keep his job.
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Wolf
2001
The Curse of the Jade Scorpion
6.617/832
CW Briggs is a veteran insurance investigator, with many successes. Betty Ann Fitzgerald is a new employee in the company he works for, with the task...
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The Curse of the Jade Scorpion
2023
Boston Strangler
6.646/833
Reporters Loretta McLaughlin and Jean Cole bravely pursue the story of the Boston Strangler at great personal risk, putting their own lives on the lin...
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Boston Strangler
2000
Homicide: The Movie
6.887/31
Retired police lieutenant Al Giardello is running for mayor when he is suddenly shot at a press conference. All of the detectives, past and present, c...
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Homicide: The Movie
1996
Mrs. Winterbourne
7.206/222
Connie Doyle is eighteen, pregnant and alone. She accidentally ends up on a train where she meets Hugh Winterbourne and his wife pregnant Patricia. Th...
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Mrs. Winterbourne
2005
Runaway
6.5/32
Michael Adler has run away from his suburban home with his little brother Dylan. Hiding out in a quiet, rural town, Michael's convinced he can make a...
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Runaway
2009
Paul Blart: Mall Cop
5.447/2707
When a shopping mall is taken over by a gang of organized crooks, it's up to a mild-mannered security guard to save the day.
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Paul Blart: Mall Cop
1998
Montana
5.688/32
A seasoned enforcer is given the seemingly routine task of finding the Boss's runaway mistress, Kitty. However Kitty is involved in plans to overthrow...
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Montana
1986
Papa Was a Preacher
5.5/2
Edwin Porter, a Methodist minister, is sent to a little church in the small town of Sterling, Texas, to try to save it from financial insolvency. The...
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Papa Was a Preacher
2012
Get the Gringo
6.608/1783
A career criminal nabbed by Mexican authorities is placed in a tough prison where he learns to survive with the help of a 9-year-old boy.
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Get the Gringo
2010
My Dog Tulip
6.4/31
The story of a man who rescues a German Shepherd and how the two become fast friends. Based on the 1956 memoir of the same name by BBC editor, noveli...
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My Dog Tulip
2004
Second Best
5.833/3
Jealousy overwhelms a group of friends, particularly struggling writer Elliot, as they prepare for the homecoming of their old friend, a wildly succes...
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Second Best
2011
The Sea Is All I Know
0/0
When an estranged couple come to the aid of their dying daughter, the experience sends them spiraling into spiritual crisis and brutal heartbreak.
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The Sea Is All I Know
2009
Play/Stop
0/0
Short comedy film
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Play/Stop
2012
Flight
6.859/6417
Commercial airline pilot Whip Whitaker has a problem with drugs and alcohol, though so far he's managed to complete his flights safely. His luck runs...
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Flight
1983
The Demon Murder Case
6.156/16
A young boy is taken over by demons who force him to commit murder.
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The Demon Murder Case
2014
God's Pocket
5.826/215
A boozy lowlife tries to bury the truth about his crazy stepson's suspicious death, but a nosy newspaper columnist and the young man's mother complica...
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God's Pocket
2002
Hollywood Ending
6.508/530
Woody Allen stars as Val Waxman, a two-time Oscar winner turned washed-up, neurotic director in desperate need of a comeback. When it comes, Waxman fi...
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Hollywood Ending
2014
A Most Violent Year
6.606/1530
A thriller set in New York City during the winter of 1981, statistically one of the most violent years in the city's history, and centered on the live...
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A Most Violent Year
1985
The Star-Crossed Romance of Josephine Cosnowski (a Tale of Gothic Love)
7/3
A comedy written and Narrated by Jean Shepherd. The story involves several different events such as Ralph's first serious romance with his new neighb...
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The Star-Crossed Romance of Josephine Cosnowski (a Tale of Gothic Love)
2008
The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond
5.3/48
Fisher Willow is the disliked Memphis débutante daughter of a plantation owner with a distaste for narrow-minded people and a penchant for shocking an...
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The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond
2000
The Legend of Bagger Vance
6.6/984
World War I has left golfer Rannulph Junuh a poker-playing alcoholic, his perfect swing gone. Now, however, he needs to get it back to play in a tourn...
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The Legend of Bagger Vance
2008
Changeling
7.579/4464
Los Angeles, 1928. When single mother Christine Collins leaves for work, her son vanishes without a trace. Five months later, the police reunite mothe...
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Changeling
2014
Cymbeline
3.9/127
War erupts between dirty cops and outlaw bikers as a drug kingpin tries to protect his empire.
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Cymbeline
2004
Looking for Kitty
4.844/16
A high school baseball coach and a down-on-his-luck private investigator form a bond as they scour New York City for the coach's wife, who's run away...
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Looking for Kitty
2008
Stop-Loss
6.112/273
A veteran soldier returns from his completed tour of duty in Iraq, only to find his life turned upside down when he is arbitrarily ordered to return t...
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Stop-Loss
2002
People I Know
5.223/182
A New York press agent must scramble when his major client becomes embroiled in a huge scandal.
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People I Know
2003
Virgin
4.808/13
When a teenager finds herself pregnant, with no memory of having had sex, she determines that she is carrying the child of God.
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Virgin
2008
Phoebe in Wonderland
7.2/165
The fantastical tale of a little girl who won't - or can't - follow the rules. Confounded by her clashes with the rule-obsessed world around her, Phoe...
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Phoebe in Wonderland
2018
Change in the Air
5.7/15
A peaceful community is forever changed when a mysterious young woman moves in. As the quirky locals embrace her, their lives soon improve. But, they...
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Change in the Air
1998
Went to Coney Island on a Mission from God... Be Back by Five
4.778/9
Two young men who have been friends since early childhood decide to go on a trip to find a third friend who has long since disappeared. Stories they h...
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Went to Coney Island on a Mission from God... Be Back by Five
2019
Working Man
7.35/10
When the last factory in a small Rust Belt town closes its doors, an unlikely hero emerges in dutiful, quiet Allery Parkes. A career employee of the f...
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Working Man
2007
Charlie Wilson's War
6.542/1636
A Texas congressman sets a series of events in motion when he conspires with a CIA operative to aid Afghan mujahideen rebels fighting the Soviets.
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Charlie Wilson's War
2002
Ash Wednesday
5.545/44
In early 1980s Manhattan, a pair of Irish-American brothers become embroiled in a conflict with the Irish Mob.
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Ash Wednesday
1986
The Tender Age
6/3
Tim Donovan, a juvenile probation officer for the city of Boston, is assigned the case of Nikki, a troubled teenage girl who's been arrested for Assa...
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The Tender Age
2009
Public Enemies
6.687/4806
Depression-era bank robber John Dillinger's charm and audacity endear him to much of America's downtrodden public, but he's also a thorn in the side o...
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Public Enemies
2005
War of the Worlds
6.536/9118
Ray Ferrier is a divorced dockworker and less-than-perfect father. Soon after his ex-wife and her new husband drop off his teenage son and young daugh...
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War of the Worlds
1996
Surviving Picasso
5.802/106
The passionate Merchant-Ivory drama tells the story of Francoise Gilot, the only lover of Pablo Picasso who was strong enough to withstand his ferocio...
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Surviving Picasso
1994
Cagney & Lacey: The Return
6.833/6
1994. Cagney, now a Lieutenant, re-teams with Lacey, who has left the force, to search for a cache of missing firearms.
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Cagney & Lacey: The Return
2013
Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight
6.43/43
Muhammad Ali’s historic Supreme Court battle from behind closed doors. When Ali was drafted into the Vietnam War at the height of his boxing career, h...
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Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight
1986
A Case of Deadly Force
8/1
Fact-based story about a 1975 cover-up of a shooting by two white members of the Boston Tactical Unit. While on stakeout on a suspected getaway car us...
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A Case of Deadly Force
2006
Things That Hang from Trees
4.25/12
St. Augustine, Florida, 1969. An eight-year-old boy's wish to see the fireworks from atop the city's lighthouse is complicated by his odd neighbors, a...
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Things That Hang from Trees
1983
First Affair
4/3
A young girl attending Harvard on a scholarship finds herself falling for the husband of her English professor.
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First Affair
2024
Revelation
0/0
After a major trauma, a detective takes on a case that will test how ready she is to return to work.
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Revelation
Handle With Care
0/0
In the wake of a short-lived marriage, a young man sells his unused wedding gifts online and learns valuable life lessons from the people he meets alo...
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Handle With Care
1988
Ollie Hopnoodle's Haven of Bliss
7.375/12
From Jean Shepherd (A Christmas Story) comes the story of 14 year old Ralphie's first job, and the family vacation the family is planning to a rustic...
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Ollie Hopnoodle's Haven of Bliss
2024
A Complete Unknown
7.1/1417
New York, early 1960s. Against the backdrop of a vibrant music scene and tumultuous cultural upheaval, an enigmatic 19-year-old from Minnesota arrives...
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A Complete Unknown
1997
Arresting Gena
5.5/2
A directionless teenager (Aesha Waks) becomes involved with a headstrong runaway (Summer Phoenix) and her drug-dealing brother (Sam Rockwell).
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Arresting Gena
2017
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
6.39/109
An African-American woman becomes an unwitting pioneer for medical breakthroughs when her cells are used to create the first immortal human cell line...
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
2026
Pizza Movie
6.4/93
A group of college students go downstairs to their dorm lobby to get a delivery pizza. There's only one issue: They're insanely high on a homemade dru...
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