Peter Friedman
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.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 1.098 |
| Birthday | 1949-04-24 |
| Place of Birth | New York City, New York, USA |
| Also Known As |
1996
I'm Not Rappaport
5.706/34
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...
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I'm Not Rappaport
2007
I'm Not There
6.512/767
Six actors portray six personas of music legend Bob Dylan in scenes depicting various stages of his life, chronicling his rise from unknown folksinger...
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I'm Not There
1988
The Seventh Sign
5.987/381
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...
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The Seventh Sign
2021
Good Grief
0/0
On a road trip to scatter her dad’s ashes, Nora’s family does a substandard job of paying their respects.
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Good Grief
2007
The Savages
6.907/436
A sister and brother face the realities of familial responsibility as they begin to care for their ailing father.
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The Savages
1995
Safe
6.952/344
Carol White, a Los Angeles housewife in the late 1980s, comes down with a debilitating illness with no clear diagnosis.
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Safe
2001
Someone Like You...
5.964/408
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...
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Someone Like You...
1992
Single White Female
6.31/693
Having recently split from her fiancé, Allison Jones welcomes new roommate Hedra Carlson. The young women quickly form a bond, but soon Allison begins...
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Single White Female
2006
Freedomland
5.233/363
A black police detective must solve a strange case of a kidnapped boy and deal with a big racial protest.
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Freedomland
2003
Paycheck
6.212/2014
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...
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Paycheck
2010
Love & Other Drugs
7.037/5560
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...
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Love & Other Drugs
1995
The Heidi Chronicles
7.625/4
Unusual relationships, a feminist awakening and a career in art history mark a baby boomer's life, ages 16 through 46.
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The Heidi Chronicles
2011
Harvest
4.8/5
Gathered one summer in a beautiful shoreline town, three generations are drawn together by their patriarch. With endearing moments of humor and uplift...
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Harvest
2013
Side Effects
6.613/3294
A woman turns to prescription medication as a way of handling her anxiety concerning her husband's upcoming release from prison.
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Side Effects
2011
Coming Up Roses
5/3
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...
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Coming Up Roses
2002
Two Against Time
4.667/3
This film finds a mother and her teen daughter both being diagnosed with cancer. This discovery helps to overcome the longtime antagonistic relationsh...
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Two Against Time
2000
Perfect Murder, Perfect Town: JonBenét and the City of Boulder
5.727/11
About the infamous murder of six year old child beauty pageant contestant JonBenét Ramsey and the hysterical media coverage that made the investigatio...
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Perfect Murder, Perfect Town: JonBenét and the City of Boulder
1993
Blink
6.138/196
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...
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Blink
2023
Carmen & Moony
0/0
A romantic comedy about a semi-recovered kleptomaniac who goes home for the holidays and invites an unlikely guest to her family dinner.
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Carmen & Moony
2022
Daddy's Girl
4/1
A young woman’s charming but overbearing father helps her move out of her wealthy older boyfriend’s apartment.
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Daddy's Girl
2024
Ragtime Reunion Concert
0/0
This special event celebrates the 25th anniversary of the Broadway production. Ragtime weaves an electrifying tapestry of three families from vastly d...
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Ragtime Reunion Concert
2015
Keep in Touch
5.4/5
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....
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Keep in Touch
2022
She Said
7.187/710
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...
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She Said
2009
Breaking Upwards
5.4/30
'Breaking Upwards' explores a young, real-life New York couple who, four years in and battling codependency, decide to intricately strategize their ow...
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Breaking Upwards
1991
Guilty Until Proven Innocent
7.125/8
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...
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Guilty Until Proven Innocent
1980
Christmas Evil
5.473/201
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...
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Christmas Evil
1985
Finnegan Begin Again
6.5/11
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.
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Finnegan Begin Again
2008
Synecdoche, New York
7.546/1582
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...
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Synecdoche, New York
2009
The Messenger
6.763/480
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...
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The Messenger
2019
Sundowners
0/0
Ali and her father cook, drink, and ignore what's going on in the next room.
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Sundowners
2005
Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards
7.2/4
Broadway royalty and Tony-winners Tommy Tune, Carol Channing, Robert Goulet, and Harvey Fierstein are your hosts for this third compilation of great m...
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Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards
2006
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
0/0
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...
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The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
1984
Piaf
7/1
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...
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Piaf
1975
The Rules of the Game
8/1
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...
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The Rules of the Game
1983
Daniel
6.657/35
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...
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Daniel
2002
Power and Beauty
7/4
A woman claims she had an affair with John F. Kennedy.
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Power and Beauty
2006
Unconscious
6.333/3
Six different people all believe an unconscious and unidentified man in a hospital is their missing person. A film about being unconscious . . . or no...
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Unconscious
1981
Prince of the City
7.017/177
New York City detective Daniel Ciello agrees to help the United States Department of Justice eliminate corruption in the police department, as long as...
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Prince of the City
1996
I Shot Andy Warhol
6.134/93
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...
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I Shot Andy Warhol
2004
King of the Corner
5.857/7
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...
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King of the Corner
1997
In the Presence of Mine Enemies
5.667/6
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...
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In the Presence of Mine Enemies
2024
The Variable
0/0
An “ethnically ambiguous” actor struggles to adjust to stereotypes projected onto him during the audition process.
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The Variable
2025
Marina
0/0
Strange leaks start dripping from the ceiling of the house where Marina works as the caregiver for her aging father.
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Marina
2025
King Hamlet
0/0
Actor Oscar Isaac takes on the iconic role of Shakespeare's Danish prince in an intimate look at his preparation and performance at NYC's Public Theat...
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King Hamlet
2009
Spinning Into Butter
5.944/9
A hate crime on the campus of a New England college puts the school's dean (Parker) in a position where she has to examine her own feelings about race...
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Spinning Into Butter
1998
Creating Ragtime
0/0
A documentary exploring the creation of the new musical Ragtime, based on the novel by E.L. Doctorow.
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Creating Ragtime
2024
Jim Henson Idea Man
7.81/50
Featuring unprecedented access to Jim Henson's personal archives, filmmaker Ron Howard brings us a fascinating and insightful look at a complex man wh...
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