Peter Gerety

Peter Gerety

Birthday: 1940-05-17

Place of Birth: Providence, Rhode Island, USA

Biography: 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.

Movies

K-PAX
K-PAX

Prot is a patient at a mental hospital who claims to be from a far away planet. His psychiatrist tri...

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Syriana
Syriana

The Middle Eastern oil industry is the backdrop of this tense drama, which weaves together numerous ...

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Inside Man
Inside Man

When an armed, masked gang enter a Manhattan bank, lock the doors and take hostages, the detective a...

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Wolf
Wolf

An aging publisher becomes a demon wolf and, with this newfound youthful vigor, fights to keep his j...

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The Curse of the Jade Scorpion
The Curse of the Jade Scorpion

CW Briggs is a veteran insurance investigator, with many successes. Betty Ann Fitzgerald is a new em...

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Boston Strangler
Boston Strangler

Reporters Loretta McLaughlin and Jean Cole bravely pursue the story of the Boston Strangler at great...

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Homicide: The Movie
Homicide: The Movie

Retired police lieutenant Al Giardello is running for mayor when he is suddenly shot at a press conf...

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Mrs. Winterbourne
Mrs. Winterbourne

Connie Doyle is eighteen, pregnant and alone. She accidentally ends up on a train where she meets Hu...

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Runaway
Runaway

Michael Adler has run away from his suburban home with his little brother Dylan. Hiding out in a qui...

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Paul Blart: Mall Cop
Paul Blart: Mall Cop

When a shopping mall is taken over by a gang of organized crooks, it's up to a mild-mannered securit...

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Montana
Montana

A seasoned enforcer is given the seemingly routine task of finding the Boss's runaway mistress, Kitt...

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Papa Was a Preacher
Papa Was a Preacher

Edwin Porter, a Methodist minister, is sent to a little church in the small town of Sterling, Texas,...

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Get the Gringo
Get the Gringo

A career criminal nabbed by Mexican authorities is placed in a tough prison where he learns to survi...

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My Dog Tulip
My Dog Tulip

The story of a man who rescues a German Shepherd and how the two become fast friends. Based on the ...

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Second Best
Second Best

Jealousy overwhelms a group of friends, particularly struggling writer Elliot, as they prepare for t...

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The Sea Is All I Know
The Sea Is All I Know

When an estranged couple come to the aid of their dying daughter, the experience sends them spiralin...

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Play/Stop
Play/Stop

Short comedy film...

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Flight
Flight

Commercial airline pilot Whip Whitaker has a problem with drugs and alcohol, though so far he's mana...

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The Demon Murder Case
The Demon Murder Case

A young boy is taken over by demons who force him to commit murder....

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God's Pocket
God's Pocket

A boozy lowlife tries to bury the truth about his crazy stepson's suspicious death, but a nosy newsp...

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Hollywood Ending
Hollywood Ending

Woody Allen stars as Val Waxman, a two-time Oscar winner turned washed-up, neurotic director in desp...

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A Most Violent Year
A Most Violent Year

A thriller set in New York City during the winter of 1981, statistically one of the most violent yea...

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The Star-Crossed Romance of Josephine Cosnowski (a Tale of Gothic Love)
The Star-Crossed Romance of Josephine Cosnowski (a Tale of Gothic Love)

A comedy written and Narrated by Jean Shepherd. The story involves several different events such as...

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The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond
The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond

Fisher Willow is the disliked Memphis débutante daughter of a plantation owner with a distaste for n...

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The Legend of Bagger Vance
The Legend of Bagger Vance

World War I has left golfer Rannulph Junuh a poker-playing alcoholic, his perfect swing gone. Now, h...

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Changeling
Changeling

Los Angeles, 1928. When single mother Christine Collins leaves for work, her son vanishes without a ...

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Cymbeline
Cymbeline

War erupts between dirty cops and outlaw bikers as a drug kingpin tries to protect his empire....

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Looking for Kitty
Looking for Kitty

A high school baseball coach and a down-on-his-luck private investigator form a bond as they scour N...

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Stop-Loss
Stop-Loss

A veteran soldier returns from his completed tour of duty in Iraq, only to find his life turned upsi...

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People I Know
People I Know

A New York press agent must scramble when his major client becomes embroiled in a huge scandal....

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Virgin
Virgin

When a teenager finds herself pregnant, with no memory of having had sex, she determines that she is...

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Phoebe in Wonderland
Phoebe in Wonderland

The fantastical tale of a little girl who won't - or can't - follow the rules. Confounded by her cla...

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Change in the Air
Change in the Air

A peaceful community is forever changed when a mysterious young woman moves in. As the quirky locals...

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Went to Coney Island on a Mission from God... Be Back by Five
Went to Coney Island on a Mission from God... Be Back by Five

Two young men who have been friends since early childhood decide to go on a trip to find a third fri...

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Working Man
Working Man

When the last factory in a small Rust Belt town closes its doors, an unlikely hero emerges in dutifu...

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Charlie Wilson's War
Charlie Wilson's War

A Texas congressman sets a series of events in motion when he conspires with a CIA operative to aid ...

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Ash Wednesday
Ash Wednesday

In early 1980s Manhattan, a pair of Irish-American brothers become embroiled in a conflict with the ...

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The Tender Age
The Tender Age

Tim Donovan, a juvenile probation officer for the city of Boston, is assigned the case of Nikki, a ...

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Public Enemies
Public Enemies

Depression-era bank robber John Dillinger's charm and audacity endear him to much of America's downt...

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War of the Worlds
War of the Worlds

Ray Ferrier is a divorced dockworker and less-than-perfect father. Soon after his ex-wife and her ne...

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Surviving Picasso
Surviving Picasso

The passionate Merchant-Ivory drama tells the story of Francoise Gilot, the only lover of Pablo Pica...

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Cagney & Lacey: The Return
Cagney & Lacey: The Return

1994. Cagney, now a Lieutenant, re-teams with Lacey, who has left the force, to search for a cache ...

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Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight
Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight

Muhammad Ali’s historic Supreme Court battle from behind closed doors. When Ali was drafted into the...

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A Case of Deadly Force
A Case of Deadly Force

Fact-based story about a 1975 cover-up of a shooting by two white members of the Boston Tactical Uni...

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Things That Hang from Trees
Things That Hang from Trees

St. Augustine, Florida, 1969. An eight-year-old boy's wish to see the fireworks from atop the city's...

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First Affair
First Affair

A young girl attending Harvard on a scholarship finds herself falling for the husband of her English...

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Revelation
Revelation

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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Handle With Care
Handle With Care

In the wake of a short-lived marriage, a young man sells his unused wedding gifts online and learns ...

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Ollie Hopnoodle's Haven of Bliss
Ollie Hopnoodle's Haven of Bliss

From Jean Shepherd (A Christmas Story) comes the story of 14 year old Ralphie's first job, and the f...

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A Complete Unknown
A Complete Unknown

New York, early 1960s. Against the backdrop of a vibrant music scene and tumultuous cultural upheava...

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Arresting Gena
Arresting Gena

A directionless teenager (Aesha Waks) becomes involved with a headstrong runaway (Summer Phoenix) an...

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