Peter Riegert

Peter Riegert

Birthday: 1947-04-11

Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA

Biography: Peter Riegert (born April 11, 1947) is an American stage and screen actor, writer, and director. He notable film roles include Donald "Boon" Schoenstein in Animal House (1978), oil company executive "Mac" MacIntyre in Local Hero (1983), pickle store owner Sam Posner in Crossing Delancey (1988), and Lt. Mitch Kellaway in The Mask (1994). On television, he is best known for his portrayal of crooked New Jersey State Assemblyman Ronald Zellman on The Sopranos.

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The Mask
The Mask

Stanley, a meek bank employee, turns into an eccentric and maniacal green-skinned superhero who can ...

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Infinity
Infinity

Story of the early life of genius and Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman....

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Utz
Utz

Hugh Whitemore adapted Bruce Chatwin's novel for this tale of a New York antique dealer who travels ...

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A Shock to the System
A Shock to the System

Madison Avenue executive Graham Marshall has paid his dues. A talented and devoted worker, he has su...

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Local Hero
Local Hero

An American oil company sends a man to Scotland to buy up an entire village where they want to build...

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Animal House
Animal House

At a 1962 College, Dean Vernon Wormer is determined to expel the entire Delta Tau Chi Fraternity, bu...

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Oscar
Oscar

Angelo "Snaps" Provolone made his dying father a promise on his deathbed: he would leave the world o...

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National Lampoon's Movie Madness
National Lampoon's Movie Madness

A parody of film genres composed of three shorts, spoofing personal growth films, glossy soap operas...

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Barbarians at the Gate
Barbarians at the Gate

F. Ross Johnson decides to buyout his own tobacco firm RJR Nabisco after the plans of the launch of ...

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Crossing Delancey
Crossing Delancey

Thirty-something Isabelle spends her time going from her tiny, solitary West Side apartment to that ...

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How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog
How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog

The story of Peter McGowan, a chain-smoking, impotent, insomniac playwright who lives in Los Angeles...

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Chilly Scenes of Winter
Chilly Scenes of Winter

Charles is a bored civil servant struggling through a harsh Utah winter. He spends most of his time ...

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Love Conquers Paul
Love Conquers Paul

Paul has a chance encounter with a free-spirited artist named Esoterica that provides the spark that...

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The Chosen One
The Chosen One

Paul is an ordinary man who is at the end of his rope. He hates his job, his beautiful wife has left...

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Gypsy
Gypsy

Gypsy's mother Rose dreams of a life in show business for her daughters, but Louise becomes a huge b...

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Americathon
Americathon

In a story told in narrative flashbacks, a young TV consultant is hired by the President of a bankru...

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A Man in Love
A Man in Love

An American film-star and an unknown British actress meet on set in Rome. She is angry when he refus...

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Sholem Aleichem: Laughing In The Darkness
Sholem Aleichem: Laughing In The Darkness

A riveting portrait of the great writer whose stories became the basis of the Broadway musical Fiddl...

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Bojangles
Bojangles

The life of the legendary showman Bill Robinson, African American tap dancing star of stage and scre...

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Oka!
Oka!

The story of Louis Sarno, an American ethno-musicologist who lived among the Bayaka Pygmies in Centr...

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Jerry and Tom
Jerry and Tom

Tom and Jerry are two hit men, they work by day at a third-rate second-hand car dealership. Tom is a...

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Extra Innings
Extra Innings

A reporter interviews the manager of the Boston Red Sox in an attempt to uncover secrets from his pa...

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White Irish Drinkers
White Irish Drinkers

A coming of age story set in 1975 working-class Brooklyn, in which two teenage brothers living with ...

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King of the Corner
King of the Corner

Leo Spivak is drifting through life without a compass. His father is aging fast, his teenage daughte...

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Hi-Life
Hi-Life

Jimmy needs $900 to clear a gambling debt but a series of lies leads to Ray trying to raise the cash...

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Face Down
Face Down

When blonde bombshell Meredith Lake breezes into his office, New York private eye Bob Signorelli can...

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In the Weeds
In the Weeds

It's Martha's first night as a waitress in an upscale New York restaurant. Veteran Chloe shows her t...

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Le Grand Carnaval
Le Grand Carnaval

The story follows Americans in Algeria at the time of the Allied invasion of North Africa in 1942....

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At Middleton
At Middleton

George is an uptight surgeon with a rebellious teenage son. Edith is a free spirit with an overachie...

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Club Land
Club Land

A father and son work together as agents....

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The Infiltrator
The Infiltrator

In the early 1990s, an Israeli freelance journalist travels to Germany and uncovers a dangerously pe...

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The Runestone
The Runestone

A New York detective takes the case of a bulletproof monster sprung to life from Viking legend....

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The Stranger
The Stranger

Bonnie Bedilia stars in this psychological thriller about a woman who witnesses a murder and then fl...

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Passed Away
Passed Away

Thrown for a loop by the unexpected news that Dad has suddenly gone to his reward, the grieving ecce...

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The Response
The Response

THE RESPONSE is a courtroom drama based on the actual transcripts of the Guantanamo Bay military tri...

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Bleacher Bums
Bleacher Bums

They're known as the Bleacher Bums, a loud and proud group of fans who watch their team's games from...

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News at Eleven
News at Eleven

When television news director Eric Ross pressures esteemed senior anchor Frank Kenley to sensational...

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Bleeding Hearts
Bleeding Hearts

An ill-fated, tender romance between an adult white male tutor and his 17-year-old African-American ...

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Pie in the Sky
Pie in the Sky

A young man obsessed with traffic patterns attempts to reunite with his first love....

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Coldblooded
Coldblooded

Cosmo, an affectless mob bookie who lives in the basement of a retirement home, is promoted to hitma...

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Beyond the Ocean
Beyond the Ocean

A big-time businessman throws in the towel on his company and high-tails it out to Bali just as its ...

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American Pastoral
American Pastoral

Set in postwar America, a man watches his seemingly perfect life fall apart as his daughter's new po...

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The Object of Beauty
The Object of Beauty

American couple Jake and Tina are living in an expensive London hotel above their means, incurring a...

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That's Adequate
That's Adequate

This mockumentary about fictional movie studio Adequate Pictures boasts an interesting cast. Tony Ra...

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Passion of Mind
Passion of Mind

A psychological romantic thriller where fantasy and reality become indistinguishable for a woman lea...

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Back When We Were Grownups
Back When We Were Grownups

A 53-year-old widow believes she's turned into the wrong person in this bittersweet tale based on An...

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An Element of Truth
An Element of Truth

A beautiful woman uses her charms to dupe her new sweetheart and his buddies....

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The City Girl
The City Girl

A female photographer who is engaged to a businessman investigates a cult in the local club scene. B...

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The Baby Dance
The Baby Dance

Six months pregnant and living in a beat-up tiny mobile home, Wanda LeFauve thinks she has found the...

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Scandalous Me: The Jacqueline Susann Story
Scandalous Me: The Jacqueline Susann Story

The life of Valley of the Dolls author Jacqueline Susann, filled with frustrations and glamour as sh...

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We Bought a Zoo
We Bought a Zoo

Benjamin has lost his wife and, in a bid to start his life over, purchases a large house that has a ...

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Starz Inside: In the Gutter
Starz Inside: In the Gutter

From the moment Shakespeare wrote his first fart joke, audiences have loved gross-out humor. In this...

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The Yearbook: An Animal House Reunion
The Yearbook: An Animal House Reunion

This documentary, created for the Animal House (1978) collector's edition DVD, is composed of a coll...

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Animal House: The Inside Story
Animal House: The Inside Story

Documentary about the making of Animal House...

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Traffic
Traffic

An exploration of the United States of America's war on drugs from multiple perspectives. For the ne...

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The Making of a 'Local Hero' (With a Little Help from His Friends)
The Making of a 'Local Hero' (With a Little Help from His Friends)

Documentary for Scottish television about the making of Bill Forsyth's 1983 film "Local Hero."...

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Surrender, Dorothy
Surrender, Dorothy

When her daughter Sara unexpectedly passes away, Natalie retreats to the summer home where she and S...

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North Shore Fish
North Shore Fish

Sal (Tony Danza) has been the foreman at North Shore Fish, a frozen fish factory, for years. He and ...

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Burt Lancaster: Daring to Reach
Burt Lancaster: Daring to Reach

He went from street-wise tough to art-collector liberal-activist, from circus-acrobat hunk to Academ...

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W. Eugene Smith: Photography Made Difficult
W. Eugene Smith: Photography Made Difficult

The war in the South Pacific, a country doctor in Colorado, victims of industrial pollution in a Jap...

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Where Are They Now?: A Delta Alumni Update
Where Are They Now?: A Delta Alumni Update

A follow up on the lives of the Faber students in Animal House....

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