Peter Friedman
Birthday: 1949-04-24
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
Biography: 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.
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I'm Not Rappaport
Old Nat Moyer is a talker, a philosopher, and a troublemaker with a fanciful imagination. His compan...
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I'm Not There
Six actors portray six personas of music legend Bob Dylan in scenes depicting various stages of his ...
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The Seventh Sign
Abby is a pregnant woman with a curious new boarder in the apartment over her garage. Turns out he's...
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Good Grief
On a road trip to scatter her dad’s ashes, Nora’s family does a substandard job of paying their resp...
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The Savages
A sister and brother face the realities of familial responsibility as they begin to care for their a...
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Safe
Carol White, a Los Angeles housewife in the late 1980s, comes down with a debilitating illness with ...
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Someone Like You...
Jane Goodale has everything going for her. She's a producer on a popular daytime talk show, and is i...
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Single White Female
Having recently split from her fiancé, Allison Jones welcomes new roommate Hedra Carlson. The young ...
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Freedomland
A black police detective must solve a strange case of a kidnapped boy and deal with a big racial pro...
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Paycheck
Michael Jennings is a genius who's hired – and paid handsomely – by high-tech firms to work on highl...
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Love & Other Drugs
Maggie is an alluring free spirit who won't let anyone – or anything – tie her down. But she meets h...
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The Heidi Chronicles
Unusual relationships, a feminist awakening and a career in art history mark a baby boomer's life, a...
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Harvest
Gathered one summer in a beautiful shoreline town, three generations are drawn together by their pat...
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Side Effects
A woman turns to prescription medication as a way of handling her anxiety concerning her husband's u...
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Coming Up Roses
A drama centered on a former actress who subjects her 15-year-old daughter to a series of depressed ...
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Two Against Time
This film finds a mother and her teen daughter both being diagnosed with cancer. This discovery help...
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Perfect Murder, Perfect Town: JonBenét and the City of Boulder
About the infamous murder of six year old child beauty pageant contestant JonBenét Ramsey and the hy...
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Blink
Emma is an attractive girl in her 20s who has been blind for 20 years. A new type of eye operation p...
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Carmen & Moony
A romantic comedy about a semi-recovered kleptomaniac who goes home for the holidays and invites an ...
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Daddy's Girl
A young woman’s charming but overbearing father helps her move out of her wealthy older boyfriend’s ...
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Ragtime Reunion Concert
This special event celebrates the 25th anniversary of the Broadway production. Ragtime weaves an ele...
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Keep in Touch
After a major crisis, a man attempts to track down his long-lost first love, only to discover that s...
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She Said
New York Times reporters Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor break one of the most important stories in a g...
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Breaking Upwards
'Breaking Upwards' explores a young, real-life New York couple who, four years in and battling codep...
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Guilty Until Proven Innocent
A teenage high school drop-out Bobby McLaughlin is accused of the murder of a local drug dealer he s...
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Christmas Evil
Garbed in his red suit, Harry, a toy factory worker, decides that the only thing he can do to save t...
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Finnegan Begin Again
A schoolteacher in her early 40s, involved in a dead-end love affair with a married mortician, drift...
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Synecdoche, New York
A theater director struggles with his work, and the women in his life, as he attempts to create a li...
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The Messenger
Will Montgomery, a U.S. Army Staff Sergeant who has returned home from Iraq, is assigned to the Army...
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Sundowners
Ali and her father cook, drink, and ignore what's going on in the next room....
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Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards
Broadway royalty and Tony-winners Tommy Tune, Carol Channing, Robert Goulet, and Harvey Fierstein ar...
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The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
The Great White Way comes into your living room via this disc of rare performances from some of Broa...
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Piaf
Piaf is a play by Pam Gems that focuses on the life and career of French chanteuse Édith Piaf. This ...
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The Rules of the Game
Dramatist Luigi Pirandello's mordant comedy of manners tells the tale of upper-crust Italians Silia ...
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Daniel
The fictionalized story of Daniel, the son of Paul and Rochelle Isaacson, who were executed as Sovie...
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Unconscious
Six different people all believe an unconscious and unidentified man in a hospital is their missing ...
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Prince of the City
New York City detective Daniel Ciello agrees to help the United States Department of Justice help el...
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I Shot Andy Warhol
Based on the true story of Valerie Solanas who was a 1960s radical preaching hatred toward men in he...
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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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In the Presence of Mine Enemies
In the Warsau ghetto of 1943, one man's struggle to keep his family together leads him to the ultima...
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The Variable
An “ethnically ambiguous” actor struggles to adjust to stereotypes projected onto him during the aud...
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Marina
Strange leaks start dripping from the ceiling of the house where Marina works as the caregiver for h...
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King Hamlet
Actor Oscar Isaac takes on the iconic role of Shakespeare's Danish prince in an intimate look at his...
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Spinning Into Butter
A hate crime on the campus of a New England college puts the school's dean (Parker) in a position wh...
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Creating Ragtime
A documentary exploring the creation of the new musical Ragtime, based on the novel by E.L. Doctorow...
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Jim Henson Idea Man
Featuring unprecedented access to Jim Henson's personal archives, filmmaker Ron Howard brings us a f...
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