From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Peter Bonerz (born August 6, 1938 in Portsmouth, New Hampshire) is an American actor and director who is best known as the character Dr. Jerry Robinson on The Bob Newhart Show. Bonerz grew up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he attended Marquette University High School, gaining his first theatrical experience with the Prep Players under rigid conditions. At Marquette University he participated in the Marquette University Players under the Rev. John J. Walsh, S.J. After graduating with a bachelor of science degree in 1960, he decided to seek a career in theater, beginning with The Premise, an improv group in New York. After compulsory service as a draftee in the US Army he joined The Committee, an improv troupe in San Francisco. His first network television appearance was in 1965 on The Addams Family in the Season Two episode "Morticia, The Writer". He had several more TV appearances in the late 1960s and also had a number of roles in several films, including Medium Cool (1969) and Catch-22 (1970). In 1972, he landed the popular supporting role of Dr. Jerry Robinson, the eccentric orthodontist on The Bob Newhart Show, whose most frequent comic foil was Marcia Wallace as Carol, the sharp-tongued secretary. He also directed 29 episodes. The show ran for six seasons, with ratings among the top 20 in the first three seasons. In one of his later acting roles he played a psychiatrist in Serial (1980). In 1986, Bonerz co-starred alongside Tuesday Weld and River Phoenix in the CBS television movie Circle of Violence, and would go on to direct a large number of sitcom episodes for series such as Friends, Murphy Brown, NewsRadio, Home Improvement, It's Your Move, and ALF. He also directed a few films, such as Police Academy 6: City Under Siege.

Filmography

• 2022Marcel the Shell with Shoes On — The Maestro (voice)
• 2019Friends 25th: The One with the Anniversary — Director
• Parks and Recreation — Doug Demarco
• Joey — Director
• My Big Fat Greek Life — Director
• Good Morning, Miami — Director
• Kim Possible — Rabbi Katz (voice)
• What I Like About You — Director
• Three Sisters — George Bernstein-Flynn, Director
• 1999Man on the Moon — Ed Weinberger
• Movie Stars — Director
• Getting Personal — Director
• The Hughleys — Director
• George & Leo
• Just Shoot Me! — Director
• Soul Man — Director
• Mr. Rhodes — Director
• Pearl — Director
• Hope and Gloria — Director
• Minor Adjustments — Director
• NewsRadio — Director
• The Naked Truth — Director
• Aaahh!!! Real Monsters — Sal (voice)
• Friends — Theater Patron (uncredited), Director
• 1993The Elvira Show — Director
• Bob
• Flying Blind — Director
• Love & War — Director
• Room for Two — Director
• Dinosaurs — Insurance Agent (voice)
• Home Improvement — Director
• 1991The Bob Newhart Show 19th Anniversary Special — Dr. Jerry Robinson
• 1990Dad's A Dog — Tony Sheridan
• True Colors — Director
• Wings — Director
• Doctor Doctor — Director
• 1989Julie Brown: The Show — Director
• 1989Police Academy 6: City Under Siege — Director
• Murphy Brown — Director
• 1988Sharing Richard — Director
• The Thorns — Director
• ALF — Director
• 1986Circle of Violence: A Family Drama — Peter Benfield
• My Sister Sam — Director
• Together We Stand — Director
• You Again? — Director
• Foley Square — Director
• George Burns Comedy Week — Director
• 1985The Recovery Room — Director
• E/R — Director
• It's Your Move — Director
• Maggie Briggs — Director
• Murder, She Wrote — Calhoun 'Cal' Fletcher
• 1983Focus on Fishko — Director
• 1983Likely Stories, Vol. 4 — Director
• 1983Your Place... or Mine? — Phil
• 9 to 5 — Franklin Hart, Director
• 1981Nobody's Perfekt — Randall Kendall, Director
• Park Place — Director
• The Two of Us — Director
• 1980Serial — Leonard
• Archie Bunker's Place — Director
• 1979Mirror, Mirror — Andrew McLaren
• Apple Pie — Director
• The Bastard — Girard
• Good Heavens — Director
• 1976How to Break Up a Happy Divorce — Carter Dowling
• The Tony Randall Show — Director
• When Things Were Rotten — Director
• Paul Sand in Friends and Lovers — Director
• 1972Fuzz — Buck
• Sanford and Son
• The Bob Newhart Show — Jerry Robinson, Director
• 1971Jennifer on My Mind — Sergei Wasserman
• McMillan & Wife
• 1970A Storm in Summer — Stanley
• 1970Catch-22 — Captain J.S. McWatt
• The Mary Tyler Moore Show — Director
• Hawaii Five-O — Earl
• 1969Medium Cool — Gus
• 1969What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice? — Mr. Bentley
• 1967Funnyman — Perry, Writer
• The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour — Various, Writer
• Summer Fun
• That Girl
• The Addams Family — Mr. Boswell
• Hallmark Hall of Fame — Stanley
• Information Processing

Appearances as themselves (5)

• 2018Viewer Direction Advised — Self
• 2017Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond — Self
• 1969A Session with the Committee — Self
• 1968Petulia — Self (uncredited)
• The Merv Griffin Show — Self