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.

Filmography

• 2026Farther Along — Harvey Mitchum
• 2025Marina
• 2024Ragtime, The Musical: All-Star Reunion Concert — Tateh
• 2024The Variable
• 2023Carmen & Moony — Louis
• 2022Daddy's Girl — Robert
• 2022She Said — Lanny Davis
• 2021Good Grief — Uncle Harold
• 2019Sundowners
• Succession — Frank Vernon
• The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel — George
• 20165 Doctors — Dr. Lipman
• 2015Keep in Touch — Dallen Parcel
• The Affair — Robert
• 2013Side Effects — Banks' Partner #1
• 666 Park Avenue — Samuel Steinberg
• Made in Jersey — Henry Sohn
• 2011Coming Up Roses — Charles
• 2011Harvest — Carmine Monopoli
• Person of Interest — Lawrence Szilard
• 2010Love & Other Drugs — California Man
• 2009Breaking Upwards — Alan
• 2009Spinning Into Butter — Jay Salter
• 2009The Messenger — Mr. Cohen
• 2008Synecdoche, New York — Emergency Room Doctor
• Damages — District Attorney
• 2007I'm Not There — Morris Bernstein / Barker
• 2007The Savages — Larry
• 2006Freedomland — Lt. Gold
• Heist — Rabbi
• 2006The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays — Scoop Rosenbaum (segment "The Heidi Chronicles")
• 2006Unconscious — Father William
• 2005Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards — Tateh (segment "Ragtime") (archive footage)
• Ghost Whisperer — Steve Burris
• 2004King of the Corner — Arthur Wexler
• 2003Paycheck — Attorney General Brown
• Baby Bob — Peter
• 2002Power and Beauty — Sam Giancana
• 2002Two Against Time — Robert Portman
• Without a Trace — Damon
• 2001Someone Like You... — Stephen, Alice's Husband
• 2000Perfect Murder, Perfect Town: JonBenét and the City of Boulder — Peter Hofstrom
• 1998Creating Ragtime — Tateh
• 1997In the Presence of Mine Enemies — Kohn
• 1996I Shot Andy Warhol — Alan Burke
• 1996I'm Not Rappaport — Young Nat's Father
• 1995Safe — Peter Dunning
• 1995The Heidi Chronicles — Scoop Rosenbaum
• 1993Blink — Dr. Ryan Pierce
• 1992Single White Female — Graham Knox
• Brooklyn Bridge — George Silver
• 1991Guilty Until Proven Innocent — Richard Emery
• Law & Order — Nolan Farber, William Goodwin, Defense Attorney Harold Jensen
• Hothouse — David
• 1988The Seventh Sign — Father Lucci
• The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd — Harry
• 1985Finnegan Begin Again — John Jewell
• Miami Vice — Morgan
• 1984Piaf — 'Papa' Leplée / American Sailor
• 1983Daniel — Ben Cohen
• Rage of Angels — Larry
• 1981Prince of the City — Goldman
• 1980Christmas Evil — Mr. Grosch
• The Muppet Show — Crocodile / Banana (voice), Pa (voice), Lead Mop (voice), Andre the Artist (voice), Additional Muppets (voice)
• 1975The Rules of the Game
• Great Performances
• Elderwood
• Governors Island — Robin
• Masters of Doom — Al Vekovius

Appearances as themselves (3)

• 2025King Hamlet — Self
• 2024Jim Henson Idea Man — Self (archive footage)
• Stars in the House — Self