Peter Gerety
| Peter Gerety | |
|---|---|
| Born |
May 17, 1940 Providence, Rhode Island, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1961–present |
Peter Gerety (born May 17, 1940) is an American actor.
Life and career
Gerety was born in Providence, Rhode Island. He began acting while a student at Boston University, participating in productions at the Charles Playhouse. In 1965, he joined the Trinity Square Repertory Company, a resident theater company in Providence, where he appeared in over 125 productions.
Gerety is a veteran of stage, screen and television. In early 1992, he performed to critical acclaim on Broadway in Conversations with My Father, starring Judd Hirsch, and in Harold Pinter's Hothouse. He has since performed in many more plays both on and off-Broadway, most recently in Martin McDonagh's Lieutenant of Inishmore.
In the late 1990s, he joined the cast of the Barry Levinson produced NBC police drama Homicide: Life on the Street.[1] Gerety has also been a regular guest star on Law & Order and HBO’s The Wire as Judge Daniel Phelan. He also played FBI Agt. Franklin Morgan in the short-lived American adaptation of Life on Mars. In the final season of Brotherhood, he played the corrupt land developer, Martin Kilpatrick. Most recently, Peter has been seen recurring on both Mercy and Brothers and Sisters. He appears in the 2011 NBC series Prime Suspect as Maria Bello's father.
He has appeared in numerous feature films with the likes of Jack Nicholson, Shirley MacLaine, Jeff Bridges, Kevin Spacey (K-Pax), Al Pacino (People I Know), and Denzel Washington; and with directors Woody Allen (The Curse of the Jade Scorpion, Hollywood Ending), Mike Nichols (Wolf and Charlie Wilson's War), James Ivory (Surviving Picasso), Steven Spielberg (War of the Worlds), Ido Mizrahy (Things That Hang from Trees), Spike Lee (Inside Man), and with Clint Eastwood he was Dr. Tarr in Changeling. He played Louis Piquett, the lawyer of John Dillinger (Johnny Depp), in Public Enemies (2009 film, directed by Michael Mann). Gerety has a part in Mel Gibson's 2011 film Get the Gringo.
In 2013, Gerety was playing the role of John Cotter in Nora Ephron's Broadway play Lucky Guy with Tom Hanks.
Filmography
- The House of Mirth (1981)
- The Demon Murder Case (1983)
- First Affair (1983)
- Concealed Enemies (1984)
- The House of God (1984)
- Papa Was a Preacher (1985)
- The Little Sister (1986)
- A Case of Deadly Force (1986)
- Ollie Hopnoodle's Haven of Bliss (1988)
- The Kennedys of Massachusetts (1990)
- Complex World (1992)
- Return to Lonesome Dove (1993)
- Wolf (1994)
- Cagney & Lacey: The Return (1994)
- Miracle on 34th Street (1994)
- Homicide: Life on the Street (1996)
- Mrs. Winterbourne (1996)
- Surviving Picasso (1996)
- Public Morals (TV Series) (1996)
- Arresting Gena (1997)
- Montana (1998)
- Went to Coney Island on a Mission from God... Be Back by Five (1998)
- The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000)
- The Curse of the Jade Scorpion (2001)
- K-PAX (2001)
- Hollywood Ending (2002)
- Ash Wednesday (2002)
- People I Know (2002)
- Virgin (2003)
- Second Best (2004)
- Looking for Kitty (2004)
- The Wire (TV Series) (2004)
- Runaway (2005)
- War of the Worlds (2005)
- Syriana (2005)
- Things That Hang from Trees (2006)
- Inside Man (2006)
- The Black Donnellys (TV Series) (2007)
- Charlie Wilson's War (2007)
- Phoebe in Wonderland (2008)
- Stop-Loss (2008)
- Leatherheads (2008)
- Changeling (2008)
- The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond (2008)
- Paul Blart: Mall Cop (2009)
- Public Enemies (2009)
- The Good Wife (2010)
- Rubicon (2010)
- Prime Suspect (2011)
- Get the Gringo (2012)
- Flight (2012)
- Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight (2013)
- God's Pocket (2014)
- Cymbeline (2015)
References
- ↑ The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows 1946-Present. Ballantine Books. 2003. p. 548. ISBN 0-345-45542-8.