Peter Gerety

For the American bishop (born 1912), see Peter Leo Gerety.

Peter Gerety
Born	May 17, 1940 (1940-05-17) Providence, Rhode Island, U.S.
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1961–present

Peter Gerety (born May 17, 1940) is an American actor.

Gerety 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, Rhode Island 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 The Hothouse. He has since performed in many more plays both on and off-broadway, most recently in Martin McDonagh's " The Lieutenant of Inishmore".

In the late 1990s, he joined the cast of the Barry Levinson produced NBC police drama Homicide: Life on the Street. Gerety has also been a regular guest star on Law & Order and HBO’s The Wire as Judge Daniel Phelan. He also played FBI Agent Franklin Morgan in the short-lived American television series 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 How I Spent My Summer Vacation.

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 (1985)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)

External links

• Peter Gerety at the Internet Movie Database