Peter Gerety (born May 17, 1940) is an American actor. He is best known as Judge Daniel Phelan in ''

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'' (2002–2008).

Career

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 Harold Pinter (; 10 October 1930 – 24 December 2008) was a British playwright, screenwriter, director and actor. A Nobel Prize winner, Pinter was one of the most influential modern British dramatists with a writing career that span ...

's '' 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 Barry Lee Levinson (born April 6, 1942) is an American filmmaker, comedian and actor. Levinson's best-known works are mid-budget comedy drama and drama films such as '' Diner'' (1982); ''The Natural'' (1984); '' Good Morning, Vietnam'' (1987); ...

produced

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police drama '' Homicide: Life on the Street.'' He played FBI Agt. Franklin Morgan in the short-lived American adaptation of ''

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''. In the final season of '' Brotherhood'' as Martin Kilpatrick. He appears in the 2011 NBC series ''

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'' as Maria Bello's father. He also appeared in such feature films as '' K-Pax'', '' People I Know'', ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', '' Charlie Wilson's War'', ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', and ''

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''. He played

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in '' Public Enemies'' (2009), directed by

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, and had a small part in

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's '' Get the Gringo'' (2011). In 2013, Gerety was playing the role of John Cotter in

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's Broadway play '' Lucky Guy'' with

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. In 2017, Gerety plays Otto Bernhardt, the patriarch of the Amazon Prime series ''

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.''

Filmography

Film

Television

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Gerety, Peter 1940 births Male actors from Rhode Island American male film actors American male television actors Living people Male actors from Boston Actors from Providence, Rhode Island 20th-century American male actors 21st-century American male actors Boston University alumni