Peter Gerety
Peter Gerety 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 theater troupe 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. In the late 90s he joined the cast of the
Barry Levinson produced NBC police drama Homicide: Life on the Street. Gerety has been a regular guest star on Law & Order and HBO's The Wire and has appeared in numerous feature films with the likes of
Jack Nicholson,
Shirley MacLaine,
Jeff Bridges, and
Kevin Spacey and with directors,
Woody Allen (The Curse of the Jade Scorpion, Hollywood Ending),
Mike Nichols (Wolf), Barry Levinson (Sleepers),
James Ivory (Surviving Picasso),
Steven Spielberg (War of the Worlds), and Ido Mizrahy (Things That Hang from Trees).
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Selected Filmography