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Peter Gerety

 
Actor: Peter Gerety
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  • Born: May 17, 1940
  • Occupation: Actor
  • Active: '90s-2000s
  • Major Genres: Drama
  • Career Highlights: Leatherheads, Runaway, Second Best
  • First Major Screen Credit: Homicide: Life on the Street: Blood Ties, Part 1 (1997)

Biography

A burly, thickset, and occasionally scruffy character actor with a domineering and imposing presence, Peter Gerety often accepted roles as ordinary working-class stiffs, judges, or inner-city law officers. A performer with equal footing in film and on the stage, Gerety took his premier onscreen bow during the early '80s but first began drawing substantial attention over a decade later. Gerety remains best known for his multi-season portrayal (1996-1999) of Detective Stuart Gharty on the cop drama Homicide: Life on the Street. He also played the recurring role of Judge Daniel Phelan on another Baltimore-set crime series, The Wire (2002-2008). Big-screen projects include Sleepers (1996), K-PAX (2001), Syriana (2005), Charlie Wilson's War (2007), Leatherheads (2008), and Public Enemies (2009). ~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide
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Peter Gerety
Born May 17, 1940 (1940-05-17) (age 69)
Providence, Rhode Island, U.S.
Occupation Actor
Years active 1981–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 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 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.

He has appeared in numerous feature films with the likes of Jack Nicholson, Shirley MacLaine, Jeff Bridges, Kevin Spacey and Denzel Washington; 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), Ido Mizrahy (Things That Hang from Trees) and Spike Lee (Inside Man). He played Louis Piquett, the lawyer of John Dillinger (Johnny Depp), in Public Enemies. In the final season of the Showtime series "Brotherhood", Gerety portrayed corrupt land developer Martin KilPatrick.

He currently stars in Mercy_(TV_series) as the main character's father who is coming down with Alzheimers'.

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