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Peter Gerety

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Biography

His acting career began with his participation in productions at the Charles Playhouse while he was a student at Boston University. He worked with…more

Born

5/17/1940, Providence, Rhode Island

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Star (6)

Role
- Prime Suspect
  Desmond Timoney
  - S 1: Ep 13 Stuck in the Middle With You
    1/22/12
  - S 1: Ep 12 Ain't No Sunshine
    1/22/12
  - S 1: Ep 11 The Great Wall of Silence
    12/22/11
  - S 1: Ep 10 A Gorgeous Mosaic
    12/15/11
  - S 1: Ep 9 Gone to Pieces
    12/1/11
  - + 8 More Credits
- Mercy
  Star
  - S 1: Ep 7 Destiny, Meet My Daughter, Veronica
    11/11/09
- The Bedford Diaries
  Harold Harper
  - S 1: Ep 8 Abstinence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder
    5/10/06
  - S 1: Ep 7 Risky Business
    5/10/06
  - S 1: Ep 6 The Passion of the Beaver
    5/3/06
  - S 1: Ep 5 Love and the Tenth Planet
    4/26/06
  - S 1: Ep 4 Zen and the Art of Manipulation
    4/19/06
  - + 3 More Credits
- Homicide: Life on the Street
  Stu Gharty (Seasons 6-7, recurring previously, TVM)
  - S 7: Ep 22 Homicide: The Movie
    2/13/00
  - S 7: Ep 23 Forgive Us Our Trespasses
    5/21/99
  - S 7: Ep 21 The Why Chromosome
    5/14/99
  - S 7: Ep 20 Lines of Fire
    5/7/99
  - S 7: Ep 19 Identity Crisis
    4/30/99
  - + 41 More Credits
- Homicide: Life on the Street
  Stu Gharty
  - S 6: Ep 8 All is Bright
    12/12/97
- Public Morals
  Neil Fogarty
  - S 1: Ep 1 The Blue Cover
    10/30/96
  - S 1: Ep 13 The Tuna Cover
  - S 1: Ep 12 The Camel Cover
  - S 1: Ep 11 The Goldenrod Cover
  - S 1: Ep 10 The Cornflower Cover
  - + 8 More Credits
Recurring Role (7)

Role
- Brothers & Sisters
  Dennis York
  - S 4: Ep 20 If You Bake It, He Will Come
    4/18/10
  - S 4: Ep 18 Time After Time
    4/11/10
  - S 4: Ep 17 Freeluc.com
    3/14/10
  - S 4: Ep 14 The Pasadena Primary
    1/31/10
  - S 4: Ep 12 The Science Fair
    1/10/10
  - + 5 More Credits
- Mercy
  Mr Jimmy Flanagan
  - S 1: Ep 17 There is No Room For You on My Ass
    3/17/10
- Mercy
  Jimmy Flanagan
  - S 1: Ep 16 I'm Fine
    3/10/10
- Brotherhood
  Martin Kilpatrick
  - S 3: Ep 8 Birnam Wood Comes To Dunsinane
    12/21/08
  - S 3: Ep 7 All The Interim Is Like A Phantasma
    12/14/08
  - S 3: Ep 5 Give Me The Ocular Proof...
    11/30/08
  - S 3: Ep 3 Let Rome Into Tiber Melt…
    11/16/08
  - S 3: Ep 2 Things Badly Begun
    11/9/08
  - + 1 More Credits
- The Wire
  Judge Daniel Phelan
  - S 5: Ep 9 Took
    2/17/08
  - S 5: Ep 8 The Dickensian Aspect
    2/10/08
  - S 2: Ep 6 All Prologue
    7/6/03
  - S 1: Ep 13 Sentencing
    9/8/02
  - S 1: Ep 11 The Hunt
    8/18/02
  - + 7 More Credits
- The Wire
  Daniel Phelan
  - S 3: Ep 11 Middle Ground
    12/12/04
  - S 3: Ep 10 Reformation
    11/28/04
- Central Park West
  John
  - S 1: Ep 7 Episode 7
    11/1/95
  - S 1: Ep 6 Episode 6
    10/18/95
  - S 1: Ep 3 Episode 3
    9/27/95
  - S 1: Ep 2 Episode 2
    9/20/95
  - S 1: Ep 1 Episode 1
    9/13/95
Guest Star (24)

Role
- Blue Bloods
  Bishop Donovan
  - S 1: Ep 19 Model Behavior
    4/8/11
  - S 1: Ep 6 Smack Attack
    10/29/10
- Rubicon
  David Hadas
  - S 1: Ep 13 You Can Never Win
    10/17/10
  - S 1: Ep 1 Gone in the Teeth
    6/13/10
- The Good Wife
  Judge Timothy Stanek
  - S 1: Ep 21 Unplugged
    5/11/10
  - S 1: Ep 13 Bad
    2/2/10
- Mercy
  Guest Star
  - S 1: Ep 9 Some of Us Have Been to the Desert
    12/9/09
- Mercy
  Jim Flanagan
  - S 1: Ep 6 The Last Thing I Said Was
    11/4/09
- Life On Mars
  Agent Frank Morgan
  - S 1: Ep 17 Life is a Rock
    4/1/09
  - S 1: Ep 16 Everyone Knows It's Windy
    3/25/09
- Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
  Judge Harrison
  - S 9: Ep 16 Closet
    4/22/08
  - S 8: Ep 11 Burned
    1/9/07
- The Black Donnellys
  Uncle Bob
  - S 1: Ep 7 The Only Thing Sure
    4/2/07
- Kidnapped
  Conrad's Father
  - S 1: Ep 2 Special Delivery
    9/27/06
- Law & Order: Trial by Jury
  Dean Connors
  - S 1: Ep 4 Truth or Consequences
    3/18/05
- The Jury
  David Sweeney
  - S 1: Ep 9 Lamentation on the Reservation
    7/30/04
- Law & Order
  Dean Connors
  - S 13: Ep 14 Star Crossed
    2/19/03
- Law & Order: Criminal Intent
  George Dawkins
  - S 2: Ep 3 Anti-Thesis
    10/13/02
- The Wire
  Daniel Phelan (uncredited)
- Job
  O'Malley
  - S 2: Ep 1 Sacrilege
    1/16/02
- Ed
  Dick Knight
  - S 1: Ep 14 Valentine's Day
    2/14/01
  - S 1: Ep 4 Pretty Girls and Waffles
    10/29/00
- Third Watch
  Bernie Peterson
  - S 1: Ep 21 Just Another Night at the Opera
    5/15/00
- Law & Order
  Charles Powell
  - S 10: Ep 1 Gunshow
    9/22/99
  - S 5: Ep 23 Pride
    5/24/95
- Special Ops Force
  US Marshall Joseph McClintock
  - S 2: Ep 2 Who's Who
    10/3/98
- Remember WENN
  Chet Randolph
  - S 4: Ep 9 Work Shift
    8/14/98
- Homicide: Life on the Street
  Stu Gharty
  - S 5: Ep 22 Strangers and Other Partners (2)
    5/16/97
  - S 5: Ep 21 Partners and Other Strangers (1)
    5/9/97
  - S 4: Ep 18 Scene of the Crime
    4/12/96
- Cagney & Lacey
  Sgt. Matt Nelson
  - S 7: Ep 23 Cagney & Lacey: The Return
    11/6/94
- American Playhouse
  Officer Burke
  - S 5: Ep 9 The Little Sister
    4/7/86
- Prince Street
  Guest Star
  - S 1: Ep 3 Everyday People

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- Peter Gerety was part of the PBS series Liberty! The American Revolution, which won the George Foster Peabody Award. Homicide:Life on the Street, another series in which he starred, was also the recipient of a George Foster Peabody Award.
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- For much of Peter Gerety's early television work he didn't need to stray far from his Providence, Rhode Island home. His role in NBC's 1983 project The Demon Murder Case was filmed in Newport, Rhode Island.
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- Filmmakers Woody Allen and Edward Burns have used Peter Gerety in several of their films. Woody Allen has used him in 2002's Hollywood Ending and 2001's The Curse of the Jade Scorpion. Edward Burns has used Peter Gerety in his 2006 film Looking for Kitty and 2002's Ash Wednesday. Barry Levinson has had a similar experience with Peter, using him in the television series Homicide: Life on The Street and the 1996 film Sleepers.
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- Peter Gerety: (On his role in The Lieutenant of Inishmore) I'm older than the rest of the cast, I'm built like a fire hydrant, and I don't bend as easily as I should. So I think this is the last play I'm going to do where I get tied up and crawl around on the floor.
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- Peter Gerety: I'm really a bit of a workaholic. To me, there's nothing better than being on a film set all day and then doing a Broadway show at night.
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