Peter Gerety (born May 17, 1940) is an American actor.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 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. He played FBI Agt. Franklin Morgan in
the short-lived American adaptation of Life on Mars. In the final
season of Brotherhood as Martin Kilpatrick. He appears in the 2011 NBC
series Prime Suspect as Maria Bello's father.He also appeared in such
feature films as K-Pax, People I Know, The Curse of the Jade Scorpion,
Hollywood Ending, Wolf, Charlie Wilson's War, Surviving Picasso, War
of the Worlds, Things That Hang from Trees, Inside Man, and
Changeling. He played Louis Piquett in Public Enemies (2009), directed
by Michael Mann, and had a small part in Mel Gibson's Get the Gringo
(2011). In 2013, Gerety was playing the role of John Cotter in Nora
Ephron's Broadway play Lucky Guy with Tom Hanks. In 2017, Gerety plays
Otto Bernhardt, the patriarch of the Amazon Prime series Sneaky Pete.
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 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. He played FBI Agt. Franklin Morgan in
the short-lived American adaptation of Life on Mars. In the final
season of Brotherhood as Martin Kilpatrick. He appears in the 2011 NBC
series Prime Suspect as Maria Bello's father.He also appeared in such
feature films as K-Pax, People I Know, The Curse of the Jade Scorpion,
Hollywood Ending, Wolf, Charlie Wilson's War, Surviving Picasso, War
of the Worlds, Things That Hang from Trees, Inside Man, and
Changeling. He played Louis Piquett in Public Enemies (2009), directed
by Michael Mann, and had a small part in Mel Gibson's Get the Gringo
(2011). In 2013, Gerety was playing the role of John Cotter in Nora
Ephron's Broadway play Lucky Guy with Tom Hanks. In 2017, Gerety plays
Otto Bernhardt, the patriarch of the Amazon Prime series Sneaky Pete.
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