Peter Bonerz

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Male

Birthday 1938-08-06 (86 years old)

Place of Birth Portsmouth - New Hampshire - USA

Peter Bonerz

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Peter Bonerz (born August 6, 1938 in Portsmouth, New Hampshire) is an American actor and director who is best known as the character Dr. Jerry Robinson on The Bob Newhart Show. Bonerz grew up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he attended Marquette University High School, gaining his first theatrical experience with the Prep Players under rigid conditions. At Marquette University he participated in the Marquette University Players under the Rev. John J. Walsh, S.J. After graduating with a bachelor of science degree in 1960, he decided to seek a career in theater, beginning with The Premise, an improv group in New York. After compulsory service as a draftee in the US Army he joined The Committee, an improv troupe in San Francisco. His first network television appearance was in 1965 on The Addams Family in the Season Two episode "Morticia, The Writer". He had several more TV appearances in the late 1960s and also had a number of roles in several films, including Medium Cool (1969) and Catch-22 (1970). In 1972, he landed the popular supporting role of Dr. Jerry Robinson, the eccentric orthodontist on The Bob Newhart Show, whose most frequent comic foil was Marcia Wallace as Carol, the sharp-tongued secretary. He also directed 29 episodes. The show ran for six seasons, with ratings among the top 20 in the first three seasons. In one of his later acting roles he played a psychiatrist in Serial (1980). In 1986, Bonerz co-starred alongside Tuesday Weld and River Phoenix in the CBS television movie Circle of Violence, and would go on to direct a large number of sitcom episodes for series such as Friends, Murphy Brown, NewsRadio, Home Improvement, It's Your Move, and ALF. He also directed a few films, such as Police Academy 6: City Under Siege.

Known For

Director

2004
Joey

as Director

2003
2002
2002
2001
Three Sisters

as Director

1999
Movie Stars

as Director

1998
The Hughleys

as Director

1998
Getting Personal

as Director

1997
Just Shoot Me!

as Director

1997
Soul Man

as Director

1996
Pearl

as Director

1996
Mr. Rhodes

as Director

1995
Minor Adjustments

as Director

1995
NewsRadio

as Director

1995
Hope and Gloria

as Director

1995
The Naked Truth

as Director

1994
Friends

as Director

1993
The Elvira Show

as Director

1992
Flying Blind

as Director

1992
Love & War

as Director

1992
Room for Two

as Director

1991
Home Improvement

as Director

1990
True Colors

as Director

1990
Wings

as Director

1989
1989
Doctor Doctor

as Director

1988
Sharing Richard

as Director

1988
Murphy Brown

as Director

1988
The Thorns

as Director

1986
My Sister Sam

as Director

1986
Together We Stand

as Director

1986
ALF

as Director

1986
You Again?

as Director

1985
The Recovery Room

as Director

1985
1985
Foley Square

as Director

1984
E/R

as Director

1984
It's Your Move

as Director

1984
Maggie Briggs

as Director

1983
Focus on Fishko

as Director

1982
9 to 5

as Director

1981
Nobody's Perfekt

as Director

1981
Park Place

as Director

1981
The Two of Us

as Director

1979
1978
Apple Pie

as Director

1976
Good Heavens

as Director

1976
1975
1972

Actor

2022
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On

as The Maestro (voice)

2009
Parks and Recreation

as Doug Demarco

2002
Kim Possible

as Rabbi Katz (voice)

2001
Three Sisters

as George Bernstein-Flynn

1999
Man on the Moon

as Ed Weinberger

1994
Aaahh!!! Real Monsters

as Sal (voice)

1994
Friends

as Theater Patron (uncredited)

1992
1991
Dinosaurs

as Insurance Agent (voice)

1984
Murder, She Wrote

as Calhoun 'Cal' Fletcher

1982
9 to 5

as Franklin Hart

1981
Nobody's Perfekt

as Randall Kendall

1980
Serial

as Leonard

1979
Mirror, Mirror

as Andrew McLaren

1978
The Bastard

as Girard

1976
1972
Fuzz

as Buck

1971
Jennifer on My Mind

as Sergei Wasserman

1970
Catch-22

as Captain J.S. McWatt

1970
1969
1968
Petulia

as Self (uncredited)

1968
1967
Funnyman

as Perry

1964
The Addams Family

as Mr. Boswell

1951

Writer

1967
Funnyman

as Writer