Peter Bonerz
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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.
Fotos
Películas (31)
No Friends
2025 · Assistant Director
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
2022 · The Maestro (voice)
Friends 25th: The One with the Anniversary
2019 · Director
Viewer Direction Advised
2018 · Self
Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond - Featuring a Very Special, Contractually Obligated Mention of Tony Clifton
2017 · Self
Man on the Moon
1999 · Ed Weinberger
The Elvira Show
1993 · Director
The Bob Newhart Show 19th Anniversary Special
1991 · Dr. Jerry Robinson
Dad's A Dog
1990 · Tony Sheridan
Julie Brown: The Show
1989 · Director
Police Academy 6: City Under Siege
1989 · Director
Sharing Richard
1988 · Director
Circle of Violence: A Family Drama
1986 · Peter Benfield
The Recovery Room
1985 · Director
Focus on Fishko
1983 · Director
Likely Stories, Vol. 4
1983 · Director
Your Place... or Mine?
1983 · Phil
Nobody's Perfekt
1981 · Randall Kendall, Director
Serial
1980 · Leonard
Mirror, Mirror
1979 · Andrew McLaren
How to Break Up a Happy Divorce
1976 · Carter Dowling
Fuzz
1972 · Buck
Jennifer on My Mind
1971 · Sergei Wasserman
Catch-22
1970 · Captain J.S. McWatt
A Storm in Summer
1970 · Stanley
Medium Cool
1969 · Gus
What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice?
1969 · Mr. Bentley
A Session with the Committee
1969 · Self
Petulia
1968 · Self (uncredited)
Funnyman
1967 · Perry, Writer
Information Processing
Series (63)
Parks and Recreation
2009 · Doug Demarco
Joey
2004 · Director
My Big Fat Greek Life
2003 · Director
Good Morning, Miami
2002 · Director
What I Like About You
2002 · Director
Kim Possible
2002 · Rabbi Katz (voice)
Three Sisters
2001 · George Bernstein-Flynn, Director
Movie Stars
1999 · Director
The Hughleys
1998 · Director
Getting Personal
1998 · Director
George & Leo
1997
Soul Man
1997 · Director
Just Shoot Me!
1997 · Director
Mr. Rhodes
1996 · Director
Pearl
1996 · Director
Minor Adjustments
1995 · Director
The Naked Truth
1995 · Director
NewsRadio
1995 · Director
Hope and Gloria
1995 · Director
Aaahh!!! Real Monsters
1994 · Sal (voice)
Friends
1994 · Theater Patron (uncredited), Director
Love & War
1992 · Director
Bob
1992
Flying Blind
1992 · Director
Room for Two
1992 · Director
Home Improvement
1991 · Director
Dinosaurs
1991 · Insurance Agent (voice)
True Colors
1990 · Director
Wings
1990 · Director
Doctor Doctor
1989 · Director
Murphy Brown
1988 · Director
The Thorns
1988 · Director
My Sister Sam
1986 · Director
Together We Stand
1986 · Director
ALF
1986 · Director
You Again?
1986 · Director
Foley Square
1985 · Director
George Burns Comedy Week
1985 · Director
Murder, She Wrote
1984 · Calhoun 'Cal' Fletcher
It's Your Move
1984 · Director
E/R
1984 · Director
Maggie Briggs
1984 · Director
9 to 5
1982 · Franklin Hart, Director
Park Place
1981 · Director
The Two of Us
1981 · Director
Archie Bunker's Place
1979 · Director
Apple Pie
1978 · Director
The Bastard
1978 · Girard
The Tony Randall Show
1976 · Director
Good Heavens
1976 · Director
When Things Were Rotten
1975 · Director
Paul Sand in Friends and Lovers
1974 · Director
The Bob Newhart Show
1972 · Jerry Robinson, Director
Sanford and Son
1972
McMillan & Wife
1971
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
1970 · Director
Hawaii Five-O
1969 · Earl
The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
1967 · Various, Writer
That Girl
1966
Summer Fun
1966
The Addams Family
1964 · Mr. Boswell
The Merv Griffin Show
1962 · Self
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951 · Stanley