Peter Bonerz
Directing
Born 1938-08-06
Portsmouth - New Hampshire - USA
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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.
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Directing
39 credits
Friends
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
Wings
Home Improvement
The Bob Newhart Show
Murphy Brown
ALF
Just Shoot Me!
Joey
NewsRadio
What I Like About You
The Hughleys
Archie Bunker's Place
The Naked Truth
Love & War
Good Morning, Miami
Hope and Gloria
True Colors
The Tony Randall Show
9 to 5
Police Academy 6: City Under Siege
E/R
Three Sisters
Doctor Doctor
Pearl
It's Your Move
Soul Man
George Burns Comedy Week
Flying Blind
When Things Were Rotten
Together We Stand
Minor Adjustments
Mr. Rhodes
My Sister Sam
Good Heavens
Movie Stars
My Big Fat Greek Life
You Again?
Paul Sand in Friends and Lovers
Acting
19 credits
Friends
Murder, She Wrote
Parks and Recreation
Hawaii Five-O
Kim Possible
The Merv Griffin Show
The Bob Newhart Show
Dinosaurs
The Addams Family
Aaahh!!! Real Monsters
The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
Catch-22
Man on the Moon
9 to 5
Three Sisters
The Bastard
Medium Cool
Petulia
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6 credits
Writing
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