Peter Bonerz
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- August 6, 1938 (age 88)
- Birthplace
- Portsmouth - New Hampshire - USA
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
Filmography
Friends 25th: The One with the Anniversary
Movie · Director
Joey
TV · Director · 3 eps
My Big Fat Greek Life
TV · Director · 3 eps
What I Like About You
TV · Director · 1 ep
Good Morning, Miami
TV · Director · 10 eps
Three Sisters
TV · Director · 3 eps
Movie Stars
TV · Director · 1 ep
The Hughleys
TV · Director · 7 eps
Getting Personal
TV · Director · 1 ep
Just Shoot Me!
TV · Director · 4 eps
Soul Man
TV · Director · 2 eps
Pearl
TV · Director · 1 ep
Mr. Rhodes
TV · Director · 1 ep
Minor Adjustments
TV · Director · 1 ep
NewsRadio
TV · Director · 2 eps
Hope and Gloria
TV · Director · 3 eps
The Naked Truth
TV · Director · 4 eps
Friends
TV · Director · 12 eps
The Elvira Show
Movie · Director
Flying Blind
TV · Director · 4 eps
Love & War
TV · Director · 11 eps
Room for Two
TV · Director · 4 eps
Home Improvement
TV · Director · 29 eps
True Colors
TV · Director · 4 eps
Wings
TV · Director · 11 eps
Police Academy 6: City Under Siege
Movie · Director
Julie Brown: The Show
Movie · Director
Doctor Doctor
TV · Director · 1 ep
Sharing Richard
Movie · Director
Murphy Brown
TV · Director · 93 eps
The Thorns
TV · Director · 7 eps
My Sister Sam
TV · Director · 7 eps
Together We Stand
TV · Director · 1 ep
ALF
TV · Director · 9 eps
You Again?
TV · Director · 3 eps
The Recovery Room
Movie · Director
George Burns Comedy Week
TV · Director · 2 eps
Foley Square
TV · Director · 9 eps
E/R
TV · Director · 22 eps
It's Your Move
TV · Director · 1 ep
Maggie Briggs
TV · Director · 6 eps
Focus on Fishko
Movie · Director
Likely Stories, Vol. 4
Movie · Director
9 to 5
TV · Director · 1 ep
Nobody's Perfekt
Movie · Director
Park Place
TV · Director · 3 eps
The Two of Us
TV · Director · 8 eps
Archie Bunker's Place
TV · Director · 4 eps
Apple Pie
TV · Director · 2 eps
Good Heavens
TV · Director · 1 ep
The Tony Randall Show
TV · Director · 1 ep
When Things Were Rotten
TV · Director · 1 ep
Paul Sand in Friends and Lovers
TV · Director · 1 ep
The Bob Newhart Show
TV · Director · 29 eps
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
TV · Director · 1 ep