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Peter Bonerz

Peter Bonerz

Director · Born 1938-08-06 · Portsmouth - New Hampshire - USA

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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 …

Directed

  1. Friends (1994) — Director
  2. ALF (1986) — Director
  3. Police Academy 6: City Under Siege (1989) — Director
  4. Home Improvement (1991) — Director
  5. Joey (2004) — Director
  6. Just Shoot Me! (1997) — Director
  7. Wings (1990) — Director
  8. NewsRadio (1995) — Director
  9. Murphy Brown (1988) — Director
  10. The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970) — Director
  11. What I Like About You (2002) — Director
  12. The Bob Newhart Show (1972) — Director
  13. Friends 25th: The One with the Anniversary (2019) — Director
  14. Archie Bunker's Place (1979) — Director
  15. The Naked Truth (1995) — Director
  16. Nobody's Perfekt (1981) — Director
  17. The Hughleys (1998) — Director
  18. When Things Were Rotten (1975) — Director
  19. Love & War (1992) — Director
  20. E/R (1984) — Director
  21. Good Morning, Miami (2002) — Director
  22. My Big Fat Greek Life (2003) — Director
  23. Flying Blind (1992) — Director
  24. My Sister Sam (1986) — Director
  25. Doctor Doctor (1989) — Director
  26. The Elvira Show (1993) — Director
  27. It's Your Move (1984) — Director
  28. 9 to 5 (1982) — Director
  29. The Tony Randall Show (1976) — Director
  30. Together We Stand (1986) — Director
  31. You Again? (1986) — Director
  32. Room for Two (1992) — Director
  33. Soul Man (1997) — Director
  34. True Colors (1990) — Director
  35. Minor Adjustments (1995) — Director
  36. Hope and Gloria (1995) — Director
  37. Pearl (1996) — Director
  38. Good Heavens (1976) — Director
  39. Movie Stars (1999) — Director
  40. The Two of Us (1981) — Director

Also appeared in

  1. Friends (1994) — Theater Patron (uncredited)
  2. Man on the Moon (1999) — Ed Weinberger
  3. Parks and Recreation (2009) — Doug Demarco
  4. Dinosaurs (1991) — Insurance Agent (voice)
  5. Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond (2017) — Self
  6. Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (2022) — The Maestro (voice)
  7. Kim Possible (2002) — Rabbi Katz (voice)
  8. Murder, She Wrote (1984) — Calhoun 'Cal' Fletcher
  9. The Addams Family (1964) — Mr. Boswell
  10. Aaahh!!! Real Monsters (1994) — Sal (voice)
  11. Catch-22 (1970) — Captain J.S. McWatt
  12. Hawaii Five-O (1968) — Earl
  13. Sanford and Son (1972)
  14. Medium Cool (1969) — Gus
  15. The Bob Newhart Show (1972) — Jerry Robinson
  16. What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice? (1969) — Mr. Bentley
  17. Petulia (1968) — Self (uncredited)
  18. Fuzz (1972) — Buck
  19. That Girl (1966)
  20. McMillan & Wife (1971)
  21. Serial (1980) — Leonard
  22. Nobody's Perfekt (1981) — Randall Kendall
  23. The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour (1967) — Various
  24. The Merv Griffin Show (1962) — Self
  25. Love & War (1992)
  26. Bob (1992)
  27. Jennifer on My Mind (1971) — Sergei Wasserman
  28. Hallmark Hall of Fame (1951) — Stanley
  29. Funnyman (1967) — Perry
  30. Circle of Violence: A Family Drama (1986) — Peter Benfield
  31. 9 to 5 (1982) — Franklin Hart
  32. Good Heavens (1976)
  33. A Storm in Summer (1970) — Stanley
  34. Mirror, Mirror (1979) — Andrew McLaren
  35. Three Sisters (2001) — George Bernstein-Flynn
  36. The Bob Newhart Show 19th Anniversary Special (1991) — Dr. Jerry Robinson
  37. How to Break Up a Happy Divorce (1976) — Carter Dowling
  38. A Session with the Committee (1969) — Self
  39. Your Place... or Mine? (1983) — Phil
  40. Dad's A Dog (1990) — Tony Sheridan