Peter Bonerz

Known for DirectingBorn 1938-08-06 (age 87)Portsmouth - New Hampshire - USA

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.Read more

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George & Leo

Mr. Rhodes

Likely Stories, Vol. 4

How to Break Up a Happy Divorce

Getting Personal

Dad's A Dog

Maggie Briggs

Movie Stars

Friends 25th: The One with the Anniversary

True Colors

Friends

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Parks and Recreation

Room for Two

The Bob Newhart Show 19th Anniversary Special

Marcel the Shell with Shoes On

George Burns Comedy Week

Your Place... or Mine?

Mirror, Mirror

Aaahh!!! Real Monsters

Dinosaurs

A Session with the Committee

The Addams Family

Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond

Together We Stand

Doctor Doctor

Bob

Kim Possible

ALF

Murder, She Wrote

The Mary Tyler Moore Show

NewsRadio

Home Improvement

Minor Adjustments

Apple Pie

The Bob Newhart Show

Man on the Moon

Sanford and Son

When Things Were Rotten

It's Your Move

9 to 5

Three Sisters

Good Morning, Miami

Sharing Richard

The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour

Hawaii Five-O

The Recovery Room

Foley Square