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Peter Gerety

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Biography

Peter Gerety (born May 17, 1940) is an American actor. On television, he played officer, later detective, Stuart Gharty on Homicide: Life on the Street (1996–1999), Judge Daniel Phelan in The Wire (2002–2008), and Otto Bernhardt in Sneaky Pete (2015–2019). In film, Gerety has appeared in notable films such as K-Pax, People I Know, The Curse of the Jade Scorpion, Hollywood Ending, Wolf, Charlie Wilson's War, Surviving Picasso, War of the Worlds, Things That Hang from Trees, Inside Man, and Changeling. He is also an accomplished stage actor, appearing in numerous plays on and off-Broadway.

Notable films

Where to start

Highlights from credits and KinoChain journeys.

Wolf

Appears in a KinoChain journey

The Curse of the Jade Scorpion

Appears in a KinoChain journey

War of the Worlds

As Hatch Boss / Load Manager

Inside Man

As Captain Coughlin

A Complete Unknown

As Federal Judge

Flight

As Avington Carr

Public Enemies

As Louis Piquett

Changeling

As Dr. Earl W. Tarr

Chains

KinoChain journeys

Public chains that pass through their films — or name them as a bridge.

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The Hypnotic Gaze

From Woody Allen's comic hypnosis to the chilling mechanics of control, this chain traces cinema's fascination with the mind's susceptibility.

8 films

Fur and Fangs

From the eerie moors of England to the neon streets of Tokyo, this chain of eight films reveals the werewolf as a creature of endless reinvention, embodying hor...

8 films

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