Peter Bonerz

Peter Bonerz

Born: August 6, 1938
in 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.

Movies for Peter Bonerz...

Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
Title: Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
Character: The Maestro (voice)
Released: June 24, 2022
Type: Movie
Marcel is an adorable one-inch-tall shell who ekes out a colorful existence with his grandmother Connie and their pet lint, Alan. Once part of a sprawling community of shells, they now live alone as the sole survivors of a mysterious tragedy. But when a documentary filmmaker discovers them amongst the clutter of his Airbnb, the short film he posts online brings Marcel millions of passionate fans, as well as unprecedented dangers and a new hope at finding his long-lost family.
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Viewer Direction Advised
Title: Viewer Direction Advised
Character: Self
Released: November 14, 2018
Type: Movie
Twenty-one year old Ben is on a journey - to follow his TV-obsessed dad and explore how television consumption has evolved from one generation to the next.
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Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond
Title: Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond
Character: Self
Released: September 5, 2017
Type: Movie
Offbeat documentarian Chris Smith provides a behind-the-scenes look at how Jim Carrey adopted the persona of idiosyncratic comedian Andy Kaufman on the set of Man on the Moon.
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Title: Parks and Recreation
Character: Doug Demarco
Released: April 9, 2009
Type: TV
In an attempt to beautify her town — and advance her career — Leslie Knope, a mid-level bureaucrat in the Parks and Recreation Department of Pawnee, Indiana, takes on bureaucrats, cranky neighbors, and single-issue fanatics whose weapons are lawsuits, the jumble of city codes, and the democratic process she loves so much.
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Title: Kim Possible
Character: Rabbi Katz (voice)
Released: June 7, 2002
Type: TV
If there's danger or trouble, Kim Possible is there on the double to save the world from villains... and still make it home in time for cheerleading practice! Luckily, Kim has her sidekick Ron Stoppable and his pet naked mole-rat Rufus by her side.
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Title: Three Sisters
Character: George Bernstein-Flynn
Released: January 9, 2001
Type: TV
Three Sisters is an American television sitcom that aired on NBC for two seasons from January 9, 2001, to February 5, 2002.
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Man on the Moon
Title: Man on the Moon
Character: Ed Weinberger
Released: December 22, 1999
Type: Movie
The story of the life and career of eccentric avant-garde comedian, Andy Kaufman.
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Title: Aaahh!!! Real Monsters
Character: Sal (voice)
Released: October 29, 1994
Type: TV
Three young monsters — Ickis, Oblina and Krumm — attends an institute for monsters under a city dump and learn to frighten humans.
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Title: Friends
Character: Theater Patron (uncredited)
Released: September 22, 1994
Type: TV
Six young people from New York City, on their own and struggling to survive in the real world, find the companionship, comfort and support they get from each other to be the perfect antidote to the pressures of life.
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Title: Love & War
Released: September 21, 1992
Type: TV
A woman running a bar in New York City while trying to maintain a romance with an egotistical opinion columnist.
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The Bob Newhart Show 19th Anniversary Special
Title: The Bob Newhart Show 19th Anniversary Special
Character: Dr. Jerry Robinson
Released: November 23, 1991
Type: Movie
Bob is recovering from the horrible nightmare about a crazy little town in Vermont. As that happens, he begins reminiscing of events from episodes of "The Bob Newhart Show."
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Title: Dinosaurs
Character: Insurance Agent (voice)
Released: April 26, 1991
Type: TV
Dinosaurs follows the life of a family of dinosaurs, living in a modern world. They have TV's, fridges, microwaves, and every modern convenience.
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Circle of Violence: A Family Drama
Title: Circle of Violence: A Family Drama
Character: Peter Benfield
Released: October 12, 1986
Type: Movie
Georgia Benfield, at her wit's end, loses control and begins physically abusing her elderly mother, just as Georgia had been abused herself as a child. As family and friends slowly begin to learn of the abuse, and long-buried family secrets come to light, both mother and daughter must learn to accept the past, to change what is happening at present in order to face a better future.
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Title: Murder, She Wrote
Character: Calhoun 'Cal' Fletcher
Released: September 30, 1984
Type: TV
An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases.
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Your Place... or Mine?
Title: Your Place... or Mine?
Character: Phil
Released: March 2, 1983
Type: Movie
Karen (Tyne Daly) is a San Francisco real estate broker and best friend of psychiatrist Alexandra Benedict (Bonnie Franklin) whose boyfriend leaves her. Karen's husband Phillip (Peter Bonerz) plays rugby with gardener Nick Richmond (Robert Klein) who Karen thinks is the perfect match for Alexandra, but circumstances stop Alexandra from meeting Nick until the last minutes of the narrative.
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Title: 9 to 5
Character: Franklin Hart
Released: March 25, 1982
Type: TV
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Nobody's Perfekt
Title: Nobody's Perfekt
Character: Randall Kendall
Released: August 7, 1981
Type: Movie
While everyone knows you can't fight City Hall, there are those who, for whatever reason, can't resist the challenge. Three slightly disturbed psychiatric patients decide to take on the government. What ensues includes car chases, a ferry boat hijacking, strip-teases and lots of fun!
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Serial
Title: Serial
Character: Leonard
Released: March 28, 1980
Type: Movie
A man resists the California fads that his wife, friends and wealthy Marin County neighbors embrace. Based on the serial by Cyra McFadden in the San Francisco Chronicle in the 70s, satirizing the lifestyle trends of the local elite - from open marriages and organic food to New Age cults.
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Mirror, Mirror
Title: Mirror, Mirror
Character: Andrew McLaren
Released: October 10, 1979
Type: Movie
A wealthy widow, a restless housewife, and a former model seek to reshape themselves through cosmetic surgery to please the men in their lives.
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The Bastard
Title: The Bastard
Character: Girard
Released: May 22, 1978
Type: Movie
Phillipe Charboneau is the illegitimate son of an English duke. When he travels from France to England to claim his inheritance, he incurs the wrath of his father's family and is forced to flee to America, where he becomes involved in the events leading to the American Revolution. (Episodes 1 and 2 of the Kent Chronicles miniseries.)
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How to Break Up a Happy Divorce
Title: How to Break Up a Happy Divorce
Character: Carter Dowling
Released: October 6, 1976
Type: Movie
A divorced woman comes up with a scheme to make her ex-husband jealous, so she can get him back.
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Title: Good Heavens
Released: February 29, 1976
Type: TV
Good Heavens was an ABC comedy anthology series produced by Columbia Pictures Television that aired between February 29 to June 26, 1976. It ranked #17 in the Nielsen ratings during the 1975-76 television season. The main character was Mr. Angel, who was an Emissary of Heaven that came down to Earth to grant wishes to those who had performed a good deed. Episodes featured actors such as Don Ameche, Susan Dey, Sandy Duncan, Pat Harrington Jr., Florence Henderson, Alex Karras, Penny Marshall, Hugh O'Brian, Loretta Swit, Brenda Vaccaro, and Fred Willard.
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Title: The Bob Newhart Show
Released: September 16, 1972
Type: TV
The Bob Newhart Show is an American situation comedy produced by MTM Enterprises, which aired 142 original episodes on CBS from September 16, 1972, to April 1, 1978. Comedian Bob Newhart portrays a psychologist having to deal with his patients and fellow office workers. The show was filmed before a live audience.
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Fuzz
Title: Fuzz
Character: Buck
Released: July 14, 1972
Type: Movie
Police in Boston search for a mad bomber trying to extort money from the city.
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Title: Sanford and Son
Released: January 14, 1972
Type: TV
The misadventures of a cantankerous junk dealer and his frustrated son.
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Jennifer on My Mind
Title: Jennifer on My Mind
Character: Sergei Wasserman
Released: November 10, 1971
Type: Movie
Two rich American young adults who meet and fall in love in Venice, Italy. With plenty of money and no real responsibilities or direction in life, the couple begin experimenting with illicit drugs. The movie travels through a series of flashbacks showing their progression from marijuana to harder drugs as a result of their complex romantic entanglement with each other.
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Title: McMillan and Wife
Released: September 29, 1971
Type: TV
McMillan & Wife is a lighthearted American police procedural that aired on NBC from September 17, 1971 to April 24, 1977. Starring Rock Hudson and Susan Saint James in the title roles, the series premiered in 90-minute episodes as part of the wheel series NBC Mystery Movie, in rotation with Columbo and McCloud. Initially airing on Wednesday night, the original line-up was shifted to Sundays in the second season, where it aired for the rest of its run. This was the first element to be created specially for the Mystery Movie strand.
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Catch-22
Title: Catch-22
Character: Captain J.S. McWatt
Released: June 24, 1970
Type: Movie
A bombardier in World War II tries desperately to escape the insanity of the war. However, sometimes insanity is the only sane way to cope with a crazy situation.
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A Storm in Summer
Title: A Storm in Summer
Character: Stanley
Released: February 6, 1970
Type: Movie
A story of the friendship between an elderly Jewish man and a young African-American boy set during the Vietnam War.
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Medium Cool
Title: Medium Cool
Character: Gus
Released: August 27, 1969
Type: Movie
John Cassellis is the toughest TV news reporter around. After extensively reporting about violence and racial tensions in poor communities, he discovers that his network is helping the FBI by granting them access to his footage to find suspects.
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What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice?
Title: What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice?
Character: Mr. Bentley
Released: August 20, 1969
Type: Movie
An aging widow hides a deadly secret which she will do anything to keep buried.
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A Session with the Committee
Title: A Session with the Committee
Character: Self
Released: August 11, 1969
Type: Movie
A Session with the Committee
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Title: Hawaii Five-O
Character: Earl
Released: September 20, 1968
Type: TV
Hawaii Five-O is an American police procedural drama series produced by CBS Productions and Leonard Freeman. Set in Hawaii, the show originally aired for 12 seasons from 1968 to 1980, and continues in reruns. Jack Lord portrayed Detective Lieutenant Steve McGarrett, the head of a special state police task force which was based on an actual unit that existed under martial law in the 1940s. The theme music composed by Morton Stevens became especially popular. Many episodes would end with McGarrett instructing his subordinate to "Book 'em, Danno!", sometimes specifying a charge such as "murder one".
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Petulia
Title: Petulia
Character: Self (uncredited)
Released: June 10, 1968
Type: Movie
An unhappily married socialite finds solace in the company of a recently divorced doctor.
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Funnyman
Title: Funnyman
Character: Perry
Released: September 23, 1967
Type: Movie
An improvisational comedian, working with The Committee improv group in San Francisco, struggles to be taken seriously.
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Title: The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
Character: Various
Released: February 5, 1967
Type: TV
The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour is an American comedy and variety show hosted by the Smothers Brothers and initially airing on CBS from 1967 to 1969.
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Title: That Girl
Released: September 8, 1966
Type: TV
That Girl is an American sitcom that ran on ABC from 1966 to 1971. It stars Marlo Thomas as the title character Ann Marie, an aspiring actress, who moves from her hometown of Brewster, New York to try to make it big in New York City. Ann has to take a number of offbeat "temp" jobs to support herself in between her various auditions and bit parts. Ted Bessell played her boyfriend Donald Hollinger, a writer for Newsview Magazine; Lew Parker and Rosemary DeCamp played Lew Marie and Helen Marie, her concerned parents. Bernie Kopell, Ruth Buzzi and Reva Rose played Ann and Donald's friends. That Girl was developed by writers Bill Persky and Sam Denoff, who had served as head writers on The Dick Van Dyke Show earlier in the 1960s.
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Title: Summer Fun
Released: July 22, 1966
Type: TV
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Title: The Addams Family
Character: Mr. Boswell
Released: September 18, 1964
Type: TV
A satirical inversion of the ideal of the perfect American nuclear family, they are an eccentric wealthy family who delight in everything grotesque and macabre, and are never really aware that people find them bizarre or frightening. In fact, they themselves are often terrified by "normal" people.
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Title: Hallmark Hall of Fame
Character: Stanley
Released: December 24, 1951
Type: TV
Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The longest-running primetime series in the history of television, it has a historically long run, beginning during 1951 and continuing into 2013. From 1954 onward, all of its productions have been shown in color, although color television video productions were extremely rare in 1954. Many television movies have been shown on the program since its debut, though the program began with live telecasts of dramas and then changed to videotaped productions before finally changing to filmed ones. The series has received eighty Emmy Awards, twenty-four Christopher Awards, eleven Peabody Awards, nine Golden Globes, and four Humanitas Prizes. Once a common practice in American television, it is the last remaining television program such that the title includes the name of the sponsor. Unlike other long-running TV series still on the air, it differs in that it broadcasts only occasionally and not on a weekly broadcast programming schedule.