Peter Bonerz
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.
The Bastard
(Girard)
Jennifer on My Mind
(Sergei Wasserman)
Medium Cool
(Gus)
What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice?
(Mr. Bentley)
The Bob Newhart Show 19th Anniversary Special
(Dr. Jerry Robinson)
Viewer Direction Advised
(Self)
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
(The Maestro (voice))
A Storm in Summer
(Stanley)
Petulia
(Self (uncredited))
Man on the Moon
(Ed Weinberger)
Nobody's Perfekt
(Randall Kendall)
Mirror, Mirror
(Andrew McLaren)
Catch-22
(Captain J.S. McWatt)
Funnyman
(Perry)
Serial
(Leonard)
Circle of Violence: A Family Drama
(Peter Benfield)
Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond
(Self)
How to Break Up a Happy Divorce
(Carter Dowling)
A Session with the Committee
(Self)
Your Place... or Mine?
(Phil)
Fuzz
(Buck)
Murder, She Wrote
(Calhoun 'Cal' Fletcher)
Hawaii Five-O
(Earl)
That Girl
Kim Possible
(Rabbi Katz (voice))
The Bob Newhart Show
Sanford and Son
Hallmark Hall of Fame
(Stanley)
McMillan and Wife
9 to 5
(Franklin Hart)
Good Heavens
The Addams Family
(Mr. Boswell)
Summer Fun
Friends
(Theater Patron (uncredited))
Three Sisters
(George Bernstein-Flynn)
Parks and Recreation
(Doug Demarco)
Aaahh!!! Real Monsters
(Sal (voice))
The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
(Various)
Dinosaurs
(Insurance Agent (voice))
Love & War
George & Leo
Bob
Police Academy 6: City Under Siege
(Director)
Nobody's Perfekt
(Director)
Funnyman
(Writer)
Focus on Fishko
(Director)
The Elvira Show
(Director)
Julie Brown: The Show
(Director)
Friends 25th: The One with the Anniversary
(Director)
Sharing Richard
(Director)
The Recovery Room
(Director)
What I Like About You
(Director)
Friends
(Director)
Flying Blind
(Director)
True Colors
(Director)
Murphy Brown
(Director)
The Hughleys
(Director)
My Big Fat Greek Life
(Director)
Minor Adjustments
(Director)
Love & War
(Director)
My Sister Sam
(Director)
When Things Were Rotten
(Director)
E/R
(Director)
The Bob Newhart Show
(Director)
NewsRadio
(Director)
It's Your Move
(Director)
George Burns Comedy Week
(Director)
9 to 5
(Director)
Hope and Gloria
(Director)
Archie Bunker's Place
(Director)
Pearl
(Director)
Together We Stand
(Director)
Mr. Rhodes
(Director)
The Naked Truth
(Director)
Joey
(Director)
Just Shoot Me!
(Director)
Wings
(Director)
Home Improvement
(Director)
Good Morning, Miami
(Director)
Doctor Doctor
(Director)
ALF
(Director)
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
(Director)
You Again?
(Director)
Good Heavens
(Director)
The Tony Randall Show
(Director)
Movie Stars
(Director)
Park Place
(Director)
Getting Personal
(Director)
Foley Square
(Director)
The Thorns
(Director)
Paul Sand in Friends and Lovers
(Director)
Three Sisters
(Director)
Maggie Briggs
(Director)
The Two of Us
(Director)
Room for Two
(Director)
Soul Man
(Director)
Apple Pie
(Director)
The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
(Writer)