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Peter Riegert

Peter Riegert
Peter Riegert
Born: Apr 11, 1947 in New York City, New York
Occupation: Actor, Director, Writer,
Active: '80s-2000s
Major Genres: Comedy, Comedy Drama
Career Highlights: Local Hero, Barbarians at the Gate, Crossing Delancey
First Major Screen Credit: Americathon (1979)
21 Videos for Peter Riegert
The First Basket (2008) The Mask (1994) Crossing Delancey (1988)
King of the Corner (2004) Barbarians at the Gate (1993) A Man in Love (1987)
Bojangles (2001) Gypsy (1993) Ellis Island (1983)
How To Kill Your Neighbor's Dog (2000) The Object of Beauty (1991) Local Hero (1983)
Passion of Mind (2000) The Runestone (1991) Head Over Heels (1979)
Traffic (2000) A Shock to the System (1990) National Lampoon's Animal House (1978)
Infinity (1996) That's Adequate (1989) National Lampoon's Animal House (1978)
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Biography:

University of Buffalo graduate, former Bella Abzug campaign worker, and onetime schoolteacher Peter Riegert finessed an early flair for comedy into appearing with an improv troupe called the War Babies. This led to Riegert's Broadway bow in 1975, then to his being hired by the National Lampoon people for several projects, the first of which was Animal House (1978), in which the actor portrayed Donald Boon Schoenstein.

He went on to play such roles as the feckless corporate-flunky good guy in Local Hero (1983) and the unhitched pickle vendor Amy Irving would never marry in a million years but does anyway in Crossing Delancey (1989). Usually bypassed by the gossip columnists (which he doesn't seem to mind at all), Riegert raised journalistic eyebrows when he was cast opposite his onetime lady friend Bette Midler in the 1993 TV version of Gypsy.

~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide.