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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.
2022
as The Maestro (voice)
2018
as Self
2017
as Self
2009
as Doug Demarco
2002
as Rabbi Katz (voice)
2001
as George Bernstein-Flynn
1999
as Ed Weinberger
1997
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as Sal (voice)
1994
as Theater Patron (uncredited)
1992
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as Dr. Jerry Robinson
1991
as Insurance Agent (voice)
1986
as Peter Benfield
1984
as Calhoun 'Cal' Fletcher
1983
as Phil
1982
as Franklin Hart
1981
as Randall Kendall
1980
as Leonard
1979
as Andrew McLaren
1978
as Girard
1976
as Carter Dowling
1976
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as Jerry Robinson
1972
as Buck
1972
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as Sergei Wasserman
1971
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as Captain J.S. McWatt
1970
as Stanley
1969
as Gus
1969
as Mr. Bentley
1969
as Self
1968
as Earl
1968
as Self (uncredited)
1967
as Perry
1967
as Various
1966
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as Mr. Boswell
1951
as Stanley