Peter Gerety

'Public Enemies': Bullet Time, By Kurt Loder 07/01/2009

Birthday: May 17, 1940

A burly, thickset, and occasionally scruffy character actor with a domineering and imposing presence, Peter Gerety often accepted roles as ordinary working-class stiffs, judges, or inner-city law officers. A performer with equal footing in film and on the stage, Gerety took his premier onscreen bow during the early '80s but first began drawing substantial attention over a decade later. ...more