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Peter Bonerz. Director: The Bob Newhart Show. Bonerz was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, to Elfrieda (née Kern) and Christopher Bonerz. He grew up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he attended Marquette University High School. Here, performing with the Prep Players, he gained his first theatrical experience.
A beak-nosed comic actor with an improvisational background, Peter Bonerz went from playing Jerry the dentist pal on "The Bob Newhart Show" (CBS, 1972-78) to directing...
Peter said that, but it seemed real simple. And I was so delighted. Bob was very pleasant to me. Speaker It made me feel welcome and wanted. Speaker What did you know?
In his two-and-a-half-hour interview, Peter Bonerz talks about playing orthodontist "Jerry Robinson" on The Bob Newhart Show and his work as a director for that series as well as Murphy Brown and Friends. Bonerz notes his first TV part, on The Addams Family, and how star John Astin taught him television technique.
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.
As Jerry Robinson on "The Bob Newhart Show," Peter Bonerz was television comedy's most famous orthodontist. Bonerz had a brief list of feature films to his credit beginning around 1969, most prominently "Catch 22" which also starred Bob Newhart.
A beak-nosed comic actor with an improvisational background, Peter Bonerz went from playing Jerry the dentist pal on "The Bob Newhart Show" (CBS, 1972-78) to directing episodes of the series and then developed into one of the more prolific sitcom directors of the 1980s and 90s.
