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Peter Gallagher

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Actor b. 1955 On stage 19722024

Peter Killian Gallagher (born August 19, 1955) is an American actor. Since 1980, he has played roles in numerous Hollywood films. He is best known for starring as Sandy Cohen in the television drama series The O.C. from 2003 to 2007, and recurring roles in television such as Deputy Chief William Dodds on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Stacey Koons on the Showtime comedy-drama Californication, Nick on the Netflix series Grace & Frankie, and Director of Clandestine Services (DCS) Arthur Campbell on Covert Affairs. He also is known for his roles in the films Bob Roberts (1992), The Player (1992), Short Cuts (1993), While You Were Sleeping (1995), American Beauty (1999), Mr. Deeds (2002), an…

On stage 12 productions, 52 years

1972 Grease Eden Theatre · Original · directed by Tom Moore 3,388 perf.
1977 Hair Biltmore Theatre · Revival · directed by Tom O'Horgan 43 perf.
1982 A Doll's Life Mark Hellinger Theatre · Original · directed by Harold Prince 5 perf.
1983 The Corn Is Green Lunt Fontanne Theatre · Revival · directed by Vivian Matalon 32 perf.
1984 The Real Thing Plymouth Theatre · Revival · directed by Mike Nichols 566 perf.
1986 Long Day's Journey Into Night Broadhurst Theatre · Revival · directed by Jonathan Miller 54 perf.
1992 Guys and Dolls Martin Beck Theatre · Revival · directed by Jerry Zaks 1,143 perf.
2001 Noises Off Brooks Atkinson Theatre · Revival · directed by Jeremy Sams 348 perf.
2002 Funny Girl New Amsterdam Theatre · Revival · directed by Ray Stark 1 perf.
2008 The Country Girl Bernard B Jacobs Theatre · Revival · directed by Mike Nichols 97 perf.
2015 On the Twentieth Century Theatre not recorded · Revival 144 perf.
2024 Left on Tenth James Earl Jones Theatre · Original 118 perf.

Each row is a staging this name appears in the cast list of, read from the production record rather than from the person record. The person record names works instead, and a work cannot say which run somebody was in — that is how Elaine Stritch ends up filed under Show Boat 1927 when she was in the 1994 revival. No row here says what part was played, because no cast list records it.

Worked with more than once5 names

Walter Bobbie 2 productions
Sam Harris 2 productions
Paul Castree 2 productions
Faith Prince 2 productions
Carlos Lopez 2 productions

Both names in the same cast list, more than once. It is not evidence of a partnership — a long-running company puts the same forty people together every night — but it is where one would start looking.

In the literature8 passages

  • On that trip, Anthony and I went to see Eugene O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey Into Night, starring Jack Lemmon, Peter Gallagher – whom I love as an actor and who was brilliant in Sam Mendes’s American Beauty – and Kevin Spacey, who played Lemmon’s character’s youngest son in the play and who was also great in American Beauty. After this sho…ebooks/Barrowman, John & Barrowman, Carole E_/Anything Goes - John Barrowman & Carole E. Barrowman.txt
  • Revival cast (1992) : Peter Gallagher, Nathan Lane, Josie de Guzman, Faith Prince, Edward Strauss (conductor). RCA 09026–61317–2.ebooks/Block, Geoffrey/Enchanted Evenings_The Broadway Musical from 'Show Boat' to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber - Geoffrey Block.txt
  • Encore! Concert Cast (1995) : Patti Lupone, Peter Gallagher, Bebe Neuwirth, Rob Fisher (conductor). DRG 94763. With original orchestrations by Hans Spialek. Restored song: “I’m Talkin’ to My Pal.”ebooks/Block, Geoffrey/Enchanted Evenings_The Broadway Musical from 'Show Boat' to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber - Geoffrey Block.txt
  • The somewhat overrated 1992 revival opened at the Martin Beck (now Hirschfeld) Theatre on April 14 for 1,143 performances (Peter Gallagher, Josie De Guzman [who replaced Carolyn Mignini during Broadway previews], Faith Prince, and Nathan Lane . . . as Nathan Detroit); also in the cast was Walter Bobbie as Nicely-Nicely Johnson. The most r…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
  • A concert version of Pal Joey was produced by Encores! on May 4, 1995, for four performances; the leads were Patti Lupone, Peter Gallagher, and Bebe Neuwirth (Melba), and it was recorded by DRG (CD # 94763); “I’m Talking to My Pal” was reinstated for the production.ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
  • Cast: Peter Gallagher, Nathan Lane, Josie de Guzman, Faith Prince, Walter Bobbie, John Carpenter, Steve Ryan, Ernie Sabella, J.K. Simmons,ebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt

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