Peter Riegert Biography

Fast Facts

• Won a Golden Eagle Award at the 2004 Marco Island Film Festival
• Before he became an actor, he worked as a teacher, a waiter and a social worker
• Quote: "I don't think anybody in their right mind thinks of themselves as a supporting actor․"
• While shooting a short film, the first one he directed, a tornado cut power to the area, and even though he had a generator, a rain storm forced him to rewrite the opening scenes
• Enjoys working with big stars because he figures the better they are, they higher the expectations will be for him
• National Lampoon hired him for several projects, the first of which was "Animal House," in which he played a wild fraternity brother, a role he is still known for today
• Narrated audiobooks for Michael Chabon's "The Yiddish Policemen's Union," "The Voyage of the Narwhal" and the stories of Raymond Carver