1. Peter Scolari was best known for his roles as Henry Desmond in the ABC sitcom Bosom Buddies and Michael Harris on the CBS sitcom Newhart, the latter of which earned him three consecutive nominations for Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series from 1987 to 1989.
Peter Scolari had recurring roles as Gillian B Loeb in the superhero crime series Gotham and Bishop Thomas Marx in the supernatural series Evil.
Peter Scolari acted in replacement roles in the musicals Hairspray in 2003 and Wicked in 2016.
Peter Scolari was born in New Rochelle, New York, to Arthur and Barbara Peter Scolari, and was raised in Scarsdale along with an older sister and two younger brothers.
Peter Scolari's father was of Italian descent and played semi-professional baseball before becoming a lawyer.
Peter Scolari's mother was a singer prior to meeting Scolari's father and later worked with the Alcohol Rehabilitation arm of the Tidewater Psychiatric Institute in Virginia Beach, Virginia.
At the age of 13 Peter Scolari did some animation voice acting work and performed in plays while attending Edgemont High School in Scarsdale, where he participated in football, baseball and track.
Peter Scolari joined the Colonnades Theatre Lab, a repertory theatre in Manhattan, working with actors such as Danny DeVito, Rhea Perlman, Jeff Goldblum and Michael O'Keefe.
Peter Scolari was working on a degree in comparative literature at City College of New York.
Peter Scolari studied mime and learned to ride a unicycle.
Peter Scolari played a teenager named Kookie and his performance did not involve nudity.
Peter Scolari was signed to do an NBC pilot in 1979 titled The Further Adventures Of Wally Brown, a show that did not get picked up.
Peter Scolari starred in the short-lived 1980 sitcom Goodtime Girls as Benny, the juggling neighbor of the title characters.
Peter Scolari happened to be playing a guest role on an adjacent sound stage and was auditioned for the role.
Peter Scolari played Henry Desmond, whose female pseudonym was Hildegard, and Hanks played Kip Wilson, who went by the name Buffy.
Peter Scolari's next starring role was in the 1983 sitcom Baby Makes Five, which was cancelled after only five episodes.
That same year Peter Scolari joined the cast of Newhart as Michael Harris, a preppily-dressed, wannabe yuppie, and local TV producer of the fictional talk show "Vermont Today".
Harris was a recurring character in the show's second season and the character was so popular with audiences that executive producer Barry Kemp signed Peter Scolari to be a regular cast member in the show's following season, before it was even confirmed that there would be a third season.
Peter Scolari's role earned Scolari three Emmy nominations for best supporting actor in a comedy and remained with the show until its conclusion in 1990.
Peter Scolari plays the role of Troy Chesterfield, the host of a variety show on which the Wonders appear.
In 1993, Peter Scolari starred in the series Family Album about a couple who move with their children back to their hometown of Philadelphia to be closer to their aging parents.
Peter Scolari told the Las Vegas Review-Journal in 1993 that he and Reed had "instant rapport", however the show lasted one season.
Peter Scolari plays Warren Mosbey, the company's eccentric, socially-inept, tech-genius owner.
Peter Scolari appeared in such off-Broadway productions as Old Man Joseph and His Family, The Exonerated, In the Wings, It Must Be Him and White's Lies.
Peter Scolari starred in Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show over the show's three seasons.
Peter Scolari plays inventor Wayne Szalinski, the role originally played by Rick Moranis in the Honey, I Shrunk the Kids series of films.
Peter Scolari appeared on Broadway in the musical Hairspray, as Wilbur Turnblad.
Peter Scolari later had a recurring role as Tad Horvath, the father of Lena Dunham's character on the HBO coming-of-age comedy-drama Girls from 2012 to 2017.
Peter Scolari won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series in 2016.
Peter Scolari played Gotham City's corrupt police commissioner Gillian B Loeb in Fox's superhero crime drama Gotham from 2014 to 2019.
Peter Scolari returned to Broadway in the musical Wicked, as a replacement playing the Wizard of Oz from 2016 to 2017.
Peter Scolari married Debra Steagal, a costume designer he met while filming The Rosebud Beach Hotel in 1986, and they had two children.
Peter Scolari later wed actress Cathy Trien, with whom he had two children.
Peter Scolari died from leukemia in Manhattan on October 22,2021, at the age of 66.
Peter Scolari had been diagnosed with the disease two years earlier.