# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/peter-riegert
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:49:00.438Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/peter-riegert"
name: "Peter Riegert"
slug: "peter-riegert"
description: "Peter Riegert is an American actor. He is best known for his roles as Donald \"Boon\" Schoenstein in Animal House (1978), oil company executive \"Mac\" MacIntyre in Local Hero (1983), pickle store owner Sam Posner in Crossing Delancey (1988) and Lt. Mitch Kellaway in The Mask (1994). He directed the short film By Courier (2000), for which he was nominated along with producer Ericka Frederick for the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film."
tagline: "American actor and director"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Peter_Riegert_1979.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1947-04-11"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           55.95
  momentum:             0
  historical:           23.50711733333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0726200/"
    handle:    "nm0726200"
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    title: "Փիթեր Ռիգերթ"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump