Peter McRobbie (born January 31, 1943) is a Scottish-born, American-based character actor.
McRobbie has more than 60 movies and television series to his credit. The movies include Spider-Man 2, World Trade Center, Sleepers, and Bullets over Broadway. He is also a regular on the TV series Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and the original Law & Order series. It was on SVU that McRobbie has played perhaps his most famous role to date, Judge Walter Bradley. McRobbie also garnered wide attention for his portrayal of John C. Twist in the motion picture Brokeback Mountain (2005).
McRobbie, who emigrated to the United States with his family as a child, grew up in Milford, Connecticut and graduated from Yale University with a degree in theater. He also briefly served in the United States Army.
McRobbie is married and the father of a daughter, Charlotte, born in 1977.
Served in the U.S. Armed Forces.
He immigrated to the U.S. as a child in the early 1950s, and settled in Milford, Connecticut. In 1965 he graduated Yale University as a drama major and attended one year of graduate school at Tulsa University while serving basic training in the Army. He would have been drafted into Vietnam, if not for medical file conflict.
In 1977 he married a fellow aspiring stage actress, Charlotte Bova. For fourteen years until 1991 they lived together with their two young children in a small three-room apartment in little Italy of Manhattan's Lower East side. For eleven years he and his family lived in Park Slope, Brooklyn. In 2002, he and his family moved to South Orange, New Jersey, where he currently resides.
In 1969 he moved to New York City to pursue an acting career, but was unable to find work. He supported himself as an advertiser throughout the early 1970s, and actually pitched the original idea for the "Jell-O Pudding Cup". By the summer of 1975 he had found stage work with John Astin and Patty Duke in California. However, he moved back to the East Coast after the production ended.
Son (Oliver Mcrobbie) born August 12th, 1984. Currently resides in Millburn, New Jersey.
He played the father to both Jake Gyllenhaal and his sister, Maggie Gyllenhaal, in the films, "Brokeback Mountain" and "World Trade Center", respectively.
Played the father of Jake Gyllenhaal in Brokeback Mountain and Maggie Gyllenhaal in World Trade Center.
Has appeared on "Law & Order" and all four of its spin-offs.
