Peter FarrellyFilmography

Born:: January 1, 1957
Occupation:: Actor, Director, Executive Producer, Producer, Screenwriter
Biography:: A published novelist, Peter Farrelly merged his very particular comic sensibilities with younger brother Bobby Farrelly and became one of the premiere auteurs of gross-out comedy. Raised in Cumberland, Rhode Island, Farrelly received a master's degree in creative writing from Columbia University....Read More

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The Three Stooges

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Benicio Del Toro, Paul Giamatti

Synopsis: Peter and Bobby Farrelly finally get around to doing their take on the Three Stooges with this MGM production. From a script they penned with Mike Cerrone (Me, Myself & Irene), the brothers' comedic take on the trio will not be a biopic, rather a sampling of new slapstick adventures set in the Read More

1/1/10
The Lost Son of Havana

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Luis Tiant

Synopsis: Jonathan Hock, who co-directed Through the Fire, which dealt with the auspicious beginning of Sebastian Telfair's NBA career, returns to the sports documentary with The Lost Son of Havana. The movie showsdefector and former major league pitcher Luis Tiant as he returns to Cuba after over 46 years Read More

2009
The Valet

Crew: Director

2008
Unhitched [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Craig Bierko, Rashida Jones, Johnny Sneed, Shaun Majumder

Synopsis: Originally titled The Rules for Starting Over, this Fox sitcom starred Craig Bierko) as 35-year-old financier Jack "Gator" Gately. Having gotten married right out of college, Gator was now divorced, and as such obliged to re-enter the "dating scene" that he'd barely been a part of in his bachelor Read More

2008
The Dialogue: Learning From the Masters - Bobby and Peter Farrelly

Actors: Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly

2008
The Heartbreak Kid

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Ben Stiller, Michelle Monaghan, Jerry Stiller, Malin Akerman, Rob Corddry

Synopsis: When 40-year-old San Francisco bachelor Eddie Cantrow (Ben Stiller) attends the wedding of his ex-fiancée -- and is seated at a "singles table" full of children -- he realizes maybe he's been too picky in his love life, and it's time to settle down. Fortunately, he doesn't have to compromise his Read More

10/5/07
The Ringer

Crew: Executive Producer, Producer

Actors: Johnny Knoxville, Brian Cox, Katherine Heigl, Jed Rees, Bill Chott

Synopsis: A guy trying to do the right thing ends up taking part in one of the most morally dubious con games in history in this comedy. Steve Barker (Johnny Knoxville) is an office drone who wants to move up the corporate ladder, but when he asks his boss for a promotion, it comes with a condition -- Steve Read More

12/23/05
Fever Pitch

Crew: Director

Actors: Drew Barrymore, Jimmy Fallon, Jason Spevack, Jack Kehler, Scott H. Severance

Synopsis: Nick Hornby's acclaimed memoir about one man's struggle to balance his love of a woman and his love for soccer was the basis of a well-reviewed British film in 1997, and now gets a Americanized rewrite with this picture, in which the game is changed from soccer to baseball. Ben (Jimmy Fallon) is a Read More

4/8/05
Stuck on You

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Matt Damon, Greg Kinnear, Eva Mendes, Wen Yann Shih, Pat Crawford Brown

Synopsis: After tackling schizophrenia, obesity, and the inner workings of the vascular system (as represented by an animated Chris Rock), Peter and Bobby Farrelly set their comedic sights on a set of conjoined twins in this broad comedy. Written and directed by the non-twin Farrellys, Stuck on You stars Greg Kinnear Read More

12/12/03
Three Stooges' 75th Anniversary Special

Synopsis: Perhaps the most thorough (and least hokey) of the many TV Three Stooges retrospectives, this NBC special not only concentrates on the most popular members of the comic trio -- Jerry "Curly" Howard, Moe Howard, and Larry Fine -- but also provides generous and laudatory screen time to Curly's Read More

2003
Shallow Hal

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Gwyneth Paltrow, Jack Black, Jason Alexander, Joe Viterelli, Rene Kirby

Synopsis: Jack Black continues his march to stardom with this typical Farrelly brothers blend of broad comedy and a heartfelt message. Black is Hal Larsen, a shallow man rapidly approaching middle age whose superficiality can be attributed to his father's deathbed admonition to only date young, beautiful Read More

11/9/01
Osmosis Jones

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Bill Murray, Molly Shannon, Chris Rock, Laurence Fishburne, David Hyde Pierce

Synopsis: Peter Farrelly and Bobby Farrelly, the impish impresarios of gross-out comedy, take their body function-inspired humor to new extremes in this mixture of live action and animation. Bill Murray stars as Frank, a zoo worker suffering from the effects of an unknown malady he contracted after eating Read More

8/10/01
Say It Isn't So

Crew: Producer

Actors: Chris Klein, Heather Graham, Orlando Jones, Sally Field, Richard Jenkins

Synopsis: Bobby Farrelly and brother Peter Farrelly continue exploring outrageous premises with this comedy directed by their first assistant director J.B. Rogers. In this wacky spin on the boy-meets-girl tale, Gilly Noble (Chris Klein) enters a sexually charged, passionate love affair with girl of his Read More

3/23/01
Me, Myself & Irene

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Jim Carrey, Renée Zellweger, Chris Cooper, Robert Forster, Richard Jenkins, Rob Moran

Synopsis: Six years after Dumb and Dumber, Jim Carrey reunited with Peter Farrelly and Bobby Farrelly for this anarchic comedy with a hint of romance. Charlie (Carrey) is a good-natured Rhode Island state trooper who likes helping people. But years of internalizing his frustrations about his work and his Read More

6/23/00
Say You'll Be Mine

Actors: Nicky Katt, Libby Langdon, Daniel Lapaine, Megan Ward, Justine Bateman

Synopsis: A group of big-city twentysomethings are either looking for love or trying to get love to stick around in the romantic comedy Say You'll Be Mine. Ben (Nicky Katt) is an aspiring writer who for years has had a ferocious crush on his friend Julia (Libby Langdon). But Julia is more interested in his Read More

1999
Outside Providence

Crew: Book Author, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Shawn Hatosy, Jon Abrahams, Tommy Bone, Jonathan Brandis, Jack Ferver, Alec Baldwin

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Peter Farrelly, published in 1988 before he became famous as a writer and director of such films as Dumb and Dumber, Kingpin, and There's Something About Mary, Outside Providence is a coming-of-age story set in the 1970s. Timothy Dunphy (Shawn Hatosy), known as Dunph to his Read More

1999
There's Something About Mary

Crew: Director, Executive Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Ben Stiller, Cameron Diaz, Matt Dillon, Lee Evans, Chris Elliott

Synopsis: The Farrelly Brothers set this romantic comedy in their home state of Rhode Island. In 1985, when teen-nerd Ted Stroehmann (Ben Stiller) challenges a high-schooler who's bullying retarded Warren Jenson (W. Earl Brown), his concern prompts Warren's sister, the dazzling and desirable Mary Jenson (Cameron Diaz Read More

7/15/98
Kingpin

Crew: Director

Actors: Woody Harrelson, Randy Quaid, Vanessa Angel, Bill Murray, Chris Elliott

Synopsis: In the '70s, Roy Munsen (Woody Harrelson) was a bowling phenomenon. He was none too sharp about picking friends, though, and the champion he had to beat, "Big Ern," takes him under his supposedly friendly wing. Big Ern (Bill Murray) shows him the high-living lifestyle, and induces him to go on the Read More

1996
Dumb and Dumber

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Jim Carrey, Jeff Daniels, Lauren Holly, Teri Garr, Karen Duffy

Synopsis: Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels play the title roles (though viewers may find themselves debating which is which) in this genially low-brow comedy. Lloyd Christmas (Jim Carrey) and Harry Dunne (Jeff Daniels) are two intellectually-challenged best friends who share an apartment so messy that gangsters Read More

1994