Peter McRobbie

Peter McRobbie was born on January 31, 1943 in Hawick, Borders, Scotland. 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 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.

He played the father to both Jake Gyllenhaal and his sister, Maggie Gyllenhaal, in the films, "Brokeback Mountain" and "World Trade Center", respectively.

He has appeared in eight films directed by Woody Allen: Zelig (1983), The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985), Shadows and Fog (1991), Bullets Over Broadway (1994), Mighty Aphrodite (1995), Deconstructing Harry (1997), Celebrity (1998) and Small Time Crooks (2000).

He is best known for his role in Bridge of Spies (2015), The Visit (2015) and Lincoln (2012).