​University of Buffalo graduate, former Bella Abzug campaign worker, and onetime schoolteacher Peter Riegert finessed an early flair for comedy into appearing with an improv troupe called the War Babies.

 

This led to Riegert's Broadway bow in 1975, then to his being hired by the National Lampoon people for several projects, the first of which was Animal House (1978), in which the actor portrayed Donald "Boon" Schoenstein.

 

He went on to play such roles as the feckless corporate-flunky good guy in Local Hero (1983) and the unhitched pickle vendor Amy Irving would never marry in a million years but does anyway in Crossing Delancey (1989). Other roles include Oscar (1991) opposite Sylvester Stallone and The Mask (1994), opposite Jim Carrey. Riegert has also had notable television roles on The Good Wife and The Sopranos. He recently stared in FOX's TV comedy, Dads, produced by Seth MacFarlane.