Peter Dobson portrays Danny Arno, the head of the Arno family, in the USA Network original series COVER ME: BASED ON THE TRUE LIFE OF AN FBI FAMILY.

Dobson was in the HBO film Lansky opposite Richard Dreyfuss, as well as in a recurring role on the popular FOX drama Party of Five. He has previously starred in numerous television movies, including Behind Every Good Man, Killer Rules, For I Have Sinned, and So Proudly We Hail. 

Dobson was also seen in Drowning Mona, a comic "whodunit" about the investigation of the not-so-accidental death of a small-town Grande Dame (played by Bette Midler). Dobson played a police officer named "Feege" alongside co-stars Danny DeVito, Jamie Lee Curtis, Neve Campbell, Casey Affleck, and Will Farrell. Dobson can also be seen in Zigs, starring opposite Jason Priestly and Alicia Coppola; Child Bride, an Elvis biography in which he portrays the King; and in Forrest Gump, in which he again portrays Elvis. Dobson also wrote, produced and starred with Luca Palanca in Choose Life, a short film which was screened at the 1999 Sundance Film Festival. Choose Life is the story of two LA gangsters who are transported into a "Wham!" video circa 1980. 

A native of Red Bank, New Jersey, Dobson basement before departing for New York and the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and eventually studying at the Lee Strasberg Institute. After a slew of film roles, Dobson landed the lead in Last Exit to Brooklyn, a gritty and controversial film about union corruption and homosexuality in 1940's New York. Additional film appearances include Sing, The Marrying Man (opposite Kim Basinger and Alec Baldwin), The Big Squeeze, The Frighteners, Norma Jean, Riot, and Table for One. 

On stage, Dobson has performed in Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie, as well as in productions of Merry Wives of Windsor, The Mad Woman of Challot and Dark of the Moon. In his free time, Dobson enjoys deep-sea fishing. He currently resides in Los Angeles with his cat, "Meow Meow."

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