The actor played Elaine Benes' hilariously eccentric boss, Mr. Peterman, at a fictional version of the real-life company John Russell is a Writer/Reporter at PEOPLE. He joined the PEOPLE team in 2024.

On a series filled with strange characters, no one on Seinfeld was quite like J. Peterman (John O'Hurley). Elaine's (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) boss would speak in long, evocative passages, and it turns out ...

John O’Hurley, who played J. Peterman on the hit show, looks back. — -- John O’Hurley played one of the most memorable secondary characters on the hit series "Seinfeld" and won legions of fans ...

While his loquacious J. Peterman retail-catalog-magnate character on NBC's "Seinfeld" was known for lighthearted but occasionally off-color jokes in the 1990s, actor John O'Hurley told Fox News this ...

John O’Hurley has been in business with the real-life J. Peterman for more than 20 years. “It is the most unusual catalog you'll ever read,” O’Hurley, 70, told host Steve Kmetko on the most recent ...

The actor played Elaine Benes' hilariously eccentric boss, Mr. Peterman, at a fictional version of the real-life company John O’Hurley has been in business with the real-life J. Peterman for more than ...