Peter Vincent Douglas was born on November 23,1955 and is an American television and film producer.
19 Facts About Peter Douglas
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Peter Douglas is the third son of actor Kirk Douglas, and the first by his second wife, German-American producer Anne Buydens.
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Peter Douglas had been nominated for the same award two years prior for his production of Amos, which starred his father.
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Peter Douglas was born in Los Angeles, California, on November 23,1955.
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In 1958, a young Peter Douglas was seen on the television program This Is Your Life, which was honoring the life and career of his father.
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Peter Douglas went to high school at a military academy in Southern California.
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In June 1972, aged 17, Peter Douglas was hired by his father as the still photographer when The Bryna Company produced Scalawag on location in Yugoslavia.
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Peter Douglas's father produced, directed, and starred in the film, while his mother, Anne, was co-producer; his younger brother, Eric, was the producer's assistant, and their family dog, Shaft, had a part in the film.
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Peter Douglas again served as still photographer when his family traveled from Yugoslavia to England for The Bryna Company's television musical film Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.
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Peter Douglas attended the University of California at Santa Barbara for a year and a half but ultimately dropped out to focus on photography and motion picture work.
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In November 1973, Peter Douglas photographed his brother Michael and his at-the-time girlfriend Brenda Vaccaro in their Benedict Canyon home for publication in several leading magazines.
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In March 1974, Peter Douglas formed his own photographic service company and photography studio, Bryna International, and was represented by talent agent Phyllis Carlyle through her agency A-Plus.
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In June 1974, Peter Douglas photographed Frank Sinatra cooking a special Italian dinner for his parents' anniversary and the pictures were used in several publications.
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Peter Douglas then began working on the development of Ray Bradbury's Something Wicked This Way Comes, which would take nine years to complete and was eventually filmed as a coproduction between The Bryna Company and Walt Disney Productions.
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Peter Douglas worked as a producer's assistant at Columbia Pictures during the mid-to-late 1970s.
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Peter Douglas produced the suspense-comedy hit Fletch, as well as its sequel Fletch Lives, both starring Chevy Chase.
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Peter Douglas wrote, directed, and produced the independent film A Tiger's Tale, starring Ann-Margret.
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Peter Douglas was the executive producer of the HBO Drama thriller The Enemy Within, starring Forest Whitaker and Jason Robards, and was executive producer of the 2009 motion picture Whip It starring Drew Barrymore and Elliot Page.
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In 2012, Vincent Pictures announced that Peter Douglas was working on a remake of the 1966 film Grand Prix, which his father executive produced through Douglas and Lewis Productions.