Peter Samuelson

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Peter Samuelson is an American and British TV and film producer and executive producer.

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[edit] Life

He was born on October 16, 1951 in London, England, and has a Masters Degree in English Literature, Cambridge, England. Son of Sydney Samuelson.He has two brothers(Marc Samuelson and Jonathan Samuelson). He lives in Los Angeles with his wife and two children.

[edit] Achievements

Samuelson is mainly a film and television producer, but has also been a Production Manager, Corporate Executive and starred in The Return of The Pink Panther, as the Clothing Thief.

Peter Samuelson is a pro-social entrepreneur. In 1982, inspired by a little boy battling an inoperable brain tumor, Peter and his cousin actress Emma Samms conceived of the Starlight Children’s Foundation—an international charity dedicated to granting wishes for seriously ill children.

In 1990 Peter brought together leaders including Steven Spielberg and General Norman Schwarzkopf to create the STARBRIGHT Foundation—a charity dedicated to developing media and technology-based programs to educate and empower children to cope with the medical, emotional and social challenges of their illness. In 2004, Starlight and STARBRIGHT completed a formal merger and became the Starlight Starbright Children’s Foundation. Peter Samuelson serves as its International Chairman. He is currently focused on the parallel establishment of collaborative Starlight Affiliates in Amman, Jordan, Tel Aviv, Israel and Ramallah in the Palestinian Territory.

In 1999, Peter founded First Star Inc., a charity headquartered in Washington, D.C. that works to improve the public health, safety, and family life of America’s abused and neglected children.

In 2005, Peter founded EDAR (Everyone Deserves A Roof) Inc. to develop and widely distribute a mobile single-user structure which in the daytime serves as a purpose-built recycling vehicle while at night time transforming into a comfortable tented bed enclosure. The anticipated sponsorship price point is $500 per EDAR.

Peter is a graduate of Cambridge University with a Masters in English Literature and the fourth of five family generations employed in the film industry. After serving as production manager on films such as The Return of the Pink Panther, he emigrated from London to Los Angeles and produced Revenge of the Nerds, Tom & Viv, Wilde, Arlington Road and many other films. Peter also serves on the Advisory Board of Participant Productions.

[edit] Projects

[edit] Producer and Executive Producer

[edit] Production Manager

  • Shoot the Sun Down (1981) (Associate Producer & Production Manager)
  • High Velocity (1976) (Production Manager)
  • The Return of the Pink Panther (1975) (Production Manager & uncredited acting part of the Clothing thief)
  • One by One (1975) (Production Manager)
    • aka Quick and the Dead (USA)
  • Le Mans (1971) (Assistant Production Manager)

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