Peter Samuelson is an American and British TV and film producer and executive producer.
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Peter Samuelson is President of Film Associates, Inc. http://www.samuelson.la a media consultancy and production company. Samuelson is mainly a film and television producer, but has also been a production manager, senior corporate executive and starred in The Return of the Pink Panther as the Clothing Thief. He was previously President of Splashlife, Inc. and Chairman of the Executive Committee of Panavision, Inc. 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 served on the initial three person Advisory Board of Jeff Skoll's Participant Productions. http://web.archive.org/web/20071009223659/www.participantproductions.com/company/Advisory+Board/
Samuelson is a 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 http://www.starlight.org, building it into 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 http://www.starbright.org —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. On June 5. 1995, Peter Samuelson, General Norman Schwarzkopf and Steven Spielberg launched the world’s first, and longest continuously running, fully interactive social network, Starbright World, delivering video, sound, text and avatar - based communication to hospitalized children. http://web.archive.org/web/19980530092329/www.starbright.org/press/virtualplayground.htmlIn 2004, Starlight and STARBRIGHT completed a formal merger and became the Starlight Starbright Children's Foundation. Samuelson currently serves as the international chairman of the organization.[1]
In 1999, he founded First Star Inc. http://www.firststar.org , 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 Samuelson founded EDAR (Everyone Deserves A Roof) Inc. http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-edar10-2008dec10,0,4500137,full.story 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 sponsorship price point is $500 per EDAR. http://www.EDAR.org
He was born on October 16, 1951 in London, England, and has a Masters Degree in English Literature from the University of Cambridge.[2] The son of Sir Sydney Samuelson, he has two brothers and lives in Los Angeles with his wife and two children. He is fourth of five family generations employed in the film industry.
Samuelson has a career in the film industry that started in the early 1970s.[3]