Peer J. Oppenheimer

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Peer Jochen Dagobert Oppenheimer (born May 15, 1920 in Berlin ) is a German-American film producer and screenwriter .

Life

Very little is known about Oppenheimer's early life, presumably his Jewish family emigrated to the USA under Adolf Hitler . He himself was drafted into the US Army during World War II . Back in civilian life, Oppenheimer studied at Georgetown University and UCLA . In 1954 he became the West Coast editor of the American publication Family Weekly.

At the beginning of the 1960s, Peer Oppenheimer switched to the film industry. In 1960 he founded his first own production company, O&O Productions, and was its president until 1964. In that year Oppenheimer founded another company, HeiRaMatt Productions. In 1965/66 Artur Brauner hired him as production manager for his CCC-Film . In 1973 Oppenheimer was president of the London- based elite Syncopation Ltd. in front. Two years later he took part in the founding of PRO-International Films, of which he also became vice-president.

Oppenheimer's eclectic oeuvre consists mainly of B-productions. Since the mid-1970s, he has been producing more regularly and occasionally writing screenplays. He was just one of several producers in a number of his early films, the only time he directed the terrorism thriller Terror in Paradise in the mid-1990s .

Peer J. Oppenheimer has also given guest lectures at UCLA and is a member of the Writers Guild of America .

Filmography

as a film producer, unless otherwise stated

  • 1960: Here's Hollywood (TV series)
  • 1965: Operation CIA (also script collaboration)
  • 1968: Lady Hamilton - Between shame and love
  • 1974: Sex Play (also scriptwriting)
  • 1976: Nashville Girl (also screenplay)
  • 1977: Foes
  • 1982: The case of Sylvester Matuska (also script collaboration)
  • 1984: The Secret Diary of Sigmund Freud
  • 1985: Key Exchange
  • 1991: Colette (Becoming Colette)
  • 1993: hot asphalt (boulevard)
  • 1994: Terror in Paradise (also director)
  • 1998: Legacy - Fatal mission in Manila (Legacy)
  • 2002: Blue Car - Poetry of Summer (also role)
  • 2003: Dry Cycle
  • 2005: Don't Tell
  • 2006: Eye of the Dolphin
  • 2007: Departure into a new life (Rails & Ties)
  • 2009: Lost Dream
  • 2013: Whatever Happened to Norma Jeane? (Documentary)

literature

  • International Television Almanac , 30th edition, edited by Richard Gertner. Quigley Publishing Co. Inc., New York / London 1985, p. 201

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Date of birth according to the film archive Kay Less
personal data
SURNAME Oppenheimer, Peer J.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Oppenheimer, Peer Jochen Dagobert (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American film producer and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH May 15, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin , Germany