Peter Markle

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Peter Markle (born September 24, 1946 in Danville , Pennsylvania ) is an American director , screenwriter and producer .

In addition to some feature films that were made especially at the beginning of his career, Markle is best known as a director of television films. In 2006 he was nominated for an Emmy for this. He has also directed a number of television series episodes.

Life

Before starting his film career, Peter Markle played for three years in the US national hockey team , which was unsuccessful internationally. He began his film career with television commercials and documentaries until he made his film debut in 1982 with the romantic comedy The Personals . The critically acclaimed film, for which he also wrote the screenplay, premiered at the American Film Festival and won a film award at the Houston International Film Festival . In 1984, the comedy Hot Dog - The guy with hot skis appeared as the second film , which is set in the world of skiing and has now enjoyed cult status. His experience as a hockey player inspired him in 1986 to write the dramatic sports film Bodycheck , in which Rob Lowe , Patrick Swayze and Keanu Reeves played, and he wrote the script together with John Whitman . With Desperate 1987, his first TV movie was released. For the war film BAT-21 - Mitten im Feuer , released in 1988, the shooting took place in Borneo . Gene Hackman plays the role of Lt. Colonel who ends up behind enemy lines during the Vietnam War and is then chased by the Viet Cong. The film is based on a book by William Charles Anderson in which an actual historical event is processed.

In the following years he made several television films, most of which were action films . For Operation Nightbreaker (1989), the screenwriter TS Cook received the 1990 WGA Award . This was followed by the television films Breaking Point (1989), El Diablo - Who Dances with the Devil (1990), The Revenge of the Mafia (1991) and With the Eyes of a Murderer (1992), as well as directing work for one episode each of the television series Johnny Bago and Homicide (1993) before the 1994 western parody Wagons East! his next movie came out. Lead actor John Candy died of a heart attack while filming, so Markle had to rely on using the footage that had been shot up until then. The film was dedicated to Candy In Memoriam but was both panned by critics and a box office flop. In 1995 he made the television films Rusta - Planet of Tears and Jake Lassiter: Justice on the Bayou . The following year, the gangster comedy Frankie the Fly appeared with Dennis Hopper in the lead role, which was also unsuccessful.

Between 1996 and 2002, with the exception of the 1998 film Silent Invasion, he worked exclusively as a director for various television series, including several episodes for Millennium - Fear Your Neighbor As Yourself , The X-Files - The Scary Cases of the FBI , New York Cops - NYPD Blue and CSI: On the trail of the perpetrators and individual episodes for The Magnificent Seven , Emergency Room - The Emergency Room or The District - Mission in Washington . Even after turning back to films in 1992, he remained active as a director of series episodes. Until 2009 he directed Without a Trace several times , The Agency - In the crosshairs of the CIA , Jack & Bobby and Life, and shot individual episodes for series such as CSI: Miami , Las Vegas , Numb3rs - The logic of crime , Medium - Nothing is hidden , Three Rivers Medical Center , Burn Notice or Rescue Me .

His last feature film, Virginia's Run , was released in 2002. The family drama, also written and produced by Markle, is about a youngster who has to come to terms with the death of her mother and received the Crystal Heart Award at the Heartland Film Festival for its hope-conveying statement . A few months after the media-effective liberation of the US soldier Jessica Lynch , who died in the third Gulf War, his next film, Saving Jessica Lynch, was broadcast in 2003 , which is not a mere reproduction of the liberation story spread by the US military, but nevertheless became part of the legend. The title was chosen based on the title of the war film Saving Private Ryan . In 2005 the five-time Emmy-nominated film Faith of My Fathers , the film adaptation of the autobiographical bestseller of the same name by Senator John McCain, was released . For the film Flight 93, which was released the following year on September 11, Markle was nominated for an Emmy in the category directing for a miniseries, a television film or a special . The film traces the events of United Airlines Flight 93 without lapsing into ostentatious patriotism. In 2008, the thriller The Tenth Circle, based on the novel of the same name by Jodi Picoult , in which the breaking up of a family is portrayed after a rape allegation, with Nora Roberts was released. In 2009, a film adaptation of the Nora Roberts novel High Noon was released . In Carnal Innocence from 2011, he lets a cellist meet a serial killer; his last film is the crime film Days of Innocence from the same year.

Markle has been married to actress Melinda Culea since 1996 .

Filmography

Director

Movies
  • 1982: The Personals
  • 1984: Hot Dog - The guy with the hot ski
  • 1986: Bodycheck
  • 1987: Desperate ( TV movie )
  • 1988: BAT-21 - In the middle of the fire
  • 1989: Operation Nightbreaker ( TV movie )
  • 1989: Breaking Point ( TV movie )
  • 1990: El Diablo - Dances with the Devil ( TV movie )
  • 1991: Revenge of the Mafia ( TV movie )
  • 1992: Through the Eyes of a Murderer ( TV movie )
  • 1994: Wagons East!
  • 1995: Rusta - Planet of Tears ( TV movie )
  • 1995: Jake Lassiter: Justice on the Bayou ( TV movie )
  • 1996: Frankie the Fly
  • 1998: Silent Invasion ( TV movie )
  • 2002: Virginia's Run
  • 2003: Saving Jessica Lynch ( TV movie )
  • 2005: Faith of My Fathers ( TV movie )
  • 2006: Flight 93 - flight to death on September 11th ( TV movie )
  • 2008: The Tenth Circle ( TV movie )
  • 2009: Nora Roberts - In the Light of Forgetting ( TV movie )
  • 2011: Carnal Innocence ( TV movie )
  • 2011: Days of Innocence ( TV movie )
TV series

script

  • 1982: The Personals
  • 1986: Bodycheck
  • 2002: Virginia's Run
  • 2005: Faith of My Fathers

production

  • 1982: The Personals
  • 1986: Bodycheck
  • 1996: Frankie the Fly
  • 2002: Virginia's Run (co-production)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Horst Tonn: War correspondents: Deutungsinstanzen in der Mediengesellschaft . VS Verlag, 2007. ISBN 3-531-15091-X . P. 166. ( Preview in Google Book Search)
personal data
SURNAME Markle, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American director, screenwriter and producer
DATE OF BIRTH September 24, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Danville , Pennsylvania