Peter Werner (director)

Peter Werner (born January 17, 1947 in New York City , New York ) is an American film and television director .

Life

Peter Werner was in his early years teacher and documentary filmmaker , and has a degree in both areas. After a year as VISTA -Freiwilliger in downtown Detroit , he was co-founder of the High School of Deerfield in Massachusetts . While teaching in Vermont , he met Frances Flaherty , wife of the great "father of documentaries" Robert J. Flaherty . She became his girlfriend and mentor, and allowed Werner to shoot a documentary portrait of her that was broadcast on PBS . This was the first project where Werner's brother Tom appeared as a producer.

In 1977 his film In the Region of Ice, produced together with Andre R. Guttfreund , was awarded an Oscar in the category “Best Short Film” . Since then he has directed documentaries as well as television films and episodic television series such as Ghost Whisperer - Voices from Beyond , Medium - Nothing Remains Hidden , Criminal Intent - Crime in Sight , College Fever , Wonderful Years and The Model and the Snoop .

Peter Werner is married and has three children. He is a board member of his son's school and the American Film Institute . In addition to teaching, he has also given lectures. Werner has been a practicing Buddhist for thirty years .

Filmography (selection)

As a director

Movies

• 1971: Hidden and Seeking
• 1976: In the Region of Ice (short film)
• 1978: Battered (TV movie)
• 1979: Aunt Mary (TV movie)
• 1980: Arsonist (short film)
• 1981: Prisoners
• 1982: Don't Cry, It's Only Thunder
• 1984: Hard Knox (TV movie)
• 1984: Girl of the Month ( I Married a Centerfold , TV movie)
• 1985: Sins of the Father (TV movie)
• 1987: LBJ: The Early Years (TV movie)
• 1987: No Man's Land - Tatort 911 (No Man's Land)
• 1990: character assassination ( image , TV film)
• 1990: Burning Earth ( Hiroshima: Out of the Ashe , TV movie)
• 1991: Downtown Cop
• 1992: Ned Blessing: The True Story of My Life (TV movie)
• 1993: The 4th Dimension ( Doorways , TV film ')
• 1994: A Woman for My Husband ( The Substitute Wife , TV movie)
• 1995: The Four Diamonds (TV movie)
• 1995: Almost Golden: The Jessica Savitch Story (TV movie)
• 1995: Caught in Love ( The Unspoken Truth , TV movie)
• 1995: Murder on the High Seas ( Inflammable , TV movie)
• 1996: Two Mothers for Zachary ( Movie made for TV)
• 1996: Blue Rodeo (TV movie)
• 1997: Soul Mates (TV movie)
• 1997: Deep Running - Escape for two ( On the Edge of Innocence , TV movie)
• 1997: Visitors from Beyond - They Come by Night ( House of Frankenstein , TV movie)
• 1998: Tempting Fate ( Tempting Fate , TV movie)
• 1998: Mama Flora's Family (TV movie)
• 1999: The Playboy - The Hugh Hefner Story ( Hefner: Unauthorized , TV movie)
• 2000: The '70s (TV movie)
• 2001: Ruby's Bucket of Blood (TV movie)
• 2001: After Amy (TV movie)
• 2001: Just call me Nikolaus ( Call Me Claus , TV movie)
• 2002: We Were the Mulvaneys (TV movie)
• 2002: The Pact (TV movie)
• 2003: Killer Instinct: From the Files of Agent Candice DeLong (TV movie)
• 2004: Gracie's Choice (TV movie)
• 2005: Vinegar Hill (TV movie)
• 2005: Mom at Sixteen (TV movie)
• 2005: Amber Frey - Witness for the Prosecution ( Amber Frey: Witness for the Prosecution , TV movie)
• 2005: Little White Miracles ( Snow Wonder , TV movie)
• 2006: Why I Wore Lipstick to My Mastectomy (TV movie)
• 2007: Girl, Positive (TV movie)
• 2008: The Circuit (TV movie)
• 2008: Tics - My annoying companions ( Front of the Class , TV movie)
• 2009: A Dog Named Christmas (TV movie)
• 2010: Bond of Silence (TV movie)
• 2013: Casey Anthony ( Prosecuting Casey Anthony , TV movie)

TV Shows

• 1977: An American Family ( Family , an episode)
• 1984: Air Force (2 episodes)
• 1985: Hometown (an episode)
• 1985–1986: The Model and the Sniffer ( Moonlighting , 9 episodes)
• 1986: Outlaws (an episode)
• 1987: Inspector Hooperman (an episode)
• 1989: Men (an episode)
• 1990: DEA
• 1990: The Wonder Years ( The Wonder Years , a series)
• 1991–1992: College Fever ( A Different World , 2 episodes)
• 1992: Middle Ages (2 episodes)
• 1996: Nash Bridges (an episode)
• 1998: Ghost Cop (an episode)
• 1999: The Expert (an episode)
• 2001: My Family - Really Embarrassing (Maybe It's Me)
• 2001: Philly (an episode)
• 2001: No Mercy for Dad ( Grounded for Life , an episode)
• 2002: For the People
• 2002: Boomtown (2 episodes)
• 2005–2011: Medium - Nothing remains hidden ( Medium , 17 episodes)
• 2006–2009: Ghost Whisperer - Voices from Beyond ( Ghost Whisperer , 7 episodes)
• 2007: Raines (an episode)
• 2007: Kidnapped - 13 Days of Hope ( Kidnapped , one episode)
• 2008: Criminal Intent ( Law & Order: Criminal Intent , an episode)
• 2008–2009: Army Wives (2 episodes)
• since 2010: Justified (9 episodes)
• 2011: My Superhero Family ( No Ordinary Family , an episode)
• 2011: Hawthorne (an episode)
• 2011: A Gifted Man (2 episodes)
• 2011–2014: Unforgettable (5 episodes)
• since 2012: Grimm (4 episodes)
• 2012–2013: Blue Bloods - Crime Scene New York ( Blue Bloods , 3 episodes)
• 2012–2013: Elementary (2 episodes)
• 2013: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (one episode)
• 2014: The Blacklist (an episode)
• 2014: The Lottery (an episode)

As an executive producer

• 1989: Men (TV series, episode)
• 1993: The 4th Dimension ( Doorways , TV movie)
• 1997: Soul Mates (TV movie)
• 2002: We Were the Mulvaneys (TV movie)
• 2002: The Pact (TV movie)
• 2003: Killer Instinct: From the Files of Agent Candice DeLong (TV movie)
• 2004: Gracie's Choice (TV movie)
• 2005: Vinegar Hill (TV movie)
• 2006: Why I Wore Lipstick to My Mastectomy (TV movie)
• 2008: The Circuit (TV movie)

Awards

Werner was nominated for several Emmy and DGA awards . He won a CableACE Award for his HBO film Character Assassination . In 1977 he won an Oscar in the Best Short Film category for In the Region of Ice .

Web links

• Peter Werner in theInternet Movie Database(English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Peter Werner - Biography , Internet Movie Database (English) , accessed on March 11, 2015.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Peter Werner Awards , Internet Movie Database , Retrieved February 21, 2015.