👤
Peter Davis
b. 1937 (age 89)
Los Angeles, California, USA
Director
Writer
Peter Davis was born on January 2, 1937 in Los Angeles, California. His parents were the screenwriters Frank Davis and Tess Slesinger (who was also a short story writer and novelist). Davis is a producer and director, known for Hearts and Minds (1974), The Selling of the Pentagon (1971) and "JACK" (1993). Davis has also written three nonfiction books: Hometown, Where Is Nicaragua? and If You Came This Way.
Known For
Filmography
🎬
🎞️
★ 9.0
Nelson Mandela: Prisoner to President
1994 Director
🎞️
★ 7.6
Jack: The Last Kennedy Film
1993 Writer
🎞️
★ 6.9
In Darkest Hollywood: Cinema and Apartheid
1993 Cinematographer
🎬
🎞️
Neglect Not the Children
1991 Cinematographer
🎬
🎞️
★ 5.8
Bopha!
1986 Writer
🎬
🎞️
Winnie and Nelson Mandela
1986 Director
🎞️
Rise and Fall of the Borscht Belt
1986 Director
Writer
Cinematographer
🎞️
★ 6.4
Before the Nickelodeon: The Early Cinema of Edwin S. Porter
1982 Actor
War Films
📺
★ 8.6
Middletown
1982 Director
🎬
🎞️
Second Time Around
1982 Director
🎞️
★ 6.5
Haywire
1980 Writer
🎬
🎞️
Generations of Resistance
1980 Director
🎬
🎞️
To the Count of Basie
1979 Cinematographer
🎬
🎞️
The Afrikaner Experience: Politics of Exclusion
1978 Writer
🎬
🎞️
★ 7.4
South Africa: The White Laager
1977 Director
Writer
🎞️
★ 7.9
This Bloody, Blundering Business
1975 Writer
Cinematographer
🎞️
★ 8.2
Hearts and Minds
1974 Director
🎞️
★ 8.1
The Selling of the Pentagon
1971 Director
Writer
🎬
🎞️
The Conspiracy and the Dybbuk
1971 Cinematographer
🎬
📺
Of Black America
1968 Writer
🎬
🎞️
Anatomy of Violence
1967 Director
🎞️
★ 5.6
Strip
1966 Director
🎞️
★ 5.5
Pub
1966 Director
Cinematographer
🎬
🎞️
★ 8.3
It's What's Happening, Baby!
1965 Writer
📺
★ 6.7
CBS Reports
1959 Writer