Peter Samuelson is an American and British TV and film producer and executive producer.

Contents 1 Career 2 Social entrepreneurship 3 Background 4 Projects 4.1 Producer and Executive Producer 4.2 Production Manager 5 References 6 External links

[edit] Career

Peter Samuelson is President of SplashLife, Inc. http://www.splashlife.com a membership organization for Millennials. Previously, Samuelson was 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 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/

[edit] Social entrepreneurship

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

[edit] Background

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 Sydney Samuelson, he has two brothers and lives in Los Angeles with his wife and two children. He fourth of five family generations employed in the film industry.

[edit] Projects

Samuelson has a career in the film industry that started in the early 1970s.^[3]

[edit] Producer and Executive Producer

• Man in the Chair (2006) (Executive Producer)
• The Last Time (2006) (Producer)
• Stormbreaker (2006) (Producer)
  • aka Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker (USA)
• Things To Do Before You're 30 (2006) (Producer)
• Chromophobia (2005) (Executive Producer)
• Need (2005) (Producer)
• The Libertine (2004) (Executive Producer)
• The Pact (2002) (TV) (Executive Producer)
• The Gathering (2002) (Producer)
• Gabriel & Me (2001) (Producer)
• Guest House Paradiso (1999) (Executive Producer)
• Arlington Road (1999) (Producer)
• The Commissioner (1998) (Co-Producer)
  • aka Der Commissioner - Im Zentrum der Macht (Germany)
• This Is The Sea (1997) (Executive Producer)
• Wilde (1997) (Producer)
  • aka Oscar Wilde (Germany)
• Dog's Best Friend (1997) (TV) (Executive Producer)
• Tom & Viv (1994) (Producer)
• Playmaker (1994) (Producer)
  • aka Private Teacher (Philippines)
• Turk 182! (1985) (Executive Producer)
• Revenge of the Nerds (1984) (Producer)
• A Man, a Woman and a Bank (1979) (Producer)

[edit] Production Manager

• Shoot the Sun Down (1981) (Associate Producer & Production Manager)
• High Velocity (1976) (Production Manager)
• The Return of the Pink Panther (1975) (Production Manager & uncredited acting part of the Clothing thief)
• One by One (1975) (Production Manager)
  • aka Quick and the Dead (USA)
• Le Mans (1971) (Assistant Production Manager)

[edit] References

• Peter Samuelson at the Internet Movie Database

[edit] External links

• Peter Samuelson - MIPtalk.com Interview