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Peter Riegert
Peter Riegert, American actor born 1947 in the Bronx, known for Animal House, Local Hero, and Crossing Delancey; Emmy-nominated for Barbarians at the Gate and Oscar-nominated for directing the short By Courier.
Peter Robbins (actor)
Peter Robbins (born Louis Nanasi, 1956, Los Angeles; died January 2022) was an American child actor, the original voice of Charlie Brown in Peanuts specials including A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965) and It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (1966).
Peter Safran
Peter Safran (born 1965) is a British-American producer, founder of The Safran Company (2006), and Co-Chairman and Co-CEO of DC Studios with James Gunn, behind The Conjuring, Aquaman, and Superman.
Peter Sallis
Peter Sallis (1921–2017), English actor and RADA graduate, played Norman Clegg in all 295 episodes of Last of the Summer Wine (1973–2010) and voiced Wallace in every Wallace & Gromit film released in his lifetime; OBE 2007, Annie Award winner.
Peter Salmon (producer)
Peter Salmon (born 1956, Burnley) is a British TV producer and executive: BBC One controller 1997–2000, BBC Sport director, first Director BBC North at Salford, and Endemol Shine chief creative officer from 2016.
Peter Sarsgaard
Peter Sarsgaard (John Peter Sarsgaard, born 1971, Illinois) is an American actor of Boys Don't Cry, Shattered Glass, Kinsey, The Lost Daughter, and Memory. Distinguished by a 2023 Venice Volpi Cup, two Emmy nominations (Dopesick, Presumed Innocent), and marriage to Maggie Gyllenhaal.
Peter Scanavino
Peter Scanavino (born 1980, Denver) is an American actor best known as Dominick "Sonny" Carisi Jr. on Law & Order: SVU since 2014, ADA since 2019; Broadway debut in Shining City (2006), French Culinary Institute graduate.
Peter Scolari
Peter Thomas Scolari (1955–2021) was an American character actor known for Tom Hanks' roommate on Bosom Buddies and Michael Harris on Newhart, winning an Emmy for Girls.
Peter Segal
Peter Segal, born 1962 in New York City, is an American comedy director of Naked Gun 33⅓, Tommy Boy, 50 First Dates, and Get Smart, whose films grossed over $1 billion worldwide despite mixed critical reception.
Peter Sellers
Peter Sellers (Richard Henry Sellers, 1925-1980), British comic actor of The Goon Show, Inspector Clouseau in the Pink Panther films, Dr. Strangelove, and Being There; Oscar-nominated, never won.
Peter Serafinowicz
Peter Serafinowicz (born 1972) is an English actor and comedian, voice of Darth Maul in The Phantom Menace, co-creator of Look Around You, star of The Peter Serafinowicz Show, Pete in Shaun of the Dead, The Tick, and host of Netflix's Million Dollar Secret.
Peter Sohn
Peter Sohn (born 1977, Bronx) is a Korean American Pixar animator, voice actor, and director of The Good Dinosaur (2015) and Elemental (2023), now Vice President, Creative, and director of Incredibles 3.
Peter Stickles
Peter Stickles (born 1976, New York City) is an American actor and producer known for Shortbus (2006), Showgirls 2: Penny's from Heaven, Cemetery Gates, and many indie horror films; married to Michael Carbonaro since 2014.
Peter Stormare
Peter Stormare (Rolf Peter Ingvar Storm, born 1953) is a Swedish actor and director, a Royal Dramatic Theatre star known for Fargo, The Big Lebowski, Constantine, and Prison Break.
Peter Strauss
Peter Strauss (born 1947) is the American actor, not the Columbia law professor Peter L. Strauss, Emmy winner for The Jericho Mile and star of Rich Man, Poor Man, Masada, and Kane & Abel.
Peter Tomarken
Peter David Tomarken (1942–2006), American game show host and actor, original host of CBS's Press Your Luck (1983–1986), earlier Hit Man, later Wipeout and Paranoia; died in a 2006 plane crash flying an Angel Flight West medical mission.
Peter Ustinov
Sir Peter Ustinov (Peter Alexander Freiherr von Ustinov, 1921–2004) was a British actor, playwright, director, and raconteur of Russian, German, French, and Ethiopian descent; won Best Supporting Actor Oscars for Spartacus and Topkapi, three Emmys, a Grammy, and served 36 years as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador.
Peter Vack
Peter Vack (Peter Brown, born 1986) is an American actor, writer, director, and producer from New York, known for Mozart in the Jungle, I Just Want My Pants Back, and directing Assholes and www.RachelOrmont.com.
Peter Vaughan
Peter Vaughan (Peter Ewart Ohm, 1923-2016), English character actor of Porridge's Harry Grout, Our Friends in the North's Felix Hutchinson, and Maester Aemon in Game of Thrones; 222 screen credits over seven decades.
Peter Venkman
Peter Venkman is the fictional parapsychologist played by Bill Murray in Ghostbusters (1984) and Ghostbusters II (1989); written for John Belushi, he is the team's skeptic, voiced by Lorenzo Music in The Real Ghostbusters, and reprised in Afterlife and Frozen Empire.
Peter von Kant
Peter von Kant is a 2022 French drama directed by François Ozon, starring Denis Ménochet and Isabelle Adjani, adapted from Fassbinder's The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant.
Peter Watkins
Peter Watkins (1935–2025) was a British docudrama pioneer and director of Culloden and The War Game, the banned BBC nuclear-war film that won a best documentary Oscar; also made Resan and La Commune.
Peter Weber (television personality)
Peter Weber, "Pilot Pete" (born 1991), American airline pilot and TV personality; Bachelorette season 15 finalist, Bachelor season 24 lead (2020), later The Traitors and Destination X runner-up.
Peter Weir
Peter Weir, born 1944 in Sydney, is an Australian film director of the Australian New Wave who moved to Hollywood, directing Witness, Dead Poets Society, The Truman Show, Master and Commander, and his final film The Way Back (2010).
Peter Weller
Peter Weller (born 1947, Stevens Point, Wisconsin) is an American actor, director, and Renaissance art historian, known for RoboCop (1987), Buckaroo Banzai, and Naked Lunch, and for a UCLA PhD in Italian Renaissance art history.
Peter Woodthorpe
Peter Woodthorpe (1931–2004), English character actor; Estragon in the 1955 British premiere of Beckett's Waiting for Godot; voiced Gollum in the 1978 animated Lord of the Rings film and the 1981 BBC Radio 4 adaptation.
Peter Wyngarde
Peter Wyngarde (Cyril Louis Goldbert, died 15 January 2018) was a British actor famous as Jason King in Department S (1969-70) and Jason King (1971-72); also Klytus in Flash Gordon; birth date disputed.
Peterloo
Peterloo: massacre of 16 August 1819, when cavalry charged about 60,000 pro-democracy protesters led by Henry Hunt at St Peter's Field, Manchester, killing 15-18 and inspiring the Manchester Guardian.
Petra Mede
Petra Mede (Petra Maria Mede), Swedish comedian and TV presenter born 1970 or 1971 in Stockholm; hosted Eurovision Song Contest 2013, 2016, and 2024, more broadcasts than any host, plus Melodifestivalen and TV4 shows.
Petra Němcová
Petra Němcová (born 1979, Karviná) is a Czech model, TV presenter, and philanthropist, Sports Illustrated 2003 face of the year and 2004 tsunami survivor who founded the Happy Hearts Fund and hosted TLC's A Model Life.