Barbara Peeters facts for kids
Barbara Peeters, also known as Barbara Peters, is an American film director and screenwriter. She has directed many movies and episodes for television shows, including Remington Steele.
Her Journey in Film
Barbara Peeters started her career in the film industry by working in different roles. She did makeup, helped manage the production of films, and was a script supervisor, making sure everything in the script was followed during filming.
She got her first chance to direct a film with Just the Two of Us (which was first called The Dark Side of Tomorrow). After that, she wrote and directed a biker film called Bury Me an Angel in 1971.
In the 1970s, Barbara was one of only two female directors working for a company called New World Pictures. She worked in many different jobs for them, even helping direct second-unit scenes, which are often action shots or background footage.
Barbara once shared how dedicated she was to filmmaking:
We lived like gypsies, sleeping in the hallways when we couldn’t pay rent, sharing a car among five people. I thought I had the best life in the world. I was making movies. What were the other girls I’d graduated high school doing back in Iowa? They were marrying the boy who had the biggest farm.
She also believed strongly in making her own decisions when directing. In 1978, she said:
I don't like to be dictated to once I start shooting. If you tell me I have to shoot eight pages in a day and its 6 pm, let me alone. Don't talk to me at midnight until I am done. If I'm going to take the blame, then I want to make the decisions. If I fail, I won't die. I consider real power the point when you're not afraid to fail... I don't know any director who wants to spend his whole life making low-budget exploitation movies, just as nobody wants to spend their whole life in kindergarten. You look forward to graduating to high school.
Barbara Peeters later started a company called Big Movie Company with Terry Schwartz. Their goal was to create movies for female stars. However, Barbara became ill in 1979 and took some time away from the film industry.
She returned to directing in 1980 with the film Humanoids from the Deep. This movie was later changed by producer Roger Corman in ways Barbara did not agree with. Because of these changes, she asked for her name to be removed from the film, but it was not. After this experience, she decided to stop working for New World Pictures and spent the next ten years directing television shows.
In the 1990s, she started her own company called Silver Foxx Films. In 2008, she moved to Oregon. There, she focused mainly on making commercials and developing documentaries.
Selected Works
Here are some of the films and TV shows Barbara Peeters worked on:
- The Fabulous ... from Chicago (1969) – costume designer
- The Gun Runner (1969) – actor
- Angels Die Hard (1970) – script supervisor
- Caged Desires (1970) – writer, star
- The Dark Side of Tomorrow (1970) – writer, director
- Bury Me an Angel (1972) – writer, director
- Night Call Nurses (1972) – production manager
- The Young Nurses (1973) – art director
- The Student Teachers (1973) – 2nd unit director
- Soul Train (1973–74) (TV series) – production assistant
- Summer School Teachers (1974) – director, writer
- Candy Stripe Nurses (1975) -2nd unit director
- Moving Violation (1976) – 2nd unit director, stunt co-ordinator
- Eat My Dust! (1976) – 2nd unit director
- Starhops (1978) – director, writer
- Humanoids from the Deep (1980) – director
- The Powers of Matthew Star (1982) (TV series) – director
- Matt Houston (1982) (TV series) – director
- Renegades (1983) (TV series) – director
- Remington Steele (1984) (TV series) – director
- Falcon Crest (1984–85) (TV series) – director
- Shadow Chasers (1985) (TV series) – director
