Barbara Peeters facts for kids
Barbara Peeters, also known as Barbara Peters, is an American director and screenwriter of television and film. She is best known for her collaborations with producer-director Roger Corman on films such as Humanoids from the Deep, and directing episodes of television shows such as Remington Steele.
Career
Peeters broke into the film industry working in makeup, as a script supervisor, and as a production manager.
She wrote and directed the 1971 biker Bury Me an Angel. She was one of two female directors working for New World Pictures in the 1970s, the other being Stephanie Rothman. Film writer Gary Morris argued, "her New World work is arguably more subversive than Rothman's." She worked in a variety of capacities for that company, also production managing and second -unit directing.
Peeters formed Big Movie Company with Terry Schwartz, intending to develop projects for female stars. However, Peeters fell ill in 1979 and spent some time out of the industry.
She returned to directing with the 1980 film Humanoids from the Deep, which was taken out of her hands and greatly changed by Roger Corman. Peeters asked for her name to be taken off the film, but this was not done. After this experience, she stopped working for New World and directed TV for the next decade.
In the 1990s, she established her own company, Silver Foxx Films. In 2008, she moved to Oregon and concentrated primarily on making commercials and developing documentaries.
Selected filmography
- 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
