Peter Matz

Peter Matz

Nacimiento : 1928-11-06, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

Muerte : 2002-08-09

Perfil

Peter Matz

Películas

The 10 Million Dollar Getaway
Music
Jimmy Burke and his friends steal 10 million from the Lufthansa office in New York. The FBI has no idea who the thieves are until Burke girlfriend gives them a hint. When word leaks out a Mafia boss puts a killer on the gang's trail.
The Gumshoe Kid
Music
A young man has to take over the ruined detective agency of his father and his uncle. There are two major difficulties to manage: His uncle and his new job.
When We Were Young
Music
Prospective series pilot about eight 1959 high school graduates in a Northern California town preparing to go off into the world.
Ropa nueva
Conductor
Intentando demostrar la inocencia de su hermano, el agente de policía Nick Dunbar, bajo el pseudónimo de Nick Springsteen, se hace pasar por estudiante y se infiltra en su instituto para averiguar quién mató al profesor Bradwood. En sus múltiples peripecias, deberá descubrir la identidad del asesino, enfrentarse a una pandilla de matones del centro, evitar a las chicas que intentan ligar con él y enamorar a su bella profesora de lengua...
Plaza Suite
Music
Hilarity abounds in this portrait of three couples successively occupying a suite at the Plaza.
As Is
Original Music Composer
Story of a homosexual man who finds out he has AIDS and how people react. Ex-lovers are brought together when the former is stricken with AIDS. Often humorous and never morose, author William Hoffman doesn't pull his punches with either his portrayal of a gay lifestyle or of the emotional toll the disease takes.
Dorado despertar
Music
La señora Delafield (Katherine Hepburn), una viuda acomodada, sobresalta a su familia cuando les anuncia que se ha enamorado de su médico, que es judío. La pareja tendrá que luchar no sólo contra los prejuicios de sus respectivas familias, sino también con los de sus intolerantes vecinos.
Polvo de oro
Music
La bailarina de salón Rosie Velez (Divine), recibe la ayuda del pistolero Abel Wood (Tab Hunter). En la ciudad de Chili Verde, en el salón de Marguerita Ventura (Lainie Kazan), Abel se enfrentará con el fuera de la ley Williams (Geoffrey Lewis) y su pandilla.
Baryshnikov in Hollywood
Music
The famed dancer encounters various characters in a busy day at work on a movie studio lot.
Crazy Times
Music
Follows the exploits of three teenage friends sharing the good times back at Rockaway Beach, Queens, New York during the summer of 1955.
The Killing of Randy Webster
Music
When his teenage son is shot by the Houston police following a stolen van chase, his father undertakes a tireless investigation into the truth and uncovers the fact that the gun found with the boy's body was a "throwdown," a weapon planted by the cops.
Damien: The Leper Priest
Music
A dramatization of the life of the 19th-Century priest who devoted himself to service in Hawaii's leper colony.
Fun and Games
Music
A divorcee decides to fight back after her hopes of gaining a promotion are dashed by her rejection of the advances of her boss, and it is only after he actually attacks her that her company and her union take notice.
White Mama
Music
A poor, elderly white woman living in a tenement in a black ghetto is befriended by a neighborhood boy, and the two of them form a mutually beneficial relationship: he provides her companionship and protection, and she becomes the mother he never had.
Valentine Magic on Love Island
Music
Janis Paige presides over the proceedings at a posh resort, using magical powers to help eight attractive, amiable vacationers discover one another, aided by her nephew and niece in this unsold pilot variation of "Fantasy Island."
The Man in the Santa Claus Suit
Music
The mysterious owner of a costume shop rents a Santa Claus suit to three very different men: a math teacher trying to get the nerve to propose, a homeless restaurateur trying to hide from the mob, and a harried political speech writer visiting with his estranged wife and son. Their lives are inexorably changed by their experience of playing Santa Claus.
Love for Rent
Music
Two small-town sisters go to Hollywood and find themselves seduced by the glamor of the big time and big money as high-priced professional escorts.
The Prize Fighter
Original Music Composer
"Bags" the boxer (funnyman Tim Conway) and his manager, Shake (Don Knotts), are quite a pair: One is a dim bulb, and the other has a mean streak. Times are tough and they must save their gym, so they line up some moneymaking fights. But when Bags and Shake discover that the bouts have been rigged, they end up with their backs to the wall and must fight back -- literally.
The Tenth Month
Music
An unmarried, middle-aged woman accidentally gets pregnant by an internationally renowned pianist and decides to keep and raise the baby on her own.
Can You Hear the Laughter? The Freddie Prinze Story
Music
The true and tragic story of a very young and very talented comedian from the 70's whose sudden rise to fame had some of its benefits -- and some of its burdens.
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Original Music Composer
Based on writer Maya Angelou's eloquent reminiscences of her days as a gifted youngster growing up in the South during the Depression years where she and her older brother were raised by their grandmother after the divorce of their parents.
Dolly and Carol in Nashville
Music Director
Variety special featuring songs and skits with Dolly Parton and Carol Burnett.
First, You Cry
Music
The story of television news correspondent Betty Rollin and her battle with breast cancer, and how her subsequent mastectomy changed her marriage, her philosophy and her entire life.
One in a Million: The Ron LeFlore Story
Original Music Composer
The true story of baseball star Ron LeFlore, from his days as a street-corner punk with no future to his days behind bars on a petty robbery conviction to his ultimate once-in-a-lifetime chance with the Detroit Tigers, where he became an outstanding baseball player.
Happily Ever After
Music
Suzanne Somers appears in her first TV starring role in this romantic comedy about an aspiring singer torn between making the most of her one chance at fame in Las Vegas or giving her heart to a love-struck mountain man.
Murder at the Mardi Gras
Music
A bubble-brained Philadelphia waitress witnesses a murder during the Mardi Gras festivities in New Orleans and finds herself stalked by the killer.
The Two-Five
Music
A police show pilot movie dealing with two eager-beaver cops who try to set up a major narcotics bust anonymously because their eccentric commander wants to keep his precinct out of the limelight.
Special Olympics
Music
A widowed father struggles to hold together his family of three teenagers, one of whom is intellectually challenged and enrolled in a state school for "special" children where he finds fulfillment in his love of sports, emulating his older, athletic brother.
The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank
Original Music Composer
A comedy-drama about a New York couple who decides to dump the hassle of the big city, pack up the kids and move to what they think is the easy life of suburbia.
Telethon
Original Music Composer
The behind-the-scenes intrigues — including, possibly, a murder — of an all-star fundraising telethon set in Las Vegas.
Terraces
Original Music Composer
Story of the various joys and crises of neighbors who share terraces in a high-rise apartment building.
Rosetti and Ryan: Men Who Love Women
Music
A couple of resourceful, free-wheeling criminal attorneys with an eye for the ladies confront a no-nonsense judge while trying to clear an heiress in the slaying of her husband, although her explanation of a mysterious intruder provides them with a rather weak case.
The Great Houdinis
Original Music Composer
Biografía del famoso escapista Harry Houdini, examinando su fascinación por lo oculto y la promesa a su esposa de que iba a ser capaz de comunicarse con ella desde el más allá.
Just an Old Sweet Song
Music
Upon learning that their grandmother is not long for this world, Nate and Priscilla Simmons pack up their kids and leave Detroit to head down South. Eventually, the family rediscovers its African-American roots and elects to stay in their new rural surroundings.
The Dark Side of Innocence
Music
A suburban housewife's feeling that her life is standing still causes her to divorce her husband. This causes tension with her daughter, who bitterly resents her walking out on the family, and her mother, whose own beliefs about marriage and family are jolted by her daughter's divorce.
Burt Bacharach in Shangri-La
Conductor
A musical special promoting the then-upcoming release of the 1973 musical version of "Lost Horizon".
Funny Lady
Music
En el Nueva York de los años treinta (Gran Depresión) la vida está llena de dificultades. La cantante Fanny Brice se acaba de divorciar y no consigue encontrar trabajo. Pero, un día, tiene la suerte de conocer a Billy Rose, un escritor de canciones que posee un nightclub. Continuación de "Funny Girl" (1968) de William Wyler, también con Barbra Streisand.
Funny Girl to Funny Lady
Conductor
A benefit concert for the Special Olympics and an opportunity to promote Streisand's upcoming film (Funny Lady), this special was a combination of Streisand interview with Dick Cavett and Streisand concert. Attended by President Gerald Ford and a star-studded audience, the concert section features a handful of Funny Lady songs and a couple of Barbra standards. Streisand's Funny Lady co-star James Caan also makes an onstage appearance for a duet of Paper Moon / I Like Him and Muhammed Ali presents Barbra with a special award.
Twigs
Original Music Composer
Three middle-aged sisters and their grouchy mother confront issues with men in their lives.
Larry
Music
"Larry" es una historia real sobre un hombre confinado erróneamente en el Hospital Mental del Estado de California en Camarillo durante 26 años, que se descubre que tiene una inteligencia promedio y es liberado, y con la ayuda de la amable orientación de un trabajador social, tiene que aprender a lidiar con el mundo real.
6 RMS RIV VU
Original Music Composer
Two strangers meet when they respond to an ad in The New York Times for a river view apartment. Paul Friedman is a married advertising copywriter; Ann Miller a discontented housewife. They view the apartment, but before they can leave discover that the door has accidentally been locked and they are now trapped inside together. A connection quickly forms between them as they begin sharing things about their lives, and they find themselves attracted to one another.
Acts of Love and Other Comedies
Original Music Composer
A funny anthology featuring various sketches about people having trouble with love and sex.
Once Upon a Mattress
Music Director
The second television adaptation of Once Upon a Mattress was broadcast on December 12, 1972, on CBS. This production, videotaped in color, included original Broadway cast members Burnett, Gilford and White, and also featured Bernadette Peters as Lady Larken, Ken Berry as Prince Dauntless, Ron Husmann as Harry, and Wally Cox as The Jester. It was directed by Ron Field and Dave Powers. Again, several songs were eliminated and characters were combined or altered. Since the parts of the Minstrel and the Wizard were cut from this adaptation, a new prologue was written with Burnett singing "Many Moons Ago" as a bedtime story.
Rivals
Original Music Composer
A boy with an unhealthy and pathological attachment to his mother becomes increasingly jealous of the new man in her life. After his mother remarries, his rage and misery overwhelm him and he plots to kill his stepfather.
Marlowe, detective muy privado
Original Music Composer
Basada en la novela "La hermana pequeña" de Raymond Chandler, creador del personaje de Philip Marlowe; un duro y honesto detective privado, cuya sensatez contrasta con el entorno sórdido y brutal de los bajos fondos de California donde trabaja. Marlowe es contratado por una apocada rubia de Kansas que trata de encontrar a su hermano desaparecido... (FILMAFFINITY)
Bye Bye Braverman
Original Music Composer
One day, Morroe Rieff learns that his friend and fellow writer, Leslie Braverman, has died. After meeting Leslie's widow, Inez, who is more flirtatious than grieving, Morroe joins up with three other writer friends, Barnet, Felix, and Holly to attend funeral services. However, the quartet faces numerous obstacles that could keep them from paying their respects.
Color Me Barbra
Music
Barbra Streisand's second television special, aired in 1966 just after the singer-songwriter had completed a successful Broadway run of hit show 'Funny Girl'. Streisand sings surrounded by animals in a circus dream sequence and wanders the Philadelphia Museum of Art in a moody eight-minute piece. Filmed in spectacular colour, this companion piece to her first special is one for the ages. The vibrant colours become a metaphor for imagination, inventiveness, fantasy, and sheer brilliance.
My Name Is Barbra
Music
Barbra Streisand's first television special, featuring a medley of her hit songs, such as "People," "Happy Days Are Here Again" and "My Man."
Judy and Liza at the Palladium
Orchestrator
This classic show was one of Judy's last appearances at the historic Palladium Theatre in London. This unforgettable night also marked a young Liza Minelli's first public stage performance with her legendary mother. Witness Garland's exquisite talent as she performs the most-loved songs of her career while a budding Liza Minnelli more than holds her own offering a glimpse of the performative talent that would eventually launch a stunning career of her own.