Peter Werner

Рождение : 1947-01-17, New York City, New York, USA

История

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Peter Werner (born January 17, 1947 in New York City, New York) is an American television and film director. In 1977, Werner won the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film for directing the short film In the Region of Ice.[1]Since then he worked on primarily directing television amassing a number of television film credits namely Mama Flora's Family, Two Mothers for Zachary, Call Me Claus, Gracie's Choice, Mom at Sixteen and among other films. His television series credits include Ghost Whisperer, Medium, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, A Different World, The Wonder Years, Moonlighting and other series. He is the older brother of television producer Tom Werner. He is the father of Lillie, Katharine and James Werner. Description above from the Wikipedia article Peter Werner, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Фильмы

Судебное обвинение Кейси Энтони
Director
Прокурор Джефф Эштон перед выходом на пенсию берется за дело некоей Кейси Энтони, матери, обвиняемой в убийстве своей дочери Кейли. Он считает, что у него есть все, что нужно, чтобы уличить Кейси в преступлении. Несмотря на это, адвокат женщины, Хосе Баэз, полагает, что у него есть возможность сделать так, что жюри присяжных оправдает ее.
Bond of Silence
Director
A widow's forgiveness. A killer's remorse. Bond of Silence is the true life story of a shocking murder and the amazing bond that came from it. Katy and Bob live a perfect life in a small close knit town. He's a respected lawyer, a renowned tri-athlete. She just had twins. It is New Year's Eve. Teens converge on the house next door. Always the good neighbor, Bob goes to shut it down. A confrontation occurs. Then he's dead. No teen comes forward. The media pours in. Headlines scream. Katy hunts for answers. But no one talks. A bond of silence covers the town. The police do an undercover sting and someone's caught. Ryan, a popular kid, tries to be cool, but the burden of what he did that night is unbelievable. Ryan and his attorney want to plead not guilty, but then Katy and Ryan meet. Where Katy should be a grieving wife, she becomes a supportive mother. Rather than berating, she listens. Rather than accusing..
A Dog Named Christmas
Director
A developmentally challenged young man with a penchant for caring for animals in need sets out to convince his family - and their whole rural community - to participate in a local shelter's inaugural "Adopt a Dog for Christmas Program."
The Circuit
Director
Al Shines, former king of the US race car track circuit, has a hard time starting his own team, once he's fired by his sponsor Robin Cates. Robin hired Al's immature daughter Kylie Shines instead. She resents Al's inevitable 'absence' as a widowed father, as well as the reigning champion, equally young but professionally vetted Kid Walker. Kylie tries to prove herself against Kid while having an on-off affair with him. Cates's marketing strategy dictates his intentions to manipulate Walker and both Shines racers.
Перед классом
Director
С шести лет Брэд страдает синдромом Туретта. Его симптомы — частые моторные и вокальные тики, которые невозможно подавить. Тем не менее, Брэд бросает вызов всем барьерам и неприятностям, и даже двадцать четыре отказа подряд не останавливают его на пути к своей мечте — стать учителем.
Girl, Positive
Director
A popular high school girl finds out that a boy she slept with is HIV positive.
Why I Wore Lipstick to My Mastectomy
Director
Shortly after graduating from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, Geralyn Lucas lands her dream job working for 20/20. Lucas is then diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 27 and has a dilemma - whether to have a lumpectomy or the potentially safer mastectomy.
Снежное чудо
Director
В канун Рождества в США стоит необычайно теплая погода. Все мечтают о снеге, и вдруг он действительно начинает идти, засыпав даже самые жаркие штаты. Неожиданный снегопад ломает планы людей на праздник: вылет самолетов откладывается, автомобили застревают в пробках. Но для кого-то он меняет жизнь в лучшую сторону...
Witness for the Prosecution
Director
A single blind date suffices for handsome gentleman Scott Peterson, a traveling salesman, to seduce Amber Frey all the way. When a colleague finds out about his marriage, she believes him to be a widower. Later however it becomes clear his wife was alive and pregnant, but is missing. Pregnant herself, Amber hears his wife and baby's corpses were found and records his phone calls for the police. Ultimately she's the key witness is his murder trial.
Vinegar Hill
Co-Executive Producer
Family secrets surface when a married couple returns to the husband’s hometown, where his overbearing family interferes with their imagined new start.
Vinegar Hill
Director
Family secrets surface when a married couple returns to the husband’s hometown, where his overbearing family interferes with their imagined new start.
Шестнадцатилетняя мать
Co-Executive Producer
Мать перевозит Джесси и её младшую сестру в новый город и устраивает в новую школу. Там нелюдимая шестнадцатилетняя Джесси Джеффрис вынуждена хранить самую важную тайну своей жизни о том, что её младший брат, Чарли, на самом деле — её сын. Когда же Джесси идет против воли матери и открывает правду, ей приходится самой нести за всё ответственность.
Шестнадцатилетняя мать
Director
Мать перевозит Джесси и её младшую сестру в новый город и устраивает в новую школу. Там нелюдимая шестнадцатилетняя Джесси Джеффрис вынуждена хранить самую важную тайну своей жизни о том, что её младший брат, Чарли, на самом деле — её сын. Когда же Джесси идет против воли матери и открывает правду, ей приходится самой нести за всё ответственность.
Grave Matters
Dead Man
Fed up with the constant abuse she suffers at the hands of the men in her life, Christine (Kate Vernon) is driven to desperate measures and begins killing each of her tormentors, burying them all together in a shallow makeshift grave. But just as Christine starts to believe that she'll get away with her vigilantism, the ghosts of her victims emerge to torment her on an entirely different level.
Gracie's Choice
Co-Executive Producer
For as long as she can remember, 16 year-old Gracie has been raising her four siblings, each of whom has a different, absent father and their mother is on the fast track to self-destruction. When these children's lives are about to be pulled apart, Gracie will have to do the impossible and make the ultimate sacrifices to keep her family together.
Gracie's Choice
Director
For as long as she can remember, 16 year-old Gracie has been raising her four siblings, each of whom has a different, absent father and their mother is on the fast track to self-destruction. When these children's lives are about to be pulled apart, Gracie will have to do the impossible and make the ultimate sacrifices to keep her family together.
Killer Instinct: From the Files of Agent Candice DeLong
Director
Candice DeLong is Clarice Starling in "Silence of the Lambs," Samantha Waters on "Profiler" and Nicole Scott on "MISSING" all rolled into one tough female FBI agent. Lifetime's spine-tingling Original Movie is inspired by DeLong's harrowing real-life experiences in the field. DeLong (Jean Smart) is on the verge of retiring from the FBI so that she can spend more time with her son, when a serial rapist and murderer attacks one of her best friends. As a single working mom, she feels torn between her child's needs and avenging her girlfriend. Things get more complicated when she has to work the case with her married lover (played by A Martinez). This top cop's decisions will put her life in serious danger. Hold on, it's going to be a suspenseful ride!
The Pact
Producer
A pair of young lovers, one depressed, decide to end their lives together in a suicide pact.
The Pact
Director
A pair of young lovers, one depressed, decide to end their lives together in a suicide pact.
We Were the Mulvaneys
Producer
Based on the novel by the same name, We Were the Mulvaneys is a sensitive portrayal of one family's journey as they face conflict, fear, tragedy and ultimately, themselves.
We Were the Mulvaneys
Director
Based on the novel by the same name, We Were the Mulvaneys is a sensitive portrayal of one family's journey as they face conflict, fear, tragedy and ultimately, themselves.
Зови меня Санта-Клаус
Director
Эксцентричная Люси, продюсер, накануне Рождества как раз искала в Интернете актера на роль Санта-Клауса. В свою очередь, Санта, отработавший на своем посту 200 лет и собиравшийся на пенсию, нуждается в преемнике. Надо ли говорить, что эти двое при заочном знакомстве нашли друг в друге то, что искали. Однако готова ли Люси столкнуться лицом к лицу с настоящим Санта-Клаусом? Но что важнее, готов ли рождественский дед к тому, что выбрал себе в преемницы чернокожую тетеньку с сомнительными манерами?
Ruby's Bucket of Blood
Director
A Louisiana juke joint owner loses her star entertainer and hires a white singer to fill in.
Необычный ребёнок
Director
A reporter (Bridget Fonda) gets the scoop on the first ever human cloning, but the furor surrounding the event jeopardizes the baby's birth and the career of the doctor (Mary Beth Hurt) responsible for creating the clone.
The 70s
Director
Four friends, fresh from tragedy at Kent Sate, graduate from college and begin their adult lives during the turbulent 1970s. But Dexter (Guy Torry), Eileen (Vinessa Shaw), Byron (Brad Rowe) and Christie (Amy Smart) find their paths are heading in different directions. Namely, toward the Black Panthers, the feminist movement, the Watergate Scandal and the Hustle. Peter Werner directs this poignant television miniseries originally aired on NBC.
Hefner: Unauthorized
Director
The unauthorized biography of Hugh Hefner and the birth of the Playboy empire.
Tempting Fate
Director
A man who is still mourning the death of the woman he loves, meets a man who says he created a machine that can bring anyone to a parallel world. He goes and sees the woman he loves is still alive in that world and wants to stay. But when he discovers that this world has rules that differ from his world, he wants to leave but when he goes back to where the machine is, there's a fire and the machine is destroyed and the man who built it is killed. He later meets a woman from his world who also built a machine of her own but the officials there upon seeing her thinks she's crazy because her counterpart is alive and says she doesn't know her. So he tries to help her so that they can return home.
On the Edge of Innocence
Director
Teenage Zoe Tyler suffers from manic-depression. With a musician father who is never around life seems hard. Zoe eventually lands up in a psychiatric ward for treatment. There she meets Jake, an unstable teenager with an anger problem. They fall in love and are soon separated by their doctors, psychiatrists and parents. Fuming, Jake suddenly sees a chance for escape and takes Zoe with him, along with a few other patients. After a trip around the country, Jake and Zoe must face up to their illness and their crime.
Blue Rodeo
Director
Maggie Yearwood moves to a new town to be near her son, Peter, who has gone deaf as the result of an accident and is now attending a special school. She moves into a small house next door to Owen Whister and soon falls in love with the cowboy, who harbors a dark secret...
Two Mothers for Zachary
Director
A grandmother sues her daughter for custody of her grandson, because she believes that her daughter's homosexuality renders her unfit for motherhood.
Inflammable
Director
An ambitious young female lawyer meets a former lover while investigating a sexual harassment case aboard a US Navy support ship that turns into a murder case when the victim is discovered dead.
The Unspoken Truth
Director
Despite her parents' misgivings, Brianne (Lea Thompson) marries Clay (James Marshall), and the couple soon have a daughter. It's then that Clay begins to show the first signs that he's unhinged. When he sees Brianne innocently talking to a man, Clay shoots him dead. At first, Brianne believes that her love for her husband can prevail. But when authorities threaten to take away custody of her daughter, she learns a horrible truth about her past.
Almost Golden: The Jessica Savitch Story
Director
The story of one of America's first female reporters.
The Four Diamonds
Director
Christopher Millard was 14 years old when he died of cancer in 1972. Shortly before losing his battle, Chris wrote a story about a great knight named Sir Millard who sought out the four diamonds of Courage, Wisdom, Honesty and Strength in order to be released from the grips of an evil sorceress. These diamonds symbolized the attributes that Chris believed were necessary to overcome cancer.
Вместо жены
Director
Штат Небраска, времена покорения Дикого Запада, конец 19-го века. Жена фермера — переселенца, мать четверых детей, узнает, что неизлечимая болезнь оставляет ей лишь несколько недель жизни. В те дни в этой части Америки приходилось шесть мужчин на одну женщину, шансы фермера найти новую мать для своих детей невелики. Его заботливая жена решается нанять стареющую женщину легкого поведения на роль своей заместительницы… Классический любовный треугольник был бы очень неподходящим определением для сложившейся ситуации…
Doorways
Director
Ned Blessing: The True Story Of My Life
Director
A haggard cowboy reflects upon his life while awaiting his death.
The Good Policeman
Director
Isaac Seidel is a highly unconventional New York police-commissioner. He is well-abled in dealing with trouble at the headquarter, the maffia and situations in the streets. His loyalty to his profession and the city he so loves make him do the utmost to solve the problems, even if it means he has to bend the rules.
Hiroshima: Out of the Ashes
Director
The movie follows the perspective of several characters (such as Japanese victims, soldiers, American prisoners of war and others) and how they lived or tried to survive the effects felt during the aftermath of the Atomic Bomb dropping by the Enola Gay at Hiroshima, during World War II.
The Image
Director
When career-focused journalist's investigation indirectly causes a suicide, he questions his own methods and life in general.
Ничья земля
Director
Бенджи Тейлор — молодой полицейский из Лос-Анджелеса, самое большое увлечение которого — спортивные автомобили. Тэд Вэррик — богатый бездельник, чье единственное хобби — угонять красивые и мощные авто. Расследуя дело об угонах автомобилей, совершенных Вэрриком, погибает полицейский. Бенджи Тейлор делает логичный вывод: это убийство — дело рук Воррика. Чтобы доказать вину подозреваемого, Бенджи знакомится с Тэдом. Молодой полицейский понимает, что для того, чтобы полностью доказать вину Тэда Вэррика, ему придется самому стать угонщиком, работая в паре с Тэдом…
LBJ: The Early Years
Director
LBJ: The Early Years was a television movie that appeared on the NBC network in February 1987, depicting the life of former President of the United States Lyndon B. Johnson from 1934 until 1973. Actor Randy Quaid won a Golden Globe award for his portrayal of Johnson.
Sins of the Father
Director
Fresh out of law school, Kevan Harris is hired by her dead father's ex-partner, Frank Murchison, and immediately 'falls into bed' with him. She then falls in love with his son, Gregory, who is fighting his father over his mother's will. Along the way, she learns about her father and his relationship with the ruthless Murchison.
I Married a Centerfold
Director
Tenacious young engineer flips over the centerfold model he spots on television and embarks on a romantic adventure on a bet with his buddies.
Hard Knox
Director
A retired fighter pilot becomes the head of his alma matter military high school for two weeks with hilarious consequences. He shapes up the school and raises morale so that they are able to win the "brass-axe" competition versus another local military academy.
Не плачь, это просто гром
Dr. Werner (uncredited)
During the Vietnam War, Brian Anderson, a young Army medic, is stationed in Saigon. Initially apathetic and self-serving, he eventually has his heart won over by the children at a nearby orphanage where he does volunteer work. At first, a doctor named Katherine Cross has to persuade him to help the children. But soon, Brian willingly puts his career and safety on the line to provide the orphans with the food and medical supplies they need.
Не плачь, это просто гром
Director
During the Vietnam War, Brian Anderson, a young Army medic, is stationed in Saigon. Initially apathetic and self-serving, he eventually has his heart won over by the children at a nearby orphanage where he does volunteer work. At first, a doctor named Katherine Cross has to persuade him to help the children. But soon, Brian willingly puts his career and safety on the line to provide the orphans with the food and medical supplies they need.
Barn Burning
Director
Abe Snopes (Tommy Lee Jones) is a Southern tenant farmer whose unrelenting and violent nature proves to be his undoing in William Faulkner's Barn Burning. Snopes sets his employer's barn on fire when he thinks he's been treated unfairly. His son, Sarty, is horrified. Snope escapes justice for lack of proof, but he and his family are told to move on. No sooner do they move than Snopes is offended by his new rich employer. Torn between trying to win his father's acceptance and his aversion to what his father will do, Sarty must make a decision and act quickly. Adpated by Academy Award winning screenwriter Horton Foote, Faulkner's complex world of class divisions and hostile family relationships comes to life through a boy's attempt to liberate himself from hatred and poverty.
Aunt Mary
Director
The true-life drama about a handicapped Baltimore woman living on welfare who organized a sandlot baseball team and ended up coaching more than 50,000 boys and girls over nearly 40 years.
Battered
Director
Gritty drama of three interweaving stories of three women of various backgrounds and ages whose marriages are complicated by spouse-abuse by their husbands.
In the Region of Ice
Writer
In this American Film Institute-subsidized short subject, Fionnula Flanagan plays a sharp-tongued but compassionate nun, while Peter Lempert is cast as a sullen, emotionally disturbed boy. The title refers to the "thawing" process that occurs when the nun attempts to break through Lempert's wall of silence. Winner of the Oscar for "Best Short Film, Live Action".
In the Region of Ice
Director
In this American Film Institute-subsidized short subject, Fionnula Flanagan plays a sharp-tongued but compassionate nun, while Peter Lempert is cast as a sullen, emotionally disturbed boy. The title refers to the "thawing" process that occurs when the nun attempts to break through Lempert's wall of silence. Winner of the Oscar for "Best Short Film, Live Action".
Hidden and Seeking
Director