Peter Guber Filmography

Born:: USA
Occupation:: Executive Producer, Producer
Biography:: Peter Guber is one of the most successful and powerful producers and executives in Hollywood. He graduated from the University of Syracuse and then attended the University of Florence before earning an MA in business administration and a law degree at NYU. Soon after graduation in 1968, he was...Read More

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The Birds

Crew: Producer

Actors: Naomi Watts

Synopsis: This Platinum Dunes remake takes a new spin on Daphne du Maurier's killer bird tale, best remembered in Alfred Hitchcock's horrific version back in 1963, with this Universal Pictures production. Naomi Watts stars, with frequent Casino Royale director Martin Campbell at the helm. ~ Jeremy Wheeler Read More

1/1/10
Blue Smoke

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Alicia Witt, Matthew Settle, Scott Bakula

Synopsis: Years after her family's pizza parlor was burned to the ground by an out of control arsonist, a girl does her best to overcome her childhood trauma by becoming a seasoned arson investigator in this thriller starring Scott Bakula and Alicia Witt. But some careers are more dangerous than others, and Read More

2007
Angels Fall

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Heather Locklear, Johnathon Schaech

Synopsis: Heather Locklear and Johnathon Schaech star in this screen adaptation of the Nora Roberts novel concerning a withdrawn young woman who is forced to reconnect with the human race after her car fails in the town of Angel's Fist. The only problem is that by seeking the help of others, she may put her Read More

2007
Heckler

Actors: Jamie Kennedy, Louie Anderson, David "Elsewhere" Bernal, Andrew Dice Clay, David Cross

Synopsis: Nearly anyone who performs in public on a regular basis is familiar with the notion of the audience member who makes their opinions loudly and clearly known during the show, and like most comedians Jamie Kennedy has dealt with his fair share of hecklers over the course of his career. However, when Read More

2007
Carolina Moon

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Claire Forlani, Oliver Hudson, Jacqueline Bisset

Synopsis: Author Nora Roberts' tense tale of second sight comes to the screen in this drama directed by Stephen Tolkin. Lately, Tory Bodeen (Claire Forlani) has been experiencing a series of frightening visions that seem to be beckoning her back to her small hometown. As the visions become increasingly Read More

2007
Into the Blue

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Paul Walker, Jessica Alba, Scott Caan, Ashley Scott

Synopsis: Greed turns an idyllic vacation into a nightmare in this action drama. Jared Cole (Paul Walker) makes his living salvaging wreckage from ships off the coast of the Bahamas. He shares a rattle-trap trailer home with his girlfriend, Samantha "Sam" Nicholson (Jessica Alba), a shark expert who works Read More

9/30/05
The Jacket

Crew: Producer

Actors: Adrien Brody, Keira Knightley, Kris Kristofferson, Jennifer Jason Leigh

Synopsis: A troubled war veteran tries to unlock his memories of a terrible crime in this stylish thriller, the first American project for British filmmaker John Maybury. In 1991, Jack Starks (Adrien Brody) was an American soldier serving in the Persian Gulf when he was shot in the head; pronounced dead by Read More

3/4/05
Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters

Actors: George Clooney, Danny DeVito, Peter Bogdanovich, David Brown, Richard Dreyfuss

Synopsis: Take a walk on the fine line between box-office blockbusters and instantly forgettable bombs as Oscar and Emmy-winning producer/director Bill Couturie sets out to explore just what separates such high-profile hits as Jaws from such room-clearing disasters as Howard the Duck. Executive produced by Read More

2005
Alex & Emma

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Kate Hudson, Luke Wilson, Jordan Lund, Sophie Marceau, David Paymer, Alexander Wauthier, Earl Carroll, Leili Kramer, Rip Taylor, Chino XL

Synopsis: Rob Reiner directs Luke Wilson and Kate Hudson in Alex & Emma, a romantic comedy about an author and his secretary. Gangsters will kill Alex (Wilson) in 30 days if he doesn't pay back his gambling debts. The only way he can do that is to finish his new novel. He hires sassy court stenographer Emma Read More

6/20/03
Sunday Morning Shootout [TV Series]

Synopsis: Hollywood producer Peter Guber and journalist Peter Bart were the moderators of this weekend debate series from the American Movie Channel cable service. On each episode, the hosts and the guest panelists engaged in lively discussions over current movie projects and Hollywood gossip, with opinions Read More

2003
Galapagos

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Kenneth Branagh

Synopsis: Directors Al Giddings and David Clark, whose previous credits include Galapagos: Beyond Darwin, return to the flora and fauna of the Galapagos Islands for this IMAX documentary. The film focuses on the work of Smithsonian-based biologist Carol Baldwin and outlines Charles Darwin's theories on Read More

1999
Rude Awakening

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Sherilyn Fenn, Lynn Redgrave, Jonathan Penner, Rain Pryor, Richard Lewis

Synopsis: This TV comedy series, an attempt to find humor in 1990s self-help, rehab and recovery programs, focuses on hard-drinking, former actress Billie Frank (Sherilyn Fenn), once the teen queen of primetime soaps, who now works for lowlife "B"-movie producer Harve Schwartz (Richard Lewis). Johnny (Michael Rapaport Read More

1998
With Honors

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Joe Pesci, Brendan Fraser, Moira Kelly, Patrick Dempsey, Josh Hamilton

Synopsis: Harvard University graduate Alek Keshishian directed this tale about a homeless man who teaches some snotty Harvard students a thing or two about real life. Monty (Brendan Fraser) is a self-absorbed graduate student who is obsessed with finishing his thesis on government so that he can satisfy his Read More

1994
This Boy's Life

Crew: Producer

Actors: Robert De Niro, Ellen Barkin, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Blechman, Eliza Dushku

Synopsis: A single mother and her difficult son find family life isn't necessarily all it's cracked up to be in this drama adapted from writer and professor Tobias Wolff's 1989 memoir of the same name. Nomadic, flaky Caroline (Ellen Barkin) just wants to settle down in one place, find a decent guy, and Read More

1993
Batman Returns

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Michael Keaton, Danny DeVito, Michelle Pfeiffer, Christopher Walken, Michael Gough

Synopsis: In this first sequel to 1989's Batman, the Caped Crusader (Michael Keaton) is up against the Penguin (Danny DeVito), the hideously deformed scion of a wealthy Gotham City family. The Penguin plots with evil businessman Max Schreck (Christopher Walken) to become mayor and then turn Gotham into a Read More

6/19/92
The Bonfire of the Vanities

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Tom Hanks, Bruce Willis, Melanie Griffith, Kim Cattrall, Saul Rubinek, Morgan Freeman

Synopsis: Brian De Palma's Hollywood sanitization of Tom Wolfe's scabrous satire stars Tom Hanks as Sherman McCoy, the "master of the universe," a shallow Wall Street investor who makes millions while enjoying the good life and the sexual favors of Maria Ruskin (Melanie Griffith), a Southern belle Read More

12/19/90
Tango & Cash

Crew: Co-producer

Actors: Sylvester Stallone, Kurt Russell, Teri Hatcher, Jack Palance, Brion James

Synopsis: Sylvester Stallone tries his luck with his first cop buddy movie in Tango and Cash, directed by Andrei Konchalovsky. Stallone is Ray Tango, a Los Angeles narcotics cop who dresses in fancy suits, wears wire-rim glasses, and talks to his stockbroker more than he talks to his mother. Kurt Russell is Read More

12/22/89
Batman

Crew: Co-producer, Producer

Actors: Michael Keaton, Jack Nicholson, Kim Basinger, Robert Wuhl, Pat Hingle

Synopsis: Behind the black cowl, Gotham City superhero Batman is really millionaire philanthropist Bruce Wayne (Michael Keaton), who turned to crimefighting after his parents were brutally murdered before his eyes. The only person to share Wayne's secret is faithful butler Alfred (Michael Gough). The Read More

6/23/89
Finish Line

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: James Brolin

Synopsis: James Brolin costars with his son Josh in the made-for-cable Finish Line. The film's ad copy says it all: "His father made him run. The steroids made him win." In a justifiably melodramatic fashion, the film, based on a true story, examines the win-at-any-cost mentality of high school athletes and Read More

1989
Rain Man

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Dustin Hoffman, Tom Cruise, Valeria Golino, Jerry Molen, Jack Murdock

Synopsis: Self-centered, avaricious Californian Charlie Babbitt (Tom Cruise) is informed that his long-estranged father has died. Expecting at least a portion of the elder Babbitt's $3 million estate, Charlie learns that all he's inherited is his dad's prize roses and a 1949 Buick Roadmaster. Discovering Read More

12/16/88
The Missing Link

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Peter Anthony Elliott

Synopsis: It is very likely that hard-core Creationists will not be politely inclined towards The Missing Link. This unique, thoroughly credible "historical drama" stars David Hughes (husband of director Carol Hughes) as an ancient man-ape, living in what would later be called Africa. After his people are Read More

11/4/88
Gorillas in the Mist

Crew: Executive Producer, Producer

Actors: Sigourney Weaver, Bryan Brown, Julie Harris, John Omirah Miluwi, Iain Cuthbertson

Synopsis: Gorillas in the Mist is based on the autobiographical 1983 book by naturalist Dian Fossey. Before the book could be brought before the cameras, Fossey had been mysteriously killed; her death provides a logical, if somewhat ghoulish climax to the film. A Kentucky girl, Fossey (Sigourney Weaver) is Read More

9/23/88
Caddyshack II

Crew: Co-producer, Producer

Actors: Jackie Mason, Dyan Cannon, Robert Stack, Dina Merrill, Chevy Chase

Synopsis: This comedy returns to the exclusive but crazy country club golf course seen in the original Caddyshack. This time its the blue-bloods against the blue collars as a loud, vulgar self-made millionaire tries to join the stuffy upper-crust club after his daughter falls in love with the son of one of Read More

7/22/88
Who's That Girl?

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Madonna, Griffin Dunne, Haviland Morris, John McMartin, Robert Swan, Bibi Besch

Synopsis: A year after appearing in the box-office sleeper Shanghai Surprise, pop superstar Madonna starred in the screwball comedy Who's That Girl? She plays Nikki Finn, who is being released from prison after serving a four-year sentence for a murder she didn't commit. Meanwhile, wealthy lawyer Loudon (Griffin Dunne Read More

8/7/87
Innerspace

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Dennis Quaid, Martin Short, Meg Ryan, Kevin McCarthy, Fiona Lewis

Synopsis: Director Joe Dante infuses this science fiction comedy with the visual razzle-dazzle and manic, goofball performances typical of his cartoon-inspired sensibilities. Navy test pilot Lt. Tuck Pendleton (Dennis Quaid) has volunteered for a highly dangerous medical experiment. A submersible craft Read More

7/1/87
The Witches of Eastwick

Crew: Producer

Actors: Jack Nicholson, Cher, Susan Sarandon, Michelle Pfeiffer, Veronica Cartwright

Synopsis: The Witches of Eastwick, a memorable comedy with a dark edge, is based upon a novel by John Updike. On Thursday nights three female friends -- Alex (Cher), Sukie (Michelle Pfeiffer), and Jane (Susan Sarandon) -- meet to chug martinis, learn Chinese aphrodisiac cooking and lament the scarcity of Read More

6/12/87
Ocean Symphony

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: Directed by Al Giddings, Ocean Symphony features an original musical store set to striking underwater photography. Whether it's the icy waters of the Arctic north, or the warm waters of the Carribean, the world of the sea is revealed in these eleven segments. Featured creatures include jelly fish Read More

1987
Legend

Crew: Producer

Actors: Tom Cruise, Mia Sara, Tim Curry, David Bennent, Alice Playten

Synopsis: This beautifully staged and costumed fantasy is about young Jack (Tom Cruise) and his lady love Princess Lili (Mia Sara), and how Jack battles Darkness (Tim Curry) to save both the Princess and the world. When the peasant Jack takes Princess Lili to see the unicorns, the strongest animals around Read More

4/18/86
Youngblood

Crew: Producer

Actors: Rob Lowe, Cynthia Gibb, Patrick Swayze, Ed Lauter, Jim Youngs

Synopsis: Rob Lowe stars as the title character, a young hockey prodigy with a gift for scoring, but no such penchant for pugilism -- when the gloves drop, so does he. Despite his fragility, Coach Chadwick (Ed Lauter) takes him on the roster for his stick-handling ability alone. However, he ends up being Read More

1/31/86
The Clan of the Cave Bear

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Daryl Hannah, Pamela Reed, James Remar, Thomas G. Waites, John Doolittle

Synopsis: Cinematographer Michael Chapman directed this John Sayles adaptation of Jean M. Auel's best-selling ode to Cro-Magnon women. The story begins at the moment in pre-history when the last of the Neanderthal men were becoming extinct and the superior race of Cro-Magnons were starting to supersede Read More

1/17/86
Head Office

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Judge Reinhold, Eddie Albert, Jane Seymour, Don King, Rick Moranis, Danny DeVito, Don Novello, Lori-Nan Engler

Synopsis: With a script that is too anemic for the red-blooded actors featured here, this anorexic comedy moves slowly up and down the corporate ladder with the fortunes and misfortunes of several company men. Jack Issel (Judge Reinhold) gets a VIP position at INC in the PR department (business-speak). Read More

1/3/86
The Brotherhood of Justice

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Keanu Reeves

Synopsis: In a early starring assignment, Keanu Reeves plays the head of a teenaged vigilante society. Reeves and his overachieving buddies intend to rid their school and neighborhood of drug users and vandals. But as their power increases, the vigilantes become more abusive and dangerous. Produced by the Read More

1986
The Legend of Billie Jean

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Helen Slater, Keith Gordon, Christian Slater, Richard Bradford, Peter Coyote

Synopsis: With their father dead and their mother busy trying to land a steady beau, pretty teen Billy Jean Davy (Helen Slater) and her younger brother, Binx (Christian Slater), spend their time riding Binx's moped and dreaming of life in Vermont -- several climate zones away from the humid, omnipresent Read More

1985
Vision Quest

Crew: Producer

Actors: Matthew Modine, Linda Fiorentino, Michael Schoeffling, Ronny Cox, Harold Sylvester

Synopsis: According to high school wrestler Matthew Modine, a spiritual "Vision Quest" is necessary for him to decide his future. Thus, Modine starts behaving in a manner that amazes even himself. The crowning achievement of Modine's new outlook on life is his romance with 21-year-old artist Linda Fiorentino Read More

1985
The Color Purple

Crew: Producer

Actors: Danny Glover, Whoopi Goldberg, Margaret Avery, Oprah Winfrey, Willard E. Pugh

Synopsis: Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Alice Walker, The Color Purple spans the years 1909 to 1949, relating the life of Celie (Whoopi Goldberg), a Southern black woman virtually sold into a life of servitude to her brutal husband, sharecropper Albert (Danny Glover). Celie pours out her Read More

1985
Clue

Crew: Producer

Actors: Eileen Brennan, Tim Curry, Madeline Kahn, Martin Mull, Christopher Lloyd, Lesley Ann Warren, Michael McKean

Synopsis: In this spoof of McCarthy-era paranoia and 1950s wholesomeness, the characters and plot are drawn from the popular Parker Brothers board game of the same name. On a dark and stormy night in 1954, six individuals with ties to Washington are assembled for a dinner party at the swanky mansion of one Read More

1985
The Toughest Man in the World

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: There was once a time within living memory when people eagerly awaited a TV-movie starring Mister T. The Toughest Man in the World casts the former Laurence Turand as nightclub bouncer "Bruise" Brubaker. Marshmallow-soft on the inside, Bruise befriends a group of underprivileged kids at a youth Read More

1984
D.C. Cab

Crew: Executive Producer, Producer

Actors: Adam Baldwin, Charlie Barnett, Irene Cara, Anne de Salvo, Max Gail

Synopsis: In this casual, uninvolved comedy running on a low-octane script, a scruffy taxi company is about to be wiped out when its owner Harold (Max Gail) exhorts his cabbies to do what they can to help save the company -- and what they can do turns out to be a surprise to everyone concerned. Saving the Read More

1983
Yoga Moves with Alan Finger

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: Centerpoint Productions and MCA/Universal present this yoga routine starring world-renowned yogi Alan Finger, host of PBS's Yoga Zone. Originally released in 1983, Yoga Moves With Alan Finger is designed to offer participants a yoga-based workout that works the body and mind by not only Read More

1983
Flashdance

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Jennifer Beals, Michael Nouri, Lilia Skala, Sunny Johnson, Kyle Heffner

Synopsis: Jennifer Beals stars as Alex Owens, a Pittsburgh steel-mill welder by day, and bar dancer by night. Harboring dreams of a career in ballet, she is given financial support in this endeavor by her boss Nick Hurley (Michael Nouri) and moral support by demanding but big-hearted instructor Hanna Long (Lilia Skala Read More

1983
Six Weeks

Crew: Producer

Actors: Dudley Moore, Mary Tyler Moore, Katherine Healy, Shannon Wilcox, Bill Calvert

Synopsis: Tony Bill directed this sentimental weepie starring Dudley Moore as California politician Patrick Dalton. When Nicole (Katherine Healy), the daughter of the well-to-do Charlotte Dreyfus (Mary Tyler Moore) asks to work for his campaign, Patrick initially turns her down. But when he discovers that Read More

1982
Missing

Crew: Producer

Actors: Jack Lemmon, Sissy Spacek, Melanie Mayron, John Shea, Charles Cioffi

Synopsis: Costa-Gavras's tense political drama opens in an unspecified South American country (though clearly intended to be Chile) in the throes of a military coup. American activist Charles Horman (John Shea), who has been a thorn in the side of the country's military ever since his arrival, suddenly Read More

1982
An American Werewolf in London

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: David Naughton, Jenny Agutter, Griffin Dunne, John Woodvine, Brian Glover

Synopsis: While wandering the English moors on vacation, college yanks David (David Naughton) and Jack (Griffin Dunne) happen upon a quaint pub with a mysterious patronage who warn them not to leave the road when walking after dark. Irreverent of such advice as characters in horror films always are, the two Read More

1981
Endless Love

Crew: Producer

Actors: Brooke Shields, Martin Hewitt, Shirley Knight, Don Murray, Richard Kiley

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Scott Spencer, Endless Love details the doomed romance between 17-year-old David (Martin Hewitt) and 15-year-old Jade (Brooke Shields). Banished from Jade's home by her daddy Hugh (Don Murray), David obsessively cooks up a scheme to get back into the family's good graces. Since Read More

1981
Midnight Express

Crew: Executive Producer, Producer

Actors: Brad Davis, Randy Quaid, John Hurt, Irene Miracle, Bo Hopkins, Paul L. Smith

Synopsis: Midnight Express is a harrowing tale of a naïve American caught in a nightmare of his own making thousands of miles from his home. Billy Hayes (Brad Davis) is an American tourist visiting Turkey with his girlfriend Susan (Irene Miracle) when he's caught by customs officials trying to smuggle a Read More

1978
The Deep

Crew: Producer

Actors: Robert Shaw, Jacqueline Bisset, Nick Nolte, Louis Gossett, Jr., Eli Wallach

Synopsis: Peter Benchley, who wrote Jaws, also wrote The Deep. Scuba divers David Sanders and Gail Berke (Nick Nolte and Jacqueline Bisset), assisted by Romer Treece (Robert Shaw), discover a sunken treasure off the Bermuda coast. They also find a stash of narcotics. David and Gail spend the rest of the Read More

1977

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