Peter Hyams Filmography

Born:: July 26, 1943 in New York City, NY
Occupation:: Director, Cinematographer, Producer, Screenwriter
Biography:: An alumnus of Syracuse University and Hunter College, director/writer Peter Hyams entered show business as a CBS TV newscaster. His first feature film assignment was T.R. Baskin (1971), which he wrote and produced. His maiden directorial efforts were the well-received TV movies The Rolling Man and Goodnight My Love...Read More

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Beyond a Reasonable Doubt

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Michael Douglas, Amber Tamblyn, Jesse Metcalfe

Synopsis: Fritz Lang's last American film is brought back to life thanks to writer/director Peter Hyams (Narrow Margin) and stars Michael Douglas, Amber Tamblyn, and Jesse Metcalfe. Foresight Unlimited's remake follows a similar story of a novelist's investigation of a dirty district attorney that leads to Read More

1/1/08
A Sound of Thunder

Crew: Cinematographer, Director

Actors: Edward Burns, Catherine McCormack, Ben Kingsley, Jemima Rooper, David Oyelowo

Synopsis: A seemingly insignificant act may cause the fabric of history to unravel in this sci-fi adventure. Charles Hatton (Ben Kingsley) owns and operates a successful firm known as Time Safari. Thanks to time travel technology developed by Hatton's employee Sonia Rand (Catherine McCormack), Time Safari Read More

9/2/05
Threshold: Trees Made of Glass, Part 2

Crew: Director

2005
The Musketeer

Crew: Cinematographer, Director

Actors: Catherine Deneuve, Mena Suvari, Stephen Rea, Tim Roth, Justin Chambers

Synopsis: Director Peter Hyams brings the modern choreography talents of famed Hong Kong fight sequence designer Xin Xin Xiong to this action adventure that departs widely from its classic novel source material, focusing exclusively on the D'Artagnan character and either excising other characters completely Read More

9/7/01
End of Days

Crew: Cinematographer, Director

Actors: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Gabriel Byrne, Robin Tunney, Kevin Pollak, CCH Pounder, Rod Steiger

Synopsis: 1999 proved a banner year for screen portrayals of Satan's love life: first his relationship with Saddam Hussein went under the microscope in South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut, and a few months later his search for a girl to settle down with became the basis of this thriller. With the Read More

11/24/99
The Relic

Crew: Cinematographer, Director

Actors: Penelope Ann Miller, Tom Sizemore, Linda Hunt, James Whitmore, Clayton Rohner

Synopsis: A mythological creature stalks the halls of a museum during a society fundraiser in this cheap sci-fi horror genre knock-off of Alien (1979). Penelope Ann Miller stars as Dr. Margo Green, an evolutionary biologist at Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History who receives a shipment of artifacts Read More

1997
Sudden Death

Crew: Cinematographer, Director

Actors: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Powers Boothe, Raymond J. Barry, Whittni Wright, Ross Malinger

Synopsis: Pittsburgh Penguins owner Howard Baldwin was the producer of Sudden Death, and the action is set in his hockey arena, in which the Penguins are playing the Chicago Blackhawks. Pittsburgh fire inspector Darren McCord (Jean-Claude Van Damme) is attending the game with his two children. He's quit Read More

1995
Timecop

Crew: Cinematographer, Director

Actors: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Mia Sara, Ron Silver, Bruce McGill, Gloria Reuben

Synopsis: Based on a comic book story, this futuristic film follows the time-travel exploits of policeman Max Walker (Claude Van Damme). In 1994, Walker's wife Melissa (Mia Sara) is about to tell him that she is expecting their first child when they are attacked by a group of criminals. Walker is shot and Read More

1994
Stay Tuned

Crew: Cinematographer, Director

Actors: John Ritter, Pam Dawber, Jeffrey Jones, David Tom, Heather McComb

Synopsis: John Ritter and Pam Dawber star as Roy and Helen Knable, a suburban American couple having marital problems. Roy has become a couch potato, and a resentful Helen wants him to ditch the remote. When the demonic Spike (Jeffrey Jones) offers Roy a deal on the ultimate satellite TV system, Roy doesn't Read More

8/14/92
Narrow Margin

Crew: Cinematographer, Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Gene Hackman, Anne Archer, James B. Sikking, J.T. Walsh, M. Emmet Walsh

Synopsis: Narrow Margin directed by Peter Hyams and loosely based on the classic film noir of the same title, tells the story of a resourceful District Attorney who must return a witness to San Francisco alive so she can testify in a trial. Carol (Anne Archer) is in the bathroom of the hotel room of her Read More

9/21/90
The Presidio

Crew: Cinematographer, Director

Actors: Sean Connery, Mark Harmon, Meg Ryan, Jack Warden, Mark Blum

Synopsis: San Francisco detective Jay Austin (Mark Harmon) is assigned to investigate the murder of a female MP at the 212-year-old Presidio army base in this crime drama. Jay must interview Lieutenant Colonel Caldwell (Sean Connery), his former commander from his military days. The two must overcome their Read More

6/10/88
The Monster Squad

Crew: Executive Producer, Producer

Actors: Andre Gower, Robby Kiger, Stephen Macht, Duncan Regehr, Tom Noonan

Synopsis: A group of adolescent monster movie enthusiasts form a club that meets in a treehouse in this pre-teen horror feature. When Dracula, The Mummy, Frankenstein, and The Wolfman are joined by Gill-Man in the search for a magic amulet, the boys form the Monster Squad to battle the forces of evil. The Read More

8/14/87
Running Scared

Crew: Cinematographer, Director, Producer

Actors: Gregory Hines, Billy Crystal, Steven Bauer, Darlanne Fluegel, Joe Pantoliano

Synopsis: Distinguished by a sharp, witty dialogue between its two cop protagonists, Ray and Danny (Gregory Hines and Billy Crystal), this entertaining crime drama is well worth a visit. Ray and Danny are nearly blown away by super bad guy Julio (Jimmy Smits), and their boss is peeved at them as usual. So Read More

6/27/86
Amazing Stories: The Amazing Falsworth

Crew: Director

Actors: Gregory Hines, Richard Masur

1985
2010

Crew: Cinematographer, Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Roy Scheider, John Lithgow, Helen Mirren, Bob Balaban, Keir Dullea

Synopsis: This belated sequel to Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) is directed by Peter Hyams. Roy Scheider plays the astronaut/skipper of a U.S.-Soviet space mission, sent to find out what happened to the missing Discovery flight that carried Keir Dullea into the beyond in the original 2001 Read More

1984
The Star Chamber

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Michael Douglas, Hal Holbrook, Yaphet Kotto, Sharon Gless, James B. Sikking

Synopsis: Fed up with watching vicious criminals walk on technicalities and loopholes, judge Michael Douglas accepts his older colleague Hal Holbrook's invitation to join "The Star Chamber." This sub-rosa organization consists of nine like-minded judges who endeavor to take the law into their own hands. Read More

1983
Death Target

Crew: Director

Synopsis: A trio of retired mercenaries reunite to complete one final mission. But their mission hits a snag when one of them falls for a drug-addicted hooker whose pimp doesn't like it. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

1983
Outland

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Sean Connery, Peter Boyle, Frances Sternhagen, James B. Sikking, Kika Markham

Synopsis: For Marshal O'Neil (Sean Connery), the Jupiter moon Io is just another dingy mining town on the final frontier. When his wife leaves him and takes their son with them, it merely confirms that though he's traveled millions of miles, his life is going nowhere. Then he notices that miners are dying Read More

1981
The Hunter

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Steve McQueen, Eli Wallach, Kathryn Harrold, LeVar Burton, Ben Johnson

Synopsis: Steve McQueen's last film concerns a modern day bounty hunter who searches for bail jumpers. Based on real life bounty hunter Ralph "Papa" Thorson, the film details his exciting life, traveling from one city to another, trying to track down fugitives and continually risking his life in the Read More

1980
Hanover Street

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Harrison Ford, Lesley-Anne Down, Christopher Plummer, Alec McCowen, Richard Masur

Synopsis: In this WWII romance, Harrison Ford (face-to-face with superstardom from his involvement in Star Wars) is cast as David Halloran, an American bomber pilot stationed in London. During an air raid, Halloran meets and falls in love with beautiful Briton Margaret Sellinger (Lesley-Anne Down). Read More

1979
Capricorn One

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Elliott Gould, James Brolin, Brenda Vaccaro, Sam Waterston, O.J. Simpson

Synopsis: Astronauts Charles Brubaker, John Walker, and Peter Willis (James Brolin, O.J. Simpson, and Sam Waterston, respectively) are hailed as heroes when they become the first men to be rocketed to Mars. Actually the space travelers are as phony as their mission controller, Dr. James Kelloway (Hal Holbrook Read More

1978
Telefon

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Charles Bronson, Lee Remick, Donald Pleasence, Tyne Daly, Alan Badel

Synopsis: Don Siegel took over the directing chores from Peter Hyams on this taut cold war action film, based on the novel by Walter Wager. With the cold war between the United States and the Soviet Union thawing, old KGB hard-liner Nicolai Dalchimsky (Donald Pleasence) activates a group of Americans who Read More

1977
Peeper

Crew: Director

Actors: Michael Caine, Natalie Wood, Kitty Winn, Thayer David, Liam Dunn

Synopsis: In this comedy drama that spoofs detective pictures from the 1940s, Tucker (Michael Caine) is a private eye hired by Anglich (Michael Constantine), a wealthy man who is trying to find the whereabouts of his long lost daughter. Tucker's sleuthing leads him to Ellen (Natalie Wood) and Mianne (Kitty Winn Read More

1975
Busting

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Elliott Gould, Robert Blake, Allen Garfield, Antonio Fargas, Sid Haig

Synopsis: Peter Hyams made his feature-film directing debut with this clumsily paced crime film concerning two Los Angeles vice-squad detectives. Michael Keneely (Eliott Gould) is the swaggering non-conformist and Patrick Farrel (Robert Blake) is the cocky follower. The two cops live for their work and Read More

1974
Our Time

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Michael Gray, Marijane Maricle

Synopsis: Set in a girls' school in New England during the 1950s, Peter Hyams' nostalgic drama stars Betsy Slade as Abby, whose fling with a student from an area prep school results in an unwanted pregnancy. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

1974
Rolling Man

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Dennis Weaver plays a tow-truck driver sent to prison on a trumped-up charges of attempted murder. Out after serving four years, Weaver finds himself a reluctant loner. His wife has died, and his two sons have disappeared. In seeking out his boys, Weaver also keeps an eye out for the man Read More

1972
Goodnight, My Love

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Barbara Bain, Richard Boone, Victor Buono, Michael Dunn

Synopsis: A made-for-TV mystery, Goodnight, My Love is bolstered by a top-flight cast and a clever script. The plot revolves around a pair of down-and-out detectives: tall and disheveled Richard Boone, and short and immaculate Michael Dunn. Boone and Dunn are hired by icy blonde Barbara Bain to locate her Read More

1972
T.R. Baskin

Crew: Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Candice Bergen, Peter Boyle, James Caan, Marcia Rodd, Erin O'Reilly

Synopsis: Candice Bergen plays the title character, a naïve young woman from the countryside who ventures to the bright lights of Chicago in search of an interesting career, true love, and happiness. She ends up working a meaningless job and living in a drab apartment, and she remains lonely as her Read More

1971