Peter Anthony Dowling is a British

screenwriter A screenplay writer (also called screenwriter, scriptwriter, scribe or scenarist) is a writer who practices the craft of screenwriting, writing screenplays on which mass media, such as films, television programs and video games, are based. ...

and

film director A film director controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfilment of that vision. The director has a key role in choosing the cast members, ...

. He was born in

Salford Salford () is a city and the largest settlement in the City of Salford metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England. In 2011, Salford had a population of 103,886. It is also the second and only other city in the metropolitan county afte ...

, England, in 1969 and started his career in children's animation in both the UK and Germany, working on cartoons such as ''

The Raggy Dolls ''The Raggy Dolls'' is a 1986-1994 British cartoon series which originally aired on ITV. The series is set in Mr Grimes' Toy Factory, where imperfect dolls are thrown into a reject bin. While unobserved by human eyes, the dolls come to life and ...

'', '' Benjamin Bluemchen'' and ''Renada''. After winning the Fulbright

TEB Clarke Thomas Ernest Bennett "Tibby" Clarke, OBE (7 June 1907 – 11 February 1989) was a film screenwriter who wrote several of the Ealing Studios comedies. Clarke's scripts always feature careful logical development from a slightly absurd premise t ...

Fellowship in Screenwriting 1996/7, judged by

William Goldman William Goldman (August 12, 1931 – November 16, 2018) was an American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter. He first came to prominence in the 1950s as a novelist before turning to screenwriting. He won Academy Awards for his screenplays '' ...

and paid for by

John Cleese John Marwood Cleese ( ; born 27 October 1939) is an English actor, comedian, screenwriter, and producer. Emerging from the Cambridge Footlights in the 1960s, he first achieved success at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and as a scriptwriter and ...

, Dowling moved to the

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, briefly attending the

University of Southern California , mottoeng = "Let whoever earns the palm bear it" , religious_affiliation = Nonsectarian—historically Methodist , established = , accreditation = WSCUC , type = Private research university , academic_affiliations = , endowment = $8. ...

, and then sold a spec screenplay to

Arnold Kopelson Arnold Kopelson (February 14, 1935 – October 8, 2018) was an American film producer. Among his credits are ''Platoon'', ''Seven'', ''Outbreak'', '' The Fugitive'' and '' The Devil's Advocate''. Life and career Kopelson was born in Brooklyn, ...

(Platoon, Se7en) and

20th Century Fox 20th Century Studios, Inc. (previously known as 20th Century Fox) is an American film studio, film production company headquartered at the Fox Studio Lot in the Century City area of Los Angeles. As of 2019, it serves as a film production arm o ...

. His first produced movie was ''

Flightplan ''Flightplan'' is a 2005 mystery psychological thriller film directed by Robert Schwentke from a screenplay written by Peter A. Dowling and Billy Ray. It stars Jodie Foster as Kyle Pratt, a recently-widowed American aircraft engineer livin ...

'' starring

Jodie Foster Alicia Christian "Jodie" Foster (born November 19, 1962) is an American actress and filmmaker. She is the recipient of numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards, three British Academy Film Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, and the hon ...

which was commercially successful in the U.S. and grossed over $223,000,000 worldwide. Starting in 2007 he began to direct, and his first film was ''

Stag Night :''Stag night is the UK, Canadian, Irish, Australian and New Zealand term for a Bachelor party.'' ''Stag Night'' is a 2008 American horror film written and directed by Peter A. Dowling and starring Kip Pardue, Vinessa Shaw, and Breckin Meyer. The ...

''.

Filmography

Television

* ''Waldo’s Way'' (1996) * ''Renada'' (1998) * '' Transformers: Rescue Bots Academy'' (2019-2020)

Films

* ''

'' (2005) - Writer * ''

'' (2007) - Writer/Director * ''

Reasonable Doubt Beyond a reasonable doubt is a legal standard of proof required to validate a criminal conviction in most adversarial legal systems. It is a higher standard of proof than the balance of probabilities standard commonly used in civil cases, be ...

'' (2014) - Writer * '' Sacrifice'' (2016) - Writer/Director * ''

Black and Blue ''Black and Blue'' is the 13th British and 15th American studio album by the English rock band the Rolling Stones, released on 23 April 1976 by Rolling Stones Records. This album was the first recorded after former guitarist Mick Taylor qui ...

'' (2019) - Writer

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Dowling, Peter A. English screenwriters English male screenwriters Living people 1969 births