![]() Avg.User Rating: Rate this person: Producer, Co-producer, Executive Producer Born: 1939 in USA 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 hired by Columbia Pictures for an entry-level executive position. Within four years he had become the head of worldwide production there, a position he held for three years. With his steady hand, and astute judgment regarding hit films such as "The Way We Were" and "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," the heretofore financially shaky company began to thrive. In 1976, he left to found Peter Guber's Filmworks and to work as an independent producer; soon he merged his company with another and produced his first film "The Deep" (1977). Though the film was considered a critical bomb, Guber's creative marketing helped... Full Biography
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