Wolfgang Petersen
Directing · Director · Screenplay · Producer
Born Mar 14, 1941 · Emden, Germany
Active 1965–2022 · 5′10″ (178 cm)
Wolfgang Petersen was a German-born screenwriter, producer and film director who spent most of his career in the United States. In the 1960s he began working directing plays at the Ernst Deutsch Theater in Hamburg.
Filmography
Troy (2004) — Director · ProducerDas Boot (1981) — Director · ScreenplayThe NeverEnding Story (1984) — Man Who Drops Milk (uncredited) · Director · ScreenplayBicentennial Man (1999) — ProducerAir Force One (1997) — Director · ProducerIn the Line of Fire (1993) — Director · Executive ProducerOutbreak (1995) — Director · ProducerThe Perfect Storm (2000) — Director · ProducerEnemy Mine (1985) — DirectorPoseidon (2006) — Director · ProducerDas Boot (1985) — Screenplay · Director · CreatorInstinct (1999) — Executive ProducerRed Corner (1997) — Executive ProducerShattered (1991) — Director · Screenplay · ProducerFour Against the Bank (2016) — DirectorScene of the Crime (1970) — DirectorDer Eine - der Andere (1967) — Director · WriterThe Cuckoo Years (1967) — Assistant DirectorThe Consequence (1977) — Director · ScreenplayThe Agency (2001) — CreatorStellenweise Glatteis (1975) — DirectorPlanübung (1977) — Director · WriterThe Foundling (1967) — Assistant DirectorVan der Valk and the Rich (1973) — Director