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Peter Newman

Producer, Actor, Additional Credits
Peter Ross Newman is an American film producer and educator. He attended Northwestern University and began his producing career in the 1980s. Newman has been married to casting director and filmmaker Antonia Dauphin since 1988, and is the father of actors Griffin Newman and James Newman. As of 2022, he is an associate professor at New York University, teaching courses at both the Tisch School of the Arts and the Stern School of Business; in 2008, he was named the first head of a dual MFA-MBA program, which the university describes as the first of its kind in the United States.

Movies & Shows on Plex

  • Lord of the Flies
  • Space Truckers
  • The Music Never Stopped
  • Lulu on the Bridge
  • The Game of Their Lives
  • American Violet
  • End of the Line
  • The 24 Hour Woman
  • 1918
  • On Valentine's Day

Known For

  • Smoke
  • The Squid and the Whale
  • Dogfight
  • Lord of the Flies
  • Strike!
  • Interstate 60
  • Space Truckers
  • Come Back to the 5 & Dime Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean
  • The Secret of Roan Inish
  • Blue in the Face
  • The Center of the World
  • The Music Never Stopped
  • O.C. and Stiggs
  • Lulu on the Bridge
  • American Violet
  • Swimming to Cambodia
  • Household Saints
  • The 24 Hour Woman
  • Relative Evil
  • The Game of Their Lives
  • End of the Line
  • On Valentine's Day
  • The Inner Life of Martin Frost
  • 1918

Filmography

2019
William · as Executive Producer
2011
2011
Outback Fight Club (TV Series) · as Executive Producer
2010
SAS: The Search for Warriors (TV Series) · as Executive Producer
2008
American Violet · as Executive Producer
2007
The Inner Life of Martin Frost · as Executive Producer
2005
2005
2002
Washington Heights · as Executive Producer
2002
2001
Relative Evil · as Executive Producer
2001
2000
When the Sky Falls · as Executive Producer
1999
1998
1998
1996
1995
1995
1994
The Secret of Roan Inish · as Executive Producer
1993
1991
1990
Lord of the Flies · as Executive Producer
1987
1987
Swimming to Cambodia · as Executive Producer
1986
On Valentine's Day · as Executive Producer
1985
1918 · as Executive Producer
1985

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