Peter Davis
DoB:
02 January 1937
Meta description:
Peter has written, produced, and directed more than seventy documentaries.
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Description
Peter has written, produced, and directed more than seventy documentaries. His work has been shown on every major television network on the globe including CBC, CTV, BBC, CBS, NBC, Swedish Television, German Television, and NHK Japan.
Davis was born and raised in England. He completed his masters studies at Oxford University before emigrating to Sweden and then North America. His early career included positions as scriptwriter for the National Film Board of Canada; director-cameraman for BBC, CBC, Swedish TV, Danish TV, Australian Broadcasting, and WNET; as well as producer for Swedish TV, London’s Rediffusion Television, BBC, CBS, CBC, CTV, Polytel (West Germany), WNET, the United Nations, UNICEF, and C.A.R.E.
Credits
- A Sizwe Bansi Workshop, Director
- André Brink - Unedited Interview, Interview and Audio
- Andre Coetzee - Unedited Interview, Interview and Audio
- Anthony Lewis - Unedited Interview, Interview and Audio
- Antony Thomas - Unedited Interview, Interview and Audio
- Arthur Maimane - Unedited Interview, Interview and Audio
- Behind The Lens- Robert Elfstrom Remembers Johnny Cash, Producer and Director
- Belize - End of the World, Director
- Black Panthers - Angela Yvonne Davis In Philadelphia, Camera
- Black Panthers - Angela Yvonne Davis Prison Interview, Camera
- Black Panthers - Jean Genet And Zayd Malik Shakur, Camera
- Black Sea Voyage Of Healing, Director
- Born To Swing, Photography
- California 1970s, Camera
- Californian Counter-Culture, Camera
- Caroline Hamilton - Unedited Interview, Interview and Audio
- Chelsea Bridge Boys, Co-Director
- Chicago 68 - Jerry Rubin At Rutgers, Co-director
- Chicago 68 - Riots by Staffan Lamm, Director
- Chief Peter Macdonald, Navajo Chair (Compilation), Camera
- Children’s Songs & Games South Africa, Camera
- Counterpoint: The U-2 Story, Director
- Cuba, Cult And Culture, Director
- D.H. Lawrence In Taos, Director, Producer
- Danube Blues, Producer, Director
- Dialectics Of Liberation - Anatomy Of Violence - Full Film, Producer, Director
- Dialektikon - Roy Battersby Interview, Camera and Interviewer
- Dialektikon - Andrew Feldmár Interview, Camera and Interviewer
- Dialektikon - Francis Huxley Interview, Camera and Interviewer
- Dialektikon - Gustav Metzger Interview, Camera and Interviewer
- Dialektikon - Iain Sinclair Interview, Camera and Interviewer
- Dialektikon - Interview with Joseph Berke, Camera and Interviewer
- Dialektikon - Jerome Rothenburg and Michael Maclure at City Lights, Camera and Interviewer
- Dialektikon - Jerome Rothenburg Interview, Camera and Interviewer
- Dialektikon - Leon Redler Interview, Camera and Interviewer
- Dialektikon - Michael Horovitz Interview, Camera and Interviewer
- Dialektikon - Murray Korngold Interview, Camera and Interviewer
- Dialektikon - Tariq Ali presentation at Dangerous Times Festival, Camera
- Digging “The Spanish Earth”, Producer, Director
- Dorothy Mary Benson - Unedited Interview, Camera and Interviewer
- El Masna, Director
- El Reto, Editor
- Electronics Italy - 2, Camera
- Electronics Italy - 3, Camera
- Father Paul Singleton - Unedited Interview, Interview and Audio
- Fidel, Film, Freedom, Director
- Film Shoot and South Africa House - B-roll, Camera
- Florence Street Scenes - B-roll, Director
- Gabu Tugwana - Unedited Interview, Interview and Audio
- Generations Of Resistance, Producer, Director
- George Seldes 90th Birthday Party, Producer and Director
- George Seldes Interview, Producer and Director
- Henninger, Director
- Immigrants, Co-Director
- In Darkest Hollywood: Cinema and Apartheid, Part 1, Written, Filmed, Edited and Produced
- Isabel Hofmeyr - Unedited Interview, Interview and Audio
- Jamaica, Director
- Johannesburg B-Roll, Stock Footage, Camera
- Johannesburg equestrian horse show, B-roll, Camera
- Kay Smithford - Unedited Interview, Camera
- Lionel Ngakane - Unedited Interview, Interview and Audio
- Making Of Hi, Mom! With Brian De Palma, Director
- Malombo, Director
- Mfundi Vundla - Unedited Interview, Interview and Audio
- Mongane Wally Serote - Unedited Interview, Interview and Audio
- Nigeria - Life, Culture, And Industry, Audio
- Nomsa Xaba - Unedited Interview, Interview and Audio
- Oliver Schmitz - Unedited Interview, Interview and Audio
- Oliver Tambo in Harlem, Canaan Baptist Church, Camera
- On The Trail Of The Lion, Camera
- Peter Davis Interviews Staffan Lamm, Camera and Interviewer
- Pretoria, B-roll, Voortrekker, University, Laerskool Eenheid, Camera
- Pub, Director
- Public School, Co-Director
- Public School - Out Takes, Co-Director
- Rise & Fall Of The Borscht Belt - A Mock Marriage, Producer, Director
- Robert Van Der Merwe - Unedited Interview, Interview and Audio
- Ross Devenish - Unedited Interview, Interview and Audio
- Royal Hospital, Co-Director
- Sandy Balfour - Unedited Interview, Interview and Audio
- Sangoma - Out Takes, Camera
- Shadowplay, Director
- South Africa: The Nuclear File, Producer, Director
- South Newspaper Journalists - Unedited Interviews, Interview and Audio
- Staffan Lamm in conversation with Brita Åkerman, Camera
- Strip, Co-Director
- The Legacy Of Jon Gates, Written, Produced, Directed
- The Nature Of David Suzuki - Outtakes, Director
- The Paperback Vigilante, Director
- This Bloody, Blundering Business, Director
- Vivienne Walt - Unedited Interview, Interview and Audio
- Warren Farrell In Victoria, British Columbia, Camera
- White Laager, Director
- William Faure - Unedited Interview, Interview and Audio
- Winnie Mandela: Under Apartheid, Director