Peter Medak
Highest Rated: 96% The Ghost of Peter Sellers (2018)
Lowest Rated: 9% Species II (1998)
Birthday: Dec 23, 1937
Birthplace: Budapest, Hungary
Hungarian-born Peter Medak escaped to England after the 1956 uprising in his homeland. He spent an apprenticeship rising from assistant cameraman to second assistant director with the 1962 remake of "The Phantom of the Opera." The following year, he began directing for TV for Universal and entered features in 1968 with "Negatives." Medak was responsible for one of the most deliriously vicious satires of English upper-crust folly, "The Ruling Class" (1972), featuring a tour de force central performance by Peter O'Toole. The director demonstrated his comedic touch with the middling "Zorro, the Gay Blade" (1981). The best known of Medak's subsequent films, "The Krays" (1990), was a violent look at a rather different segment of English society which featured pop singers Gary and Martin Kemp in the roles of two of Britain's most notorious gangsters while "Let Him Have It" (1991) was a based-on-fact story of a 50s murder case that involved a teenager of questionable intelligence. He also helmed the stylish contemporary noir "Romeo Is Bleeding" (1993). More recently, Medak has concentrated on small screen work, helming episodes of the acclaimed NBC series "Homicide: Life on the Street" and the TNT remake "The Hunchback" (1997), starring Mandy Patinkin and Salma Hayek.
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Peter Medak
Filmography
Movies
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96% |
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The Ghost of Peter Sellers |
Self, Director |
- | 2018 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dating Game Killer |
Director, Executive Producer |
- | 2017 |
No Score Yet |
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Sex & Lies in Sin City: The Ted Binion Scandal | Director | - | 2008 |
No Score Yet |
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By the Pricking of My Thumbs | Director | - | 2006 |
No Score Yet |
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The Feast of All Saints | Director | - | 2001 |
9% |
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Species II | Director | $19.2M | 1998 |
No Score Yet |
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The Hunchback | Director | - | 1997 |
No Score Yet |
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Pontiac Moon | Director | $10.4K | 1994 |
27% |
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Romeo Is Bleeding | Director | $3.3M | 1993 |
84% |
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Let Him Have It | Director | $83.3K | 1991 |
82% |
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The Krays | Director | $1.6M | 1990 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mount Royal | Director | - | 1988 |
No Score Yet |
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The Men's Club | Director | $1.9M | 1986 |
No Score Yet |
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Cry for the Strangers | Director | - | 1982 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mistress of Paradise | Director | - | 1981 |
50% |
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Zorro, the Gay Blade | Director | - | 1981 |
85% |
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The Changeling | Director | - | 1980 |
No Score Yet |
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The Babysitter | Director | - | 1980 |
No Score Yet |
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The Odd Job | Director | - | 1978 |
No Score Yet |
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The Cosmic Princess | Director | - | 1975 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Third Girl From the Left | Director | - | 1973 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Ghost in the Noonday Sun | Director | - | 1973 |
No Score Yet |
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A Day in the Death of Joe Egg | Director | - | 1972 |
77% |
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The Ruling Class | Director | - | 1972 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Negatives | Director | - | 1968 |
TV
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Last Drive-In With Joe Bob Briggs | Director | 2019 |
No Score Yet | 95% | Cold Case | Director | 2009 |
96% | 97% | Breaking Bad | Director | 2009 |
63% | 79% | Masters of Horror | Director | 2007 |
40% | No Score Yet | In Justice | Director | 2006 |
15% | No Score Yet | South Beach | Director | 2006 |
90% | 96% | House | Director | 2004 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | 7th Heaven | Director | 2004 |
No Score Yet | 83% | The Guardian | Director | 2001 2003 |
No Score Yet | 89% | Carnivàle | Director | 2003 |
94% | 96% | The Wire | Director | 2002 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Chicago Hope | Director | 2000 |
78% | 83% | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | Director | 1999 |
82% | 90% | Tales From the Crypt | Director | 1992 |
No Score Yet | 86% | Beauty and the Beast | Director | 1987 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Otherworld | Director | 1985 |
No Score Yet | 95% | Magnum, P.I. | Director | 1985 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hart to Hart | Director | 1982 |
66% | 90% | Space: 1999 | Director | 1976-1977 |