Peter Ross Newman is an American film producer and educator. He attended Northwestern University and began his producing career in the 1980s.[1]
Newman has been married to casting director and filmmaker Antonia Dauphin since 1988, and is the father to chef Romilly Newman and of actors Griffin Newman and James Newman. [2][3][4] 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.[1]
As of 2013, Newman lives between Greenwich Village, Manhattan, and a vacation home on Blackberry Farm, in the Great Smoky Mountains.[3]
Selected filmography
- O.C. and Stiggs (1987)
- Swimming to Cambodia (1987)[2]
- Lord of the Flies (1990)
- Dogfight (1991)
- The Secret of Roan Inish (1994)
- Blue in the Face (1995)
- Smoke (1995)
- Space Truckers (1996)
- The Hairy Bird (1998)
- Interstate 60: Episodes of the Road (2002)
- The Squid and the Whale (2005)[5]
- The Game of Their Lives (2005)
- The Music Never Stopped (2011)
References
- 1 2 "Peter Ross Newman". New York University Tisch School of the Arts. Retrieved November 23, 2019.
- 1 2 "Film Producer Marries Miss Dauphin, Actress". The New York Times. June 27, 1988. Retrieved March 26, 2022.
- 1 2 Shaw, Dan (November 15, 2013). "Houseful of Handfuls". The New York Times. Retrieved March 26, 2022.
- ↑ Brown, Emma (March 13, 2017). "DISCOVERY: GRIFFIN NEWMAN". Interview. Retrieved November 23, 2019.
- ↑ Foundas, Scott (January 25, 2005). "The Squid and the Whale". Variety. Retrieved August 1, 2019.
External links
- Peter Newman at IMDb