Peter Anthony Dowling is a British screenwriter and film director. He was born in Salford, England, in 1969 and started his career in children's animation in both the UK and Germany, working on cartoons such as The Raggy Dolls, Benjamin Bluemchen and Renada.
After winning the Fulbright TEB Clarke Fellowship in Screenwriting 1996/7, judged by William Goldman and paid for by John Cleese, Dowling moved to the United States, briefly attending the University of Southern California, and then sold a spec screenplay to Arnold Kopelson (Platoon, Se7en) and 20th Century Fox.
His first produced movie was Flightplan starring Jodie Foster which was commercially successful in the U.S. and grossed over $223,000,000 worldwide.
Starting in 2007 he began to direct, and his first film was Stag Night.
Filmography edit
Television edit
- Waldo’s Way (1996)
- Renada (1998)
- Transformers: Rescue Bots Academy (2019–2020)
- Red Eye (2024)
Films edit
- Flightplan (2005) - Writer[1][2]
- Stag Night (2007) - Writer/Director
- Reasonable Doubt (2014) - Writer
- Sacrifice (2016) - Writer/Director[3]
- Black and Blue (2019) - Writer
References edit
- ^ "ABC Developing Reincarnation Cop Drama "Then Again" (Exclusive)". The Tracking Board. 2018-01-17. Retrieved 2020-04-15.
- ^ White, Peter (2019-06-06). "'Flightplan' Writer Peter A. Dowling Scores ITV Submarine Drama 'Tenacity' With Bad Wolf & eOne". Deadline. Retrieved 2020-04-15.
- ^ Kenny, Glenn (2016-04-28). "Review: 'Sacrifice' Yields Corpses and Clichés". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-04-15.