Peter Bart
| Peter Bart | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Peter Benton Bart July 24, 1932 New York City, New York, United States |
| Occupation | Author, managing editor, film producer, journalist, screenwriter, television host |
| Spouse(s) | Dorothy Callmann (1961–81; divorced) Leslie Cox (1982–2005; divorced) Phyllis Fredette (2008–present) |
Peter Benton Bart (born July 24, 1932) is an American journalist and film producer, writing a column for Deadline.com since 2015. He is perhaps best known for his lengthy tenure (from 1989–2009) as the editor in chief of Variety, an entertainment-trade magazine.
Bart was also a co-host, with film producer Peter Guber, of the weekly television series, Shootout (formerly Sunday Morning Shootout), carried on the AMC television channel from 2003 to 2008 and subsequently seen in syndication and in 53 countries around the world.
Bart was born in New York City, the son of Clara and M.S. Bart. His mother and possibly his father were Austrian Jews who emigrated in the early Twentieth Century.
Bart was educated at Friends Seminary in New York City; Swarthmore College, near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and The London School of Economics and Political Science in London, United Kingdom.
He served as a reporter and columnist for The New York Times and as a reporter for The Wall Street Journal and the Chicago Sun-Times prior to entering the film business.
Starting in 1967, Bart worked as an executive at Paramount Pictures, rising to vice president in charge of production; his relationship with Robert Evans was documented in Evans' autobiography The Kid Stays in the Picture. He played a key role in such films as Rosemary's Baby (1968), True Grit (1969), Harold and Maude (1971), The Godfather (1972) and Paper Moon (1973). After eight years at Paramount he became senior vice president for production at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and president of Lorimar Productions, where he was involved in such films as Being There (1979) and The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981). Bart also served as a co-producer on such films as Fun with Dick and Jane (1977) and Islands in the Stream (1977). He also wrote the screenplay for the 1971 film Making It .
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