Peter Samuelson
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Peter Samuelson 16 October 1951 London, England, UK |
| Occupation | Motion picture producer |
| Years active | 1971-present |
Peter Samuelson is an American and British TV and film producer and educator, and founder of the Starlight Children's Foundation.
Peter Samuelson is a serial pro-social entrepreneur, and president of Film Associates, Inc a media consultancy and production company. He is mainly a film and television producer, but has also been a production manager, senior corporate executive, and starred in The Return of the Pink Panther as the Clothing Thief. He was previously president of Spashlife, Inc and Chairman of the Executive Committee of Panavision, Inc. After serving as a production manager on films such as The Return of the Pink Panther, he emigrated from London to Los Angeles and produced Revenge of the Nerds, Tom & Viv, Wilde, Arlington Road and other films.
Peter also served on the initial three-person advisory board for Jeff Skoll's Participant Productions. He was the first managing director of the Media Institute for Social Change (MISC) at the University of Southern California.
As a social entrepreneur, in 1982 Peter and his cousin, actress Emma Samms, were inspired by a boy battling an inoperable brain tumor, and started the Starlight Children's Foundation, building it into a charity that now provides psycho-social services to six million seriously ill children a year, in six countries.
In 1990, Peter brought together leaders including Steven Spielberg and General Norman Schwarzkopf to create the STARBRIGHT Foundation, a charity dedicated to developing media and technology-based programs to educate and empower children to cope with the medical, emotional and social challenges of their illnesses. Five years later, they launched the interactive social network Starbright World that helps seriously ill children meet and develop relationships with peers through video, sound, text, and avatar based communication.
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