PETER STEIN

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PETER STEIN ASC

Born: 12 October 1943, New York City, N.Y., as Peter Michael Stein, son of still ph Fred Stein [1909 (Germany)-1967 (USA); went to the USA in 1941].

Career: Taught at the State University of New York, Purchase, and the School of Visual Arts, New York City. Started teaching [now Head of Production, Tisch Graduate Film Program] at the Tisch School of the Arts [Kanbar Institute of Film & Television], New York University, in 2002. Gives lighting/cinematography workshops [2009-present].

Member of the ASC since 1999.

Married to film editor/script superv Dawn Freer.

Awards: 'Emmy' Award nom [1982] for 'Robbers, Rooftops and Witches'; 'Emmy' Award nom [1986] for 'Don't Touch'.

Website: Peter Stein

Peter Stein: "My career required me to be away from home for three or four months at a time for a film," he says, "but now I want to be around as my children grow up. So I've cut back, and I'm trying to work closer to home on documentaries and commercials."

His new schedule has also given him the perfect opportunity to do something he's wanted to do for a long time: bring his father's photography to a wider audience. "I've always known that his work was as good as that of many others who were very well-known, and now I want to try to bring him some of the recognition and notice he never received."

Peter first made an effort to do that some 18 years ago when he put together portfolios of his father's photographs and hired a representative to show the work. But at that time Peter's career was just taking off, and he couldn't follow up on the notice his father's work was getting. "We got good responses from museum directors who wanted the collection, and there were many letters of support, but I couldn't pursue it."

Now he can. "The portfolio had been prepared," Peter Stein says, "and I had a catalog printed and made some limited-edition prints available for sale." The catalog text and biographical information about Fred Stein was written by Dawn Freer, Peter's wife.

Today photographs by Fred Stein are in the collections of the National Museum of Art, the International Center of Photography and the National Portrait Gallery, as well as other museums and private and corporate collections around the world. Ultimately, Peter Stein hopes that a book of his father's images will be published.

"My father was a free spirit about the business," Peter says. "He shot what he wanted to shoot and thought about sales later. His joy was meeting people, taking pictures and talking politics. It was an age when you could do that, but even so, he wasn't financially successful. My mother supported the family."

FILMS
1974	Saturday Night at the Baths [David Buckley] c; co-2uc; ph: Ralf D. Bode; + small part
1977	Here Come the Tigers [Sean S. Cunningham] c; 2uc; ph: Barry Abrams
1978	Just Crazy About Horses [Tim Lovejoy, Joe Wemple & Victor Kanefsky] c; doc/105m; addph: Ted Churchill
1979	Friday the 13th [Sean S. Cunningham] c; 2uc; ph: Barry Abrams
1980	Friday the 13th, Part 2 [Steve Miner] c
1982	Beach House/Down the Shore [John A. Gallagher] c
1982	Reuben, Reuben [Robert Ellis Miller] c
1983	Wildrose [John Hanson] c
1984	C.H.U.D. [Douglas Cheek] p/c
1984	A Billion for Boris/Billions for Boris [Alex Grasshoff] c
1985	A Great Wall/The Great Wall Is a Great Wall/Beijing Story [Peter Wang] c; cph: Robert Primes; 2uc: Xie Huaji
1986	Brenda Starr [Robert Ellis Miller] c; cph: Freddie Francis
1986	The Wild Pair/The Devil's Odds/Hollow Point [Beau Bridges] c
1987	After the Rain/The Passage [Harry Thompson] c
1988	Ernest Saves Christmas [John Cherry] c; 2uc: Michael D. Lonzo
1988	Pet Sematary [Mary Lambert] c; spec vfx ph: John Huneck
1989	Ernest Goes to Jail [John Cherry] c
1990	[Stephen King's] Graveyard Shift [Ralph S. Singleton] c; 2uc: Tony Cutrono
1990	Missing Pieces [Leonard Stern] c
1991	Necessary Roughness [Stan Dragoti] c; 2uc: Michael O'Shea; aph: Ron Goodman
1992	Mr. Nanny [Michael Gottlieb] c
1994	The Politics of Cancer [: A Study in Chaos] [Andrzej Krakowski] v-to-35mm/c; doc/99m; + co-ed/co-prod
1997	Landfall [Dan Hamilton] c
2000	Brick by Brick: A Civil Rights Story [Bill Kavanagh & Sylke Fröchtenigt] BetaSP/c; doc/53m; in 2003 still looking for money to finish the film; finished and released in 2007
2001	Farewell to My Country [Andrzej Krakowski] b&w-c; dram doc/100m; cph: Bahman Soltani; addph: Ivo Hanak & A. Krakowski
2002	Varian and Putzi: A 20th Century Tale [Richard Kaplan] b&w-c; doc/80m; released in 2011
2003	Tupperware!/Tupperware: Earl and Brownie's Plastic Empire [Laurie Kahn-Leavitt] DigiBeta/b&w-c; doc/52m (tv-version) & 62m; also shown as ep of PBS-tv series 'American Experience'
2004	Chopin's Afterlife [Ophra Yerushalmi] c; mus doc/54m; cph: Eric Breitbart & Raphael O'Byrne

TELEVISION
1975	About Charles Ives [T.W. Timreck] mus doc/90m; cph: Joe Cannon, Peter Schaefer & Burleigh Wartes; for PBS-tv
1977	[Charles Ives:] A Good Dissonance Like a Man [T.W. Timreck] docudrama/b&w/60m; for PBS-tv
1979	Franz Boas 1858-1942 [T.W. Timreck] doc/b&w-c/59m; cph: Joe Vitagliana; ep PBS-tv series 'Odyssey'
1980	The Last Voyage of the Morro Castle/The Mystery of the Morro Castle [Fred Barzyk] doc + re-enactments/b&w-c/48m; + co-dir; ep HBO-tv series 'Flashback'
1981	Starstruck [Claude Kerven] tvm/52m; an ABC-tv 'Afterschool Special'
1981	The Color of Friendship [Stan Lathan] tvm/46m; an ABC-tv 'Afterschool Special'
1981	Robbers, Rooftops and Witches [Mark Cullingham] tvm/45m/16mm; includes 3 shorts: 'The Chaparral Prince', 'Antaeus' & 'The Invisible Boy'; a CBS-tv 'Library Special'
1981	Private Contentment [Vivian Matalon] tvm; ep PBS-tv series 'American Playhouse'
1981	The Great Plague of 1918 [Fred Barzyk] doc/b&w-c/44m; ep HBO-tv series 'Flashback' (1982); + co-dir
1981	Laughs [Cord Keller] doc special/?m; for HBO-tv (1982); see 1982
1982	The Haunted Mansion Mystery [Larry Elikann] 2-part tvm/50m; an ABC-tv 'Weekend Special'
1982	Going for Laughs [Cord Keller] doc special/?m; sequel to 'Laughs' (see 1981); for HBO-tv (1983)
1983	Oh, Boy! Babies! [Gail Frank] tvm/60m; ep NBC-tv series 'Special Treat'
1984	Mom's on Strike [Joan Darling] tvm/46m; an ABC-tv 'Afterschool Special'
1985	Izzy & Moe [Jackie Cooper] tvm
1985	Don't Touch [Beau Bridges] tvm/46m; an ABC-tv 'Afterschool Special'
1985	Under Siege [Roger Young] tvm
1986	Thomas Eakins: A Motion Portrait [T.W. Timreck] doc + dram seq/58m; ep 1st season of PBS-tv series 'American Masters'
1986	Parent Trap II [Ronald Maxwell] tvm
1986	The Last Fling [Corey Allen] tvm
1986	How to Raise a Street Smart Child [John Peaslee & Judd Pillot] special/43m; for HBO-tv (1987)
1987	The Mystery of the Lost Red Paint People [- The Discovery of a Prehistoric North American Sea Culture] [T.W. Timreck] doc/b&w-c/59m; cph: Thomas Cadieux, a.o.; ep ('Secrets of the Lost Red Paint People') PBS-tv series 'NOVA'
1987	Elvis and Me [Larry Peerce] 2-part tvm; addph: Gideon Porath
1988	The Call [Elayne Boosler] tvm/30m; for Cinemax-tv (1989)
1989	[HBO's] Tales from the Crypt [ep #6 'Collection Completed' dir by Mary Lambert] 93-part series, 1989-96; 1st season, 1989
1990	Sunset Beat [ep 'Hollywood Blvd.' dir by David Hemmings] series (canceled after 2 ep)
1990	Night Visions/Chameleon Blue/The Nightmare Cafe [Wes Craven] pilot; for NBC-tv
1992	Desperate Choices: To Save My Child/Solomon's Choice/The Final Choice [Andy Tennant] tvm
1995	A Midwife's Tale [Richard P. Rogers] docudrama/89m/16mm; cph: Steven Poster; addph: Tony Cucchiari & Robert Zimmerman; ep PBS-tv series 'American Experience'
1996	Harambee! [A Kwanzaa Holiday Special] [Fracaswell Hyman] tvm/60m
1997	The Con [Steven Schachter] tvm
1998	Cold Feet [David Seltzer] pilot; for NBC-tv
2001	Thrill Rides Las Vegas Style [Steve Gerbson] doc/60m; cph: Wally Hawkins & Sam Prigg; for the Travel Channel
2008	At Home in Utopia [Michal Goldman & Ellen Brodsky] doc/b&w-c/57m/16mm; addph; ph: Boyd Estus; ep PBS-tv series 'Independent Lens'; started filming in 2004
2011	Moments in Time/Fred Stein [Peter Stein] doc/?m; + prod; in production for PBS-tv

MISCELLANEOUS
1976	Between the Lines [Joan Micklin Silver] c.op; ph: Kenneth Van Sickle
2011	Moments in Time/Fred Stein [dir; + prod/ph] see Television