Wolfgang Petersen

Wolfgang Petersen

 

Wolfgang Petersen (born 14 March 1941) is a German film director. He is known for his body of film work, which includes The NeverEnding Story, Outbreak, In the Line of Fire, Air Force One, The Perfect Storm, Troy, and Poseidon. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Director and an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for the 1981 World War II submarine warfare film Das Boot.

Trivia:

Is fluent in English and German.

Received “Bayerischer Verdienstorden” (Bavaria’s highest decoration) on 17 July 2003.

Broke into the entertainment industry in 1960 with the Hamburg Ernest Deutsch Theater as an assistant director.

Got to know his second wife during the shooting of Smog (1973) (TV), where she worked as a script girl.

Father of Daniel Petersen.

Attended the Film and Television Academy in Berlin (DFFB) from 1966 to 1970.

Was offered the chance to direct “The Sum of All Fears” (2002), but declined.

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