Arlen Peters
Arlen Peters began his professional career in the CBS mailroom at the age of 17 while still attending UCLA. What followed was a move into the programming area, where he earned a slot with the CBS Radio Network as a writer / director, joining both the Writer’s Guild of America and Director’s Guild of America at the age of 18.
CBS was his training ground, and over an eight year period Peters wrote, produced and directed hundreds of features for the network , working with personalities and broadcast legends ranging from Walter Cronkite to Lowell Thomas, Mike Wallace to Dan Rather, Harry Reasoner to Charles Kuralt, “Dear Abby” to Phil Rizzuto.
One day he was handed a cassette recorder and told to go out and do an interview (something he had never done before!) That first interview subject was Walter Matthau. Over the years he has interviewed literally hundreds of celebrities, from Jack Benny to Lucille Ball, Robert Redford to Paul Newman, Brad Pitt to Tom Cruise, Tom Hanks to Dustin Hoffman. Additionally, he wrote a number of CBS Radio Network specials, including A Sense of American Humor hosted by Roger Mudd, The American Movie and Young at Heart, for which he was awarded a Writer’s Guild nomination for best radio documentary of the year.
He also began writing, directing and producing EPK’s (electronic press kits) for all the major film studios and over the years has worked on a variety of films in all types of genres: DIRTY DANCING, AMERICAN BEAUTY, TOOTSIE, RESERVOIR DOGS, HAIRSPRAY, GANDHI, BEST IN SHOW, GHOSTBUSTERS, THE NATURAL, ANALYZE THIS, CITY SLICKERS, the restoration of LAWRENCE OF ARABIA … just to name a few.
Peters has also produced a number of multiple camera press junkets for studios such as Sony, Castle Rock, Columbia Pictures and Tri -Star Pictures. He has hosted a number of film premieres as well, including A FEW GOOD MEN (with Tom Cruise), THE LAST ACTION HERO (with Arnold Schwarzenegger), ERIN BROCKOVITCH (with Julia Roberts) … and GODZILLA!
His writing has included numerous magazine and newspaper articles, from lengthy personality profiles to a look at the very first day of Columbia Square, the original CBS home on the west coast.
Awards include an Emmy nomination for THE GOLDEN DAYS OF RADIO TV SPECIAL; The NEW YORK FESTIVAL Award for the HBO First Look special on RUNAWAY JURY, THE 25TH Annual TELLY Award for CALENDAR GIRLS, the Oscar Special; and the VIDEOGRAPHER Award for best Video Production for CALENDAR GIRLS.
Arlen Peters began his professional career in the CBS mailroom at the age of 17 while still attending UCLA. What followed was a move into the programming area, where he earned a slot with the CBS Radio Network as a writer / director, joining both the Writer’s Guild of America and Director’s Guild of America at the age of 18.
CBS was his training ground, and over an eight year period Peters wrote, produced and directed hundreds of features for the network , working with personalities and broadcast legends ranging from Walter Cronkite to Lowell Thomas, Mike Wallace to Dan Rather, Harry Reasoner to Charles Kuralt, “Dear Abby” to Phil Rizzuto.
One day he was handed a cassette recorder and told to go out and do an interview (something he had never done before!) That first interview subject was Walter Matthau. Over the years he has interviewed literally hundreds of celebrities, from Jack Benny to Lucille Ball, Robert Redford to Paul Newman, Brad Pitt to Tom Cruise, Tom Hanks to Dustin Hoffman. Additionally, he wrote a number of CBS Radio Network specials, including A Sense of American Humor hosted by Roger Mudd, The American Movie and Young at Heart, for which he was awarded a Writer’s Guild nomination for best radio documentary of the year.
He also began writing, directing and producing EPK’s (electronic press kits) for all the major film studios and over the years has worked on a variety of films in all types of genres: DIRTY DANCING, AMERICAN BEAUTY, TOOTSIE, RESERVOIR DOGS, HAIRSPRAY, GANDHI, BEST IN SHOW, GHOSTBUSTERS, THE NATURAL, ANALYZE THIS, CITY SLICKERS, the restoration of LAWRENCE OF ARABIA … just to name a few.
Peters has also produced a number of multiple camera press junkets for studios such as Sony, Castle Rock, Columbia Pictures and Tri -Star Pictures. He has hosted a number of film premieres as well, including A FEW GOOD MEN (with Tom Cruise), THE LAST ACTION HERO (with Arnold Schwarzenegger), ERIN BROCKOVITCH (with Julia Roberts) … and GODZILLA!
His writing has included numerous magazine and newspaper articles, from lengthy personality profiles to a look at the very first day of Columbia Square, the original CBS home on the west coast.
Awards include an Emmy nomination for THE GOLDEN DAYS OF RADIO TV SPECIAL; The NEW YORK FESTIVAL Award for the HBO First Look special on RUNAWAY JURY, THE 25TH Annual TELLY Award for CALENDAR GIRLS, the Oscar Special; and the VIDEOGRAPHER Award for best Video Production for CALENDAR GIRLS.
