Peter Hamel

{{short description|German film director and screenwriter}}

{{about||the German composer|Peter Michael Hamel}}

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| birth_date = 7 December 1911

| birth_place = Mannheim, German Empire

| death_date = 26 February 1979

| death_place = Munich, Bavaria, West Germany

| othername =Kurt Peter Hamel

| occupation = Writer, Director

| yearsactive = 1948–1966 (film & TV)

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Peter Hamel (1911–1979) was a German screenwriter and a director of film and television.Baer p.56 He appeared as himself in the 1948 comedy Film Without a Title. He is the father of the composer Peter Michael Hamel.