Peter McCarthy (film producer)

{{Short description|American film producer, screenwriter, director, and editor}}

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| name = Peter McCarthy

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| birth_name =

| birth_date = 1950 or 1951

| birth_place = Chicago, Illinois

| occupation = {{Plainlist|

• Producer
• Screenwriter
• Director
• Editor

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| years_active = 1984–2014

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Peter McCarthy is an American film producer, screenwriter, director, and editor. He is best known as a producer on the film Repo Man.{{Cite web |last=Kleinman |first=Jake |date=2024-03-12 |title=The Oral History of 'Repo Man,' the Greatest Indie Sci-Fi Movie Ever Made |url=https://www.inverse.com/entertainment/repo-man-oral-history-1984 |access-date=2024-05-23 |website=Inverse |language=en}}

Originally from Chicago, McCarthy moved to Los Angeles to attend film school at UCLA.{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=1989-03-30 |title=Creating a Buzz |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/1989/03/30/creating-a-buzz-4/ |access-date=2024-05-23 |website=Chicago Tribune |language=en-US}} There, he met Alex Cox and Jonathan Wacks, with whom he went on to make Repo Man. McCarthy and Wacks established a production company in Venice Beach and created the film as their first feature release. He continued producing films in the 1980s, including Sid and Nancy, I'm Gonna Git You Sucka, and Tapeheads.{{Cite web |last=Ebert |first=Roger |date=1988-10-21 |title=Tapeheads |url=https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/tapeheads-1988 |access-date=2024-05-23 |website=rogerebert.com/ |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Peter McCarthy |url=https://catalog.afi.com/Person/255455-Peter-McCarthy |access-date=2024-05-23 |website=AFI{{!}}Catalog}} McCarthy directed his first film, Floundering, in 1994.{{Cite web |last=Kamerman |first=Rachel |date=2011-10-27 |title=Making Things Happen (or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Producing) |url=https://www.documentary.org/feature/making-things-happen-or-how-i-learned-stop-worrying-and-love-producing |access-date=2024-05-23 |website=International Documentary Association |language=en}}