Peter Berg Biography

Fast Facts

• Delivered pizzas in college and worked on the docks in San Pedro, CA, before breaking into acting (in a 1988 episode of the FOX drama 21 Jump Street)
• Made his film debut in the 1989 buddy comedy Never on Tuesday
• His breakout TV role, Dr
• Billy Kronk on Chicago Hope (1995-99), led to his writing and directorial debuts, both on the CBS medical drama
• Directed his first film, the dark comedy Very Bad Things, in 1998
• Was robbed at gunpoint while scouting locations in Brazil for the 2003 action flick The Rundown
• (It ended up being filmed in Hawaii
• ) Directed the 2004 drama Friday Night Lights, which was adapted from a nonfiction book of the same name by his cousin, H
• G
• "Buzz" Bissinger