Peter Guber

Birth Name:

Howard Peter Guber

Birth Place:

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Profession

Producer, Music department

The National Association of Theater Owners named Guber producer of the year in 1978 for the critically adored "Midnight Express․"
While enrolled at NYU to receive his MBA and Master of Law degrees, he skipped out on his graduation and accepted a position with Columbia Pictures as an assistant and management trainee
Attended Syracuse University in New York as a pre-law major in the 1960s, played recreational football at the university, pledged the Zeta Beta Tau fraternity and met his future wife who belonged to a sorority
After his termination at Columbia pictures, launched his career as an independent film producer, producing the second highest-grossing film of 1977, "The Deep․"
Since starting his career as a film producer, his films have earned over $3 billion worldwide and 50 Academy Award nominations
His early position at Columbia Pictures included computerizing files on working actors and tape-recorded summaries of scripts for executives but was soon transferred to the New York City officer where he became VP of creative affairs
In 1989, his production agency Guber-Peters Entertainment Company was acquired by the Sony Corporation and he became Chairman of the Board and CEO of Sony Pictures Entertainment
Bought NBA's Golden State Warriors with Boston Celtics minority partner Joe Lacob for $450 million IN 2010, later becoming a minority owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers in 2012
A regular entertainment and media analyst for Fox Business News

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