Peter Berg is a director, an actor and writer. He’s worked in television and in film and has managed to bring us a wide variety of films such as Battleship, Friday Night Lights, and many others from different genres. He’s proven himself to be adept behind the camera as well as in front of it, providing a high level of acting talent as well as the type of vision that creates memorable films. He actually put his dreams of being an actor and director on hold when he first started and became a production assistant in order to learn more about the film business. Obviously you can see it’s worked since he’s one of the more knowledgeable men in Hollywood at this point.
Here are some of the best roles he’s been in thus far.
5. Great White Hype-Terry Conklin
Boxing has become kind of a snooze in this film. It’s nothing but one guy taking out another guy without any real challenge being thrown down. When Samuel L. Jackson’s character decides to mix it up by pitting the current champion against a retired but still serviceable white fighter he finds a way to hype the fight in a way that people will actually pay attention again.
4. Collateral-Richard Weidner
He’s in this movie but finding a clip of it is insanely hard for some reason. Berg plays a small role since the main part of the story revolves around Tom Cruise and Jamie Foxx. Cruise plays an assassin that’s in town for one night to take out a selected group of targets. Foxx is unfortunately the cabbie that gets hired to ferry Vincent from job to job.
3. Cop Land-Joey Randone
Count me out of a town like this. The sheriff might act like he runs the place but the cops that live there obviously own it and aren’t shy about running it their way when the sheriff decides not to say anything. It doesn’t help that the sheriff want to be one of them so bad that he’ll allow certain thing to by the wayside and say nothing, but eventually push comes to shove and things tend to get out of hand.
2. Shocker-Jonathan Parker
This is almost like a digital version of Nightmare on Elm Street. After a convict is given the electric chair he somehow manages to transfer his soul into anything with an electrical current. A lot of people managed to talk this one up when it came out but if you look at it now there aren’t a lot of redeeming qualities to it other than the the fact that it was one of Berg’s earlier and best roles.
1. Smokin’ Aces-Pete Deeks
This film was flat out awesome, and it’s too bad that Berg had such a small role in it. Smokin’ Aces featured so many great actors that it’s not too surprising that some had to be killed off throughout the film in order to get them all at least close to equal screen time.
Peter Berg is a very talented man, without question.
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