Peter Beckman

My youth was spent in Sacramento, California, where my father taught art at Sacramento State University (nee college) where I appeared ass a juvenile in school plays ("Auntie Mame", "Our Town", "King Lear.")
Since age 17 I have been a professional actor, which eventually led me to Cal Arts, where I eventually studied screenwriting under the tutelage of director Alexander Mackendrick.
In 1975 I spent two unbelievably thrilling weeks working as an actor in Orson Welles' still unfinished masterwork "The Other Side of the Wind." I have also worked with directors as varied as Ulli Lommel, Robert Dornhelm, Graeme Clifford, Norman Corwin and Pat O'Neill.
Since the mid-1990s, I have made my living doing voice work for commercials, anime, and video games, such as "Street Fighter" (Zangief), and "World of Warcraft."
I have also written extensively for such publications as Modern Times, Video Watchdog, Venice Magazine, and in 2010 I published my first novel, "Dead Hollywood." The sequel, "Dead Hollywood Exhumed," is due to be published next year.
In the year 2000, I looked up my childhood love of painting - my first favored means of artistic expression - and found it was still there.

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Marvin Marshall Grade School, Carmichael, CA
Carmichael Junior High School
La Sierra High School, Carmichael, CA
American River Junior College, Carmichael, CA
Sacramento State College (studied with Drs. Carl Thomas and Gerard Larson
California Institute of the Arts (teachers & instructors: A. Mackendrick, Wal Cherry, Sergei Tchernich, John Willet, Beatrice Manley, Mia Slavenska, Dr. Don Levy, Paul Brach.

2011- Barnsdale Park, Hollywood, CA
Group show, curated by Jeff Phillips

Work in the private collections of: Jean-Pierre Boccara, the late Diane Buckler, Cita & Ricardo Ochoa, Lola Simiena, Elizabeth Shepherd, John Frady, Mitch & Nell Eakin, Robert Burtis, and many others.