{{Short description|Australian film director}} {{Use Australian English|date=June 2020}} {{Infobox person | image = | image_size = | name = Peter Faiman | honorific_suffix = AM | birth_name = Peter Leonard Faiman | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1944}} | birth_place = Melbourne, Victoria, Australia | death_date = | death_place = | other_names = | occupation = {{hlist|Television executive|TV producer|film producer and director}} | years_active = 1971–present | spouse = | website = }} '''Peter Leonard Faiman'''<ref name="bio">[https://books.google.com/books?id=kLkxAQAAIAAJ&q=%22Peter+Faiman%22+born Biographical Data Peter Faiman in: ''The Bulletin'', 6240-6248, J. Haynes and J.F. Archibald, 2000, P 32]</ref> AM<ref name="am">{{cite web|url=https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/883121|title=Faiman, Peter, AM|publisher=It's an Honour|accessdate=6 March 2012}}</ref> (born 1944) is an Australian television producer with experience in film, live television and events. He has had a long-standing working relationship with the Nine Network.
==Biography== Faiman was born in Melbourne.<ref name="bio"/> He directed/produced the ''Paul Hogan Show'' and the Graham Kennedy and Don Lane shows<ref name="Skills">{{cite web|url=http://www.tradeskills.com.au/documents/Factsheet-%20SkillsOne%20television.pdf|title=Peter Fairman, AM Biography|publisher=SkillsOne Television|accessdate=10 March 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091112015125/http://www.tradeskills.com.au/documents/Factsheet-%20SkillsOne%20television.pdf|archive-date=12 November 2009|url-status=dead}}</ref> for about six years of its eight-and-a-half-year run.<ref name="IMDb">{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0265363/|title=Peter Faiman|publisher=IMDb|accessdate=10 March 2010}}</ref> He also produced a show hosted by Bert Newton and one by Ernie Sigley.<ref name="IMDb"/> In 1981, he was awarded the Member of the Order of Australia in the 1981 Queen's New Years Honours List for his services to the media, particularly in the field of television production.<ref name="am"/>
Faiman was involved in several Rupert Murdoch projects, including in the UK as creative and management consultant at BSkyB,<ref name="Skills"/> and in the US at the Fox Network, where he produced the Emmy Award-winning news magazine program ''The Reporters'' and ''A Current Affair'' in New York City.<ref name="Skills"/> He went on to become Vice President of Fox Circle Productions<ref name="Skills"/> and later President of Programs and Production at 20th Century Fox Television in Los Angeles.<ref name="Skills"/> He guided the launch of the FX Network in New York in 1994,<ref name="Skills"/> and was the coordinating director for the opening and closing broadcasts of the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games on behalf of the Sydney Olympic Broadcasting Organisation (SOBO).<ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1300&dat=19880901&id=vUYVAAAAIBAJ&sjid=7JYDAAAAIBAJ&pg=3875,258337 |publisher=The Age|date=1 September 1988|last=McNamara|first=Marie|accessdate=10 March 2010|title=Staging the Olympics in the best of style}}</ref>
Faiman directed the 1986 blockbuster film ''Crocodile Dundee'',<ref name="IMDb"/> and the 1991 American comedy ''Dutch'', which was a box office disappointment.<ref name="IMDb"/> He also produced the 1992 animated feature ''FernGully: The Last Rainforest''.<ref name="IMDb"/>
Since returning to Australia in 2002, he has been a program consultant for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, acting as a consulting producer on ''Strictly Ballroom'', ''Spicks and Specks'' and ''The Pet Show''.<ref name="IMDb"/> Faiman also helped conceptualise the Webby Award-winning multi-platform project SkillsOne.<ref name="Skills"/>
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==External links== * {{IMDb name|0265363}}
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Faiman, Peter}} Category:Living people Category:Film directors from Melbourne Category:Australian film directors Category:Australian television producers Category:Members of the Order of Australia Category:People educated at University High School, Melbourne Category:1944 births