American director, producer, screenwriter, and actor

Peter Berg

Peter Berg is an American director, producer, writer, and actor. His directorial film works include the black comedy Very Bad Things (1998), the action comedy The Rundown (2003), the sports drama Friday Night Lights (2004), the action thriller The Kingdom (2007), the superhero comedy-drama Hancock (2008), the military science fiction war film Battleship (2012), the war film Lone Survivor (2013), the disaster drama Deepwater Horizon (2016), the Boston Marathon bombing drama Patriots Day (2016), the action thriller Mile 22 (2018), and the action comedy Spenser Confidential (2020), the latter five all starring Mark Wahlberg. In addition to cameo appearances in the last six of these titles, he has had prominent acting roles in films including Never on Tuesday (1989), Shocker (1989), A Midnight Clear (1992), The Last Seduction (1994), The Great White Hype (1996), Cop Land (1997), Corky Romano (2001), Collateral (2004), Smokin' Aces (2006), and Lions for Lambs (2007).

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1964

March 11

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1964 Born

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843 Triumph of Orthodoxy: Empress Theodora II restores the veneration of icons in the Orthodox churches in the Byzantine Empire.
1343 Arnošt of Pardubice becomes the last Bishop of Prague (3 March 1343 O.S.), and, a year later, the first Archbishop of Prague.
1387 Battle of Castagnaro: Padua, led by John Hawkwood, is victorious over Giovanni Ordelaffi of Verona.
1641 Guaraní forces living in the Jesuit reductions defeat bandeirantes loyal to the Portuguese Empire at the Battle of Mbororé in present-day Panambí, Argentina.

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The world in 1964

When Peter arrived

april 1 The British Admiralty, War Office and Air Ministry are replaced by a unified Defence Council of the United Kingdom.
april 11 Brazilian Marshal Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco is elected president by the National Congress.
april 13 At the Academy Awards, Sidney Poitier becomes the first African-American man to win the Best Actor award for the 1963 film Lilies of the Field.
april 17 Jerrie Mock completes the first around-the-world airplane flight by a woman. Her solo flight in the Spirit of Columbus, which took 29+1⁄2 days, took off and landed at the Port Columbus International Airport in Ohio.

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Same-day contemporaries

Also born on March 11

Anton Yelchin 1989–2016 American actor (born 1989) Antonin Scalia 1936–2016 American lawyer and judge, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (born 1936) Benjamin Tupper 1738–1792 American general and surveyor (born 1738) Carl Ruggles 1876–1971 American composer and painter (died 1971) Gary Barnett 1963– English footballer and manager Henry Cowell 1897– American pianist and composer (died 1965) Margaret Oakley Dayhoff 1925–1983 American chemist and academic (born 1925) Qasem Soleimani 1957–2020 Iranian major general, commander of the Iranian Quds Force (born 1957) Raoul Walsh 1887–1980 American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1887)

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Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1964

Abhisit Vejjajiva 1964– English-Thai economist and politician, 27th Prime Minister of Thailand Andrew Bartlett 1964– Australian social worker and politician Andy Serkis 1964– English actor and director Đặng Thân 1964– Vietnamese writer and poet Arlie Petters 1964– Belizean-American mathematical physicist and academic Azmin Ali 1964– Malaysian mathematician and politician Brian Adams 1964–2007 American wrestler (died 2007) Bridget Fonda 1964– American actress Calista Flockhart 1964– American actress

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