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Peter S. Davis, best known as the producer of the Highlander<\/em> movie, television and video game franchise died on February 21st.\u00a0 Mr. Davis was 79.<\/p>\n Peter S. Davis was CEO and President of Davis-Panzer Productions (DPP) and Davis Merchandising.\u00a0 He was a former lawyer on Wall Street as well as an\u00a0 entrepreneur who owned several business’ outside of movie-making.\u00a0 Davis began his Hollywood career in 1976 as an Executive Producer of The Death Collector<\/em> which featured Joe Pesci in a co-starring role.\u00a0 Davis followed that up as Executive Producer of the movie Stunts<\/em> starring Robert Forester and Ray Sharkey.\u00a0 Peter Davis was producer of Sam Peckinpah’s last film (The Osterman Weekend<\/em>) as well as one of Brad Pitt’s first films (Cutting Class<\/em>), but it is the Highlander<\/em> series where Davis made his biggest and best contribution.<\/p>\n Davis pushed to get Highlander<\/em> to the big screen.\u00a0 He is also credited for getting Sean Connery in the co-starring role that gave the film gravitas.\u00a0 The success of Highlander<\/em> created a franchise that included a sequel, an animated series, a television series, tv movies and video games.<\/p>\n The original Highlander<\/em> film is one of my all-time favorite films.\u00a0 Everything from the screenplay to the acting, direction and soundtrack\/score came together.\u00a0 Although I wasn’t a fan of the sequel and didn’t get into the other Highlander<\/em> ventures, I am such a fan of the original Highlander<\/em> film, if that was the only contribution that Peter S. Davis made in his career, it would be worth noting here.<\/p>\n Our thoughts and prayers go out to Peter S. Davis’ family, friends and fans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Peter S. Davis, best known as the producer of the Highlander movie, television and video game franchise died on February<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,54,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-movies","category-tv","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25168"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25169,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25168\/revisions\/25169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}