---
name: "Peter Gould"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/peter-gould"
fi1m_id: "peter-gould"
imdb_id: "nm0332467"
tmdb_id: 24951
wikidata_id: "Q7174311"
roles: ["Director","Producer","Writer"]
born: "1 January 1952"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 88
average_as: "director"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-17T17:25:19.239816+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Peter Gould

## Identity

Peter Gould

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/peter-gould
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** peter-gould
- **IMDb ID:** nm0332467
- **TMDB ID:** 24951
- **Wikidata ID:** Q7174311
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Gould, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7174311, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0332467/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/24951

Director and producer. Born 1 January 1952 in New York City, New York, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Director, Producer, Writer
- **Born:** 1 January 1952, New York City, New York, USA
- **Active:** 2008–present
- **Also known as:** 피터 굴드
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 3: 2 directing, 1 producing
- **Frequently works with:** [Adam Bernstein](https://film.one/person/adam-bernstein.md), [Bronwen Hughes](https://film.one/person/bronwen-hughes.md), [Colin Bucksey](https://film.one/person/colin-bucksey.md), [Diane Mercer](https://film.one/person/diane-mercer.md), [Gennifer Hutchison](https://film.one/person/gennifer-hutchison.md), [Jim McKay](https://film.one/person/jim-mckay.md), [John Shiban](https://film.one/person/john-shiban.md), [Michael Slovis](https://film.one/person/michael-slovis.md)
- **Primetime Emmy Awards:** 2 Emmys (2 won)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 88, as director, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 91 (1), 2010s 84 (1), 2020s 82 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Gould, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7174311, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0332467/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/24951

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*Breaking Bad*](https://film.one/tv/breaking-bad.md) (91), [*Better Call Saul*](https://film.one/tv/better-call-saul.md) (84)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Fi1m on Peter Gould

> Peter Gould’s television work is interested in how people learn to excuse themselves. We rate its attention to character, though *Breaking Bad* also supplies a useful warning: cleverness can get between us and the people.

Walter White’s excuses are worth listening to in *Breaking Bad* (2008), because the programme keeps testing them. That is the strongest reason we rate Peter Gould’s television work: the attention paid to how people explain themselves when they do wrong. We found the series frightening because of that close scrutiny, with Bryan Cranston making Walter funny as well as troubling. The humour gives us a reason to stay with someone whose reasoning needs watching. Gould contributed as both writer and director, though the achievement plainly belongs to more than one person.

His early feature credits run from a screenplay for *Double Dragon* (1994) to writing and directing *Meeting Daddy* (2000). The significant turn was towards continuing television drama, with room to follow a character’s changes across episodes. He joined *Breaking Bad* as story editor in 2008 and began directing episodes in its fourth series. His directing therefore grew out of an established involvement with the programme’s writing. That matters more to our view of him than any attempt to extract a separate visual signature from a shared production.

With Vince Gilligan, Gould co-created *Better Call Saul* (2015), becoming sole showrunner after Gilligan stepped back. Jimmy McGill’s development into Saul Goodman makes the interest in character origins explicit, while legal drama, crime and dark comedy provide different ways of approaching him. The attraction is the chance to examine how that change happens, rather than treating the earlier life as information to be supplied. Here we can speak more firmly of Gould’s responsibility for the whole programme, not just individual episodes. His writing, directing and oversight are all part of what we are judging.

There is a caution in our enthusiasm for *Breaking Bad*: its cleverness can become a nuisance. We want the scrutiny of Walter’s excuses, and we are less interested when the ingenuity starts demanding attention for itself. Even with that reservation, we recommend the series well beyond the usual crime-drama audience. Start there for Gould, and watch for the writing as closely as the turns of the plot.

## Biography

Peter Gould is an American television writer, director and producer. Born in New York City, he graduated from Sarah Lawrence College with a BA in English in 1982 and from the University of Southern California with an MFA in 1990.

He joined the writing staff of *Breaking Bad* (2008) in its first season as a story editor and advanced through roles including producer and supervising producer, writing and directing several episodes. After the series ended, Gould co-created and co-showran its spinoff *Better Call Saul* (2015) with Vince Gilligan, later becoming sole showrunner. He has received multiple Writers Guild of America and Primetime Emmy Award nominations for his work on both series.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (3)

### Directed (2) — the average rests on these

- *Better Call Saul* (2015), Fi1m 84, Writer, Director, Creator, Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/tv/better-call-saul.md)
- *Breaking Bad* (2008), Fi1m 91, Writer, Story Editor, Supervising Producer, Producer, Executive Story Editor, Co-Executive Producer, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/breaking-bad.md)

### Produced (1)

- *Pluribus* (2025), Fi1m 82, Consulting Producer — [page](https://film.one/tv/pluribus.md)

## Complete filmography (14)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Pluribus* (2025), series, Consulting Producer — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/tv/pluribus.md)
- *Jericho Ridge* (2024), Executive Producer
- *Better Call Saul Presents: Slippin' Jimmy* (2022), series, Executive Producer
- *American Greed: James McGill* (2022), Writer
- *El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie* (2019), Thanks
- *Hope Gap* (2019), Executive Producer
- *Better Call Saul* (2015), series, Director, Executive Producer, Writer, Creator — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/tv/better-call-saul.md)
- *Too Big to Fail* (2011), Screenplay, Co-Producer
- *Breaking Bad* (2008), series, Director, Producer, Writer, Supervising Producer, Co-Executive Producer, Story Editor, Executive Story Editor — Fi1m 91, [page](https://film.one/tv/breaking-bad.md)
- *Meeting Daddy* (2000), Director, Writer
- *Double Dragon* (1994), Screenplay
- *Dirty Little Secrets* (1986), Director, Writer
- *Metropol* (1986), Director, Writer, Editor
- *Disinherited*, series, Executive Producer, Director, Creator

## Gallery

- ![Peter Gould](https://film.one/media/person/61084/gallery-87bcf91e2c94.jpg) Peter Gould — Dominick D, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/00/Peter_Gould_%2825866430973%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Peter Gould speaking at the 2018 San Diego Comic Con International, for "Better Call Saul", at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, California. Please ](https://film.one/media/person/61084/gallery-e9d0458c0afa.jpg) Peter Gould speaking at the 2018 San Diego Comic Con International, for "Better Call Saul", at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, California. Please  — Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7f/Peter_Gould_%2828715249067%29.jpg/1280px-Peter_Gould_%2828715249067%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Peter Gould speaking at the 2018 San Diego Comic-Con International in San Diego, California.](https://film.one/media/person/61084/gallery-3a7a76258ed6.jpg) Peter Gould speaking at the 2018 San Diego Comic-Con International in San Diego, California. — Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/Peter_Gould_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg/1280px-Peter_Gould_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Vince Gilligan, Peter Gould, Bob Odenkirk, Rhea Seehorn, Patrick Fabian, Michael Mando and Giancarlo Epsosito speaking at the 2018 San Diego Comic Con Internati](https://film.one/media/person/61084/gallery-9d234b539c7f.jpg) Vince Gilligan, Peter Gould, Bob Odenkirk, Rhea Seehorn, Patrick Fabian, Michael Mando and Giancarlo Epsosito speaking at the 2018 San Diego Comic Con Internati — Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/Vince_Gilligan%2C_Peter_Gould%2C_Bob_Odenkirk%2C_Rhea_Seehorn%2C_Patrick_Fabian%2C_Michael_Mando_%26_Giancarlo_Epsosito_%2828715121537%29.jpg/1280px-Vince_Gilligan%2C_Peter_Gould%2C_Bob_Odenkirk%2C_Rhea_Seehorn%2C_Patrick_Fabian%2C_Michael_Mando_%26_Giancarlo_Epsosito_%2828715121537%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Peter Gould](https://film.one/media/person/61084/gallery-e0677c67e4bf.jpg) Peter Gould — Image via TMDB
- ![Vince Gilligan, Peter Gould, Bob Odenkirk, Rhea Seehorn, Patrick Fabian, Michael Mando and Giancarlo Epsosito speaking at the 2018 San Diego Comic Con Internati](https://film.one/media/person/61084/gallery-51f0d86bc120.jpg) Vince Gilligan, Peter Gould, Bob Odenkirk, Rhea Seehorn, Patrick Fabian, Michael Mando and Giancarlo Epsosito speaking at the 2018 San Diego Comic Con Internati — Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/Vince_Gilligan%2C_Peter_Gould%2C_Bob_Odenkirk%2C_Rhea_Seehorn%2C_Patrick_Fabian%2C_Michael_Mando_%26_Giancarlo_Epsosito_%2828715121537%29_%28cropped%29.jpg/1280px-Vince_Gilligan%2C_Peter_Gould%2C_Bob_Odenkirk%2C_Rhea_Seehorn%2C_Patrick_Fabian%2C_Michael_Mando_%26_Giancarlo_Epsosito_%2828715121537%29_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

## Awards

### Primetime Emmy Awards — 2 won

- 2014: Outstanding Drama Series (won)
- 2013: Outstanding Drama Series (won)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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