---
name: "Peter Hoar"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/peter-hoar"
fi1m_id: "peter-hoar"
imdb_id: "nm0387486"
tmdb_id: 208453
wikidata_id: "Q55810607"
roles: ["Director","Producer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 10
average_fi1m_score: 76
average_as: "director"
average_over: 10
updated: "2026-10-07T16:05:43.256055+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 Hoar

## Identity

Peter Hoar

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/peter-hoar
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** peter-hoar
- **IMDb ID:** nm0387486
- **TMDB ID:** 208453
- **Wikidata ID:** Q55810607
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Hoar, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q55810607, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0387486/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/208453

Director and producer. Born in United Kingdom.

## Details

- **Work:** Director, Producer
- **Active:** 2002–present
- **Frequently works with:** [Edward Bazalgette](https://film.one/person/edward-bazalgette.md), [Farren Blackburn](https://film.one/person/farren-blackburn.md), [Jeremy Webb](https://film.one/person/jeremy-webb.md), [Julian Holmes](https://film.one/person/julian-holmes.md), [Lee Haven-Jones](https://film.one/person/lee-haven-jones.md), [Alice Troughton](https://film.one/person/alice-troughton.md), [Andy Hay](https://film.one/person/andy-hay.md), [Ann Cleeves](https://film.one/person/ann-cleeves.md)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 76, as director, over 10 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 77 (3), 2010s 71 (5), 2020s 84 (2)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 80 to 80 across 4 titles
- **Score spread:** 2 at 80+, 8 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Drama 10, Crime 5, Action & Adventure 4, Mystery 2, Comedy 1, Sci-Fi & Fantasy 1
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Hoar, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q55810607, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0387486/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/208453

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*The Last of Us*](https://film.one/tv/the-last-of-us.md) (85), [*It's a Sin*](https://film.one/tv/its-a-sin.md) (84), [*Five Days*](https://film.one/tv/five-days.md) (76)
- **Apple TV:** [*Spooks*](https://film.one/tv/spooks.md) (77), [*Vera*](https://film.one/tv/vera.md) (72), [*Shetland*](https://film.one/tv/shetland.md) (62)
- **Disney+:** [*Marvel's Daredevil*](https://film.one/tv/marvels-daredevil.md) (78), [*Silk*](https://film.one/tv/silk.md) (71)
- **AMC+:** [*Doctor Who*](https://film.one/tv/doctor-who-2005.md) (78)
- **Netflix:** [*The Last Kingdom*](https://film.one/tv/the-last-kingdom.md) (72)

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

## Fi1m on Peter Hoar

> Peter Hoar gives people inside large genre stories time to matter. We rate his patient, intimate television highly, especially when a relationship the main plot could hurry past proves worth an episode of its own.

In the third episode of *The Last of Us* (2023), Bill and Frank's life together is given room to matter for its own sake. Hoar stays with their relationship long enough for affection to become believable, rather than merely something the script tells us is there. We were moved more than we expected, because the programme let us spend time with two people it might otherwise have hurried past. The episode makes a persuasive case for expanding a game when adapting it for television. It also gives us the clearest reason to seek out his name in the credits.

Much of his work has been inside programmes with rules already in place. A *Doctor Who* episode in 2011 opened the way to American work, including *Daredevil* (2016). He directed the pilot and first-series finale of *The Umbrella Academy* (2019). On Russell T Davies's *It's a Sin* (2021), he took charge of all five episodes. That longer stretch matters for a director so interested in letting relationships develop: he could sustain that attention across a whole series.

The work with Davies matters because *It's a Sin* asks him to sustain joy alongside tragedy across five episodes. Hoar's working methods include storyboarding intimate scenes and trusting instinct on set. That is a sensible way to approach scenes whose success depends on people seeming comfortable with one another. The affection in *The Last of Us* feels unforced, and we never feel that Bill and Frank exist only to make us cry.

The caution is that a television director cannot take all the credit for a script's willingness to linger. Our reservation about *The Last of Us* was that some other supporting characters needed more space than they received. Hoar's episode shows how much the programme gains when it gives them that space, though we would not prescribe the same detour for every story. Watch *The Last of Us* from the beginning; his episode is worth arriving at properly.

## Biography

Peter Hoar is a British film and television director. He studied Media Production at Bournemouth University, graduating in 1992.

Hoar is known for directing all five episodes of the 2021 Channel 4 series *It's a Sin* and the episode 'Long, Long Time' of the 2023 HBO series *The Last of Us*. His other credits include episodes of *Doctor Who* (2005), *Marvel's Daredevil* (2015), *The Umbrella Academy* (2019) and *Altered Carbon* (2018).

He has won two BAFTA TV Awards for Director: Fiction, for *It's a Sin* and *The Last of Us*, and received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for the latter.

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

## On Fi1m (10)

- *The Last of Us* (2023), Fi1m 85, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-last-of-us.md)
- *It's a Sin* (2021), Fi1m 84, Executive Producer, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/its-a-sin.md)
- *Marvel's Daredevil* (2015), Fi1m 78, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/marvels-daredevil.md)
- *The Last Kingdom* (2015), Fi1m 72, Director, Co-Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-last-kingdom.md)
- *Shetland* (2013), Fi1m 62, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/shetland.md)
- *Silk* (2011), Fi1m 71, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/silk.md)
- *Vera* (2011), Fi1m 72, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/vera.md)
- *Five Days* (2007), Fi1m 76, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/five-days.md)
- *Doctor Who* (2005), Fi1m 78, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/doctor-who-2005.md)
- *Spooks* (2002), Fi1m 77, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/spooks.md)

## Complete filmography (32)

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

- *Tip Toe* (2026), series, Director, Executive Producer
- *Falling* (2026), series, Director
- *Boots* (2025), series, Executive Producer, Director
- *Doctor Who* (2024), series, Director
- *Nolly* (2023), series, Director, Executive Producer
- *The Last of Us* (2023), series, Director — Fi1m 85, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-last-of-us.md)
- *It's a Sin* (2021), series, Director, Executive Producer — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/tv/its-a-sin.md)
- *The Umbrella Academy* (2019), series, Director, Executive Producer
- *Marvel's Cloak & Dagger* (2018), series, Director
- *Altered Carbon* (2018), series, Director
- *Marvel's Runaways* (2017), series, Director
- *Marvel's The Defenders* (2017), series, Director
- *Marvel's Iron Fist* (2017), series, Director
- *The Last Kingdom* (2015), series, Director, Co-Executive Producer — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-last-kingdom.md)
- *Marvel's Daredevil* (2015), series, Director — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/tv/marvels-daredevil.md)
- *Da Vinci's Demons* (2013), series, Director
- *Shetland* (2013), series, Director — Fi1m 62, [page](https://film.one/tv/shetland.md)
- *Doctor Who: A Good Man Goes to War - Prequel* (2011), Director
- *Vera* (2011), series, Director — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/tv/vera.md)
- *Silk* (2011), series, Director — Fi1m 71, [page](https://film.one/tv/silk.md)
- *Breaking the Mould* (2009), Director
- *Mistresses* (2008), series, Director
- *Five Days* (2007), series, Director — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/tv/five-days.md)
- *The Innocence Project* (2006), series, Director
- *Doctor Who* (2005), series, Director — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/tv/doctor-who-2005.md)
- *Wire in the Blood* (2002), series, Director
- *Spooks* (2002), series, Director — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/tv/spooks.md)
- *Dream Team* (1997), series, Director
- *Hollyoaks* (1995), series, Director
- *Grange Hill* (1978), series, Director
- *PREY*, Executive Producer
- *A Waiter in Paris*, Director

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