---
name: "Peter Jamison"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/peter-jamison"
fi1m_id: "peter-jamison"
imdb_id: "nm0417202"
tmdb_id: 15014
roles: ["Production designer"]
born: "27 August 1944"
died: "15 October 2010"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 5
average_fi1m_score: 76
average_over: 5
updated: "2026-09-26T00:43:55.298457+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 Jamison

## Identity

Peter Jamison

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/peter-jamison
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** peter-jamison
- **IMDb ID:** nm0417202
- **TMDB ID:** 15014
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0417202/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/15014

Production designer. Born 27 August 1944 in Oregon, USA. Died 15 October 2010.

## Details

- **Work:** Production designer
- **Born:** 27 August 1944, Oregon, USA
- **Died:** 15 October 2010
- **Active:** 1980–2001
- **Also known as:** Peter Michael Jamison
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1980s 68 (3), 1990s 82 (1), 2000s 92 (1)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 76 to 72 across 5 titles
- **Score spread:** 4 at 80+, 0 at 60–79, 1 under 60
- **Genres:** Drama 3, Thriller 3, Mystery 2, Action 1, Adventure 1, Comedy 1
- **Screen time:** 10 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $163m across 5 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0417202/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/15014

## Streaming the US now

- **AMC+:** [*Point Break*](https://film.one/film/point-break.md) (82)

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## Biography

Peter Jamison was an American production designer and art director. Born in Oregon on 27 August 1944, he began his career with an AFI grant and apprenticed with production designer Jack Fisk. He later served as art director on Roger Corman’s Big Bad Mama and worked on more than three dozen films over three decades.

His production design credits include *Used Cars* (1980), *Continental Divide* (1981), *Howard the Duck* (1986), *Weekend at Bernie’s* (1989), *RoboCop 2* (1990), *Point Break* (1991), *The Beverly Hillbillies* (1993), *Empire Records* (1995) and *Jeepers Creepers 2* (2003). As an art director his work includes *Mulholland Drive* (2001). He also produced the feature *Bob’s New Suit* (2011). Jamison died on 15 October 2010 in Venice, California, of complications from heart disease.

*Sources: imdb.com, variety.com.*

## On Fi1m (5)

- *Mulholland Drive* (2001), Fi1m 92, Art Direction — [page](https://film.one/film/mulholland-drive.md)
- *Point Break* (1991), Fi1m 82, Production design, Production Design — [page](https://film.one/film/point-break.md)
- *Howard the Duck* (1986), Fi1m 43, Production Design, Production design — [page](https://film.one/film/howard-the-duck.md)
- *Missing* (1982), Fi1m 80, Production design, Production Design — [page](https://film.one/film/missing-1982.md)
- *The Big Red One* (1980), Fi1m 82, Art Direction — [page](https://film.one/film/the-big-red-one.md)

## Complete filmography (48)

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

- *The Darwin Awards* (2007), Production Design
- *Jeepers Creepers 2* (2003), Production Design
- *The Crooked E: The Unshredded Truth About Enron* (2003), Production Design
- *Kaante* (2002), Production Design
- *Cowboy Up* (2002), Production Design
- *Mulholland Drive* (2001), as Art Direction — Fi1m 92, [page](https://film.one/film/mulholland-drive.md)
- *Bait* (2000), Production Design
- *The Rage: Carrie 2* (1999), Production Design
- *Senseless* (1998), Production Design
- *Tidal Wave: No Escape* (1997), Production Design
- *House Arrest* (1996), Production Design
- *Black Sheep* (1996), Production Design
- *Empire Records* (1995), Production Design
- *Exit to Eden* (1994), Production Design
- *The Beverly Hillbillies* (1993), Production Design
- *Body Snatchers* (1993), Production Design
- *Wild Texas Wind* (1991), Production Design
- *Point Break* (1991), Production Design — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/point-break.md)
- *Sudie and Simpson* (1990), Production Design
- *RoboCop 2* (1990), Production Design
- *Cold Sassy Tree* (1989), Production Design
- *Weekend at Bernie's* (1989), Production Design
- *Far North* (1988), Production Design
- *The Milagro Beanfield War* (1988), Visual Effects
- *Tin Men* (1987), Production Design
- *Howard the Duck* (1986), Production Design — Fi1m 43, [page](https://film.one/film/howard-the-duck.md)
- *At Close Range* (1986), Production Design
- *Violets Are Blue* (1986), Production Design
- *Best Defense* (1984), Production Design
- *Swing Shift* (1984), Production Design
- *Mike's Murder* (1984), Production Design
- *Halloween III: Season of the Witch* (1982), Production Design
- *Missing* (1982), Production Design — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/missing-1982.md)
- *Continental Divide* (1981), Production Design
- *All Night Long* (1981), Production Design
- *Used Cars* (1980), Production Design
- *The Big Red One* (1980), as Art Direction — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/the-big-red-one.md)
- *Chilly Scenes of Winter* (1979), Production Design
- *The Tenth Month* (1979), as Art Direction
- *Old Boyfriends* (1979), as Art Direction
- *The Evil* (1978), as Art Direction
- *I Wanna Hold Your Hand* (1978), as Art Direction
- *Moonshine County Express* (1977), as Art Direction
- *Death Game* (1977), Production Design
- *Eat My Dust* (1976), as Art Direction
- *Darktown Strutters* (1975), as Art Direction
- *Crazy Mama* (1975), as Art Direction
- *Big Bad Mama* (1974), as Art Direction

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