---
name: "Peter McCarthy"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/peter-mccarthy"
fi1m_id: "peter-mccarthy"
imdb_id: "nm0565292"
tmdb_id: 1017996
wikidata_id: "Q7175748"
roles: ["Producer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T23:38:54.081217+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."
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# Peter McCarthy

## Identity

Peter McCarthy

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/peter-mccarthy
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** peter-mccarthy
- **IMDb ID:** nm0565292
- **TMDB ID:** 1017996
- **Wikidata ID:** Q7175748
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_McCarthy_(film_producer), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7175748, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0565292/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1017996

Producer.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_McCarthy_(film_producer), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7175748, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0565292/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1017996

## Biography

Peter McCarthy is an American film producer, screenwriter, director and editor. He attended film school at UCLA, where he met director Alex Cox and producer Jonathan Wacks.

With Wacks he established the production company Edge City Productions in Venice Beach. Their first feature was *Repo Man* (1984), which McCarthy produced. He went on to produce *Sid and Nancy* (1986), *I'm Gonna Git You Sucka* (1988) and *Tapeheads* (1988), on which he also contributed to the screenplay and story.

McCarthy directed his first feature, *Floundering*, in 1994. His producing credits extend to *Roadside Prophets* (1992) and later projects including *Death & Taxes* (2014).

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Repo Man* (1984), Fi1m 83, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/repo-man.md)

## Complete filmography (10)

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

- *Death & Taxes* (2014), Director, Writer
- *Harry Zen Stanton* (2006), Director
- *Stan Ridgway's Holiday In Dirt* (2005), Thanks
- *Floundering* (1994), Producer, Writer, Director, Editor, Music Supervisor
- *Car 54, Where Are You?* (1994), Screenplay
- *Roadside Prophets* (1992), Producer
- *I'm Gonna Git You Sucka* (1988), as Weasel · Producer
- *Tapeheads* (1988), as Menudo Fan · Screenplay, Producer, Story
- *Sid and Nancy* (1986), as Hugh Kares · Co-Producer
- *Repo Man* (1984), Producer — Fi1m 83, [page](https://film.one/film/repo-man.md)

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