Peter Anthony Dowling is a screenwriter and director. He was born in Salford, England, in 1969 and started his career in children's animation in both the UK and Germany. Working on cartoons such as The Raggy Dolls

The Raggy Dolls

The Raggy Dolls is a 1980s British cartoon series for children, following the adventures of a motley collection of rejects from a toy factory, who live in a reject bin in a toy factory.-Plot:...

, Benjamin Bluemchen and Renada.

After winning the Fulbright TEB Clarke Fellowship in Screenwriting 1996/7, judged by William Goldman

William Goldman

William Goldman is an American novelist, playwright, and Academy Award-winning screenwriter.-Early life and education:...

 and paid for by John Cleese

John Cleese

John Marwood Cleese is an English actor, comedian, writer, and film producer. He achieved success at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and as a scriptwriter and performer on The Frost Report...

, Dowling moved to the United States

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

, briefly attending the University of Southern California

University of Southern California

The University of Southern California is a private, not-for-profit, nonsectarian, research university located in Los Angeles, California, United States. USC was founded in 1880, making it California's oldest private research university...

, and then sold a spec screenplay to Arnold Kopelson

Arnold Kopelson

Arnold Kopelson is an American film producer.Among his credits are Platoon, Seven, Outbreak, The Fugitive and The Devil's Advocate.-Biography:...

 (Platoon, Se7en) and 20th Century Fox

20th Century Fox

Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation — also known as 20th Century Fox, or simply 20th or Fox — is one of the six major American film studios...

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Dowling's first produced movie was Flightplan

Flightplan

Flightplan is a 2005 thriller film directed by Robert Schwentke and starring Jodie Foster, Peter Sarsgaard, Erika Christensen, Kate Beahan, Greta Scacchi, and Sean Bean. It was released in North America on September 23, 2005...

starring Jodie Foster

Jodie Foster

Alicia Christian "Jodie" Foster is an American actress, film director, producer as well as a former child actress....

 which was the number one box office hit in the U.S. and grossed over $223,000,000 worldwide.

Starting in 2007 he began to direct as well as write and his first film is Stag Night

Stag Night

Stag Night is a 2008 American horror film, written and directed by Peter A. Dowling.-Plot:It tells about four men on a bachelor party in New York who ride the subway and, along with two strippers from the club, accidentally get off at a station that closed down in the 1970s...

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