Biography
Peter E. Berger (also credited as Peter Edward Berger or Peter Berger) was an American film editor. Born in Los Angeles on 30 May 1944, he was the son of film editor Fred W. Berger. He attended the University of California, Los Angeles film school, served in the United States Army and worked for the Armed Forces Korean Network in Seoul before beginning his career in 1968 on the television series The Doris Day Show. His first feature credit was Arnold (1973).
Berger edited approximately fifty feature and television films. His credits include Mommie Dearest (1981), four Star Trek films from Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986) to Star Trek: Insurrection (1998), Fatal Attraction (1987), Hocus Pocus (1993), Coach Carter (2005), Garfield (2004) and Alvin and the Chipmunks (2007). With Michael Kahn he won the BAFTA Award for Best Editing for Fatal Attraction and received an Academy Award nomination and an American Cinema Editors Eddie nomination for the same film. He frequently collaborated with director Thomas Carter, including on his final credit, the television film Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story (2009). Berger died on 22 September 2011 in Calabasas, California.
