Peter Gould

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Peter Gould

Better Call Saul, Breaking Bad

Peter Gould is the co-showrunner/executive producer/writer/director of AMC's BETTER CALL SAUL starring Bob Odenkirk, Jonathan Banks, and Michael McKean. This new drama series is a BREAKING BAD spin-off.

For five seasons, Peter Gould was a writer for the Emmy Award–winning series BREAKING BAD, also serving as executive story editor, producer, supervising producer, and eventually, co-executive producer of the series.

Gould started his filmmaking career at the USC Graduate Film Program, where he won the Nissan Focus Award for his student film DIRTY LITTLE SECRETS. He has since written screenplays and pilots for HBO, USA, Showtime, TNT, CBS, and FX. Gould also wrote and directed the feature film MEETING DADDY, starring Lloyd Bridges and Josh Charles.

TOO BIG TO FAIL, Gould's screenplay about the near-collapse of the world financial system, premiered on HBO in May 2011. Directed by Curtis Hanson, TOO BIG TO FAIL stars William Hurt, Paul Giamatti, Billy Crudup, Tony Shalhoub, Bill Pullman, Cynthia Nixon, James Woods, Edward Asner, and Topher Grace. The film is based on Andrew Ross Sorkin's best seller. Peter won a 2012 Writer's Guild Award for this screenplay. The HBO movie garnered eleven Emmy nominations, including one for Peter's script.

Gould made his TV directorial debut in Season 4 of BREAKING BAD and also directed the penultimate episode of the series.

A native New Yorker, Gould lives in Los Angeles with his wife and daughter.

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