Peter Hyams (born July 26, 1943) is an American film director, screenwriter and cinematographer known for directing Capricorn One, the 1981 science fiction-thriller Outland, the 1984 science fiction film, 2010: The Year We Make Contact, a sequel to Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, the 1986 action/comedy Running Scared, the comic book adaptation Timecop, the action film Sudden Death (both starring Jean-Claude Van Damme), and the horror films The Relic and End of Days.Hyams made his directorial debut with an ABC Movie of the Week for Aaron Spelling, Rolling Man (1972) starring Dennis Weaver. Hymans worked on it solely as director, with the script being written by the producers. Hyams followed it directing another TV movie which he also wrote, Goodnight, My Love (1972), about a private eye and a dwarf. The film was very acclaimed. Hyams optioned a novel Going All the Way which he intended to adapt and direct but it was not made. The praise for Goodnight My Love meant Hyams was able to get finance for his debut feature as writer-director, Busting (1974), a buddy cop movie starring Elliott Gould and Robert Blake. He followed it with Our Time (1974), a romance with Pamela Sue Martin, which he directed only. Hymans made Peeper (1975), for the producers of Busting with Michael Caine and Natalie Wood. which was a financial failure and Hyams' career was at a low ebb. He wrote a script Hanover Street which people wanted to buy but Hyams insisted on directing. He wrote the screenplay for the Charles Bronson thriller, Telefon (1977), doing a draft for Richard Lester (who ended up not directing the film). It was rewritten by other people but Hyams got credit.

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