Peter Asher began his career as a child actor at home in England, making his screen debut in 1952 as Claudette Colbert’s son in Outpost in Malaysia. A dozen years later, as one half of Peter and Gordon, he scored a #1 hit in the UK and US with the pop duo’s very first single, “A World Without Love,” written by his sister Jane’s boyfriend Paul McCartney. Transatlantic pop stardom was just the first peak Asher scaled; as the ‘60s gave way to the ’70s he segued smoothly to LA record producer and artist manager, conducting James Taylor and Linda Ronstadt to superstardom. San Francisco filmmakers Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine (Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, a Journey, a Song) expand and elevate Asher’s late-career stories-and-songs stage show into an effervescent and moving memoir of a creative life well-lived. Eric Idle and Steve Martin join Ronstadt and Taylor in this music-filled recollection of a show business good guy. —Michael Fox
Dan Geller
For over 25 years, directors-producers Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine have jointly created critically acclaimed multicharacter documentary narratives that braid their characters’ individual personal stories to form a larger portrait of the human experience. Among their films are Isadora Duncan: Movement from the Soul (1989), Ballets Russes (2005), The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden (2013), and Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, a Journey, a Song (2021).
Dayna Goldfine
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