A Man Called Peter is a 1955 American drama film directed by Henry Koster, and starring Richard Todd.

The film is based on the life of preacher Peter Marshall, who served as Chaplain of the United States Senate and pastor of the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church in Washington, D. C., before his early death.

As a boy growing up in Coatbridge, Scotland, Peter Marshall loves the sea and wishes to work on a ship.

Catherine Wood, from nearby Agnes Scott College, falls in love with Peter the first time she hears him speak.

Catherine impresses Peter by helping him at an event for college students where she gives an extemporaneous speech using quotes from his sermons.

That morning, as Pearl Harbor is attacked, Peter preaches at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis.

[4] Richard Todd later recalled "The subject matter of A Man Called Peter seemed to have cast a spell over everybody concerned with the picture.

It shows us events no more spectacular than the preaching of sermons, the doing of good deeds and the bickering of a strong and forthright preacher with the more conservative members of his flock.

And yet this CinemaScope picture ... has a form and a dramatic cohesion deriving from the magnetism of the leading character that render it much more absorbing than many a heavily plotted film."

Bosley Crowther, the notoriously acerbic movie critic for The New York Times, gave the film a glowing review.