[4] His middle name was given in homage to Vincent van Gogh, whom his father was portraying in a film version being shot in Europe at the time of his birth.
[13] Douglas again served as still photographer when his family traveled from Yugoslavia to England for The Bryna Company's television musical film Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
[14] Douglas attended the University of California at Santa Barbara for a year and a half but ultimately dropped out to focus on photography and motion picture work.
[9] In November 1973, Douglas photographed his brother Michael and his at-the-time girlfriend Brenda Vaccaro in their Benedict Canyon home for publication in several leading magazines.
[16] In March 1974, Douglas formed his own photographic service company and photography studio, Bryna International, and was represented by talent agent Phyllis Carlyle through her agency A-Plus.
[19][20] Douglas then began working on the development of Ray Bradbury's Something Wicked This Way Comes, which would take nine years to complete and was eventually filmed as a coproduction between The Bryna Company and Walt Disney Productions.
[22] Peter Douglas' television production credits include Inherit the Wind (1988), for which he won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama or Comedy Special, and Amos (1984), which was also Emmy-nominated in the same category.
[1] In December 1985, it was reported that Peter Douglas and Michael Phillips were working on developing a film from Isaac Asimov's novel The End of Eternity for Tri-Star Pictures.