Births on July 26

Peter Hyams, American director, screenwriter, and cinematographer

Peter Hyams (born July 26, 1943) is an American film director, screenwriter and cinematographer known for directing Capricorn One (which he also wrote), 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 would later joke, "O. J. Simpson was in [Capricorn One], and Robert Blake was in Busting (Hyams' first feature). I've said many times: Some people have AFI Lifetime Achievement awards, some people have multiple Oscars, my bit of trivia is that I've made films with two leading men who were subsequently tried for the first-degree murder of their wives."