- He was intended to direct a Batman vs Superman film in 2001 that would have starred Colin Farrell as Batman and Jude Law as Superman but the film was never made.
- Directed one Oscar-nominated performance: John Malkovich in In the Line of Fire (1993).
- Broke into the entertainment industry in 1960 with the Hamburg Ernest Deutsch Theater as an assistant director.
- Got to know his second wife, Maria-Antoinette Borgel, during the shooting of Smog (1973), where she worked as a script girl.
- Spoke English and German fluently.
- Was offered the chance to direct The Sum of All Fears (2002), but declined.
- Received the "Bayerischer Verdienstorden" (Bavaria's highest decoration) on 17 July 2003.
- Attended the 'Deutsche Film und Fernseh Akademie Berlin' (DFFB) from 1966 to 1970.
- Father of Daniel Petersen.
- Wolfgang Peters made his first films with an 8 mm camera while still at school.
- No relation to actor William Petersen ("CSI", "To Live & Die in L.A.", "Fear"), despite a popular misconception.
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