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Producer Jon Peters has been appointed to the California Film Commission, succeeding actor Brock Peters, who has not attended a CFC meeting since May, 1986. Jon Peters, who got his start in the film industry by co-producing the Barbra Streisand remake of “A Star Is Born,” is the managing director of Burbank Studios-based Guber-Peters-Barris Entertainment. The appointment, which was made by Assembly Speaker Willie Brown (D-San Francisco), raises the number of producers on the 21-member commission to five. That will leave only one actor serving on the commission that acts as a liaison between film production companies and municipal and state officials. “But it’s not something that was done intentionally,” says Michael Walbrecht, commission public affairs director. “The Senate, the governor and the speaker appoint who they think is best for the commission, and it has turned out that more producers were appointed than actors,” Walbrecht said. Peters is a registered independent and will serve a two-year term on the commission. The Peterses are not related.