Prior to his work on Star Trek: Enterprise, Peyser worked as special effects artist on the western Four Rode Out (1970), the science fiction series Battlestar Galactica (1978), the action film Commando (1985), the comic adaptation The Phantom (1996), the comedy The Out-of-Towners (1999), the fantasy comedy Bedazzled (2000), and Tim Burton's science fiction remake Planet of the Apes (2001). On the 1997 thriller Kiss the Girls, with Ashley Judd, he worked as special effects coordinator.