Peter Greenaway

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1942-04-05 (83 years old)

Place of Birth

Newport, Gwent, Wales, UK

Peter Greenaway

Biography

Peter Greenaway, CBE (born 5 April 1942) is a Welsh writer-director, painter, and video artist based in Amsterdam. Throughout the late 1960s and '70s, he produced several experimental documentary/mockumentary shorts while working as a film editor for the Central Office of Information. This early period culminated in "The Falls" (1980), a three-hour mockumentary indexing the strange effects of the VUE (the Violent Unknown Event) on 92 people whose names begin with the letters F-A-L-L. He made his dramatic feature film debut with "The Draughtsman's Contract" (1982), and throughout the 1980s directed a string of critically acclaimed and frequent...

Acting

1980

The Falls

as Interviewer

1974

Windows

as Narrator

1976

H Is for House

as (voice)

1976

Dear Phone

as Narrator

2009

The Wedding at Cana

as Some characters (uncredited)

2019

2003

Cinema16: British Short Films

as Self - Commentary, Dear Phone (voice)

1989

1989

2008

Rembrandt's J'Accuse...!

as Himself / Public Prosecutor

1999

8 ½ Women

as (uncredited)

2018

The Greenaway Alphabet

as Peter Greenaway

Production

2005

2005

2007

Nightwatching

as Director

2007

Nightwatching

as Writer

1993

1991

Prospero's Books

as Director

1993

1999

8 ½ Women

as Director

1999

8 ½ Women

as Screenplay

1985

1985

2004

1995

The Pillow Book

as Director

1995

1995

1988

1988

1980

The Falls

as Writer

1980

The Falls

as Director

1980

Act of God

as Director

1976

Dear Phone

as Director

1971

Erosion

as Director

1989

1981

Terence Conran

as Director

1978

A Walk Through H

as Director

1990

A TV Dante

as Director

2013

3x3D

as Director

2016

Giovanna D'Arco

as Stage Director

2016

Giovanna D'Arco

as Director

1974

Windows

as Director

1982

The Pledge

as Editor

1973

Intervals

as Director

1992

Darwin

as Director

1976

H Is for House

as Director

1976

1978

Water Wrackets

as Director

1978

1989

1981

Zandra Rhodes

as Director

1983

2019

The Missing Nail

as Director

2004

2009

-

Walking to Paris

as Director

2015

1995

1968

Revolution

as Director

1984

Making a Splash

as Director

2005

Writing on Water

as Director

2005

1992

Rosa

as Director

1976

Goole by Numbers

as Director

1976

1976

1-100

as Writer

1976

1-100

as Director

1989

Fear of Drowning

as Director

1966

Tree

as Director

1962

1966

Train

as Director

-

Tower Stories

as Writer

1981

Zandra Rhodes

as Screenplay

1981

The Exile

as Director

1973

Intervals

as Writer

2001

2017

1978

Vertical Features Remake

as Director of Photography

1978

1978

Water Wrackets

as Director of Photography

2013

3x3D

as Writer

1991

Prospero's Books

as Screenplay

-

Bosch

as Director

-

Bosch

as Writer

-

The Food of Love

as Director

1978

1978

1974

Windows

as Editor

1976

H Is for House

as Director of Photography

1976

Dear Phone

as Editor

1980

The Falls

as Editor

1976

Dear Phone

as Writer

1974

Windows

as Writer

1976

1976

Dear Phone

as Director of Photography

1978

Eddie Kidd

as Editor

1978

Eddie Kidd

as Director

1976

Savile Row

as Director

1979

Leeds Castle

as Director

-

Tie and Dye

as Editor

2008

-

Tower Stories

as Director

1994

Stairs 1 Geneva

as Director

1978

A Walk Through H

as Scenic Artist

1992

Darwin

as Writer

2025

Blondi

as Writer

2019

1996

In the Dark

as Director

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