Peter Hannan

Personal Info

Know For

Camera

Gender

Male

Birthday

1941-02-01 (84 years old)

Place of Birth

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Peter Hannan

Biography

Peter Hannan (born 1 February 1941 in Sydney) is an Australian cinematographer who spent the majority of his career in Great Britain. One of his first jobs in the film industry was as an assistant cameraman on Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). Since 1972, Hannan has worked on more than 30 films as the director of photography. They include the Terry Jones films Monty Python's The Meaning of Life (1983) and Absolutely Anything (2015), Nicholas Roeg's Insignificance (1985) and Bruce Robinson's cult film Withnail and I (1987). Hannon has worked with Monty Python members and George Harrison's production company HandMade Films on mul...

Production

2006

Children of Men

as Second Unit Director of Photography

1991

Not Without My Daughter

as Director of Photography

1973

Radio Wonderful

as Cinematography

1978

The Stud

as Director of Photography

1975

James Dean: The First American Teenager

as Director of Photography

1989

How to Get Ahead in Advertising

as Director of Photography

1985

Dance with a Stranger

as Director of Photography

2002

The Gathering Storm

as Director of Photography

2015

Absolutely Anything

as Director of Photography

1990

Living with Dinosaurs

as Director of Photography

1970

Performance

as First Assistant Camera

1984

The Razor's Edge

as Director of Photography

2000

Solarmax

as Director of Photography

1985

Insignificance

as Director of Photography

1978

Full Circle

as Director of Photography

1966

Goal!

as Additional Photography

1997

Mothertime

as Director of Photography

1983

Monty Python's The Meaning of Life

as Director of Photography

1976

The Moon Over the Alley

as Director of Photography

1986

Club Paradise

as Director of Photography

1987

The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne

as Director of Photography

1975

Flame

as Director of Photography

2000

Longitude

as Director of Photography

1982

Brimstone & Treacle

as Director of Photography

1971

Walkabout

as Other

1986

Half Moon Street

as Director of Photography

1982

A Dangerous Summer

as Director of Photography

1999

Sleepy Hollow

as Second Unit Director of Photography

1999

Milk

as Director of Photography

1987

Withnail & I

as Director of Photography

1988

A Handful of Dust

as Director of Photography

1985

Turtle Diary

as Director of Photography

1982

The Missionary

as Cinematography

1981

Sredni Vashtar

as Cinematography

2015

Dough

as Director of Photography

1975

Eskimo Nell

as Director of Photography

1982

The Missionary

as Director of Photography

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