Peter Watkins

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1935-10-29 (90 years old)

Place of Birth

Norbiton, Surrey, England, UK

Peter Watkins

Biography

Peter Watkins (born 29 October 1935) is an English film and television director. He was born in Norbiton, Surrey, lived in Sweden, Canada and Lithuania for many years, and now lives in France. He is one of the pioneers of docudrama. His movies, pacifist and radical, strongly review the limit of classic documentary and movies. He mainly concentrates his works and ideas around the mass media and our relation/participation to a movie or television documentary. Nearly all of Watkins' films have used a combination of dramatic and documentary elements to dissect historical occurrences or possible near future events. The first of these, Culloden, p...

Acting

1987

The Journey

as Narrator / Self

1974

Edvard Munch

as Narrator (voice)

1971

Punishment Park

as Documentarist (uncredited)

1966

The War Game

as Documentist (uncredited)

1994

The Freethinker

as Policeman

1959

1964

Culloden

as Field Interviewer (voice) (uncredited)

Production

1966

The War Game

as Director

1971

Punishment Park

as Director

1971

Punishment Park

as Screenplay

1964

Culloden

as Director

1974

Edvard Munch

as Director

1974

Edvard Munch

as Writer

1969

The Gladiators

as Director

1967

Privilege

as Director

1967

Privilege

as Writer

1961

1961

1966

It Happened Here

as Assistant Director

1969

1977

Evening Land

as Director

1975

1987

The Journey

as Director

1987

The Journey

as Writer

1987

The Journey

as Producer

1987

The Journey

as Editor

1987

The Journey

as Sound Editor

2012

The Trap

as Director

2012

The Trap

as Writer

1974

Edvard Munch

as Editor

1994

1994

1994

The Freethinker

as Post Production Supervisor

1994

The Freethinker

as Director

1977

1977

Evening Land

as Editor

1964

Culloden

as Writer

1966

The War Game

as Writer

1966

The War Game

as Producer

1971

1991

1991

1964

Culloden

as Producer

1994

1956

The Web

as Director

1959

1991

© All Rights Reserved 2025