Peter Watkins
Personal Info
Know For
Directing
Gender
Male
Birthday
1935-10-29 (90 years old)
Deathday
2025-10-30
Place of Birth
Norbiton, Surrey, England, UK
Also known As
彼得·沃特金
Peter Watkins
Biography
Peter Watkins (29 October 1935 – 30 October 2025) was an English filmmaker, documentarian, writer and film theorist. He is known as a pioneer of the docudrama and the mockumentary genres, typically with heavy political content. His films present pacifist and radical ideas in a nontraditional style. He mainly concentrated his works and ideas around the mass media and viewers' 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, portrayed the Jacobite u...
Acting
2001
1987
as Narrator / Self
1974
as Narrator (voice)
1971
as Documentarist (uncredited)
1966
as Documentist (uncredited)
1994
as Policeman
1959
as Narrator (voice)
1964
as Field Interviewer (voice) (uncredited)
2004
as Himself
2003
as Self
Production
1966
as Director
1971
as Screenplay
1971
as Director
1964
as Director
2003
as Director
1959
as Director
1974
as Director
1974
as Writer
1969
as Director
1967
as Director
1967
as Writer
1961
as Writer
1961
as Director
1966
as Assistant Director
1969
as Writer
1975
as Writer
1977
as Director
1975
as Director
1987
as Director
1987
as Writer
1987
as Producer
1987
as Editor
1987
as Sound Editor
2012
as Writer
2012
as Director
2003
as Writer
2003
as Editor
1974
as Editor
1994
as Post Production Supervisor
1994
as Editor
1994
as Script
1994
as Director
1977
as Editor
1977
as Idea
1964
as Writer
1966
as Writer
1966
as Producer
1971
as Editor
1991
as Writer
1991
as Director
1964
as Producer
1994
as Writer
1956
as Director
1959
as Writer
1959
as Cinematography
1959
as Editor
1959
as Producer
1991
as Editor
2004
as Director
1956
as Producer
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