Peter Greenaway

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Male

Birthday 1942-04-05 (82 years old)

Place of Birth Newport, Gwent, Wales, UK

Also Known As 피터 그리너웨이

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 frequently controversial films: "A Zed & Two Noughts" (1985), "The Belly of an Architect" (1987), "Drowning by Numbers" (1988), and his best-known work, the vicious Thatcher-era satire "The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover" (1989). In the 1990s, he directed the Shakespeare adaptation "Prospero's Books" (1991), controversial religious satire "The Baby of Mâcon" (1993), erotic drama "The Pillow Book" (1996), and "8½ Women" (1999), an homage to the films of Federico Fellini, a major influence on Greenaway. In the early 2000s, Greenaway embarked on the ambitious "Tulse Luper" project, a multimedia body of historical fiction revolving around the life of the eponymous fictional hero. In addition to novels, CD-ROMs, online material, and a touring exhibition, the project spawned a trilogy of feature films: "The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 1: The Moab Story" (2003), "The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 2: Vaux to the Sea" (2004), and "The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 3: From Sark to the Finish" (2004). The trilogy was followed by a fourth feature, "A Life in Suitcases" (2005), which abridges the Tulse Luper saga into a single film. Since the mid 2000s, Greenaway's film work has focused on idiosyncratic, heavily fictionalised biopics dedicated to some of his favourite artists: Dutch Golden Age painter Rembrandt van Rijn in "Nightwatching" (2007), Dutch Baroque engraver Hendrik Goltzius in "Goltzius and the Pelican Company" (2012), Soviet Russian filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein in "Eisenstein in Guanajuato" (2015), and Romanian-French sculptor Constantin Brâncuși in "Walking to Paris" (TBD). Greenaway has lived and worked in Amsterdam since the mid 1990s. He is married to artist Saskia Boddeke, with whom he has two children. He also has two children from a previous marriage to potter Carol Greenaway.

Known For

Director

Lucca Mortis

as Director

The Food of Love

as Director

Bosch

as Director

Walking to Paris

as Director

2021
2019
The Missing Nail

as Director

2017
2016
Giovanna D'Arco

as Stage Director

2016
Giovanna D'Arco

as Director

2015
2013
3x3D

as Director

2009
2008
2007
Nightwatching

as Director

2005
2005
Writing on Water

as Director

2004
Visions of Europe

as Director

2004
2001
1999
8 ½ Women

as Director

1995
The Pillow Book

as Director

1995
Lumière & Company

as Director

1994
Stairs 1 Geneva

as Director

1993
The Baby of Mâcon

as Director

1992
Darwin

as Director

1992
Rosa

as Director

1991
Prospero's Books

as Director

1990
A TV Dante

as Director

1990
A TV Dante

as Director

1989
Death in the Seine

as Director

1989
1989
Fear of Drowning

as Director

1988
1985
1984
Making a Splash

as Director

1983
1981
Terence Conran

as Director

1981
Zandra Rhodes

as Director

1981
The Exile

as Director

1980
The Falls

as Director

1980
Act of God

as Director

1979
A Walk Through H

as Director

1979
Leeds Castle

as Director

1978
1978
Eddie Kidd

as Director

1976
Dear Phone

as Director

1976
Goole by Numbers

as Director

1976
1-100

as Director

1976
Savile Row

as Director

1975
Windows

as Director

1975
Water Wrackets

as Director

1973
Intervals

as Director

1973
H Is for House

as Director

1971
Erosion

as Director

1967
Revolution

as Director

1966
Tree

as Director

1966
Train

as Director

1962
Death of Sentiment

as Director

Writer

Bosch

as Writer

Blondi

as Writer

Lucca Mortis

as Writer

2019
The Missing Nail

as Screenplay

2015
2013
3x3D

as Writer

2008
2007
Nightwatching

as Writer

2005
2005
2004
1999
8 ½ Women

as Screenplay

1995
The Pillow Book

as Writer

1993
1992
Darwin

as Writer

1991
Prospero's Books

as Screenplay

1988
1985
1982
1981
Zandra Rhodes

as Screenplay

1980
The Falls

as Writer

1979
1976
1976
1-100

as Writer

1976
Dear Phone

as Writer

1975
Water Wrackets

as Writer

1975
Windows

as Writer

1973
H Is for House

as Writer

1973
Intervals

as Writer

Actor

2019
The Missing Nail

as (voice)

2018
The Greenaway Alphabet

as Peter Greenaway

2009
The Wedding at Cana

as Some characters (uncredited)

2008
Rembrandt's J'Accuse...!

as Himself / Public Prosecutor

2004
2004
Kulturplatz

as Self

2003
Cinema16: British Short Films

as Self - Commentary, Dear Phone (voice)

1999
8 ½ Women

as (uncredited)

1989
Fear of Drowning

as Himself

1989
1980
The Falls

as Interviewer

1976
Dear Phone

as Narrator

1975
Windows

as Narrator

1973
H Is for House

as (voice)

Editor

Tie and Dye

as Editor

1995
The Pillow Book

as Editor

1982
The Pledge

as Editor

1980
The Falls

as Editor

1979
1978
Eddie Kidd

as Editor

1976
Dear Phone

as Editor

1975
Water Wrackets

as Editor

1975
Windows

as Editor

1973
H Is for House

as Editor

Camera

1978
Vertical Features Remake

as Director of Photography

1976
Dear Phone

as Director of Photography

1975
Water Wrackets

as Director of Photography

1973
H Is for House

as Director of Photography

Producer

Crew

1979
A Walk Through H

as Scenic Artist