Peter Greenaway
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 05 April 1942
- Works
- 35
Top works
- Hundert Objekte zeigen die Welt
- Le bruit des nuages
- Peter Greenaway - The Dance Of Death
- Le sonore et le visuel
- The Stairs
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Film & TV
Directing · Newport, Gwent, Wales, UK
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…
Known for
- Ritratti di cinema — Self2025
- Peter Greenaway: The Film Architect - Beyond The Belly of an Architect — Himself2023
- The Missing Nail — (voice)2019
- Tintoretto: A Rebel in Venice — Self2019
- The Greenaway Alphabet — Peter Greenaway2018
- The Curious World of Hieronymus Bosch2016
- The Wedding at Cana — Some characters (uncredited)2009
- Rembrandt's J'Accuse...! — Himself / Public Prosecutor2008
- Close to Greenaway — Self2004
- Kulturplatz — Self2004
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 107
- Total plays
- 463
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1942-04-05 ) 5 April 1942 (age 84) , Newport , Wales
- Occupations
- Film director , screenwriter , visual artist
- Years active
- 1962–present
- Notable work
- The Draughtsman's Contract (1982), The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989)
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Key dates
- Born
- 5 April 1942
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Peter
- Family name
- Greenaway
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Newport
- Spouse
- Saskia Boddeke
- Occupation
- exhibition curator
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Religion
- atheism
Article
Peter Greenaway (born 5 April 1942) is a British filmmaker and visual artist.
Greenaway's notable feature films include The Draughtsman's Contract (1982), The Belly of an Architect (1987), The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989), Prospero's Books (1991), and Nightwatching (2007). He has also created works in other mediums, notably the multimedia Tulse Luper Suitcases, documentaries, and several video installations. In 2014, he received the BAFTA Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema Award.
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1942 births20th-century English painters20th-century Welsh male writers20th-century Welsh screenwriters21st-century British male artists21st-century English paintersAlumni of Walthamstow College of ArtBAFTA Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema AwardBLP articles lacking sources from May 2024Commanders of the Order of the British EmpireEnglish experimental filmmakers