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Peter Greenaway is a British theatrical director, film director, writer, and screenwriter. Born on 5 April 1942 in Newport, Gwent, Wales, he has resided in Monmouthshire. His professional career began in 1964. Greenaway is a citizen of the United Kingdom and speaks English. He is an atheist and is married to Saskia Boddeke.
He has received the Commander of the Order of the British Empire and the Sutherland Trophy. Greenaway was nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Foreign Film. His works are held in the collections of the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Whitworth Art Gallery, and Eye Filmmuseum. Notable titles include *Hundert Objekte zeigen die Welt*, *Le bruit des nuages*, *Peter Greenaway - The Dance Of Death*, *Le sonore et le visuel*, and *The Stairs*.
Synthesized by Vinony from 39 facts across 8 sources: Wikidata, Open Library, Last.fm, TMDb, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Europeana Sparql, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
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
via Open Library + Wikidata
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
via TMDB
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 107
- Total plays
- 463
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Cutoff criteria for fit indexes in covariance structure analysis: Conventional criteria versus new alternatives
· 1999 · cited 87,392x
- A new method of classifying prognostic comorbidity in longitudinal studies: Development and validation
· 1987 · cited 42,811x
- QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data
· 2010 · cited 30,946x
- RoB 2: a revised tool for assessing risk of bias in randomised trials
· 2019 · cited 25,547x
- The ERA5 global reanalysis
· 2020 · cited 24,186x
via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “[T]here are tens of thousands of photographs taken here, all taken very patiently, because decay can be very slow.. Ten months for a human body... they say...”
- “Sir Isaac Newton, the subject of this cake, is in every Englishman's wallet... he's on the English one-pound note. I always carry one on me for good luck. A man who discovered gravity and thus successfully secured our feet on the ground is a good companion. In fixing us to the earth, he enabled us -- with equanimity -- to permit our heads to remain in the clouds.”
- “Book #8: The Vesalius Anatomy of Birth. As it hits the water, it screams and spurts blood like a pierced heart -- as it sinks, there is a suggestion of entrails.”
- “Book #10: A Book of Travellers' Tales. As it hits the water its pages detach themselves from the covers, which sink... and the pages form themselves into small paper boats that float away on the tide.”
- “Cinema is dead. I can give you a date - it died on the 31st of September, 1983, when the zapper or the remote control was introduced to the livings rooms of the world. Bang! That's the end.”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
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)
via Wikipedia infobox
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
- Official website
- www.luperpediafoundation.com
- Image
- Peter Greenaway in 2007.jpg
- Residence
- Monmouthshire
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- Commons category
- Peter Greenaway
- date of birth
- 1942-04-05
- topic's main category
- Category:Peter Greenaway
- start of work period
- 1964-00-00
- related category
- Category:Films directed by Peter Greenaway
- social media followers
- 3572
- has works in the collection
- Eye Filmmuseum
- P8168
- Ensor
- name in native language
- Peter Greenaway
- topic has template
- Template:Peter Greenaway
- number of viewers/listeners
- 251638
Sources (10)
via Wikidata · CC0
Works in European collections
1 object attributed to Peter Greenaway, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
~11 min read
Encyclopedic overview
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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Peter Greenaway” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.