Peter Greenaway
Directing
Born: April 5, 1942 (age 84) · Newport, Gwent, Wales, UK
Highest Rated
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
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
1989
The Draughtsman's Contract
1982
Drowning by Numbers
1988
The Pillow Book
1995
A Zed & Two Noughts
1985
The Belly of an Architect
1987
The Baby of Mâcon
1993
Prospero's Books
1991
Eisenstein in Guanajuato
2015
Nightwatching
2007
Lumière & Company
1995
8 ½ Women
1999
Photos (2)
Movies (10)
8 ½ Women
(uncredited)
The Falls
Interviewer
The Curious World of Hieronymus Bosch
2016
The Greenaway Alphabet
Peter Greenaway
Windows
Narrator
H Is for House
(voice)
The Death of a Composer: Rosa, a Horse Drama
Narrator
Dear Phone
Narrator
The Missing Nail
(voice)
The Wedding at Cana
Some characters (uncredited)
Self / Appearances (8)
Kulturplatz
Self · 1 eps
Tintoretto: A Rebel in Venice
Self
Cinema16: British Short Films
Self - Commentary, Dear Phone (voice)
Ritratti di cinema
Self
Rembrandt's J'Accuse...!
Himself / Public Prosecutor
Fear of Drowning
Himself
Peter Greenaway: A Documentary
Himself
The 92 Faces of Peter Greenaway
Himself
Upcoming (4)
Directing (67)
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
Director
8 ½ Women
Director
The Pillow Book
Director
Nightwatching
Director
The Draughtsman's Contract
Director
A Zed & Two Noughts
Director
The Baby of Mâcon
Director
Prospero's Books
Director
Drowning by Numbers
Director
Lumière & Company
Director
The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 2: Vaux to the Sea
Director
The Belly of an Architect
Director
Goltzius & the Pelican Company
Director
Water Wrackets
Director
Eisenstein in Guanajuato
Director
Peopling The Palaces
Director
The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 1: The Moab Story
Director
Rosa
Director
The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 3: From Sark to the Finish
Director
Cinema16: British Short Films
Director
Savile Row
Director
A TV Dante
Director
Rembrandt's J'Accuse...!
Director
Eddie Kidd
Director
The Tulse Luper Suitcases: Antwerp
Director
A Life in Suitcases: A History of Tulse Luper
Director
Visions of Europe
Director
A TV Dante
Director
The Falls
Director
Darwin
Director
Four American Composers: Robert Ashley
Director
Windows
Director
A Walk Through H
Director
In the Dark
Director
Vertical Features Remake
Director
H Is for House
Director
The Death of a Composer: Rosa, a Horse Drama
Director
The Death of a Composer: Rosa, a Horse Drama
Stage Director
Inside Rooms: 26 Bathrooms, London & Oxfordshire
Director
Four American Composers: John Cage
Director
3x3D
Director
Four American Composers: Philip Glass
Director
Dear Phone
Director
The Missing Nail
Director
The Man in the Bath
Director
The Exile
Director
The Wedding at Cana
Director
Intervals
Director
Death in the Seine
Director
Terence Conran
Director
Fear of Drowning
Director
Peter Greenaway: A Documentary
Director
Making a Splash
Director
Four American Composers: Meredith Monk
Director
The Sea in Their Blood
Director
Leeds Castle
Director
Luther and His Legacy
Director
Giovanna D'Arco
Stage Director
Giovanna D'Arco
Director
Goole by Numbers
Director
Zandra Rhodes
Director
The 92 Faces of Peter Greenaway
Director
1-100
Director
Act of God
Director
Atomic Bombs on the Planet Earth
Director
The European Showerbath
Director
Stairs 1 Geneva
Director
Writing (41)
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
Screenplay
8 ½ Women
Screenplay
The Pillow Book
Writer
Nightwatching
Writer
The Draughtsman's Contract
Screenplay
A Zed & Two Noughts
Writer
The Baby of Mâcon
Writer
Prospero's Books
Screenplay
Drowning by Numbers
Writer
The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 2: Vaux to the Sea
Writer
The Belly of an Architect
Writer
Goltzius & the Pelican Company
Writer
Water Wrackets
Writer
Eisenstein in Guanajuato
Screenplay
The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 1: The Moab Story
Writer
Blondi
Writer
The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 3: From Sark to the Finish
Writer
Rembrandt's J'Accuse...!
Screenplay
The Tulse Luper Suitcases: Antwerp
Writer
A Life in Suitcases: A History of Tulse Luper
Writer
Visions of Europe
Writer
The Falls
Writer
Darwin
Writer
Four American Composers: Robert Ashley
Writer
Windows
Writer
A Walk Through H
Writer
Vertical Features Remake
Writer
H Is for House
Writer
The Death of a Composer: Rosa, a Horse Drama
Writer
Four American Composers: John Cage
Writer
3x3D
Writer
Four American Composers: Philip Glass
Writer
Dear Phone
Writer
The Missing Nail
Writer
The Exile
Writer
Intervals
Writer
Four American Composers: Meredith Monk
Writer
The Sea in Their Blood
Writer
Goole by Numbers
Writer
Zandra Rhodes
Screenplay
1-100
Writer
Producing (1)
Other Crew (15)
The Pillow Book
Editor
Water Wrackets
Director of Photography
Water Wrackets
Editor
Eddie Kidd
Editor
The Falls
Editor
Windows
Editor
A Walk Through H
Editor
A Walk Through H
Scenic Artist
Vertical Features Remake
Director of Photography
Vertical Features Remake
Editor
H Is for House
Director of Photography
H Is for House
Editor
Dear Phone
Director of Photography
Dear Phone
Editor
The Pledge
Editor