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.
Filmography
all 84
Movies 83
Director 68
self 7
Narrator 4
Writer 3
TV Shows 1
Peter Greenaway: The Film Architect - Beyond The Belly of an Architect (2023)
Hotel Royalty Since 1887 (2021)
The Missing Nail (2019)
Tintoretto: A Rebel in Venice (2019)
The Greenaway Alphabet (2018)
Luther and His Legacy (2017)
The Curious World of Hieronymus Bosch (2016)
Giovanna D'Arco (2016)
Eisenstein in Guanajuato (2015)
Goltzius & the Pelican Company (2014)
3x3D (2013)
Atomic Bombs on the Planet Earth (2012)
The Wedding at Cana (2009)
Rembrandt's J'Accuse...! (2008)
Nightwatching (2007)
A Life in Suitcases (2005)
Writing on Water (2005)
The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 3: From Sark to the Finish (2004)
Visions of Europe (2004)
The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 2: Vaux to the Sea (2004)
The European Showerbath (2004)
The Tulse Luper Suitcases: Antwerp (2003)
The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 1: The Moab Story (2003)
Cinema16: British Short Films (2003)
The 92 Faces of Peter Greenaway (2002)
The Man in the Bath (2001)
The Death of a Composer: Rosa, a Horse Drama (1999)
8 ½ Women (1999)
Lumière and Company (1995)
The Pillow Book (1995)
Stairs 1 Geneva (1994)
The Baby of Mâcon (1993)
Darwin (1992)
Peter Greenaway: A Documentary (1992)
Rosa (1992)
A Walk Through Prospero's Library (1992)
M Is for Man, Music and Mozart (1991)
Prospero's Books (1991)
Death in the Seine (1991)
A TV Dante (1990)
A TV Dante (1990)
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989)
Fear of Drowning (1989)
Hubert Bals Handshake (1989)
Drowning by Numbers (1988)
The Belly of an Architect (1987)
A Zed & Two Noughts (1985)
Inside Rooms: 26 Bathrooms, London & Oxfordshire (1985)
Making a Splash (1984)
Four American Composers: Robert Ashley (1983)
Four American Composers: John Cage (1983)
Four American Composers: Meredith Monk (1983)
The Sea in Their Blood (1983)
Four American Composers: Philip Glass (1983)
The Draughtsman's Contract (1982)
The Pledge (1982)
Zandra Rhodes (1981)
Terence Conran (1981)
The Exile (1981)
The Falls (1980)
Act of God (1980)
A Walk Through H: The Reincarnation of an Ornithologist (1979)
Leeds Castle (1979)
Vertical Features Remake (1978)
Eddie Kidd (1978)
1-100 (1976)
Goole by Numbers (1976)
Dear Phone (1976)
Savile Row (1976)
Windows (1975)
Water Wrackets (1975)
H Is for House (1973)
Intervals (1973)
Erosion (1971)
5 Postcards from Capital Cities (1967)
Revolution (1967)
Train (1966)
Tree (1966)
Death of Sentiment (1962)
Walking to Paris
Lucca Mortis
Eisenstein in Hollywood
Bosch
The Food of Love
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Known ForDirecting
GenderMale
Birthday1942-04-05 (82 years old)
Birth PlaceNewport, United Kingdom
Religionatheism
CitizenshipsUnited Kingdom
ResidencesMonmouthshire, United Kingdom
Also Known As피터 그리너웨이
AwardsSitges Film Festival Best Director award, Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, Commander of the Order of the British Empire, Sutherland Trophy, BAFTA Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema Award, Golden Calf for Best Script
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