Peter Greenaway Biography (1942-)

Born April 5, 1942, in Newport, Wales; father, a builder's merchant, mother,a teacher; married Carol (a potter; divorced, 1999); children: Hannah, Jessica. Addresses: Office: The Vue, 387b King St., London W6 9NH England.

Nationality: British
Gender: Male
Occupation: Director, screenwriter, film editor, painter
Birth Details: April 5, 1942; Newport, Wales, United Kingdom

Famous Works

CREDITS
Film Director
Death of Sentiment, 1962
Train, 1966
Tree, 1966
Revolution, 1967
5 Postcards from Capital Cities, 1967
Intervals, British Film Institute, 1969
Erosion, 1971
H Is for House, British Film Institute, 1973
Windows, British Film Institute, 1975
Water, 1975
Water Wrackets, British Film Institute, 1975
Goole by Numbers, 1976
Dear Phone, British Film Institute, 1977
1-100, 1978
A Walk through H (also known as The Re-Incarnation of an Ornithologist and A Walk Through H: The Reincarnation of an Ornithologist), British Film Institute, 1978
Vertical Features Remake, Arts Council of Great Britain, 1978
Eddie Kid, 1978
Cut Above the Rest, 1978
Women Artists, 1979
Leeds Castle, 1979
Zandra Rhodes (documentary), Central Office of Information, 1979
Lacock Village, 1980
The Falls, British Film Institute, 1980, released in the United States, 1983
Country Diary, 1980
Terence Conran (also known as Insight: Terence Conran), 1981
The Draughtsman's Contract, British Film Institute, 1982, releasedin the United States by United Artists Classics, 1983
The Coastline (also known as The Sea in Their Blood), 1983
Making a Splash, National Film Archive, 1984
"Modern American Composers 1: Cage and Monk" and "Modern American Composers 2: Glass and Ashley," Four American Composers (documentary), TransAtlantic Films/Channel Four, 1984
Inside Rooms: 26 Bathrooms (also known as Inside Rooms: 26 Bathrooms, London and Oxfordshire, 1985 and 26 Bathrooms), Channel 4,1985
A TV Dante Canto 5, 1985
A Zed and Two Noughts (also known as Zoo: A Zed and Two Noughts), British Film Institute, 1985, released in the United States by Skouras, 1985
The Belly of an Architect (also known as Il Ventre dell'architetto), Hemdale, 1987
Drowning by Numbers, Prestige Films/Miramax, 1988
Fear of Drowning, Channel 4, 1988
(With Tom Phillips) A TV Dante Cantos 1-8, Rainer Moritz, 1989
Hubert Bals Handshake, Allarts Enterprises, 1989
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover (also known as LeCuisinier, le voleur, sa femme, et son amant and Spica), Miramax,1989
Prospero's Books (also known as L'Ultima tempesta), Miramax, 1991
Rosa (opera), Argos, 1992
The Baby of Macon (also known as Das Wunder von Macon), Cine Electra, 1993
The Stairs, Geneva (documentary; also known as Stairs 1 Geneva), 1994
The Pillow Book, CFP Distribution, 1995
(With thirty-nine other contemporary directors) Lumiere et compagnie (documentary; also known as Lumiere and Company and Lumiere y compania), Fox Lorber, 1995
The Bridge (opera), Cine 360, 1997
Death of a Composer (also known as The Death of a Composer: Rosa, a Horse Drama), NVC Arts, 1999
Eight and a Half Woman (also known as 8 ½ Women), Lions Gate Films, 1999
The Death of a Composer: Rosa, a Horse Drama (also known as Death of a Composer), 1999
The Man in the Bath, 2001
Cinema16: British Short Films (films shorts), 2003
The Tulse Luper Suitcases: Part 1: The Moab Story (also known as Las Maletas de Tulse Luper: La historia de Moab and Le Valigie di Tulse Luper--La Storia di Moab), A-Film Distribution, 2003
The Tulse Luuper Suitcases, Part 3: From Sark to the Finish, 2003
The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 2: Vaux to the Sea, A-Film Distribution, 2004
"European Showerbath," Visions of Europe (also known as Europaisch Visionen), 2004
A Life in Suitcases, 2005
Nightwatch, 2006
Film Cinematographer
H Is for House, British Film Institute, 1973
Water Wrackets, British Film Institute, 1975
Windows, British Film Institute, 1975
Dear Phone, British Film Institute, 1977
(Uncredited) Vertical Features Remake, Arts Council of Great Britain, 1978
Film Editor
Love Love Love, 1968
H Is for House, British Film Institute, 1973
Windows, British Film Institute, 1975

Water Wrackets, British Film Institute, 1975
Dear Phone, British Film Institute, 1977
A Walk through H (also known as The Re-Incarnation of an Ornithologist and A Walk Through H: The Reincarnation of an Ornithologist), British Film Institute, 1978
(Uncredited) Vertical Features Remake, Arts Council of Great Britain, 1978
The Falls, British Film Institute, 1980, released in the United States, 1983
The Pillow Book, CFP Distribution, 1995
Film Producer
Vertical Features Remake, Arts Council of Great Britain, 1978
A Zed and Two Noughts (also known as Zoo: A Zed and Two Noughts), British Film Institute, 1985, released in the United States by Skouras, 1985
Film Work
Other
Production designer and maps, A Walk through H (also known as The Re-Incarnation of an Ornithologist and A Walk Through H: The Reincarnation of an Ornithologist), British Film Institute, 1978
(Uncredited) Drawings: Mr. Neville and hand double: Anthony Higgins, The Draughtsman's Contract, British Film Institute, 1982, released in theUnited States by United Artists Classics, 1983
(Uncredited) Sculptor: Prospero's books, Prospero's Books (also known as L'Ultima tempesta), Miramax, 1991
Stage director, The Death of a Composer: Rosa, a Horse Drama (alsoknown as Death of a Composer), 1999
Film Appearances
Voice, H Is for House, British Film Institute, 1973
Narrator, Windows, British Film Institute, 1975
Narrator, Dear Phone, British Film Institute, 1977
The Falls, British Film Institute, 1980, released in the United States, 1983
Narrator, Fear of Drowning, Channel 4, 1988
Narrator, Hubert Bals Handshake, Allarts Enterprises, 1989
Narrator, The Stairs, Geneva (also known as Stairs 1 Geneva), 1994
Narrator, La Cosmologia di Piazza del Popolo, 1996
Himself, Peter Greenaway in Indianapolis (documentary; also knownas An Evening with Peter Greenaway), 1997
Narrator, Death of a Composer (also known as The Death of a Composer: Rosa, a Horse Drama), NVC Arts, 1999
Eight and a Half Woman (also known as 8 ½ Woman), Lions Gate Films, 1999
Voice of commentary, "Dear Phone," Cinema16: British Short Films,2003
Television Director
Movies
Death in the Seine (also known as Les Morts de la Seine), 1988
Darwin, Film Office, 1992
Specials
Act of God (documentary), Thames, 1981
A TV Dante: The Inferno Cantos I-VIII (also known as A TV Dante), 1989
M Is for Man, Music, Mozart (also known as Not Mozart), Rainer Moritz, 1991
A Walk through Prospero's Library, 1991
Television Appearances
Specials
Himself, "Segment 1: The Films That Shocked Britain," X-rated, 2004
Episodic
Himself, Cinema mil, 2005
Stage Director
Rosa: A Horse Drama, De Nederlandse Opera, 1995
Christopher Columbus, Staatoper, Berlin, Germany, 1998
WRITINGS
Screenplays
Death of Sentiment, 1962
Train, 1966
Tree, 1966
Revolution, 1967
5 Postcards from Capital Cities, 1967
Love Love Love, 1968
Intervals, British Film Institute, 1969
Erosion, 1971
H Is for House, British Film Institute, 1973
Windows, British Film Institute, 1975
Water, 1975
Water Wrackets, British Film Institute, 1975
Goole by Numbers, 1976
Dear Phone, British Film Institute, 1977
1-100, 1978
A Walk through H (also known as The Re-Incarnation of an Ornithologist and A Walk through H: The Re-Incarnation of an Ornithologist), British Film Institute, 1978
Vertical Features Remake, Arts Council of Great Britain, 1978
The Falls, British Film Institute, 1980, released in the United States, 1983
The Draughtsman's Contract, British Film Institute, 1982, releasedin the United States by United Artists Classics, 1983
"Modern American Composers 1: Cage and Monk" and "Modern American Composers 2: Glass and Ashley," Four American Composers (documentary), TransAtlantic Films/Channel Four, 1984
A Zed and Two Noughts (also known as Zoo: A Zed and Two Noughts), British Film Institute, 1985, released in the United States by Skouras, 1985, published by Faber and Faber (London), 1986
The Belly of an Architect (also known as Il Ventre dell'architetto), Hemdale, 1987
Drowning by Numbers, Prestige Films/Miramax, 1988, published by Faber, 1988
Fear of Drowning, Channel 4, 1988
Hubert Bals Handshake, Allarts Enterprises, 1989
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover (also known as LeCuisinier, le voleur, sa femme, et son amant and Spica), Miramax,1989
Prospero's Books (also known as L'Ultima tempesta; based onThe Tempest by William Shakespeare), Miramax, 1991, published by FourWalls Eight Windows (New York City), 1991
The Baby of Macon (also known as Das Wunder von Macon), Cine Electra, 1993
The Pillow Book, CFP Distribution, 1995
Peter Greenaway in Indianapolis (also known as An Evening withPeter Greenaway), 1997
Eight and a Half Woman (also known as 8 ½ Women), Lions Gate Films, 1999
(And libretto) Death of a Composer (also known as The Death ofa Composer: Rosa, a Horse Drama), NVC Arts, 1999
The Tulse Luper Suitcases: Part 1: The Moab Story (also known as Las Maletas de Tulse Luper: La historia de Moab and Le Valigie di Tulse Luper--La Storia di Moab), A-Film Distribution, 2003
The Tulse Luuper Suitcases, Part 3: From Sark to the Finish, 2003
The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 2: Vaux to the Sea, A-Film Distribution, 2004
"European Showerbath," Visions of Europe (also known as Europaisch Visionen), 2004
A Life in Suitcases, 2005
Nightwatch, 2006
Television Movies
Death in the Seine (also known as Les Morts de la Seine), 1988
Darwin, Film Office, 1992
Television Specials
Zandra Rhodes, Central Office of Information, 1979
M Is for Man, Music, Mozart (also known as Not Mozart), Rainer Moritz, 1991
Opera Librettos
Rosa: A Horse Drama, De Nederlandse Opera, 1995
Writing to Vermeer, De Nederlandse Opera, 1999
Books
Papers/Papiers, Editions Dis Voir (Paris), 1990
The Physical Self: A Selection by Peter Greenaway from the Selectionsof the Boymans-Van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam, The Museum (Rotterdam, Netherlands), 1991
Rosa, Editions Dis Voir, 1993
Flying out of This World (art selections), University of Chicago Press (Chicago, IL), 1994
(With Leon Steinmetz) The World of Peter Greenaway, Journey Editions, 1995
Also wrote Gold (a novel).

Further Reference

OTHER SOURCES

Books

Barchfeld, Christiane, Filming by Numbers, Peter Greenaway, Narr (Tuebingen, Germany), 1993
Caux, Daniel and others, Peter Greenaway, 1987
Contemporary Authors, Volume 127, Gale (Detroit, MI), 1989
Gras, Vernon W., Peter Greenaway Interviews, University Press of Mississippi, 2000
International Dictionary of Film and Filmmakers, Volume 2: Directors, 4th ed., St. James Press, 2000
Lawrence, Amy, The Films of Peter Greenaway, Cambridge UniversityPress, 1997
Melia, Paul, and Alan Woods, Peter Greenaway, Manchester University Press, 1999
Pascoe, Peter Greenaway: Museums and Moving Images, Reaktion Books, 1997
Steinmetz, Leon, The World of Peter Greenaway, Journey Editions (Boston, MA), 1995
Willoquet-Maricondi, Paula, and Mary Alemany-Galway, Peter Greenaway'sPostmodern/Post-structuralist Cinema, Rowman & Littlefield, 2001
Woods, Alan, Being Naked--Playing Dead: The Art of Peter Greenaway, St. Martin's (New York City), 1996

Periodicals

American Cinematographer, September, 1983
American Film, November-December, 1991
Chicago Tribune, July 13, 1997, p. 6
Film Comment, January-February, 1982; May-June, 1990, p. 54
Harper's Bazaar, November, 1991
Interview, March, 1990, p. 120
New York Times, April 1, 1990, p. H27; April 26, 1991, p. C7
Sight and Sound, summer, 1987

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